Jim Moginie and the Family Dog - 'THUNK' Tour - Melbourne

‘Rob Hirst and Midnight Oil might be gone but as long as Jim Moginie is around creating and performing music, the memories and the spirit is being kept alive by one of Australia’s most innovative and compassionate musicians and his new band of exceptional, music making brothers.’

• Greg Phillips, Australian Musician Magazine.

Jim Moginie and the Family Dog features Jim Moginie from Midnight Oil, Kent Steedman, Paul Larsen Loughhead from Celibate Rifles and Tim Kevin from The Apartments have released their second album THUNK . They celebrate in Victoria in October from Sale to Shotkickers, Thornbury to forever. Get your dancing shoes on for a night of freewheeling Australian rock music.

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‘We’re celebrating our roots, and the great tradition of Australian guitar music generally on this run, playing songs from our combined histories and from our new record THUNK. We’re only releasing THUNK on cassette, vinyl and CD as a protest via thunkthealbum.com and Songland Records as a kickback against the tech giants, who are slowly killing the music industry by denying music creators income with abysmal streaming royalties, investing in AI, data harvesting and the creation of AI content designed to eliminate musicians altogether, their only motivation being profit, and in Spotify’s case assisting in the creation of actual war machines. Beside all of that, we’re a great dance band. And we’re looking forward to coming back to Vic in support of THUNK live in October 2026.’ - Jim Moginie