Jimmy Barnes has revealed that the headband he is wearing on the classic Cold Chisel album ‘East’ is upside down.
Cold Chisel East
Chisel are currently on their Light The Nitro Australian tour performing their classic songs.
Barnesy is telling the audience that he wore the bought the headband in Japan and wore it to impress his now wife, Jane. That’s it on the cover of their 1980 album ‘East’.
10-years after the release of the album a fan told him that the writing on the headband was upside down.
The Chisel shows are the must see shows of the year. Chisel set the benchmark back in their day that bands then found hard to beat but artists today must find impossible.
The combination of talents with Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Don Walker, Phil Small and Steve Prestwich created a powerhouse of songwriters within one band. To this day Australia has not produced such a potent combination in a single band.
In Australia, Cold Chisel were bigger than AC/DC in their day, without question.
Chisel paid a touching tribute to Steve during his signature song ‘When The War is Over’, without a doubt the greatest example of the blend of Jimmy and Ian’s vocals. New drummer Charley Drayton (X-Pensive Winos, Divinyls) fit right in with the band.
And yes … there will be a new Cold Chisel studio album in 2012. It is finished.
The Cold Chisel setlist from Rod Laver Arena was:
Standing On The Outside (from East, 1980)
Shipping Steel (from Breakfast At Sweathearts, 1979)
HQ454Munro (from The Best of Cold Chisel: All For You, 2011)
Choir Girl (from East, 1980)
Forever Now (from Circus Animals, 1982)
Cheap Wine (from East, 1980)
Painted Doll (from Twentieth Century, 1984)
My Baby (from East, 1980)
Rising Sun (from East, 1980)
Star Hotel (from East, 1980)
Houndog (With Tim Rogers) (from Circus Animals, 1982)
When The War Is Over (from Circus Animals, 1982)
Yakuza Girls (from The Last Wave of Summer, 1998)
Breakfast At Sweethearts (from Breakfast At Sweathearts, 1979)
All For You (from The Best of Cold Chisel: All For You, 2011)
You Got Nothing I Want (from Circus Animals, 1982)
Merry Go Round (from Breakfast At Sweathearts, 1979)
Flame Trees (from Twentieth Century, 1984)
Khe Sahn (from Cold Chisel, 1978)
Bow River (from Circus Animals, 1982)
Saturday Night (from Twentieth Century, 1984)
Letter To Allan (from Circus Animals, 1982)
Four Walls (from East, 1980)
Goodbye Astrid (from Breakfast At Sweathearts, 1979)
Remaining Cold Chisel dates are:
NOVEMBER
26 – Sandalford Estate, Margaret River, WA
27 – Belvoir Amphitheatre, Perth, WA
29 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA
30 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA
DECEMBER
2 – TSB Arena, Wellington, NZ
3 – Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ
5 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA
6 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA
8 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
9 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
11 – Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, NSW
13 – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD
