In July 1986, an ascendant Midnight Oil joined forces with the Northern Territory’s trailblazing, predominantly Indigenous Warumpi Band and embarked on the joint Blackfella–Whitefella tour of remote Indigenous communities in the Western Desert and Top End. The bands would perform for more than a dozen communities, from Warakurna, Western Australia in the south-west to Groote Eylandt on the Gul ... (read more)
Gareth Hipwell
Gareth Hipwell is a Sydney-based freelance music journalist and author, writing for Rolling Stone Australia, The Big Issue, Country Update Magazine and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Southerly, The Sleepers Almanac Vol. 9, and at NoiseMedium online. He is currently working on his first novel, an acid western set in the Monaro region of the 1860s.