Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has passed away after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. I’ve kind of had ‘the works.’”Fellow Australian music icon Jimmy Barnes paid tribute to Hirst’s passing in a social media statement. Per The Guardian, bandmate Jim Mognie called Hirst the “engine room, onstage and off” for Midnight Oil. Hirst has played, sung and written songs in The Ghostwriters, Backsliders, Hirst & Greene, The Angry Tradesmen and The Break. The latter instrumental lineup featured two of his fellow members of Midnight Oil (Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey) as well as bass player Brian Ritchie from the Violent Femmes.