Midnight Oil live in concert.
ON TOUR

Midnight Oil

60
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

88
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Midnight Oil is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 60 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Midnight Oil is rated as an exceptional live performer, with noteworthy shows that are worth watching. Midnight Oil concert reviews describe live shows and performances as career-spanning, poignant, incendiary, memorable, and rhythmic.

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Latest Release

Not In My Name (Live 1993) (10 March 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Sydney, Australia (1976 - present)
Bio
Midnight Oil are an influential alternative rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1976. The band originally formed as "Farm" in 1972.
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Critic Concert Reviews

Ambient Light (New Zealand)

September 6, 2022
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Of all the numerous reviews I've written, this would have to be the most bittersweet. Midnight Oil brought just as much energy and passion to their performance tonight as ever they have done, but this is their final tour.

The 13th Floor (New Zealand)

September 5, 2022
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Midnight Oil returned to Auckland’s Spark Arena with their “Resist Tour”, being billed at the long-running Aussie band’s “Final Tour”.

Ambient Light (New Zealand)

September 3, 2022
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Despite the doom and gloom of global news updates, there was nothing gloomy about the thought-provoking rock performance that Midnight Oil put on at Spark Arena last night.

XS Noize (Northern Ireland)

July 13, 2022
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Midnight Oil go back a long way, with a career spanning just shy of five decades.

Music-News.com (UK)

July 12, 2022
100
%
The magnificent Midnight Oil graced our shores tonight for their last ever UK gig.

QRO Magazine

June 22, 2022
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If this is Midnight Oil's last tour, they went out in style at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom ...

Chicago Concert Reviews (USA)

June 10, 2022
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Australian activists Midnight Oil scream goodbye, but not before a galvanizing call to “Resist”

Past critic reviews published in

Music-News.com (UK), Consequence (USA), Berkeley B-Side (USA), Substream Magazine (USA), The Key (USA) and more

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