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Year in review: Live music makes killer comeback in 2022

2022 is the year music returned in a blaze of glory.

Newcastle Herald

Outback bash falls short of Nutbush record

Thousands of Mundi Mundi patrons tried to break the record for the most people dancing the Nutbush but fell just short of taking the title from Queensland.

AAP

NSW outback bash goes for Nutbush record

Organisers hope the 8000 ticket holders to the NSW outback Mundi Mundi Bash will help break the record for the most people dancing to Nutbush City Limits.

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Brick races and St Beryl: Burgmann spirit carries on after 50 years

Burgmann College alumni have been invited to return to the ANU college for a 50th anniversary celebration.

The Canberra Times

Midnight Oil: their 20 greatest songs – sorted

Since 1978, Midnight Oil have made 13 studio albums, two studio EPs and innumerable odds and sods. Here, Oils fan Andrew Stafford has a go at picking the dream set list

The Guardian - AU

Midnight Oil to sign off on touring career

Midnight Oil will play one of the last shows of their final tour in Canberra in October, making up for a cancelled show in April.

The Canberra Times

The Wanda Beach concert was a defining moment in Australian rock music but it was almost a disaster

Organisers expected about 10,000 people but more than 25,000 turned up for the free concert. And then the rain came down.

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'Most important day': Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett greets voters at Bomaderry

After casting her vote on Election Day, Labor's incumbent Gilmore MP Fiona Phillips expressed she is feeling confident ahead of a tight race.

The Canberra Times

The Archibald 2022 finalists: sitters speaking up to power; artists speaking back to the canon

For those seeking refuge from the election, the 101st Archibald Prize is almost a politician-free zone. Unless you count Joanna Braithwaite’s amusingly titled McManusstan, a portrait of bird lover Sally McManus. Former Labor minister Peter Garrett painted by Anh Do is in the line up – but more accurately described…

The Conversation

Midnight Oil cancels Darwin, Cairns concerts after frontman Peter Garrett tests positive for COVID

The iconic Australian band says it is "profoundly disappointed" to cancel two shows in the group's final tour.

ABC News

'We will always have the Oils': Zan Rowe on family, music and the power of Midnight Oil's final tour

When Midnight Oil took to the stage in Melbourne on Sunday night, it closed a chapter of live music history not just for the band of brothers, but for Zan Rowe's family too.

ABC News

Midnight Oil on Resist and their last ever tour: ‘We mean it, man!’

As the Australian band embarks on their final live shows, Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie reflect on loss, legacy and quitting while they’re ahead

The Guardian - AU

‘So pissed off’: Midnight Oil kick off final tour with a searing, urgent set in Launceston

Headlining the first weekend of Mona Foma festival, the band offered a rebuke of baby boomer nostalgia in a bittersweet live farewell

The Guardian - AU

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