Midnight Oil

Last week, the Australian music industry celebrated their annual night of nights with the 2018 ARIA Awards. While countless amazing musicians scored some of those famous pointy statues, plenty of…

47 artists are ditching disposables and setting an example for others. “Let's keep it up and make Australian live music 100% plastic water bottle free!”

Author Ryan Holiday wrote an excellent book called Perennial Seller which explores the value of creating something that will sell steadily over time: be it a novel, a record, a movie, or a product -…

This morning on MAX they played 'Mama' by The Spice Girls which -- I will freely admit, what with the reed-thin vocals, the sappy sentiment and the feeling of a filler track suddenly being thrust…

The Oils planted the Australian flag around the world.

Midnight Oil have truly transcended what it means to simply be a band. A political force to be reckoned with, the band are responsible for crafting iconic anthems that have become essentials in the…

Midnight Oil always brandished green credentials. So it needn’t have surprised when it bucketed down just as their ‘Great Circle’ reunion tour reached Brisbane. The recent droughts were quenched by…

Earlier this year, TIO interviewed legendary manager John Watson, who helped helm the careers of Silverchair, Midnight Oil, Missy Higgins, Gotye and more. Speaking with Luke Girgis for the Fear At…

Ticket scalping has to be the single biggest issue on the lips of the music industry in 2017, with an argument to be made that it's the inevitable result of a deeply-flawed system, built around…

Scalping. We know you're sick of it, we are too. The artists hate it, and the whole industry recognises it's an issue, but there still doesn't seem to be any sort of solution to it, even as the…