Cold Chisel’s 50th anniversary tour turns into a blockbuster.
Such is the demand for tickets that the legendary Aussie rockers have added six more shows to their already extensive national foray.
The tour kicks off in October and the hitmakers will play through November.
Dubbed ‘The Big Five-0’ tour, frontman Jimmy Barnes and bandmates Ian Moss, Phil Small and Don Walker initially announced 11 shows.
But the tour has now grown to a whopping 17 shows, with new performances in NSW, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
Legendary Australian rockers Cold Chisel have added SIX more shows to their 50th anniversary tour
The tour kicks off on October 5 at Petersons Winery in Armidale and ends on November 17 in Adelaide, where the Chisels were founded in 1973.
The first of the new concert dates will take place in Sydney, at the Entertainment Quarter, on October 12.
The band has also added a show at Sydney’s massive Qudos Arena on November 16.
The tour has now grown to a whopping 17 shows, with new performances in NSW, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland
It comes after the band offered a staggering reward to anyone who can produce lost footage from their wild Australian tour in the early ’80s.
The veteran rockers appeared on The Project on Wednesday to discuss their upcoming national tour and appealed to fans to bring back the footage.
‘We had a motorcycle act in which a girl swung under a high wire on a trapeze. I thought I could do that,” singer Barnes began.
The band has also offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who can produce lost footage from their wild Australian tour in the early ’80s.
“I may have sung Wild Thing while hanging from a trapeze under a high wire, tied to a motorbike that swung over the audience while drinking a bottle of vodka.”
Pianist Walker added that it was from their Sydney Circus Animals tour in the early ’80s, and Barnes jumped in, saying the whole band was desperate for footage of the event.
‘You know who you are. You have our movie, bring it back! We can’t remember the show, do it and I’ll let you live,” Barnes joked.
Jimmy Barnes said he had performed some wild stunts on the Circus Animals tour and was desperate to see footage of them – and co-host Waleed Aly later said the band would pay $10,000 to the first person to catch a clip of would produce the concert.
However, later co-host Waleed Aly said that the band were now offering a staggering amount of money as a reward for anyone who could present them with footage from the event.
‘If you have the lost footage, the band is offering a $10,000 reward to the first person to come forward! Fake the video, do something,” Aly said.
The iconic band reunited to celebrate their 50th anniversary by announcing a tour of Australia.
‘The Big Five-0 will be an evening like no other. This time the band isn’t touring to promote a new album; they tour for the best possible reason… because we all love performing together,” the band said on its Facebook page.
‘Their anniversary offers room for a show with all the classic songs with which Cold Chisel secured their unique place in Oz Rock history – Khe Sanh, Bow River, Flame Trees, You Got Nothing I Want, When The War Is Over, My Baby , Cheap Wine, Choirgirl, Last Wave Of Summer, Breakfast At Sweethearts, Forever Now and so much more.’
Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide in 1973, with Moss on guitar and vocals, Prestwich on drums and Walker on piano and keyboard.
Barnes joined the band late that year on lead vocals – he was only 17 at the time.
