Midnight Oil

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Galina Yune lina_yune@msn.com
Sat, 06 Oct 2001 20:32:13 -0500


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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=arial,helvetica color=#222222 size=2><B>by <A href="mailto:feed@livedaily.com">Jon Zahlaway</A> </B><BR>LiveDaily Staff Writer </B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000022 size=2>Midnight Oil will venture to North America in early October for a theater tour. The outing follows the group's aborted plans for a summer tour that was to include fellow Australian artists INXS and Men at Work. </FONT></DIV>
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<TD align=left bgColor=#ffffff><FONT face=arial,helvetica size=2><FONT face=arial,helvetica size=2>Related artist profiles:<BR><A href="http://www.livedaily.citysearch.com/artist/1140.html">Midnight Oil</A> <BR></FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT face=arial,helvetica color=#000022 size=2>The group's upcoming tour comprises stops at a number of House of Blues venues, including multi-night stands at the franchise's Los Angeles and Chicago locations. 
<P>Midnight Oil is touring in support of "The Real Thing" (Sony), which was released exclusively in its native Australia last year. The album features live and acoustic versions of previously released Midnight Oil material, as well as the title track--a cover of the 1968 Australian hit originally performed by Russell Morris--and three new original songs. 
<P>"Redneck Wonderland" (Columbia), Midnight Oil's most recent U.S. release, surfaced in 1998. 
<P>Midnight Oil's aborted summer jaunt, which was dubbed the <A href="http://www.livedaily.citysearch.com/news/2849.html">Great Australian Bite Tour</A>, was scheduled to run from late May through late July. Shortly after the project was announced, however, Midnight Oil--citing "unforeseen circumstances"--pulled out, and the entire outing was subsequently <A href="http://www.livedaily.citysearch.com/news/2951.html">scrapped</A>. </FONT></P>
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