MIDNIGHT OIL - BRAVE FACES

Capitol Theatre
Sydney Australia
27th November 1982

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Midnight
• Oil
• Brave
• Faces

[Larrus2007]

A rock band cannot perform or sound better than this. Pure emotional energy amplified.

[snubianvideo]

Martin Rotsey is so vastly underrated, the silent backbone of the Oils for more than 20 years.

[hoprabbitbunny]

Brave Faces is a brilliant breakneck Oz-Rocker because Peter Garrett holds the politicians accountable for their inaction and wrongdoing. Midnight Oil fought the good fight even when and it is still unpopular to do so. Oils Forever!

[TheDazza1969]

To truly experience The Oils is to get up the front and not leave until you are wringing wet and truly exhausted!!

[jerryfalwellsociety]

I have to say that Martin Rotsey's guitar at 03:36 is the most insanely superb sounding guitar I have ever heard.

[neile2001]

Rotsey and Moganie were the best two guitar attack this country has ever produced and this clip shows exactly why....

Place Without A Postcard is my favourite Oils album - loved it when it came out and love it still :)

[Greatfox200]

@adam872 Apparently Glyn Johns was testing out his new home studio with the Oils, and the results aren't particuarly encouraging! You do raise a good point about Head Injuries though, I've only heard the original CD recording, again a physical remastered release would sound amazing!

[adam872]

@Greatfox200 I have the Place Without A Post Card remaster from iTunes and it sounds pretty good. You could certainly make the complaint that the original recording sounds a little thin, which is surprising given that the mighty Glyn Johns produced it (he also did Who's Next, one of the greatest sounding albums ever made). I reckon Head Injuries sounds absolutely fine and for me captures the energy of the band at that time. It's all good though, the songs are still great.

[Greatfox200]

@adam872 poor sound production plagues the first three albums, the live versions of the songs from these albums are just miles ahead of the studio versions. There was a plan to release all the albums with the sound remastered, which would have fixed the sound on the early albums to make them comparable to live, but this has fallen through, at least on CD. There are supposedly 'remastered' versions available for download on iTunes but I just don't trust mp3 to be as good as CD

[adam872]

@Greatfox200 There could be something in that. My original vinyl copy sounds massive, but the tracks roar to life on stage that they perhaps didn't as much on record.