Midnight Oil

Oils setlist

My wife, eldest daughter and I had the privilege of attending the Midnight Oil concert in Coffs Harbour on 19th October. In total the Oils played 23 songs and, at the time, I thought a lot came from their albums of the middle period from the early to mid eighties. I thought I’d work it out and let everyone else know, too:

# Title Album Count
……….. ………………………………… ……………………………….. ……….
1 Outside World 10 to 1 1/5
2 Only the Strong 10 to 1 2/5
3 Stars of Warburton Blue Sky Mining 1/3
4 Dreamworld Diesel and Dust 1/8
5 Whoah Diesel and Dust 2/8
6 Lucky Country Place Without a Postcard 1/1
7 Section 5 (Bus to Bondi) Head Injuries 1/1
8 Sell My Soul Diesel and Dust 3/8
9 When the Generals Talk Red Sails in the Sunset 1/3
10 Short Memory 10 to 1 3/5
11 Treaty (Yothu Yindi cover) -
12 US Forces 10 to 1 4/5
13 Kosciusko Red Sails in the Sunset 2/3
14 No Time for Games Bird Noises 1/1
15 Put Down That Weapon Diesel and Dust 4/8
16 Warakurna Diesel and Dust 5/8
17 Beds Are Burning Diesel and Dust 6/8
18 Blue Sky Mine Blue Sky Mining 2/3
19 Forgotten Years Blue Sky Mining 3/3
Encore:
20 The Dead Heart Diesel and Dust 7/8
21 Power and the Passion 10 to 1 5/5
22 Sometimes Diesel and Dust 8/8
Encore 2:
23 Best of Both Worlds Red Sails in the Sunset 3/3

I was surprised to discover just how many songs came from Diesel and Dust. The era from Place Without a Postcard to Blue Sky Mining are my favourites and twenty of the twenty three songs came from those albums. Two other songs were from earlier albums which I do quite like, and there was one cover which I also knew. I’m not as familiar with their later material (from Earth and Sun and Moon, Breathe, Redneck Wonderland and Capricornia) and there were no songs from that era!