Midnight Oil

Subject: The Break!
From: Toby Bettridge
Date: 22/02/2010, 9:12 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Reply-to:
toby@stubside.org

I was at the Annadale gig last night (after waiting 20 years to see the Oils in some configuration) and it was amazing.
 
I got some good photos (I'll post links when I've uploaded them) and one song as a video (not sure if it's okay to post that up). My cousin nabbed a setlist off of a monitor at the end and I asked a roadie if it was okay to pick up a fallen drumstick ("I didn't see anything mate.").
 
Really good set and one of the best things about it was that they all seemed to be having so much fun doing what they wanted to (I wonder if they ever got to the stage of thinking "Not bloody 'Beds' again.").
 
Great night and worth the backtracking hassle that it took me to fly down from the Gold Coast where I've been gradually heading north on my travels.
 
Really good. Can't wait for the album.
 
Setlist:
Branded
Squintro
Cylinders
Squid
Birdman
5 Rocks
Eye Contacts
W. Cake Is.
Groyne
Phobus
Penetration
Blasket Is. (?)
Dump
Surfing Priests
Oysters St.
Winki Pop
Massacres
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Cyclops
Farm