Cold Chisel

Redgum Classic ‘I Was Only 19’ Turns 40

by Paul Cashmere

‘I Was Only 19’, Redgum’s classic Vietnam War song, has just turned 40 years old.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Cold Chisel, country, Don Walker, folk, I Was Only 19, John Schumann, Redgum

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Don Walker Christens New Album ‘Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky’

by Paul Cashmere

Don Walker will release his first album in 10 years, ‘Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky’ in May.

Tagged as: 20s, Australia, blues, Cold Chisel, Don Walker, Lighting in a Clear Blue Sky

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Jimmy Barnes at Red Hot Summer Mornington 2019 photo Noise11.com

Jimmy Barnes and Chris Cheney Set To Announce Rockabilly Project ‘Barnestorming’

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes will use the RockWiz podium to announce his new project Barnestorming this week.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Chris Cheney, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, rock, Rockwiz, The Living End

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Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission Covers Cold Chisel’s ‘Home and Broken Hearted’

by Paul Cashmere

Mick Thomas has chosen a lesser-known Cold Chisel song to cover form the new ‘Back In The Day’ EP. ‘Home and Broken Hearted’ was originally from the first Cold Chisel album in 1978.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Daryl Braithwaite, folk, Home and Broken Hearted, Jimmy Barnes, Mick Thomas, Roving Commission

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Mick Thomas Covers The Saints ‘Shipwreck’

by Paul Cashmere

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has covered The Saints’ ‘Shipwreck’ for the new EP ‘Back In The Day’.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Chris Bailey, Cold Chisel, folk, Mick Thomas, Neil Young, rock, Roving Commission, The Saints, Weddings Parties Anything

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Introducing Doctor Jimmy Barnes

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes is now Doctor Jimmy Barnes. Jimmy has received a honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Doctor Jimmy Barnes, Dr Jimmy Barnes, Jimmy Barnes, rock 70s

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INXS and Cold Chisel Had Two Of The Biggest Australian Albums Of 2021

by Paul Cashmere

INXS ‘The Very Best’ and Cold Chisel ‘The Best of Cold Chisel: All For You’ both made ARIA’s Top 10 Australian Albums of 2021.

Tagged as: ARIA, Australia, Australian albums, Cold Chisel, INXS, music industry

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Cold Chisel To Release Ringside of Vinyl

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel’s 2003 live album ‘Ringside’ will be released on vinyl for the first time.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Don Walker, Jimmy Barnes, Ringside, rock, Steve Prestwich

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Cold Chisel, INXS, The Angels Producer Mark Opitz To Produce New Jacobs Run Album

by Paul Cashmere

Legendary producer Mark Opitz AM has signed on to work with Melbourne band Jacobs Run for their next album.

Tagged as: 20s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Hoodoo Gurus, INXS, Jacobs Run, Mark Opitz, rock, The Angels

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Duane McDonald Brings Back One Electric Day For 2021 With Barnes, Stevens and The Living End

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

Duane McDonald’s One Electric Day will return to the Great Lawn in Werribee in 2021 with Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, The Black Sorrows, Jon Stevens, Killing Heidi and Chocolate Starfish.

Tagged as: Australia, Chocolate Starfish, Chris Cheney, Cold Chisel, Duane mcDonald, Jimmy Barnes, Jon Stevens, Killing Heidi, Noiseworks, One Electric Day, rock, The Black Sorrows, The Living End

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Midnight Oil Win Song of the Year At APRA Music Awards

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

Midnight Oil have won the 2021 APRA Song of the Year and Cold Chisel have also grabbed an award for Most Performed Rock Work.

Tagged as: APRA, Australia, Cold Chisel, Dean Lewis, Midnight Oil, music awards, music industry, Tones & I

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Don Walker Has His Own Shows To Do

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

Don Walker will play his first solo shows in two years in August and first live performances since Cold Chisel’s Blood Moon tour of 2020.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, blues, Cold Chisel, Don Walker, rock

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Ian Moss Has A Setlist To Construct

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

When Ian Moss heads out on his ‘One Guitar One Night Only’ tour in June he will be pooling his setlist from a very rich catalogue of songs he wrote or sang for Cold Chisel and his own solo albums now dating back 32 years.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Ian Moss, live music, One Guitar One Night Only, rock

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Ian Moss To Play One Guitar One Night Only 2021 Australian Theatre Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel legend Ian Moss will return to Australian theatres in 2021 for the very intimate, very acoustic ‘One Guitar, One Night Only 2021 National Tour’.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, blues, Cold Chisel, Harbour Agency, Ian Moss, Noise11, noise11.com, One Guitar One Night, rock, Thrillhill Music

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Mick Thomas Covers Cold Chisel

by Paul Cashmere

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has covered the Cold Chisel classic ‘Forever Now’ to raise funds for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Tagged as: America, Angie Hart, Australia, Celia Church, Cold Chisel, Craig Pilkington, Emma Heeney, folk, Mick Thomas, Roving Commission, Sophie Koh, Tim Rogers

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Jimmy Barnes Has The Number One Book In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Jimmy Barnes has delivered his third best-seller with ‘Killing Time’.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, authour, book, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, rock

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Cold Chisel The Live Tapes – Vol 5 – Live At The Bondi Lifesaver’

Cold Chisel To Release Fifth Live Archive Album

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel’s fifth live archive release was captured on 29 February 1980, just three days before the band began the recording for the now iconic ‘East’ album.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Cold Chisel, rock

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Jimmy Barnes Releases Killing Time With the Australian Chamber Orchestra

by Paul Cashmere

With the release of the third Jimmy Barnes book ‘Killing Time’ Jimmy has released a new version of the song originally recorded with Cold Chisel, this time with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, Killing Time, rock

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The Covid Year Has Given Jimmy Barnes Time To Find Comfort In His Own Home

by Paul Cashmere

While 2020 is arguably the most horrific year globally in decades for Jimmy Barnes it has given him time to reflect and find comfort staying a home.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes, Killing Time, rock

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Jane Barnes Thanks Jimmy Barnes Fans For The Well-Wishes

by Paul Cashmere

Jane Barnes has thanked fans of Jimmy Barnes for this best-wishes after Jimmy was suddenly taken to hospital this week.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Jane Barnes, Jimmy Barnes, rock

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Ian Moss To Release ‘Live’ Album

by Paul Cashmere

With lockdown in play across Australia Ian Moss is reverted back to the good ol’ fashioned way we got to hear a concert we couldn’t get to from the past … the live album.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Australia, blues, Cold Chisel, Ian Moss, rock

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1980’s Cold Chisel ‘East’ Gate-Crashes Back Into The Top 5 in 2020

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel ‘East’ is currently Top 5 on the ARIA Chart after a limited edition vinyl; release quietly snuck out for its 40th anniversary.

Tagged as: 80s, Australia, Cold Chisel, East, rock

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Ian Moss Matchbook 30th Anniversary Tour Cancelled

by Paul Cashmere

Ian Moss has cancelled his Matchbook 30th Anniversary tour.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Cold Chisel, Ian Moss, Matchbook

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Cold Chisel Backdrop Australian Bushfires In ‘Killing Time’ Video

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel have released their second video from ‘Blood Moon’. ‘Killing Time’ was filmed during Chisel’s recent Blood Moon tour and features stunning imagery of Australia’s current environmental bushfire disaster.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Cold Chisel, rock

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Cold Chisel Produce Chisel Branded Rural Fire Service T-Shirt

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel have produced a special Cold Chisel and Rural Fire Service Association co-branded t-shirt to sell at merch at the rest of their shows.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 70s, 80s, 90s, A Day On The Green, Australia, Cold Chisel, Ian Moss, Jimmy Barnes, RFSA, rock, Rural Fire Service Association

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Cold Chisel's Ian Moss and Jimmy Barnes at Mt Duneed Winery 11 Jan 2020

Cold Chisel Prove Again Gettin The Band Back Together Was A Great Idea

by Paul Cashmere

Imagine 20,000 Australians singing along to every word of ‘Choir Girl’ or ‘Flame Trees’. Yeah, not that unusual right. But what about ‘Getting’ The Band Back Together’, a new song from the new Cold Chisel album. Now that was a surprise.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 70s, 80s, 90s, A Day On The Green, Australia, Cold Chisel, Ian Moss, Jimmy Barnes, rock

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Cold Chisel Donate 6 Figure Sum To Bushfire Appeal

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel are the latest members of the music community to contribute to the Bushfire appeal with a six-figure sum.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 70s, 80s, 90s, A Day On The Green, Australia, bushfires, Cold Chisel, rock

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Australian Charts: ARIA Serves Up Another Poor Year For Australian Albums

by Paul Cashmere

Australian artists continued to be disadvantaged by the current ARIA chart formula with the 2019 End of Year chart once again having no Australian albums in the Top 10.

Tagged as: ARIA Charts, Australia, Cold Chisel, Dean Lewis, Hilltop Hoods, music industry

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Cold Chisel Rutherglen A Day On The Green Cancelled Due To Fires

by Paul Cashmere

The Cold Chisel A Day On The Green show planned for the All Saints Winery in Rutherglen has been cancelled due to Australia’s extreme weather conditions.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 20s, 70s, 80s, 90s, A Day On The Green, Australia, bushfires, Cold Chisel, rock

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Cold Chisel Disguised As Barking Spiders Debut Four Blood Moon Songs Live

by Paul Cashmere

Cold Chisel’s warm-up gig in Sydney 28 December featured the live premiere of four new tracks from the no 1 album ‘Blood Moon’.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 70s, 80s, 90s, Australia, Barking Spiders, Cold Chisel, rock

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