Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 1990
AS IF UNTOUCHED by the international success of their last album, Diesel And Dust ('87), and its attendant smash single 'Beds Are Burning', Blue Sky Mining is essence of Oil: great beat group sounds and campaigns a go-go.
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