Comfortable Place On The Couch: A Midnight Oil Podcast
by Darren Foulds
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e53 Resist p3
Dec 19, 2025
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e52 Resist p2
Nov 15, 2025
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 12/19/25 |  e53 Resist p3✨ | Midnight Oilmusic analysis+3 | Robin | Midnight OilWe Resist+3 | — | Midnight OilWe Resist+5 | — | 2h 13m 19s | |
| 11/15/25 |  e52 Resist p2 | Sit back down on the Couch and listen to Resist some more with Robin and Darren. Having come to grips with the fact that they just go long when talking about Midnight Oil, the couch sitters enjoy The Barka-Darling River, Tarkine and At the Time of Writing this episode. Better late than never. | — | ||||||
| 7/16/25 |  e51 Resist p1 | Let's have a Show of Hands for everyone who LOVES Midnight Oil's 2022 album, Resist! The couch-sitters cue up the Oils' last album and spend close to two hours talking about it and they only listen to one song! I think they just want to make it last forever. | — | ||||||
| 4/26/25 |  e50 The Makarrata Project p2 | The Makarrata Project spins for a second night as Darren and Robin play Midnight Oil's 2020 mini-album. The couch-sitters listen to early versions of some of this albums songs and answer the question, "Is this a real* Midnight Oil album?" | — | ||||||
| 4/13/25 |  e49 The Makarrata Project p1 | Join Darren and Robin on the couch as they spin Midnight Oil's 2020 album, The Makarrata Project. Plenty of First Nations friends collaborate with the Oils for an album of strummy, back-porch ballads and sunset acoustic sway, along with some far-out synth, hypnotic groove, and rap! We've "been away too long" and it's great to be back on the Couch! | — | ||||||
| 12/12/20 |  e48 Warne Livesey on Blue Sky Mining | Warne Livesey joins Darren and Robin on the Couch to talk about recording Midnight Oil's 1990 album, Blue Sky Mining. How did all those hooks make it into Blue Sky Mining, what is Warne's favourite track from BSM, what is the story behind King of the Mountain? Warne tells some stories! | — | ||||||
| 8/8/20 |  e47 Warne Livesey on Diesel and Dust | Warne Livesey takes a virtual seat on the Couch to speak with the boys about recording the best Australian album of all time: Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust! Hear how creating an album, built to have the strongest songs on it as possible, comes together. Warne tells how the hits are made, how the sounds were captured and how the whole album was refined and crafted. Find out his opinions on the weakest songs and what recording in the mid-80's in Sydney was like. | — | ||||||
| 7/17/20 |  e46 Malcolm Burn on Breathe | Malcolm Burn joins Darren and Robin to talk about his experience recording 1996's Breathe with Midnight Oil. Why did the Oils mix up their instruments so much on Breathe? Why did Malcolm play and write? How did EmmyLou Harris get involved? What about the friction during the recording sessions? And how did the album turn out? Malcolm tells some great stories, sets the record straight, makes us laugh and shares his philosophy on recording. | — | ||||||
| 7/11/20 |  e45 Couch Questions and Answers | Robin and Darren enjoy a lovely summer evening going through listener email, discussing Midnight Oil theories, answering questions, making corrections, going deep into favourites from the Oils' solo projects and dreaming of fantastic covers the Oils could do. It's summer, so it's time to talk about that time that Midnight Oil played an outdoor concert in Thunder Bay again. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/20 |  e44 Nick Launay on Earth and Sun and Moon | Nick Launay joins Darren and Robin on the virtual couch to share more stories, this time they get into Red Sails in the Sunset. Chapman stick, Japanese Engineers, Martin Rotsey and the mystery that is Bakerman are discussed. Nick tells some great stories and gives at least one enigmatic answer. Then, he promises to return. | — | ||||||
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| 5/10/20 |  e43 Nick Launay on Red Sails | Producer Nick Launay is back to tell stories of his time recording Midnight Oil's Earth and Sun and Moon. Join Darren and Robin as the three talk about what shakes, grooves, evokes and moves. Nick tells new stories that these couch-sitters haven't heard or read before about the making of Truganini, building Megaphon recording studios and backwards slide guitar. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/20 |  e42 Nick Launay on 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 | The boys are joined on the couch by Nick Launay, producer of Midnight Oil's albums, 10-9-8, Red Sails in the Sunset and Earth and Sun and Moon. Nick shares stories from meeting the Oils, to working at Townhouse studios with them and talks about how he and the band produced some of the most important Oils records of the 1980s. | — | ||||||
| 4/15/20 | e41 Breathe Era Rarities 2 | Midnight Oil's Kingdom of Flaunt, Smash the Wobbleboard, and their cover of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda are listened to as Darren and Robin record a Comfortable Place on the Couch episode for the first time NOT on the couch! They also take a quick listen to Echo Beach and find a couple neat connections to songs on the actual Breathe album (all without making too much fun of Malcom Burn.) | — | ||||||
| 3/11/20 | e40 Breathe Era Rarities 1 | Midnight Oil's "A Sunburnt Sky" and "I See You," and demo and one b-side are enjoyed on the couch as Darren and Robin make a good effort to keep the podcast rolling. There is plenty of Business as Usual to take care of in this episode. Of course, we'll touch on "A Love So High" as well as paying tribute to Ginger Baker and Neal Peart. | — | ||||||
| 2/21/20 | e39 Oils Chat 2020 | Big Midnight Oil News in 2020 and Robin and Darren are excited to talk about it! | — | ||||||
| 6/19/19 |  e38 ESM Rarities Pt 2 | From Timor to Canada to 1993, it's a second round of Earth and Sun and Moon era bonus material! We listen to KoLele Mai, Land (with friends from Canada and Ireland) and is Nick Launay trying to prank us with Glitch Baby Glitch? | — | ||||||
| 5/28/19 | e37 Oils Chat: Tarkine | Been away too long? I just can't wait! Your favourite Canadian Couch jockeys are back with a long overdue Oils Chat! Robin and Darren talk about the newest Oils Original: Tarkine, open the mailbag and just chit-chat for a bit. | — | ||||||
| 11/23/18 |  e36 Earth and Sun and Moon Demos p1 | It's time to listen to ESM era bonus material on the couch as Darren and Robin listen to Wharf Rat, 21st Century Human, Red Indian and Ships of Freedom. And in a stunning twist of events, they can't agree on a favourite track! Maybe you can help! | — | ||||||
| 9/29/18 |  e35 Blue Sky Mining Demos p2 | Robin and Darren listen to more bonus material from the BSM era: Wreckery Road, The Band Played the Last Melody, You May Not Be Released and the cover of Instant Karma. Can you guess what song they think would be the best addition to BSM? | — | ||||||
| 7/27/18 |  e34 Another Roadside Attraction | In this bonus episode, the Couchsitters visit Big Thunder Nordic Centre to celebrate and reminisce on the 25th anniversary of the great Midnight Oil, Tragically Hip touring festival: Another Roadside Attraction. Come and hang out in the majesty of the Ontario wilderness as your hosts talk about school buses, mosh-pits and merchandise tents. This was the first Oils concert the Couchsitters saw, and it was in their home town. | — | ||||||
| 6/30/18 |  e33 Blue Sky Mining Demos p1 | The Couch Sitters listen to: Doghead, Can’t See Reason, Love Life and Heart is Nowhere, all from the Blue Sky Mining era. And the boys open some lovely packages sent in by listeners and spend about a half hour chatting about mostly Oils related stuff before getting to the tunes. | — | ||||||
| 5/10/18 | e32 The Early Years | Listening to the scant material from Midnight Oils' early years, the Couch-Sitters listen to Moose calls on the Farm, Ghost of the Roadhouse and Peace Love and Understanding. | — | ||||||
| 5/3/18 | e31 Listener Survey 2017 | The Couch-Sitters open up the spreadsheets and crunch the numbers as they analyze the 2017 Listener Survey. It's riveting stuff. As well, they plan the kind of material they want to cover for Series Two of Comfortable Place on the Couch: A Midnight Oil Podcast. And they make some funny noises. | — | ||||||
| 1/6/18 |  e30 Capricornia p3 | Join the Couch-Sitters as they spin the "other side" of Midnight Oil's 2002 CD, Capricornia. In this final episode of the 2017 Comfortable Place on the Couch podcast project, Robin and Darren will trot out old chestnuts such as, King of the Mountain, unsuccessful comparisons with The Beatles and Pete noises. They'll also unnecessarily discuss yodelling and generally outstay their welcome. | — | ||||||
| 12/21/17 |  e29 Capricornia p2 | Join the Couch-Sitters as they spin Midnight Oil's 2002 CD, Capricornia (at least, the first half.) And, so you're aware, Sony got it wrong when they released the album on vinyl, and Robin sets them straight. Listen as Robin and Darren politely disagree over the Back of your hand, wreck a car during Too Much Sunshine, and try to figure out why the crocodile was so sad. Darren rains on plenty of parades and Robin accuses Jim of being a dirty rotten cheat and thief, multiple times. | — | ||||||
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