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Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard) and Martin Rotsey (guitar). The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 by Hirst, Moginie and original bassist Andrew James as Farm: they enlisted Garrett the following year, changed their name in 1976, and hired Rotsey a year later. Peter Gifford served as bass player from 1980 to 1987, with Bones Hillman then assuming the role until his death in 2020. Midnight Oil have sold over 20 million albums worldwide as of 2021. Midnight Oil issued their Midnight Oil (Midnight Oil album), self-titled debut album in 1978 and gained a cult following in their homeland despite a lack of mainstream media acceptance. The band achieved greater popularity throughout Australasia with the release of ''10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1'' (1982) – which spawned the singles "Power and the Passion (song), Power and the Passion" and "US Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Forces (song)
"US Forces" is the first single released from Australian rock band Midnight Oil's fourth studio album, ''10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1''. The song, which denounces United States Armed Forces, US military Overseas interventions of the United States, intervention in foreign affairs, charted at no. 20 in Australia. The music video was filmed in the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast of New South Wales at the Vales Point Power Station, Mannering Park. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "US Forces" was ranked number 55. Background In 1983, for the "Stop The Drop" concert video, Peter Garrett, the lead singer, explained the song to the audience: "''Midnight Oil are here today because we're concerned about the issue of nuclear disarmament. And I think when we're in Europe, we realized how close people were to becoming to understand that, if the Russians or the Americans decided that they were actually going to set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieilles Charrues Festival
The Vieilles Charrues Festival (, ; , ; literally: Old Ploughs Festival) is held every year in mid-July in the city of Carhaix, France. History 1990s The first edition takes place in 1992. In 1994, 3,000 festival-goers attended the concerts. 2000s The festival welcomes a new president, Paul Hély, Christian Troadec having been elected mayor of Carhaix. The festival welcomes 200,000 people over three days. In 2002, the festival attracts 160,000 festival-goers. In 2003, the festival is threatened by the conflict over the reform of the status of the show’s workers. -M-, cancels his visit and is replaced by Arno, Renaud and Laurent Voulzy. 2010s In 2012, the theme of the festival is superheroes. 2020s In 2023, the festival attracts 346,000 festival-goers. Frequentation The festival welcomes 10,000 festivalgoers in 1995, 40,000 in 1997, 100,000 in 1998, 200,000 in 2001, 268,000 festivalgoers for the 20 years in 2011. Organisation The festival promotes the Breto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Media
In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large Mass media, mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.Noam Chomsky, Chomsky, Noam, ''"What makes mainstream media mainstream"'', October 1997, ''Z Magazine''/ref> The term is used to contrast with alternative media. The term is often used for large Media conglomerate, news conglomerates, including newspapers and broadcast media, that underwent successive mergers in many countries. The concentration of media ownership has raised concerns of a homogenization of viewpoints presented to news consumers. Consequently, the term ''mainstream media'' has been used in conversation and the blogosphere, sometimes in oppositional, pejorative or dismissive senses, in discussion of the mass media and media bias. United States In the United States, movie production is known to have been dominated by major film studios, majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth And Sun And Moon
''Earth and Sun and Moon'' is the eighth studio album by Australian rock group, Midnight Oil, that was released in April 1993 under the Columbia Records label. It peaked at No.2 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Background Midnight Oil's ''Earth and Sun and Moon'' album, produced with Nick Launay, was released in April 1993 and peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, top 20 in Sweden and Switzerland, top 50 on ''Billboard'' 200, and top 30 in the UK albums chart. The single " Truganini" referenced multiple issues, including the 'last' Tasmanian Aboriginal, the treatment of indigenous artist Albert Namatjira, the Australian flag debate, and republicanism. Liner notes for the single claimed "Truganini was the sole surviving Tasmanian Aborigine, the last of her race, when she died in 1876." The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, representing over 7000 contemporary Tasmanians, called for the single to be boycotted as it perpetuated a 'white' myth about the extinction of Tasmanian Aborigi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Sky Mining
''Blue Sky Mining'' is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released on 9 February 1990 under the Columbia Records label. It received high ratings from critics. In March of that year, the album peaked at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart for two weeks. A limited release of the record featured clear blue vinyl. This was the band's first studio album with bassist and backing vocalist Bones Hillman, who would remain in the group until his death in 2020. Background ''Blue Sky Mining'', produced by Warne Livesey, was released by CBS/Columbia on 9 February 1990. It peaked at number one on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) albums chart. It stayed at number one for two weeks in Australia and had Top 5 chart success in Sweden, Switzerland and Norway. It peaked at number 20 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 28 on the UK charts. The album was "more defiant and outspoken" than their previous work; the single " Blue S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead Heart
"The Dead Heart" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil. It was first released as a single in Australia in 1986 and in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1988 after it had been included on the 1987 album, ''Diesel and Dust''. It peaked at number four on the Australian singles chart and at number 11 on the U.S. Mainstream rock chart. At the 1986 Countdown Australian Music Awards, the song was nominated for Best Single. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "The Dead Heart" was ranked number 76. Background The song deals with the mistreatment of indigenous Australians and the nonrecognition of indigenous cultures in Australia, and was part of efforts to raise awareness of Australia's Stolen Generations - the forcible removal of Australian Aboriginal children from their families between 1909 and the 1970s. Midnight Oil recorded "The Dead Heart" for the handing back ceremony of Uluru (Ayers Rock) to its tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diesel And Dust
''Diesel and Dust'' is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released in August 1987 by SPRINT Music label under Columbia Records. ''Diesel and Dust'' was produced by Warne Livesey and the band. It is a concept album about the struggles of Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues important to the band. It drew inspiration from the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour of remote Indigenous communities with the Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland in 1986. The album peaked at No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart for six weeks. ''Diesel and Dust'' has been critically lauded since its release. ''Rolling Stone'' editors named it the best album of 1988 (the year of its United States release), and later ranked it the 13th greatest record of the 1980s. In October 2010, ''Diesel and Dust'' was listed at number 1 in the book, '' 100 Best Australian Albums''. In December 2021, the album was listed at no. 5 in Rolling Stone Australia's "200 Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species Deceases
''Species Deceases'' is an extended play by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released on 26 November 1985 under the CBS record label. ''Species Deceases'' debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for six weeks from December 1985 to January 1986. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own ARIA Charts, charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974. It was the first Australian single and/or EP to reach the number-one spot on its chart appearance and remains Midnight Oil's only No. 1 on the national singles chart. Background On 26 November 1985, Australian rock music group, Midnight Oil, released a four-track extended play, ''Species Deceases''. At the time Midnight Oil consisted of Peter Garrett on lead vocals and harmonica; Peter Gifford on bass guitar and backing vocals; Rob Hirst on drums and backing vocals; Jim Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive than an album and more "non-committal". An extended play (EP) originally referred to a specific type of 45 revolutions per minute, rpm phonograph record other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and 33 rpm LP record, long play (LP), but , also applies to mid-length Compact disc, CDs and Music download, downloads. EPs are considered "less expensive and less time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album, and have long been popular with punk and indie bands. In K-pop and J-pop, they are usually referred to as Mini-LP, mini-albums. Background History EPs were released in various sizes in different eras. The earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were Vertic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Sails In The Sunset (album)
''Red Sails in the Sunset'' is the fifth studio album by Australian group Midnight Oil which was released in October 1984 under the Columbia Records label. It was recorded and produced in Tokyo, Japan and is significant for becoming their first No. 1 album in Australia – it also entered the United States ''Billboard'' 200. The cover image, by Japanese artist Tsunehisa Kimura, depicts Sydney Harbour after a hypothetical nuclear strike. Some of its tracks were performed live in January 1985 at a Sydney Harbour Goat Island concert to celebrate radio station Triple J's 10th birthday, which was simulcast on ABC Television and subsequently re-broadcast on their then-Tuesday night music program ''Rock Arena''. In 2004 the film footage later became part of a DVD album, '' Best of Both Worlds''. ''Red Sails in the Sunset'' contains the only Midnight Oil tracks with lead vocals provided by their drummer Rob Hirst, "When the Generals Talk" and "Kosciusko". The album spawned two sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
