My former brother in law (my late sister's ex husband) once dropped a souvlaki wrapper on a Melbourne street (yep, he was littering, bad boy) and heard a voice yell out behind him "Hey Mate!....Mate!! Pick that up Australia's a beautiful country! Put it in a bin, or give it to me and I'LL put it in a bin!" He said he knew who it was by the voice, even before he turned around and saw the bald head. He got a 10 minute cussing out by Peter Garrett on a street in Fitzroy, Melbourne, with a crowd gathering all around him, all of whom knew who the lead singer of Midnight Oil was. Bro in law said he just wanted the ground to swallow him whole.
Love this song, just wish it wasn't the live version, the film clip would've shown you some nice parts of Australia, he is a crazy dancer, everyone loves this song it has a killer beat, went a bit doors like there in the middle, someone please request the original video clip
ARE... just completed their final tour and release the best album this year (and another short LP last year worthy of everyone's attention. I was at those concerts in the early 80s and still regard them one of the most important bands to date anywhere.
Midnight Oil were highlighting Indigenous People's rights. This song is all about giving them back the land that was taken from them. Lyrics - Out where the river broke The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in 45 degrees (that's about 114 Farenheit) The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share The time has come A fact's a fact It belongs to them Let's give it back How can we dance When our earth is turning? How do we sleep While our beds are burning?
Peter Garrett is such an interesting character, was once the Education minister for the Federal Labor Party here in Australia, and well his dancing... my dad once said the looked like he was being electrocuted 😲🤣, these guys were very big in the 80's and Aussie still love them today, great reaction Nick👍
I always thought he looked like someone had shoved a fire extinguisher up his bum and let it off and he was trying not to take flight. He just gets so into the music and the songs.....
Meet the Honourable Peter Garrett, former minister for education. He went into Australian politics and became a cabinet minister. (The giant lead singer). This song is a protest about the government's treatment of the Indigenous Australians. The main lyrics "the time has come to say fair's fair, to pay the rent, to pay our share" talking about compensating Indigenous Australians for stealing their land and restoring their rights.
Fun fact: Peter Garrett (the lead singer of Midnight Oil) had a stint in Australian politics during the mid 2000's. He even got himself a couple of Cabinet positions before resigning after the 2013 election. This song itself is meant to be an anthem in solidarity with Indigenous Australians, the lines 'Pay the Rent' and 'Let's give it back' referring to a need for a land back and reparations for colonial violence and dispossession.
That was the biggest mistake of his life. Think he realised it's a lot easier to throw barbs as a lead singer of a band than to be a politician where you are actually trying to do something about it.
Peter Garrett achieved an enormous amount as a Enviomental Minister So much environmental legislation In recent interview he said his regret he did not get politics earlier . It was he headed as he studied law and and politics at ANU and University of NSW. Midnight Oil a summer Holiday band were to become one of Australias greatest bands.
I loved how during the election lead up when the media have to go silent, the radio stations were playing this non-stop! 😁😄😆 Naaah we weren't coerced in any way! 😉😎😁
Peter Garrett after the band retired went into politics for the Greens Party Australia and did alot for Aboriginal and rural comminites. This song while about our treatment of Aboriginals and minorities. It was part of a tour and campaign that directly influenced Australias mining and international sale of Uranium for Nuclear weapons. One of their main goals was equality and fair treatment of all people regardless of colour. And he was about conserving the land. But their biggest impact by far was aiding Nuclear deproliferation with their song "Blue Sky Mine". And preventing Australia contributing to the global nuclear arms race. Australia has the largest single source of Uranium on earth. And we are the gatekeepers of 33% of the worlds Uranium. And 20% of the worlds Thorium.
Originally he was in the NDP - Nuclear Disarmament Party and then the greens but copped a heap of shit for going to Labour as he realised that he couldn't get into Parliament as a NDP then but as a Green Labour he could do some good. He did his best which is all you can ask and he stuck to his guns then went back on the road with the Oils and is still out there, raising awareness, holding the big guys to account.
Yep, Peter Garrett, the singer, is very tall. His dancing is quite infamous here in Australia! 😀 The lyrics are fantastic. I agree with some of the other viewers, check out the original video clip, it's so good!
Very different to the recorded version but still cool. I recommend watching either the offical video or the video shot in the street outside the Exxon building in NY.
I love Midnight Oil. They were a rock n roll voice for Indigenous Australians in the 80s. This song and "The Dead Heart" which touches on the Stolen Generation when Indigenous Australian were taken off their families, and pushed into "white families"... it was a very dark and sad part of Australian history.
Peter Garrett is 6' 4" in your terminology. His dance moves have been noted as somewhat eccentric by some lol. He is definitely an activist. I personally took a long time to like the band. However now I'm older I can appreciate his lyrics and their meanings. He sings where other's fear to tread. Issues that are unspoken of by the norm. I must say he is a colourful character and he speaks with compassion even if somewhat controversial to some. You can't help but be drawn into listening to the words because they are powerful. I love the beat and like you it's awesome of him to include the crowd !
This isn't a great example of PG's singing. This was at the end of a very, very long tour, and he was actually crook (sick) at the time of this gig. Weirdly, he's actually a much better singer approaching 70 than he was as a younger man! Listen to the studio version of the recently released song, Nobody's Child to get a sense of what I mean.
How can we dance when our earth is turning? How can we sleep while our beds are burning? (From the Indigenous Australian's perspective. Mining and Oil rigging was/is very big in Western Australia where this band originated) The time has come to say fair's fair. To pay the rent, to pay our share. The time has come, a fact's a fact. It belongs to them. Let's give it back! (Reparations are owed to indigenous Australians). Had an enormous impact. It's hard to find a mining company in WA that doesn't have a quota of at least 30% Indigenous Australians in their workforce.
50°C is boiling water, 45°C is uncomfortably hot. Birds and flies fall out of the sky. Original australians use clap-sticks, arround 6" long smoothed off, to keep the beat. He gave the audience participaters a similar thing to play. Try the official video, this is usually a lot faster and clearer, though this was a lot of fun.
You asked if that is how the lead singer usually dances... Yep, that's pretty normal for him. It reminds me of the 'Elaine Dance' from Seinfeld on speed. As they say; dance like no one is watching!
Peter Garrett feels the music, and with an energized audience feeling the same❤️🔥, how could he not dance the way he does? Their messages in songs old and new resonate with the ever changing times. I love Midnight Oil❤️Catch them while you can on their final tour.
I've been waiting for your reaction to this. Thankyou. You may have to watch the official video to understand the lyrics a bit better. Great song with great meaning. ✌🇦🇺
You really should watch the music video get good sound quality, as well as the full effect of Peter Garrett...just being Peter Garrett. Yes he is 6’ 6” or 6’ 7” and he puts his “signature” dance moves into full effect in this video. I also highly recommend “Forgotten Years,” and again: watch the video, its powerful. When it came out in the ‘80s it was like it is today, with only a few of the oldest WWII vets still alive: the very last of the WWI vets were almost gone in the 80’s.
Google the lyrics. They are well worth knowing and understanding. This song was iconic, and so was Midnight Oil. They were much of Australia's unawaken conscience back in the day. They highlighted issues that Australia needed to know about and change about ourselves and made us think. Sadly, that singer you see later became a politician, and all the ethics he spent years passionately singing about went completely and utterly out the window as he voted for and behaved almost to the total OPPOSITE unethical dimension to most the ethical issues he sang promoting. Regardless, Midnight Oil was a great and well loved band in Australia, though. The songs themselves remain untarnished, and still have a lot of ethical weight today.
No, they didn't. I know what you are eluding too but to say ''çompletely" is just an opinion. A biased, extreme opinion that is incorrect. Embarrassing. Gonski was a brilliant idea, well implemented then killed by the Conservatives.
How did I grow up as an Australian born in the 80’s and only learn today whilst watching an American RUclipsr that Midnight Oil is an Australian band 🤦🏻♂️ 😂
If you ever read the lyrics. It's about Aboriginal rights in Australia. However. It bodes well with North America, and pretty much anywhere in the World
You should of played the official clip for this tune the lyrics come through crystal clear. If you really want to play a awesome live clip play INXS New Sensation from the Wembley concert, watching the sea of audience all bopping with the tune is almost hypnotic. And also check out a NEw Zealand band called "Fat Freddy's Drop" watch the long clip for the song Black Bird it goes for about 8 or 9 mins but it is awesome.
They literally just had their farewell concert in Cali last week... I think it was in LA & Oakland. They are in Chicago tomorrow night, then Toronto, Boston, NY, Philly & Oxon Hill MD. If you can pull it, please do go. It's one of those bands you will never see again and is so important to Aussie music and they are in your backyard now.
If there was an award for someone stopping at inappropriate times on a video .eg: in the middle of a solo or as song is reaching a crescendo..you would have multiple🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆lol
I mentioned on your Angels video that Doc Neeson was one of the most electrifying front men of Aussie bands _ Peter is another! Watch the original video - the lyrics will make more sense then .
Definitely check out the Lyrics to help put the concert into context. Not the best live version but a song close to a lot of Australian hearts regardless of colour
Pay the rent means that we owe our Aboriginals for taking their land and trying to destroy their culture. The Singer Peter Garret has been a Climate activist for many years also fighting for Aboriginal rights and wanting the earth's population to stop destroying the Earth. All there songs are in that vein.
Mate, please find the lyrics to this song and you will understand it and what Midnight Oil are singing about, This really wasn't the best request for you to hear the message from this song. Peace, and love watching your reactions to Australia's and New Zealand's bands of the past before you joined the world of Beautiful humans.
Peter Garrett is 1.93m or 6ft 3. His presence seems a lot taller though in person! You should listen to the original version which is still live, much better sound quality.
One of the great and most important bands of any age, their current album and it's song 'Rising Seas' continues their political voice, this time on climate change - you will see them currently and the video and performance is one of the best this year (of recent years).
Bahahahaha he was off his face at that time....bit of good ol snow white, since got off drugs and turned to a politician lol HIS DANCE MOVE THOUGH..........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wanna dance like Peter Garrett? Walk through a spider's web. Seriously though, Midnight Oil did a lot to increase awareness of indigenous rights and environmental issues.
I wish that there was a band of ex-politicians such as Scott Morrison and Kevin Rudd etc. just like how the former treasurer stated a hippy festival after leaving politics 🤣
Political song. Part of every fair minded Australian. "It belongs to them, let's give it back" The indegionus Australian has both benefited and also suffered from the colonalisation of this beautiful country that we are so fortunate to live in
I met Peter Garret (The singer) a couple of times. He's a nice guy, but very focused on his mission in life to end aboriginal inequality in australia. The aboriginal folks ADORE Midnight Oil, because really back in the day The Oils where the first band to really stand up against the discrimination in australian society, and they had a huge impact on culture here, because no racist fool would dare to go up against Garret and the boys, so they coalessed a lot of cultural change and the end of a lot of shitty colonial ideologies. In fact at the time they came out really the only other artist that had stood up for aboriginal people was, believe it or not, David Bowie. They where constantly doing free concerts up in the northwest aboriginal townships , and assisting aboriginal bands in getting exposure and stuff. He actually ended up in government as the minister for environment , but was kinda terrible at it, just didnt have it together, and discovered the party machine really didnt have room for activists, and didnt run a second term, I think realising where his expertise really was, on the microphone and out there working with indigenous folks to spread the music and love.
Hi great you tube clips maybe you might like to preview a great tune by Stevie Wright it is called evie parts 1,2 and 3 it's a ballad a out this man's girlfriend called evie his love for her and the birth of his child and the losing of his girl I think you will love it. Cheers Tom Haring.
One of my absoloute favourite bands on the planet. I do believe that if you are going to review/react to midnight oil then you have to understand australias history. Very very political songs. They are brilliant
My former brother in law (my late sister's ex husband) once dropped a souvlaki wrapper on a Melbourne street (yep, he was littering, bad boy) and heard a voice yell out behind him "Hey Mate!....Mate!! Pick that up Australia's a beautiful country! Put it in a bin, or give it to me and I'LL put it in a bin!" He said he knew who it was by the voice, even before he turned around and saw the bald head. He got a 10 minute cussing out by Peter Garrett on a street in Fitzroy, Melbourne, with a crowd gathering all around him, all of whom knew who the lead singer of Midnight Oil was.
Bro in law said he just wanted the ground to swallow him whole.
Love this song, just wish it wasn't the live version, the film clip would've shown you some nice parts of Australia, he is a crazy dancer, everyone loves this song it has a killer beat, went a bit doors like there in the middle, someone please request the original video clip
Agree. Sound quality from this old recording was pretty ordinary
Also agree. We know Nick prefers live but the original video captures the message of the song so well.
Absolutely have to agree, not the best version of this song. Love midnight oil, but would love to see the original version played
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Midnight oil were a massive Australian band during the 80’s, very political, fantastic Aussie music!
ARE... just completed their final tour and release the best album this year (and another short LP last year worthy of everyone's attention. I was at those concerts in the early 80s and still regard them one of the most important bands to date anywhere.
You don't know how good Midnight Oil are, until you see them live. Peter Garrett is a charismatic man and believes in the message!
Midnight Oil were highlighting Indigenous People's rights. This song is all about giving them back the land that was taken from them.
Lyrics -
Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in 45 degrees (that's about 114 Farenheit)
The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back
How can we dance
When our earth is turning?
How do we sleep
While our beds are burning?
Thank you for highlighting the message for my people 😉
Peter Garrett is such an interesting character, was once the Education minister for the Federal Labor Party here in Australia, and well his dancing... my dad once said the looked like he was being electrocuted 😲🤣, these guys were very big in the 80's and Aussie still love them today, great reaction Nick👍
He was the minister for the Environment, Heritage & the Arts. Got blamed for the insulation debacle. Don't know anything about minister of education
I always thought he looked like someone had shoved a fire extinguisher up his bum and let it off and he was trying not to take flight. He just gets so into the music and the songs.....
The “sticks” those guys were playing on stage are also traditional aboriginal instruments like the didgeridoo
Meet the Honourable Peter Garrett, former minister for education. He went into Australian politics and became a cabinet minister. (The giant lead singer).
This song is a protest about the government's treatment of the Indigenous Australians. The main lyrics "the time has come to say fair's fair, to pay the rent, to pay our share" talking about compensating Indigenous Australians for stealing their land and restoring their rights.
These song lyrics were in an exam I took in high school, Year 10, 1988. I had to write an essay about what they meant.
Fun fact: Peter Garrett (the lead singer of Midnight Oil) had a stint in Australian politics during the mid 2000's. He even got himself a couple of Cabinet positions before resigning after the 2013 election.
This song itself is meant to be an anthem in solidarity with Indigenous Australians, the lines 'Pay the Rent' and 'Let's give it back' referring to a need for a land back and reparations for colonial violence and dispossession.
You can tell by his dancing he was destined to be a politician.
That was the biggest mistake of his life.
Think he realised it's a lot easier to throw barbs as a lead singer of a band than to be a politician where you are actually trying to do something about it.
Peter Garrett achieved an enormous amount as a Enviomental Minister So much environmental legislation
In recent interview he said his regret he did not get politics earlier . It was he headed as he studied law and and politics at ANU and University of NSW. Midnight Oil a summer Holiday band were to become one of Australias greatest bands.
I loved how during the election lead up when the media have to go silent, the radio stations were playing this non-stop! 😁😄😆
Naaah we weren't coerced in any way! 😉😎😁
He's a lawyer
There's nobody...nobody...like the Oils!
Oils ain't Oils, unless it's Midnight Oil!
Peter Garrett after the band retired went into politics for the Greens Party Australia and did alot for Aboriginal and rural comminites.
This song while about our treatment of Aboriginals and minorities.
It was part of a tour and campaign that directly influenced Australias mining and international sale of Uranium for Nuclear weapons.
One of their main goals was equality and fair treatment of all people regardless of colour. And he was about conserving the land.
But their biggest impact by far was aiding Nuclear deproliferation with their song "Blue Sky Mine". And preventing Australia contributing to the global nuclear arms race.
Australia has the largest single source of Uranium on earth. And we are the gatekeepers of 33% of the worlds Uranium. And 20% of the worlds Thorium.
Peter Garrett actual was with the Labor party leaning green
Peter was a Labor MP.
Peter was actually Labors Environment.Heritage and Arts Minister in the Rudd Government.I worked for him
Originally he was in the NDP - Nuclear Disarmament Party and then the greens but copped a heap of shit for going to Labour as he realised that he couldn't get into Parliament as a NDP then but as a Green Labour he could do some good.
He did his best which is all you can ask and he stuck to his guns then went back on the road with the Oils and is still out there, raising awareness, holding the big guys to account.
"Blue Sky Mine" was about Asbestos mining not Nuclear de-proliferation
‘“He was like tryna fly outta here” is the best description of Peter Garrett dancing I’ve ever heard 😂
Yep, Peter Garrett, the singer, is very tall. His dancing is quite infamous here in Australia! 😀 The lyrics are fantastic. I agree with some of the other viewers, check out the original video clip, it's so good!
Very different to the recorded version but still cool. I recommend watching either the offical video or the video shot in the street outside the Exxon building in NY.
I love Midnight Oil. They were a rock n roll voice for Indigenous Australians in the 80s. This song and "The Dead Heart" which touches on the Stolen Generation when Indigenous Australian were taken off their families, and pushed into "white families"... it was a very dark and sad part of Australian history.
Absolutely love your reaction 😂 to Peter's dancing. When I saw them live, I'm like he better dance or I'll be so disappointed 😂
Peter Garrett is 6' 4" in your terminology. His dance moves have been noted as somewhat eccentric by some lol. He is definitely an activist. I personally took a long time to like the band. However now I'm older I can appreciate his lyrics and their meanings. He sings where other's fear to tread. Issues that are unspoken of by the norm. I must say he is a colourful character and he speaks with compassion even if somewhat controversial to some. You can't help but be drawn into listening to the words because they are powerful. I love the beat and like you it's awesome of him to include the crowd !
This isn't a great example of PG's singing. This was at the end of a very, very long tour, and he was actually crook (sick) at the time of this gig. Weirdly, he's actually a much better singer approaching 70 than he was as a younger man! Listen to the studio version of the recently released song, Nobody's Child to get a sense of what I mean.
I absolutely love Midnight Oil.
Peter is 1.93m tall. His daggy dancing is legend
The lead singer a Lawyer was an MP and Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia)
How can we dance when our earth is turning? How can we sleep while our beds are burning? (From the Indigenous Australian's perspective. Mining and Oil rigging was/is very big in Western Australia where this band originated)
The time has come to say fair's fair. To pay the rent, to pay our share. The time has come, a fact's a fact. It belongs to them. Let's give it back! (Reparations are owed to indigenous Australians).
Had an enormous impact. It's hard to find a mining company in WA that doesn't have a quota of at least 30% Indigenous Australians in their workforce.
50°C is boiling water, 45°C is uncomfortably hot. Birds and flies fall out of the sky. Original australians use clap-sticks, arround 6" long smoothed off, to keep the beat. He gave the audience participaters a similar thing to play. Try the official video, this is usually a lot faster and clearer, though this was a lot of fun.
Water boils at 100 °C...
Peter Garrett did the speech at my university graduation 20 years ago. He is awesome
OILS FANS know all OILS songs have a message
They had lost their edge by 94 but still one of my fave bands ever.
Watching the video clip will give you a greater understanding of this brilliant song...
Western desert lives and breathes, at 45 degrees....that's 113 Fahrenheit for those that need the translation 🥵
His dancing is basically a vertical epileptic fit.
Check out Midnight Oil's "US Forces" - The live version has an evocative backdrop.
Like the drums, check out 'Power and the Passion' they go wild.
I remember when this video hit MTV for the first time, the chorus jams, they had some good jams for those who remember. Thanks for sharing ✌️💙
You asked if that is how the lead singer usually dances... Yep, that's pretty normal for him. It reminds me of the 'Elaine Dance' from Seinfeld on speed.
As they say; dance like no one is watching!
Live concert in the middle of nowhere :) somewhere in Sweden :)
one of my favorites in the 80s. ✌️🇵🇭
Peter is 6'3" former Minister for the Environment of Australia. Peace out.
Saw these guys live not long ago, great gig.
Peter Garrett feels the music, and with an energized audience feeling the same❤️🔥, how could he not dance the way he does? Their messages in songs old and new resonate with the ever changing times. I love Midnight Oil❤️Catch them while you can on their final tour.
I've been waiting for your reaction to this. Thankyou. You may have to watch the official video to understand the lyrics a bit better. Great song with great meaning. ✌🇦🇺
It's such an incredible song 🎵 but the original film clip shows message much better
That's why they were the best live band in aus
Peter Garrett was getting the crowd involved alright, he was their personal trainer!
You really should watch the music video get good sound quality, as well as the full effect of Peter Garrett...just being Peter Garrett. Yes he is 6’ 6” or 6’ 7” and he puts his “signature” dance moves into full effect in this video.
I also highly recommend “Forgotten Years,” and again: watch the video, its powerful. When it came out in the ‘80s it was like it is today, with only a few of the oldest WWII vets still alive: the very last of the WWI vets were almost gone in the 80’s.
Google the lyrics. They are well worth knowing and understanding. This song was iconic, and so was Midnight Oil. They were much of Australia's unawaken conscience back in the day. They highlighted issues that Australia needed to know about and change about ourselves and made us think. Sadly, that singer you see later became a politician, and all the ethics he spent years passionately singing about went completely and utterly out the window as he voted for and behaved almost to the total OPPOSITE unethical dimension to most the ethical issues he sang promoting. Regardless, Midnight Oil was a great and well loved band in Australia, though. The songs themselves remain untarnished, and still have a lot of ethical weight today.
No, they didn't. I know what you are eluding too but to say ''çompletely" is just an opinion. A biased, extreme opinion that is incorrect. Embarrassing. Gonski was a brilliant idea, well implemented then killed by the Conservatives.
How did I grow up as an Australian born in the 80’s and only learn today whilst watching an American RUclipsr that Midnight Oil is an Australian band 🤦🏻♂️ 😂
Peter Garrett is 6'3
I watched them play live in my tiny beach town, and they were great guys. It was WAY back in the day
The time has come to say fair is fair
I just watched this to see your reaction to his dancing lol
Peter Garrett
Born: Apr 16, 1953 (age 69) · Sydney, Australia
Height: 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m)
Hey shout out to Charlie McMahon! He used to be a Balmain local. I used to see him all the time. I've got one of his PVC didgeribones...
If you ever read the lyrics. It's about Aboriginal rights in Australia. However. It bodes well with North America, and pretty much anywhere in the World
red sails concert at sydney harbour a must watch
I remember seeing the oils at a pub with crowded House in the audience Paul Hester come up to play a song so good oils are the best
I wish you could hear the original, he has a great voice, the lyrics are incredible.
You should of played the official clip for this tune the lyrics come through crystal clear.
If you really want to play a awesome live clip play INXS New Sensation from the Wembley concert, watching the sea of audience all bopping with the tune is almost hypnotic.
And also check out a NEw Zealand band called "Fat Freddy's Drop" watch the long clip for the song Black Bird it goes for about 8 or 9 mins but it is awesome.
Rob Hurst greatest drummer in the world !!!!!!
I have never heard Peter Garrett's dancing said to be similar to Michael Jackson before 😆🤣
They literally just had their farewell concert in Cali last week... I think it was in LA & Oakland. They are in Chicago tomorrow night, then Toronto, Boston, NY, Philly & Oxon Hill MD.
If you can pull it, please do go. It's one of those bands you will never see again and is so important to Aussie music and they are in your backyard now.
Will their tour end in Australia ?
@@shaundgb7367 no, New Zealand.
@@MonstaAU Damn... Missed my chance to see them one last time.
Song’s about a very heavy subject: human rights abuses
Whos doin the songs like this for today? Post covid times of all the abuse
My favourite release from them is the 4 track EP Species Deceases.... awesome
Thanks, Son hey from Tennessee
Peter Garrett is 6'3", the same height as Angels lead singer Doc Neeson.
I remember them spinning a wheel with all their songs to see which 1 they would play no set list
If there was an award for someone stopping at inappropriate times on a video .eg: in the middle of a solo or as song is reaching a crescendo..you would have multiple🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆lol
Lmao, you seemed understandably perplexed by this one. I do love midnight oil.
He's at least 6" 8 . I m 6"4 and he towered over me when I was talking to him after I helped him reverse his old Mercedes in Glebe years ago
He moves like Peter Garrett 😀
Love this song, the official video would be so much better!
I mentioned on your Angels video that Doc Neeson was one of the most electrifying front men of Aussie bands _ Peter is another! Watch the original video - the lyrics will make more sense then .
Whoever recommended this version needs to take a break from submitting for a bit.
The studio version far surpasses whatever this was.
Oh wow I'm a massive Oils fan and never seen this
A dancing comparison between Peter Garrett and Michael Jackson.... Wow, that's something I never thought I'd hear. 😆
i'm sure you have reacted to this song already but the actual video clip. have to check.
You could always look up the lyrics and read them while the clip is playing. Especially when the clip is old.
6 foot 4
Definitely check out the Lyrics to help put the concert into context. Not the best live version but a song close to a lot of Australian hearts regardless of colour
Back in the day you were either an Oils fan or a Chisel fan… I was a Cold Chisel fan 😄
My favourite Oils song is Wedding Cake Island 😁
Pay the rent means that we owe our Aboriginals for taking their land and trying to destroy their culture. The Singer Peter Garret has been a Climate activist for many years also fighting for Aboriginal rights and wanting the earth's population to stop destroying the Earth. All there songs are in that vein.
Mate, please find the lyrics to this song and you will understand it and what Midnight Oil are singing about,
This really wasn't the best request for you to hear the message from this song.
Peace, and love watching your reactions to Australia's and New Zealand's bands of the past before you joined the world of Beautiful humans.
Peter Garrett is 1.93m or 6ft 3. His presence seems a lot taller though in person! You should listen to the original version which is still live, much better sound quality.
Midnight oil fans were often a little strange .... just an observation lol
Peter Garrett is 193cm…about 6’ 4”
For better sound Try midnight oil ..live ..at Wanda Beach.. (Song ....No time for games).... you won't be disappointed
One of the great and most important bands of any age, their current album and it's song 'Rising Seas' continues their political voice, this time on climate change - you will see them currently and the video and performance is one of the best this year (of recent years).
Love this song gotta check out the Leo Moracchioli cover of this song my man,it's crazy good
Bahahahaha he was off his face at that time....bit of good ol snow white, since got off drugs and turned to a politician lol
HIS DANCE MOVE THOUGH..........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Rob Hurst on drums . Could be the best drummer in the world
OMG! Peter Garrett , he turned to politics , minister for Environment. He used to crack me up cos he danced like a zombie, ha ha
Oh Nick!! I don’t think you could offend poor MJ anymore than say Peter dances like him🤣🤣
Wanna dance like Peter Garrett? Walk through a spider's web. Seriously though, Midnight Oil did a lot to increase awareness of indigenous rights and environmental issues.
These guys do not write bad songs
I wish that there was a band of ex-politicians such as Scott Morrison and Kevin Rudd etc. just like how the former treasurer stated a hippy festival after leaving politics 🤣
Political song. Part of every fair minded Australian. "It belongs to them, let's give it back" The indegionus Australian has both benefited and also suffered from the colonalisation of this beautiful country that we are so fortunate to live in
I met Peter Garret (The singer) a couple of times. He's a nice guy, but very focused on his mission in life to end aboriginal inequality in australia. The aboriginal folks ADORE Midnight Oil, because really back in the day The Oils where the first band to really stand up against the discrimination in australian society, and they had a huge impact on culture here, because no racist fool would dare to go up against Garret and the boys, so they coalessed a lot of cultural change and the end of a lot of shitty colonial ideologies. In fact at the time they came out really the only other artist that had stood up for aboriginal people was, believe it or not, David Bowie. They where constantly doing free concerts up in the northwest aboriginal townships , and assisting aboriginal bands in getting exposure and stuff. He actually ended up in government as the minister for environment , but was kinda terrible at it, just didnt have it together, and discovered the party machine really didnt have room for activists, and didnt run a second term, I think realising where his expertise really was, on the microphone and out there working with indigenous folks to spread the music and love.
Hi great you tube clips maybe you might like to preview a great tune by Stevie Wright it is called evie parts 1,2 and 3 it's a ballad a out this man's girlfriend called evie his love for her and the birth of his child and the losing of his girl I think you will love it. Cheers Tom Haring.
Not their best example, a great Aussie band.
please react to the original film clip version. it is much more impactful. hugs from Oz
One of my absoloute favourite bands on the planet. I do believe that if you are going to review/react to midnight oil then you have to understand australias history. Very very political songs. They are brilliant