New DVD To Accompany Forthcoming Midnight Oil Exhibition

A recording of an infamous 1990 performance from Australian rock legends Midnight Oil will be released as a DVD for the first time this year, as the band is ready to be celebrated in a new art exhibition in the familiar stomping ground of Manly.

Sony Music will issue a DVD of the band's guerrilla performance on the back of a flatbed truck outside the Exxon Building in New York City on May 30, 1990, a performance that drew a crowd of around 10,000 people as the band made public its feelings on the planet's crumbling environment.

The DVD release ties in nicely with a new exhibition being hosted at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, kicking off Friday 20 June. The exhibition, which will run through til September, will feature stage props, instruments, protest banners, hand written lyrics, photographs and posters sourced from public and private collections as well as the band's own archives, all giving a new insight into the workings of one of our biggest rock exports.

Midnight Oil broke up in 2002, though reformed for benefit shows in 2005 and 2009. Speculation surrounding a possible reunion has been rife following frontman Peter Garrett's resignation from politics, though the band have so far indicated there are no plans for them to play again at this stage.