Midnight Oil -Live- (in front of the Exxon building) NYC

After the Exxon Valdez Oil Disaster, someone needed to speak up. Australia's own Midnight Oil did. And in Big way!
On the Streets of NY! -well on a flatbed...
Outside and in front of the Exxon Building.
A Demonstration for a Peaceful World and for Environmental Awareness of our Planet Earth.
Midnight Oil Performs "River Runs Red"
Commentary from Peter Garrett and Howie Hedd.
Midtown, Manhattan, Avenue of the Americas, NYC 1990
Videographer, Producer and Editor- Dwight Brugo

[@PassionJo777]

This band makes me SO proud TO BE Australian!

[@yeswolf1]

This band makes me proud to be human, regardless of what other do to disgrace us and destroy the planet.

[@mj.l]

peter garrett proved to be a total disappointment, working as environment minister for an anti-green corporate neoliberal party and approving fossil fuel expansion. all showbiz talk, no trousers,

[@estellechampagne669]

Great and brave Aussie band EVER !

[@BlueHopi144]

The Best Biggest most activist rock Aussie band ever . From a Big Belgium fan .

[@xemoorex]

The original video has been coopted. Thumbs down until this paid for content is suppressed

[@bogusfiasco3789]

Thank jesus fer everythang, specially them MidNight Oils

[@noelmartin504]

Ok poor editing to have mr cutey educate everyone at the start of the verse. Overwise Sublime 💓

[@cathrynboag6474]

Twin towers....World Trade Centre.

[@johnkirwan-taylor3331]

Was there in the crowd, too. Completely random luck. Was pretty awesome.

[@teevee182]

I was there by accident. Best random experience ever!

[@kingey71]

Fantastic mate from an Aussie who has grown up on Midnight Oil and lots of other bands. xxxooo

[@weburnitatbothends]

Gorgeous, respect forever Theresa xo

[@bassdog61]

me too!

[@gafas_]

Nah, not jealous. Not jealous at all. 😭

[@campbellmanderson943]

You lucky bugger.

[@ianoz1]

And 32 years later, this wonderful band of brothers took the stage for the final time in their home town, STILL speaking up about everything important to them. I've known Rob & Jim since 1974. My friends who have done remarkable things... given articulate voice to those of us that would be silenced and created a legacy that every Australian should be proud of and should aspire to. My heroes.

[@josephpacetexas]

That's cool. My Dad was a history profesor when I was growing up and he always was pointing out the little guys who made a massive splash in history. People like Midnight Oil. They got super popular right about when I was 16. I remember dancing to their music to this day and I can't really dance, let's be perfectly honest here. Not really at all. Very odd. But when their stuff would come on, somehow I could. Maybe it was the groove. Maybe it was the content. Hard to tell.

[@edgecityfilms]

2:41 hard to find the whole original documentary film… it was one of the best music political action videos I’ve ever seen.

[@chefjack33]

James Moginie is a genius! Rock In Peace Bones brother!

[@disrxt]

27 years on and this song is more relevant then ever. That's 27 years lost.

[@BlueHopi144]

Those guys had visions - 27 years ago - pretty impressive visionary activism and what a strength - I saw them only once in Belgium back in 1989 - I was deeply Impressed - deeply touched by their Sheer authenticity and tenacity - talent - awesomeness - perfect melodies - Pure joy .

[@xemoorex]

this is a pay me video. the original one is hard to find. Thumbs down

[@argebarse]

These should not be forgotten years.

[@DanHomeAtLast]

This is the single most important statement anyone could make

[@weburnitatbothends]

Why can't they hear us screaming, go Extinction Rebellion

[@miketausig4205]

We NEED The Oils now more than ever.

[@BrianMeyer41]

I am a conservative and I endorse this message!

[@SFDoucette]

Me too.

[@iankearns774]

Could only be more Aussie if they did it from a HQ ute instead of a flatbed.

[@user-or1ye3iz6d]

I was there in the front of that crowd. I can't believe I thought of this memory tonight and looked it up. It was a crazy day that I still remember bc I was a Junior in high school in New Jersey. My high school acting class and I drove into NYC on a bus to see a Broadway show. After the show got out, we walked down the street and randomly into THIS crowd. We were right up front. I'll never forget it. On our way home to Jersey that day, our bus got into a bad accident and I ended up in the hospital later that afternoon, while on a school trip. That day is forever etched into my brain. Anyhow, I was just looking for myself and my classmates in the crowd in this video. I might've been that girl you keep seeing with the big teased Jersey hair. 😂

[@alejpix]

Those guitar lines at the beginning of the song gives me shivers on my spine. The oils for ever!

[@sylviadanchell3393]

Respect for them, for the environment, for freedom of expression....their words are as relevant today as the first time I heard Beds are burning in late 80s standing on the corner of the street in mid winter waiting for the bus....I never forgot that day..they represent pure energy and love of mother earth... and bonus of all bonuses they meant it...love them then love them now...Message to the Oils...please come back to Montreal.....Anytime anyplace no matter how old I get...

[@BlueHopi144]

i Had the VHS video of this concert .......

[@edgecityfilms]

Bluehopi Bridge me too! I like that version of the event!

[@user-or1ye3iz6d]

I wish I could see it. I was in the front of that crowd that day, by accident.

[@williammurphy8246]

This band makes me SO proud TO BE Australian! Gänsehaut seit fast 30 Jahren ...

[@areuokayinthere]

Did you write a line in German or is KZbin experimenting with those shitty translation again?

[@tanellapere]

Hey man stop being disrespectful they are excellent singers

[@lixly.x7818]

My favourite song since i am little , i always listened to it with my dad when i was five or so 😁

[@jonathandeatherage9271]

I hope the executives heard ya! Let 'em have it, Guys!! Welcome to the U S of A!!

[@gossy351]

R.I.P. Bones

[@stubbycooler3855]

No Australian band would have the balls to do this these days

[@jamesbong4928]

Well first of all they'd have to be good enough

[@albertmacleod8969]

Wasn’t Rex Tillerson the CEO of Exxon during Valdez? Didn’t Trump appoint Tillerson Secretary of State? Rewarding bad behaviour? How to explain this to our kids?

[@dannyboyspace]

"It must be the curse of the age...what's taken is never renewed." Well said... 30+ years ago and now more true than ever.

[@philipholmes3141]

Help Stop Line three ' in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.

[@nosk1475]

un groupe mythique et la question de l 'environnement est plus que jamais d 'actualité

[@mauriciosierra9475]

Now they need to do the same in front of the BP oil company.

[@bardown7628]

Where is this full concert?

[@patricklegoff1598]

come in France in front of TOTAL building

[@Alexo1954]

I wonder if they played "US Forces" during this concert. It's a much stronger song. US Forces have been giving the nod for decades. They never sang a love song in their entire career.

[@marktele8061]

Progress, Sometimes, Dreamworld, Blue Sky Mine, River Runs Red, and Instant Karma are on the VHS Black Rain Falls. There were apparently 2 more songs played that day before The Man shut them down.

[@janmeyer3129]

They are all love songs - for country

[@thomasmcloughlin5402]

Really great bit of activism that. Was Aaron Sorkin in that crowd? I wonder.

[@devlin0208]

What a great band. Glad I saw them a few years after this. Underrated doesn't describe but there's tons of underrated bands. But these guys were activists for good.

[@dancingdave5404]

My favourite Midnight Oil track...what a time to play it

[@bardown7628]

I use to have full concert on VHS where is full show on KZbin 😔

[@progmeup]

Not on KZbin but available on DVD...

[@straingedays]

Same here, it aired on TV. Taped it on an early DVR receiver😔 Lost so much on that machine when its internals shorted-out

[@weburnitatbothends]

30 years or so later, how are we going world?

[@swissshepherd1186]

COVID

[@nickvegas2459]

Awesome song. Sits alongside some of their earlier stuff.

[@rachelc.newcomb1030]

Help Stop Line three ' in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. come in France in front of TOTAL building 29 years on, count me in for the revolt

[@arkir1184]

love that they did this

[@MayurPanghaal]

I wonder where that guy with the back pack is now. Who is he ? where is he ? Anyone knows ?

[@TheBlackHoleOfVideo]

San Francisco CA

[@batsrule]

👍❤️👋oils!

[@parisd0g729]

If they don't listen now, they will listen tomorrow. So true.

[@OfficialAshArcher]

More people need to follow suit and stand up when they see something wrong

[@HissBoo]

And nothing changed. Everyone go home. The TV is on.

[@tanellapere]

Theirs nothing wrong of them Singing where they are because of being unique

[@underwriter100]

I saw the later that night at Radio City Music Hall

[@tomjdleaf]

These guys were my heroes when I was a kid. Still are. The real deal

[@chenoah7963]

love these guys! keep it up! time to do it again!

[@BlueHopi144]

they are touring again ......in 2017

[@frankiesusnak6719]

I Love This Band...I had the chance to see them Live in Montréal they are real in what they think and domany respects....thank you Midnight Oil...

[@weburnitatbothends]

29 years on, count me in for the revolt

[@SS-wc3pd]

I hope the executives heard ya! Let 'em have it, Guys!! Welcome to the U S of A!! come in France in front of TOTAL building

[@arconeagain]

How switched on that young man was.

[@DJmemoriesPlaylists]

Loved this band.

[@timskin6259]

I remember Pete fell off the speaker onto a crew member and said :"you right mate" then got back into it... posting this b4 I've watched it by the way

[@straingedays]

I remember seeing that to,,, The full show played on (Foxtel) Channel-V., or (ABC) Rage. It's one of those unforgettable moments

[@brontepetropoulos4755]

Yes yes yes soooo proud of these guys best political band in the world

[@geofflongford2008]

Hey. An Arri SR2. Sick.

[@frankiesusnak6719]

love this band

[@rodrigoquiroz242]

Great song....for shake our minds....! 👏👏

[@matthewotremba9230]

Exxon Valdize

[@williamhand3405]

That Exxon building is now the Fox news building. I'm still on the Oils side.

[@swissshepherd1186]

That’s good

[@tanellapere]

I actually thought they were singing outside the world Trade centers but it's a different type of buildings

[@BRANNDYTUADICCION]

Que delicia endulzar oído y vista; con exponentes de este género de música usando una vestimenta de personas normales.

[@tanellapere]

You should not judge at all because they are good singer and no body else is complaining just only you

[@waynesworldcoinsaustralia2640]

Awesome

[@incawarrior1000]

Thx for the vid

[@dwightbrugo9233]

+incawarrior1000 I had fun shooting it and editing it together

[@xemoorex]

The original video has been coopted. Thumbs down until this paid for content is suppressed

[@jhonnixxes7742]

Ni u2 ni Metallica ni Nirvana.... Contra el poder absoluto

[@SPORTSNUTIM]

What year was this played in NYC?

[@alainsecte8791]

Encore plus d actualité aujourd hui avec les forages de gaz de schist 😥

[@didtheyexpectustotreatthem574]

i w2as there.. and i see me in the front...

[@tanellapere]

Stop it man you are jealousy of them

[@blairdawson9506]

Currently bent as shit

[@mastersupreme6126]

Amazing how years earlier U2 played where the streets have no name on a roof in Downtown Los Angeles California and the video coreography and sound quality are greater than this Midnight Oil Video Recording years later! And yes i was there in Los Angeles while U2 played months later I met Aide Torres Acevedo la pirruña from Colima in South Central Menlo Park Los Angeles California Lowembraű Beer La Papa Loca Burritos My Sharp Boombox the 80's awesome days!

[@michaellivesey4354]

Budget bud..but not the songs point..

[@michaellivesey4354]

Aussie's hard as..you will get to see it soon when our 2 countries go to war with China..2021..if not before

[@marktele8061]

Here's the dif; U2 - choreographed video on a roof in LA. Oils - guerrilla raid in the streets of New York City with the police trying to shut them down.

[@mastersupreme6126]

@@marktele8061 YES THAT IS TRUE!

[@mattieslurmusic]

U2 made a video clip and mimed to the backing track. The oil's were live. It was a completely different thing.

[@caveman4598]

Glory to the workers party ✊

[@darylcumming7119]

Thanks.

[@mynamesnotglen]

🖐️

[@caveman4598]

Long live solidarity

[@kdobbinhale]

LOOK IN THE MIRROR. MUPPETS.

[@deang.ferris4618]

Go back to your dust bin PUPPET

[@smokefromsevenorifices8782]

And Midnight Oils carbon footprint to travel to NYC was ?

[@ykook7000]

🙄

[@craigmiller9665]

doe's that make Exxon a metaphor for the band??

[@MrALZ2011]

Midnight oil - spoke on behalf of the environment. Australian issues etc - Respect! Fucken balls to that!!!

[@pascalnobody5128]

They should move only by diligence the Australian leftists.

[@DanHomeAtLast]

There is nothing fucking left about this, its not even political it's about our planet and the people. The problem exists with policy and ends with you.

[@JoseVargas-gb8lq]

@@DanHomeAtLast cojonudo

[@xemoorex]

this video needs to be thumbs downed until the original video is available

[@jerryfalwellsociety]

Free this, free that. Want, want, want..

[@scotmarq]

Promethius!!!

[@sindyd.keeney2731]

un groupe mythique et la question de l 'environnement est plus que jamais d 'actualité This band makes me SO proud TO BE Australian!

[@jebstuart4004]

n'importe quoi.....Les écolos sont des escrocs et des sous merde régressistes. Quand Garrett a été au pouvoir, il a fait quoi ? pas grand chose et il a compris qu on ne pouvait pas se passer du nucléaire et des mines à ciel ouvert en Australie pour des raisons évidentes d'emploi et d'indépendance énergétique. Mais pour comprendre ça, il faut avoir fait des études et arrêter de passer son temps à fréquenter Gretta la gogole.

[@kmac3461]

Love their music but so many people are mislead on the human imposition on the environment. We'll all be in trouble on the next Krakatoa type volcanic explosion - what you goin' to sing about then. I hope we can still sing, enjoy music, and have discourse about important topics but hope we can realize we are very small on the environment - we'll see how climate change based on carbon emissions of the human population is pretty insignificant come next - Volcanic/Tsunami/Earthquake /Fire - we are insignificant in this world - the plants and insects will take over pretty quickly.. So stay the course and be god peoplt to each other before the next big one it will happen.

[@disrxt]

+K Mac Humanity is the proximate cause of the Sixth Great Mass Extinction in geologic history. An event on par with the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs, 61 million years ago. Not on par with a volcano, that causes a decade or two of climate fluctuation, or an earthquake the knocks down a few buildings or makes a tsunami. There are several orders of magnitude between the environmental effects each causes. Deny all you want, the facts exist despite your refusal to recognize them.

[@matthewberry1738]

Peter Garett used to have testicles

[@AdolfStalin]

Kind of ironic