Midnight Oil - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, Canada, 6-1-2022

Today, I updated the links for most of the Midnight Oil albums posted here, for various reasons. While doing that, I got to wondering what they were doing lately. I found out they say they performed their last tour in 2022, but they're still open to doing more studio work. I had assumed they would release a live album from that tour, but they haven't. So I found this, which I think is the best bootleg from that tour.

This bootleg stands out because it's a combination of an IEM recording and an audience bootleg. "IEM" stands for "in ear monitor," and it's usually an audio feed meant to help the band members hear themselves, being broadcast directly into earpieces they wear. Soundwise, it's usually like a great soundboard boot. But it can have flaws, such as not including much crowd noise. So mixing in an audience boot can take care of that. In short, this sounds fantastic, the kind of sound one would expect from an official live album.

In 2002, Midnight Oil broke up after being together since the early 1970s. The band's lead singer Peter Garrett then pursued a political career in Australia. He was elected to Parliament, then went on to first be Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, and then Minister for Education. But in 2017 he returned to music and Midnight Oil went back on tour. In 2022, they released, "Resist," their first studio album since 2002. After a short tour in Australia, this was the first show they performed on the tour in North America. This concert includes four songs from the "Resist" album: "At the Time of Writing,"
"Nobody's Child," "Rising Seas," and "Barka-Darling River."

This album is exactly two hours long. 

01 Intro [Instrumental] (Midnight Oil)
02 Read about It (Midnight Oil)
03 Brave Faces (Midnight Oil)
04 talk (Midnight Oil)
05 Nobody's Child (Midnight Oil)
06 talk (Midnight Oil)
07 Barka-Darling River (Midnight Oil)
08 talk (Midnight Oil)
09 Redneck Wonderland (Midnight Oil)
10 Truganini (Midnight Oil)
11 talk (Midnight Oil)
12 First Nation (Midnight Oil)
13 The Dead Heart (Midnight Oil)
14 My Country (Midnight Oil)
15 U.S. Forces (Midnight Oil)
16 Short Memory (Midnight Oil)
17 talk (Midnight Oil)
18 Kosciusko (Midnight Oil)
19 Only the Strong (Midnight Oil)
20 talk (Midnight Oil)
21 At the Time of Writing (Midnight Oil)
22 Power and the Passion (Midnight Oil)
23 Rising Seas (Midnight Oil)
24 talk (Midnight Oil)
25 Sometimes (Midnight Oil)
26 King of the Mountain (Midnight Oil)
27 Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)
28 Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil)
29 talk (Midnight Oil)
30 Forgotten Years (Midnight Oil)
31 talk (Midnight Oil)
32 Hercules (Midnight Oil)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gC5WjRzi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/a4NHbKszaFuBkI4/file

The cover photo shows band members Peter Garrett (with bald head) and Rob Hirst (on drums) performing at the  Hordern Pavilion, in Sydney, Australia, on October 3, 2022. I was glad to find a photo of both Garrett and Hirst, because Hirst is a key songwriter for the band in addition to being a drummer. 

Also, I used the primitive computer styled lettering for the cover, because that's the type of font the band used for this tour.