The Midnight Oil frontman might be 70, but you wouldn’t know it from this galvanising show behind a new solo record.
He might have been fronting a band called The Alter Egos but Peter Garrett was, on this night, still the passionate activist performer we came to know across six decades in Midnight Oil.in 2022. Instead, Garrett is back with a new solo album and fire in his belly, stoked by having another quarter of Midnight Oil to his left, in the fret-finessing form of guitarist Martin Rotsey, plus his daughters Grace and May on backing vocals.Credit:, was played almost in its entirety.
and Garrett’s energy lifted, adding blasts of harmonica between snarls at rampant Rich Listers, his limbs flailing as if beholden to a particularly angry puppeteer. Still, the septuagenarian was cannily pacing himself, not quite screaming the line “tax-dodgers smash the rough sleepers on their way” like he does so memorably on the album., an end-times dirge given an intense performance by Garrett, with funereal keyboards from The Jezabels’ Heather Shannon adding to the galvanising impact.
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