Midnight Oil Performs Diesel and Dust Live for Canberra

Midnight Oil treated Canberra to a complete performance of the iconic ‘Diesel and Dust’ album last night (27 May 2019).

While the band played every song from the album, including the bonus track ‘Gunbarrell Highway’, they took some liberties with the track order, swapping around ‘Whoah’ and ‘The Dead Heart’. Side one of the original vinyl album was performed in order but ‘Gunbarrell Highway’ also slide in between ‘Sell My Soul’ and ‘Sometimes’.

The complete album performance was ‘Diesel and Dust’ was the first time Midnight Oil have performed their biggest album in its entirety.

‘Diesel and Dust’ was awarded 7x Platinum in Australia, 3x Platinum in Canada and sold platinum in the USA with over 1 million sales.

Midnight Oil performed in Wollongong last week and Canberra last night as a warm-up to their upcoming European tour.

Midnight Oil setlist, Canberra, 28 May 2019

Lucky Country (from Place Without a Postcard, 1981)
Too Much Sunshine (from Capricornia, 2002_
Truganini (from Earth and Sun and Moon, 1993)
If Ned Kelly Was King (from Place Without a Postcard, 1981)
Read About It (from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, 1982)
Treaty (Yothu Yindi cover) (with Leah Flanagan)
Luritja Way (from Capricornia, 2002)
Short Memory (from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, 1982)
My Country (from Earth and Sun and Moon, 1993)
Beds Are Burning (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Put Down That Weapon (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Dreamworld (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Arctic World (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Warakurna (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Whoah (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
The Dead Heart (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Bullroarer (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Sell My Soul (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Gunbarrel Highway (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)
Sometimes (from Diesel and Dust, 1987)