Midnight Oil’s 1987 hit “Beds Are Burning” might be one of the most authentically Australian songs to become a worldwide hit. The song is up there with “Land Down Under” by Men At Work. But while the ...

Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil’s 1987 song “Beds Are Burning” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert‘s #PlayAtHome music series. For their rendition, ...

Peter Garrett has fought the good fight across a wild range of fronts: the Outback, MTV, the halls of the Australian Parliament, the United Nations International Court of Justice. As the lead singer ...

Peter Garrett, the indefatigable frontman of Midnight Oil, may be 64 but you’d never guess it. He barely stopped moving Sunday night at Webster Hall, spinning like a whirling dervish and still dancing ...

Cover songs have been done to death by punk rock bands. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have pulled it off, the Punk Goes… series have not and then there is everything in between to various degrees of ...

Midnight Oil drummer and songwriter Rob Hirst's drum kit has been snapped up at auction by a fan club for $77,500. Hirst said he was parting with the kit as he could no longer play high-energy rock ...

Oh, how fast it has flown by. March Madness will come to an end on Monday night, and a 49-year-old married father of three wishes it could last forever. Paul Mortimer has been burning the midnight oil ...

'Fame made me feel empty'. After a slew of internationally successful albums, Midnight Oil were on top of the world in the late ’80s. But for founding member Jim Moginie, it was time to take a break – ...

Rob Hirst, the drummer of Australian rock veterans Midnight Oil, has revealed he is currently battling pancreatic cancer. 69-year-old Hirst, who co-founded the Sydney rock outfit in the ‘70s, revealed ...

Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has revealed he’s been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Formed in 1972 the Australian rock band, which was fronted by Peter Garrett, has sold over 20 million albums ...