30 October

It’s heretical to say it I know, but I’ve always found Midnight Oil boring. All didactic art is. It reminds me of that Soviet art of women with shovels and tractors. More PR than art. No real nuance in the music, art is powerful when it reveals, not when it creates slogans. Great art changes the world by changing how people feel and think. By revealing something new to them, not by providing a soundtrack to a point of view. Has one person had their mind changed by the Oil’s songs? I seriously doubt it, they’re rallying cries for people who already believe the things they sing about.