Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil dropped a serious bombshell with the announcement of the band’s first world tour in over two decades.

The Great Circle World Tour will see the group’s classic line-up literally circle around our overheating planet for six months, starting and ending with gigs in Sydney. Appropriately for a band forged in their hometown’s sweat-drenched beer barns, the tour will begin in mid-April with an intimate local pub gig.

Midnight Oil will then hone their live show with more than 30 gigs around the world during the northern summer, playing iconic venues from Sao Paulo’s Espaço das Americas and the Wiltern in L.A. to London’s Hammersmith Apollo and The Olympia in Paris. They will share festival stages with artists like Arcade Fire, Sting and The Pixies and finally return to New Zealand after 20 years.

These will be Midnight Oil’s only shows in the last 15 years apart from two stadium benefit concerts (and their related small warmup gigs). It will also be the group’s most extensive world tour since their classic late 80s/early 90s albums like Diesel & Dust, Blue Sky Mining and Earth & Sun & Moon sold more than 10 million copies around the globe.

Joining them at the Riverstage will be Aussie legends The Jezabels. Tickets to the Riverstage show go on sale Monday February 27 at 1:00 pm so get your clickin’ fingers ready – this tour will sell out in a flash.

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