Midnight Oil - Outbreak Of Love

What this video is

Released in August 1993, 'Outbreak Of Love' arrived during a seismic cultural shift as grunge (led by Nirvana) was reshaping global alternative rock priorities. Midnight Oil's Earth and Sun and Moon represented a deliberate stylistic evolution — rootsier, keyboard-forward, more melodic — that critics noted was swimming against the commercial current. The single was a notable outlier in the Midnight Oil catalog: a…

Why it matters

As the fifth and final single from Earth and Sun and Moon, 'Outbreak Of Love' documents Midnight Oil at a hinge point: commercially still viable on alternative charts, yet aesthetically evolving away from the guitar-driven urgency of Diesel and Dust and Blue Sky Mining toward organ- and piano-led…

The director

Sally Bongers is a distinguished Australian cinematographer and director who studied at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, winning two AFI Awards for Cinematography. She became the first woman to shoot a 35mm feature film in Australia with Jane…