Midnight Oil: Black Rain Falls (1990) Reviews

The Australian musical group Midnight Oil are known for their political activism over such issues as oppression, environment endangerment, discrimination, and poverty, and they use rock & roll as a platform to increase the awareness of the world's problems and the alleged perpetrators. Prior to their album release of Blue Sky Mining, Midnight Oil performed a concert on May 30, 1990, on the back of a flatbed truck outside of Exxon's Manhattan's offices in protest of the near-catastrophic oil spill off the Alaskan coast. This video features six songs performed at this protest concert, and also contains interviews with the band members, a conceptual clip of the song "King of the Mountain," and other documentary footage. ~ Forrest Spencer, Rovi