Music
by Kathy McCabe
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The hardest part of Midnight Oil's triumphant "warm-up" gig was sitting down.
The easiest part was joining with the band to celebrate the life of their departed brother Bones Hillman, the will for the constitutional recognition of First Nation peoples and the return of live music after a year-long pandemic shutdown.
Commanding the stage in front of a sold-out crowd in the stunningly renovated Enmore Theatre in Sydney, the revered rockers performed a two-hour set with Indigenous collaborators from their No. 1 record
The Makarrata Project.
The Oils opened the Makarrata Live tour preview with