Hi everyone, long time lurker (love this place, btw), joined to reply to this. I moved from a small country town to Sydney for Uni in 1983 and this (Oils 10-1 at the Entertainment Centre) was the first “big” concert I went to. I knew all their albums, but this was (and still is) my favourite. Seeing it in a crowd roughly two times the population of my home town blew me away. Unbelievable energy. As for them being the first Australian band to headline there, I don’t know, but the place was packed. I remember it being earlier in 1983, but it was a while ago. And I’d also been introduced to Aussie Shiraz around the same time...
good show to be at! if i could have been at that show and Chisel's last stand at the sydney ent cent, that would have been awesome. I made do with Chisel's last stand at the Perth ent cent. it held 8000 and that was still very cool
i am not sure. i had a quick look and couldn't find the details. I know Chisel sold it out four times later in the year for the Last Stand tour ... the thing that blew my mind while looking was Dire Straits played 21 consecutive shows there to finish their Brothers in arms tour .....
The only Midnight Oil albums I had were "Diesel and Dust" and "Blue sky mining". They were released and bought by me when I was about 16-18 when i started recording from the radio and buy the albums with the stuff I liked. I now have over 6000 albums but somehow never got past those two Midnight Oil albums. Maybe it were the vocals. I wanted to check the older stuff out for ages and this thread was the best opportunity. Yesterday I already bought 10,9,8..... and Red sails in the sunsets. Great music. The rest will follow shortly. Thanks for this thread
I adore 10-1... Favourite tracks are Read About It, Short Memory, and especially US Forces which I think is a masterpiece of social commentary coupled with that wonderful Australian guitar strum... Great stuff.
Easy album and song guide Midnight Oil - 1978 Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 Powderworks Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Head over heals Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Dust Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 Used and Abused Midnight Oil - the album thread track 5 Surfing with a spoon Midnight Oil - the album thread track 6 Run by night Midnight Oil - the album thread Run by night live 1981 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 7 Nothing lost ... nothing gained Midnight Oil - the album thread Head Injuries - 1979 Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 Cold cold change Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Section 5 (bus to Bondi) Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Naked flame Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 Back on the borderline Midnight Oil - the album thread track 5 Koala sprint Midnight Oil - the album thread track 6 No reaction Midnight Oil - the album thread track 7 Stand in line Midnight Oil - the album thread Stand in line live 1981 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 8 Profiteers Midnight Oil - the album thread track 9 Is it now? Midnight Oil - the album thread Bird Noises EP 1980 Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 No time for games Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Knife's edge Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Wedding cake island Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 I'm the cure Midnight Oil - the album thread Live at the Melbourne Show Grounds 1980 - Midnight Oil - the album thread Place Without A Postcard 1981 Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 Don't wanna be the one Midnight Oil - the album thread don't wanna be the one live - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Brave faces Midnight Oil - the album thread Brave faces live in 1982 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Armistice day Midnight Oil - the album thread Armistice day live 1982 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 Someone else to blame Midnight Oil - the album thread track 5 Basement Flat Midnight Oil - the album thread track 6 Written in the heart Midnight Oil - the album thread track 7 Burnie Midnight Oil - the album thread track 8 Quinella holiday Midnight Oil - the album thread track 9 Love's on sale Midnight Oil - the album thread track 10 If Ned Kelly was King Midnight Oil - the album thread track 11 Lucky country Midnight Oil - the album thread 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - 1982 - Midnight Oil - the album thread track 1 Outside world Midnight Oil - the album thread track 2 Only the Strong Midnight Oil - the album thread track 3 Short Memory Midnight Oil - the album thread track 4 Read About It Midnight Oil - the album thread
It was when I saw them tour 10-1 in 1983. In fact before the band came on they played Robert Duval's segment on the beach of Apocalypse Now. I didn't remember until I saw them that it ends with Duval saying almost wistfully "one day there will be no more wars"....and then the Oils walked out and the synthesizer throb of Outside World started. After that had finished the riff for Only The Strong started up and thereafter it was total bedlam.
Oh this is fantastic! Thanks so much for posting a reply. Those concerts and that album were truly epic. I just did some research on the Sydney Entertainment Centre. It was officially opened in May of 1983, so I think that I am correct in saying that the Oils were the first Australian band to headline. Mark, Cold Chisel headlined it in December of that year and if my poor memory serves me correctly did more than Midnight Oil's 3 night stand.
That's right. Dire Straits were at the Ent Cent for EVER. Just goes to show that there's no accounting for some folks' taste, or lack there of. ;-)
well i actually like the straits as well. i wasn't a huge fan of brothers in arms but love over gold and alchemy got me to the show .... they didn't play telegraph road though arrrgggghhh even so, it disappoints me that they sold quarter of a million tickets to the oils 36 000 and chisels 48 000 .... nearly everybody in sydney must have gone to see them !!!!!!!!!!!
i hope that someone had the presence of mind to record those shows and they are just holding out to release a dvd/bluray of it!
Love midnight oil. Seen them 4 times here in the states. Though I love their 80s output, I also enjoy redneck wonderland.
I don't mind Dire Straits but they are not a band that I would think would be particularly interesting live. I could be wrong as I so frequently am. Yes, it was a bit of travesty that Dire Straits played to the entirety of Sydney while Cold Chisel and the Oils played to much smaller audiences because Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil were both dynamite live. Thems the breaks, I guess.
Outside World, Only The Stong, Short Memory and Read About It. A phenomenally strong start to an album.
straits were a good live band, but they weren't hard rock. in their chosen fields they were all excellent live bands.
Scream in Blue Scream in blue starts with an effected guitar punching out pain and slides into a melodic break. This then returns to the guitar and moves into a different melodic break, that then slides into some acoustic guitar and another melodic break that crescendos into virtual white sound and then disappears into a piano and the vocal section of the song. This is actually quite a remarkable piece and although predominantly instrumental is certainly anything but boring. This track is dynamic, melodic and really closed out the first side of the old vinyl so effectively that a moment to suck it all in was needed on first listen. Lyrics Come to me now, be careful of what you say Don't make a sound, there's noise enough in this Come with me now, let night move into day Let sheets keep secrets that no one else could know I could kill for this one time and not be caught She said to me this is the one and I know Come to me now, this is the final hour When I'm dreaming I dream in blue When I'm dreaming I dream of you When I'm screaming I scream in blue
U.S. Forces All Australian bands wanted to sell albums in the U.S. Frankly the market is so big that a breakthrough is a career maker. Aussie bands make it by in Australia if they are big enough, but they aren't going to buy a farm from it. To play music in Australia means you love music, not that you expect to become rich and famous. It's actually easier to become famous without the riches to protect yourself..... anyway. One beautiful thing about most Aussie bands is the "we don't give a **ck" attitude that they display in the songs they choose to record (at least in the late seventies and early eighties) This song was a huge gamble in some ways for the Oils, although this was an amazing album, the chances that the U.S. market would be offended by this song was enormous, but they went ahead anyhow. This is a great song and always received a lot of airplay in Australia. I'm not actually sure if there were any singles from this album or not, but this song and power and the passion were the songs that radio grabbed onto and played. Lyrics US Forces give the nod, it's a setback for your country Bombs and trenches all in rows, bombs and threats still ask for more Divided world the CIA, who controls the issue You leave us with no time to talk, you can write your assessment Sing me songs of no denying, seems to me too many trying Waiting for the next big thing Will you know it when you see it, high risk children dogs of war Now market movements call the shots, business deals in parking lots Waiting for the meat of tomorrow Sing me songs Everyone is too stoned to start emission People too scared to go to prison We're unable to make decision Political party line don't cross that floor L. Ron Hubbard can't save your life Superboy takes a plutonium wife In the shadow of Ban The Bomb we live Sing me songs
idk ... the early eighties were confusing for singles, videos and what was what ... hello fellow arkansan btw lol
yea, i finally looked in the right place u.s. forces power and the passion read about it in that order sorry, brain fart
