The band, who is best known for their international hit single Beds are Burning, has reformed twice for charity concerts: WaveAid in 2005 and Sound Relief in 2009.

Rob, who also drums in Ghostwriters, The Backsliders, and The Break, told online music magazine Faster Louder that Midnight Oil is currently waiting for frontman and former politician Peter Garrett to finish writing his memoirs:

"Peter's writing his memoirs at the moment, so that might take a while, but I think everyone's up for it. Bonesy's (Bones Hillman) living in Nashville, and by all accounts playing better than ever - the calluses on his fingers must be enormous by now. And of course Martin (Rotsey), Jim (Moginie) and I all play in The Break, so everyone's around."

Rob Hirst was talking to the magazine because of the release of a new Midnight Oil dvd, 'Black Rain Falls', which captures the band's 1990 guerilla concert outside Exxon Oil headquarters in protest over the Exxon Valdez oil spill.