FRIDAY OCTOBER 6 2017 NEWS 13 THE GREAT CIRCLE 2017 WORLD TOUR Oils in Alice: Read about it! Michelle notches 58th Oils gig at Anzac Oval SUPERFAN Michelle Slater flew to Alice Springs to attend her 58th Midnight Oil gig. “Alice Springs is the spiri- ”I’m from a tual home of everything that politically literate this band believes in,” she said. “I feel so honoured and family; Midnight privileged to be here to share Oil really spoke to this moment.” The first gig Ms Slater ever me through my attended was Midnight Oil, and it was a moment that heart and brain.” would shape her life. “My sister took me to see MICHELLE SLATER Midnight Oil in 1990,” she said. “I was doing my year 12 who was coming back into my VCE, so I was just old enough life, and who I was still in love to see rock and roll gigs.” with.” She said the gig, as part of Ms Slater managed to get the Blue Sky Mining tour past her confusion and attend showed her how “powerful and the first concert of the Austra- intelligent” live music could be. lian leg of the Great Circle ”As a young woman who tour. News of a secret gig two came from a politically literate nights before at Kintore im- family, Midnight Oil really pressed Ms Slater. spoke to me through my heart “It shows the integrity of and brain,” Ms Slater said. this band. It shows they’re still “It changed my life.” there fighting for the underdog When her beloved band and fighting for ordinary peo- started breaking up in the early ple,” she said. naughties, Ms Slater said she Asked which were her fav- “went into mourning for a ourite Oils tracks, she had a good five or six years”. swift and direct response. “I couldn’t listen to their “If you had children, would music. I couldn’t talk about the you ask which one was your times I’d seen them,” she said. favourite?” The announcement last “I look at each album in an year that the band was set to era and I judge them across re-form and tour again their 40-year career, but my brought up a whole new di- favourite song at the moment, lemma. off their Diesel and Dust album, “I had just healed and I’d is called Dreamworld,” she said. just been able to listen to their Ms Slater would have been music and talk about them pleased the band chose to close again, and then they an- with the track. nounced this tour,” Ms Slater “I love it because it’s a really said. angry … but at the same time “I felt really bitter. I felt be- it’s an upbeat rock song with trayed. I felt like it was an ex- beautiful blended harmonies husband, who I had let go of and jangly pop guitars.” Janet Skewes from Adelaide, Karen Montey from Alice Springs, Jennifer Sebom from Germany, Mary McHugh from Alice Springs and Hans-gerd Westermann Bartjen from Alice Springs attended the Midnight Oil concert. Gabby Angles and Nick Coleman from Sydney attended the Midnight Oil concert. V1 - CAVE01Z01MA.