A ferocious intensity: that is the best way to describe Midnight Oil when they were at their peak. For anyone lucky enough to experience the band on stage, whether it be at a cavernous entertainment centre or a sticky pub, it was as though the Oils might explode at any moment, taking out their audience too. Driving bass and drums, duelling guitars, rousing choruses and a singer who danced as if he had been shot out of a washing machine; even on record, especially the earlier ones, it could sound as though the speakers would catch fire.
What might it have been like to be a member, recording 13 studio albums and an enviable suite of number-one singles, touring the world and garnering the adoration, often obsession, of fans?
