Midnight Oil mania seems to have struck many of you out there in ILYOS-land with the announcement of the band reforming for a world tour including Australian dates in late 2017 - so let’s go way back. Way back to 1977 and the ABC TV program Flashez. Remember that? With Ray Burgess and Mike Mead – it was a fantastic show.

Here’s Peter Garrett with a bit of hair. Here are Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey – with beards! Here’s Rob Hurst looking barely pubescent! Here’s founding bassist Andrew James. Here’s Midnight Oil, not long after changing their name from Farm, performing the song "Used & Abused" live at the War & Peace Hotel in Parramatta, Sydney!

And here’s the official video for the same song, taken from their first album, from a year or so later. Harder, faster and less hairy! And had Peter been working out or what?!