Rob Hurst

Johnny Clegg, the amazing dancing.

You know, it was just a moment.

It was just this moment of joy after the shackles of apartheid had been lifted.

So we finally went and played this great gig in...

in johannesburg and uh we didn't actually forgotten that it had been um filmed and recorded and we've uncovered it recently and it forms part of the material that we've just released and you can kind of hear the incredible singing of those folks you know in an african accent yeah with it with that beautiful those beautiful voices and you know six six-part harmonies and stuff that we can only dream of so that that still remains a moment

for me, you know, in South Africa's history and in Midnight Oil's history.

And the other one I thought I'd mention was one much more recent, which we did last year, because the Oil's never played in the former east in Europe.

So when we finally got a gig last year in a town called Ostrava...

right over near the Polish border in the Czech Republic.

We thought at last we can actually play to people that were either unable to come and see us before the war came down or, you know, they just didn't know about us.

So we had a large audience that day in this town.

This town must have been hell under the Soviets.

It was an old steel...

working town, and the backdrop was... It was like Wyala or Port Kembla by the power of 100.

Huge, rusting Soviet pig iron factory, and in winter it must have been hell to work there, you know.

But anyway, someone had the great idea of turning it into a gig, cleaned it all up.

We played to 50,000 or 60,000 people, most of whom were a new audience for us, on a perfectly sunny day.

just as the sun was going down, and it was a moment of epiphany.

Amazing.

Well, my mum used to write me.