Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Across a 45-year career ‘The Oils’ helped shape modern Australia with anthems like “US Forces”, “Beds Are Burn | dG1fYlhQZEJSSDlXOG8

Transcript

00:00The day of reconciliation was marked by division.

00:09We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.

00:20Please welcome, Midnight Owl!

00:30We wanted to write material that would hit you right in the face and say, this is the

00:34truth.

00:35You need to lend your voice to things, you can't stay silent.

00:40Even if you're pushed to the wall for the things that you believe in, you don't give

00:48in.

00:49And I think in those days, we were just trying to stay alive.

00:54We sent the blue album to the radio stations, you know, and they didn't want to play it.

00:58They politely told us, look, we'll see you at the bottom of the barrel.

01:04The industry to us looked corrupt, completely corrupt.

01:07You know, that's not what we were like.

01:20The normal thing for a band to do would be to keep on towards the bright, shining lights.

01:23But instead, we went completely in another direction.

01:27We were changed forever, I think, by that experience.

01:35It did feel like, once again, throw away the rule book, start our music from scratch again.

01:41This week, McKnight Oil are performing seven sell-out concerts.

01:50No Australian band has ever attracted such support.

01:58Peter was very consumed with politics.

02:06We are part of the nuclear world.

02:08And this is the monster which young people in the world inherit.

02:12It's inevitable that if you stick your neck out far enough, for long enough, someone's

02:16going to come along and try and chop it off.

02:17I said, where you come from?

02:33Sometimes you've got to take the hardest line.

02:38You've got to take the hardest line.