May 28, 2024 • 14 mins
What an interview, we couldn't fit it all on the air! Check out the full, unedited interview with Jimmy as he talks career highlights, things he misses around Adelaide, and crazy things fans have done during his show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it is absolutely massive. We are about to be
joined by a South Australian, Australian music legend and world icon.
You're about to feel a little bit older because he
and his incredible band is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary tour
and right now we are announcing that they are doing
it at the Velo Adelaide. Five hundred supercars please welcome
(00:23):
from Cold Chisel.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Jimmy, Bye, Hello, how are you coming to our hometown?
Who knew?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well? Would you rather be Jimmy?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You know it's the last show of the tour. It's
going to be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Do you send it more at the last show of
the tour like how it traditionally works?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No, Well, we wanted it to be the last show
of the tour because it's going to be the most
emotional and you know it's going to be it's coming
back to our hometown and way to finish finish up
a tour then bringing this whole monster of a tour
or too Adelaide for vela is such a great event. Anyway, band,
we're coming down and that band is going to be
(01:03):
tearing around faster than the body cars.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And would be love that I imagine, like I've been
to see you guys play a bit, I've never actually
got down to the Larks back then and saw you.
But when you stare out into a crowd at a
Chisel concert, I'd imagine there'd be all sorts of different
people looking back at you. When you're going to be
staring out celebrating the fiftieth anniversary tour and a whole
(01:30):
heap of red heads looking back at you, it's going
to be a sight for you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, that's going to be It's awesome. I mean, there's
something there's something about cars and cars and rock and
roll that goes really well again, i mean, Chuck Berry
just just cemented that, and you know, and cultures or
we you know, we wrote songs about cars as well.
There's something about redheads and you know, fast cars, fast girls,
you know, and and fast music that all go well together.
And and you know, and what a way to celebrate
(01:58):
in Adelaide. It's got to be great. Thanks and we're
bringing you know, the Cool Sea and Super Jesus. Oh yeah, yeah,
another Super another great Adelaide band. So it's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
What do you reckon your rider? And like the backstage
area is going to be like I mean, part of
those cultures are used to be versus where cultures.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, you know where cultures are used to be. You'd
be lucky if you go in backstage, because we would
have drank of it and by the time you got
and it would be too dangerous to walk in. These
days are a little quieter because we're saving all our
energy so we can put it on stage. I mean,
we're you know, we're sort of you know, it's fifty
years ago. You know, I was sixteen and a half
when when I drank Cultures on adela I remember going
(02:41):
into the Women's Liberation Hall in Adelaide and you know,
and just hearing this band and going it kind of
went from being in sort of a garage man. Really
we played, you know, a couple of a couple of
little halls and stuffer around Elizabeth And then and suddenly
I walking in Adelaide and there's this band and Mossie
was playing guitar like his plays. Now it's just beautiful.
Don had songs already and I thought, this is where
I want, this is what I want to do. But
(03:02):
I never would have thought I would be doing it
fifty years later. So you know, we you know, we
we've been through some wild, wild times and and now
the most important thing there was is playing you know,
really great music. So we're you know, so backstage might
be might seem a little tamer than it was, you know,
fifty years ago, but it's actually just because we're sort
of actually more focused, and the most important thing to
(03:24):
us now is not really you know, part spelling vodka
and partying, it's actually getting on stage and playing you know,
the killer shows. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Jimmy, how have you guys managed to stay together for
fifty years? So many great bands they just get sick
of each other, they move on, but you guys are
still working out and loving it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, you know, I guess you know, we we know,
we used to break up every second day, you know,
because we're we're a pretty volatile band.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
We we used to fight with each other and all
that sort of stuff. So culture was always very you know,
we give each other space. You know, we'd we'd sort
of like we explode for a while and we disappear,
and then we'd come back. And the big one with
that happened in nineteen eighty three when we did the
Last Fan. We really at that point it was we
didn't think we'd get back together because we know, we
started as kids, we're teenagers, and we'd learn everything we
(04:10):
possibly could from each other, and so after ten years
it was like, Okay, we need a break so we
can go away and learn all the stuff. And so
now what seems to happen. But since we've got back
together in ninety six or seven or whatever, it was
as we you know, every time we get together, we've
learned something new, we've learned something more, and we've learned
to appreciate what we had more. And so we get
(04:31):
together and every time we see we do it, the
shows just get better. So, you know, I think I
think that's one of the you know, that's one of
the great things about any sort of relationship, whether it's
a band or a marriage or whatever. You go in
there and you go through, you stick through it, through
the thick and the thin, through the you know, the
tough and the good times you and you grow and
you learn from each other.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Jimmy, what would you say then to that sixteen and
a half year old kid that walked in if you
could give them a little bit of advice or just
to heads up or what's coming, save.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Some of your strengths. You're going to be doing this
in fifty years. Well not because really at sixteen, you know,
really I remember thinking, you know, if you're a twenty
one year old, you know, so I didn't think i'd
make it. At twenty one. I didn't really take the care.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I thought, nah, that we have been the fun, then
I'll I'll be too old for it. But but what
I would I could say was, you know, like you're
here for the long haul. Music is something you know,
when I look at the bands that we were listening
to back in that day, whether it was you know,
whether it was you know Little Richard or you know
Howl and Wolf or Muddy Waters and people like that,
you know, the bands that we loved. You know, those
(05:36):
bands were all you know, getting into the seventies and
still playing and so you know, it's a making Music
is not something you do to as an overnight thing.
It's not so I mean, we never did it to
be famous. We did it because we love music. And
you know, I just say pay yourself because you're going
to be doing this for a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You never did it to be famous, but Jimmy can
give us a great story about, you know, one of
the ridiculous sort of perks that you've got through being
this involved in this incredible band, or like the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
There there was a lot of funny things that went
on with this band. I mean some I think some
of the best stories were just you know, the some
of the best shows we ever did with with the
little shows, you know, like I remember, I remember like
playing the larks Pier, you know, the Larkspeer in Adelaide,
and you know, and you know, everybody thinks, you know,
it was all glamorous and all that we were. We were,
you know, out there and we're playing a show. And
(06:30):
I remember standing on stage and this guy with bloody
with the beard and bloody footy jumper on, you know,
just looked wild and I was completely off his head
came running in and he pulled a shotgun out and
blasted the stage above me and and and right over
my head and all the half the stage sort of
collapsed on me. And we found and then he disappeared.
We found out later he did that because he was
(06:51):
enjoying the bandiction. Thank god, he liked us. I mean,
they were of things. It was these wild, wild moments
that were just you know, the best, the best times ever,
you know, we did. We know some of the some
of the greatest times we had were even before we
were famous, let alone. You know, you know, I'm swinging off,
(07:11):
swinging up a trapeze under underneath the motorbike when we're
doing on a high wire, when we're doing circus animals.
I remember sitting on a trapeze, you know, fifty feet
above the audience on a tightrope, drinking vodka and singing
at the same time, just going this is so unreal
and now, yeah, you wouldn't do it now, You couldn't
do it now. But but you know, I had incredible balance.
(07:33):
Someone's like the goat climb off, but I used to
climb over over and I'd eat anything as well. So
it's legimidted coat, but I was. But you know, it
was just you know, the this is that we were
a young band who just you know, who lived on
the edge all the time, and and over the years
that went from sort of death defying to to actually
(07:54):
living on the edge musically and finding what you know,
what was bringing us the most joy was actually you know,
we pushed ourselves, pushed the envelope musically, and and Coultures All,
by the time we made East were well and truly
pushing the envelope. You know, we were we were We'd
take it, we'd learn, we'd shake it up every time
we did an album. We did East and it was
a huge success. And we didn't say, oh, we're going
(08:15):
to go back in the studio and do another one
like that. We just threw it all up in the
air and said, let's see what we can do. Let's
make it better. And we came up with circus animals,
you know, and we've done that every time since. And
so coultures All as a man, we keep the essence
of what we've got, which is great songs, and we
and we approach them differently every time, and we come
out and you know, and we try to get more
out of what we do. I mean for me, and
(08:37):
that's why that's why we're still playing fifty years later.
We want the truth.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, Jimmy, he said that this show at Vailo the
Adelaide five hundred supercars that we're just announcing here will
be a really emotional one. Is that going to be
even more so for you, given you know, you went
some pretty hits through some pretty hairy and scary medical
times in this last little while, I think a lot
of us expected that we might be maybe not hearing
(09:02):
you again. Mate.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, in November last year, I mean I was I
remember November last year. It was out on tour the
Red Tata and I was really healthy. I mean I
was fit as a figure. I was swimming thirty laps
at the pool a day and training and doing all
sorts of stuff. And I got a I got a bug.
I got a bacteria in my blood as a staff infection,
it's called And the doctors, even though they don't know
(09:25):
how I got it. You know, you could get it
from a cuticle. You can get it from you know anything,
you know chi, you know, knock your leg or something.
I don't know how I got it, but it went
into my blood and it gave me viral pneumonia back
bacterial pneumonia. Sorry. And then and then it went in
in my back and I had to have serious major
back surgery. And then a week later it was in
my heart and I had to have open heart surgery.
(09:47):
And at that point, literally they were they weren't sure
I was going to pull through. And I remember lying
in hospital, I just and I could see them all
the best best medical team in Australia. You know, they
were all there, you know, which is a credit, you know,
I was. I was in the same treatment as anybody
else would get. It was a you know, incredible medical
system that kept me alive. But but I was lying
(10:07):
in bed and I'm thinking, I'm not going to make it,
you know, and and learn behold it did this, you know,
mayor just major seven hour surgery on my heart and
and and I woke up and and and I knew
it got through that, and that was that was the
most important thing. So then I just I was determined
to to get myself up and get back and get fit,
get healthy as quick as possible. And and and what
I want I did learn from from that time was
(10:30):
you don't take things for granted. So, you know, whenever
I get on stage now, I feel honored to be
up there and blessed to be at it. But being
in Adelaide be emotional from that perspective, but also from
that point of that's where we started. You know, we're
you know, we'll be playing there with with Charlie our
drammer of the last you know, twelve years. You know,
who joined us after Steve died and Steve was like
my brother and Steve, you know, Steve and I come
(10:52):
from Elizabeth out there and you know in Adelaide we
are and and when when when we lost Steve when
it was a huge, huge blow to us, you know,
not only as a friend, but as a songwriter. You know,
we were first and foremost we were brothers. But Steve
also happened to write some of the best songs in
the world and was the incredible drummer. So so what
I'll be playing and I'm sure we're going to see
some of Steves brothers turn up at the show, and
(11:14):
there'll be a lot of faces from my past in
the show. And it's just going to be awesome, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So, Jimmy, given it's going to be this great, big
emotional celebration. I suppose in a way, are you coming
to play in Adelaide aside from the music when you
come back to Adelaide? Is there anything that Jimmy Barnes
must do in his old stomping ground?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know what, I whenever, just I just live you
know when I'm when I'm living alone Adelaide, I just
sort of that there's all these landmarks still. I remember working.
I was working as a as an apprentice when I
was sixteen years old at the Railways and Prospect there
and you drive down, you know, through Prospect, like I
remember walking these streets at six in the morning in
the rain, trying to get to work, you know, before
(11:56):
I joined the band. You know, I drive down through
Elizabeth and go the most Playful whatever it's called. But
but you know where Elizabeth West was, and I go
out and sit outside my old house and looking and
I remember what we went through in that house, and
some of it was pretty bloody traumatic. You know, there
was a lot of a lot of great times as well,
but but just you know, just going to look at
(12:16):
things that are and I remember everything, and we can
get thankful for everything that I got from Adelaide, because
I learned a lot in Adelaide. You know, by the
time we left, by the time Coaches left Adelaide, you know,
we were a really good rock and roll band, and
we were products of our environment. You know, we were
as good as the members of the band, but we're
molded in shape by the Adelaide you know, pub scene
(12:36):
and Adelaide audiences. But there were really tough guys, like
the guy with a shotgun. But there was a move,
there was a there was you know, a thousand the
first thousand people used to come and see us all
the time We're pack into that Lark Speed Hotel, and
half of that audience became dear friends of mine, you know.
And and I sort of see them and catch up
with them and in these days too, and so you know,
there's a there's a lot of things, you know. I
(12:57):
go go up the Port River, you know, and i'm
and have a look at the Port River and I
remember sitting there fishing when I was a kid, you know. Uh,
you know, it's there's a lot of a lot of
green and that's where I sat. That's where I escaped
from all the men, and uh, you know. And and
and gather my thoughts and think about what I was
going to do when I was when I was in a.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Band, Jimmy, before we let you go. All morning this morning,
we've been talking about partner perks, right, and I've had
the absolute good fortune of being beside you and Jane
when we were doing a tour with working class boy
your book. What would be a perk that Jane says
she gets from hanging out with Jimmy Barnes.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, I can get it at any restaurants. Like Jane
loves food and we love the best, love the best
food in the world. So you know, anytime there's you
know that, you bring up a restaurant they're going. So
they were booked out and then I'll ring up myself.
It's Jimmy Barnes put on my friendliest boys like, oh yes,
of course.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The massive perk that we are going to have is
happening on at the Veilo Adelaide five hundreds right from
ten o'clock today. Tickets will go on sale from Ticketmaster.
It is Cold Chisel's fiftieth anniversary to the Big five
OO Live at Valo Plus. They're bringing the Cruelty and
the super Jesus, Jimmy Barnes, your bloody legend. Cannot wait
to see you, good to.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Talk to you. Guys. Can't wait to get burner
Well, it is absolutely massive. We are about to be
joined by a South Australian, Australian music legend and world icon.
You're about to feel a little bit older because he
and his incredible band is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary tour
and right now we are announcing that they are doing
it at the Velo Adelaide. Five hundred supercars please welcome
(00:23):
from Cold Chisel.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Jimmy, Bye, Hello, how are you coming to our hometown?
Who knew?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well? Would you rather be Jimmy?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You know it's the last show of the tour. It's
going to be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Do you send it more at the last show of
the tour like how it traditionally works?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No, Well, we wanted it to be the last show
of the tour because it's going to be the most
emotional and you know it's going to be it's coming
back to our hometown and way to finish finish up
a tour then bringing this whole monster of a tour
or too Adelaide for vela is such a great event. Anyway, band,
we're coming down and that band is going to be
(01:03):
tearing around faster than the body cars.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And would be love that I imagine, like I've been
to see you guys play a bit, I've never actually
got down to the Larks back then and saw you.
But when you stare out into a crowd at a
Chisel concert, I'd imagine there'd be all sorts of different
people looking back at you. When you're going to be
staring out celebrating the fiftieth anniversary tour and a whole
(01:30):
heap of red heads looking back at you, it's going
to be a sight for you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, that's going to be It's awesome. I mean, there's
something there's something about cars and cars and rock and
roll that goes really well again, i mean, Chuck Berry
just just cemented that, and you know, and cultures or
we you know, we wrote songs about cars as well.
There's something about redheads and you know, fast cars, fast girls,
you know, and and fast music that all go well together.
And and you know, and what a way to celebrate
(01:58):
in Adelaide. It's got to be great. Thanks and we're
bringing you know, the Cool Sea and Super Jesus. Oh yeah, yeah,
another Super another great Adelaide band. So it's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
What do you reckon your rider? And like the backstage
area is going to be like I mean, part of
those cultures are used to be versus where cultures.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, you know where cultures are used to be. You'd
be lucky if you go in backstage, because we would
have drank of it and by the time you got
and it would be too dangerous to walk in. These
days are a little quieter because we're saving all our
energy so we can put it on stage. I mean,
we're you know, we're sort of you know, it's fifty
years ago. You know, I was sixteen and a half
when when I drank Cultures on adela I remember going
(02:41):
into the Women's Liberation Hall in Adelaide and you know,
and just hearing this band and going it kind of
went from being in sort of a garage man. Really
we played, you know, a couple of a couple of
little halls and stuffer around Elizabeth And then and suddenly
I walking in Adelaide and there's this band and Mossie
was playing guitar like his plays. Now it's just beautiful.
Don had songs already and I thought, this is where
I want, this is what I want to do. But
(03:02):
I never would have thought I would be doing it
fifty years later. So you know, we you know, we
we've been through some wild, wild times and and now
the most important thing there was is playing you know,
really great music. So we're you know, so backstage might
be might seem a little tamer than it was, you know,
fifty years ago, but it's actually just because we're sort
of actually more focused, and the most important thing to
(03:24):
us now is not really you know, part spelling vodka
and partying, it's actually getting on stage and playing you know,
the killer shows. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Jimmy, how have you guys managed to stay together for
fifty years? So many great bands they just get sick
of each other, they move on, but you guys are
still working out and loving it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, you know, I guess you know, we we know,
we used to break up every second day, you know,
because we're we're a pretty volatile band.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
We we used to fight with each other and all
that sort of stuff. So culture was always very you know,
we give each other space. You know, we'd we'd sort
of like we explode for a while and we disappear,
and then we'd come back. And the big one with
that happened in nineteen eighty three when we did the
Last Fan. We really at that point it was we
didn't think we'd get back together because we know, we
started as kids, we're teenagers, and we'd learn everything we
(04:10):
possibly could from each other, and so after ten years
it was like, Okay, we need a break so we
can go away and learn all the stuff. And so
now what seems to happen. But since we've got back
together in ninety six or seven or whatever, it was
as we you know, every time we get together, we've
learned something new, we've learned something more, and we've learned
to appreciate what we had more. And so we get
(04:31):
together and every time we see we do it, the
shows just get better. So, you know, I think I
think that's one of the you know, that's one of
the great things about any sort of relationship, whether it's
a band or a marriage or whatever. You go in
there and you go through, you stick through it, through
the thick and the thin, through the you know, the
tough and the good times you and you grow and
you learn from each other.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Jimmy, what would you say then to that sixteen and
a half year old kid that walked in if you
could give them a little bit of advice or just
to heads up or what's coming, save.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Some of your strengths. You're going to be doing this
in fifty years. Well not because really at sixteen, you know,
really I remember thinking, you know, if you're a twenty
one year old, you know, so I didn't think i'd
make it. At twenty one. I didn't really take the care.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I thought, nah, that we have been the fun, then
I'll I'll be too old for it. But but what
I would I could say was, you know, like you're
here for the long haul. Music is something you know,
when I look at the bands that we were listening
to back in that day, whether it was you know,
whether it was you know Little Richard or you know
Howl and Wolf or Muddy Waters and people like that,
you know, the bands that we loved. You know, those
(05:36):
bands were all you know, getting into the seventies and
still playing and so you know, it's a making Music
is not something you do to as an overnight thing.
It's not so I mean, we never did it to
be famous. We did it because we love music. And
you know, I just say pay yourself because you're going
to be doing this for a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You never did it to be famous, but Jimmy can
give us a great story about, you know, one of
the ridiculous sort of perks that you've got through being
this involved in this incredible band, or like the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
There there was a lot of funny things that went
on with this band. I mean some I think some
of the best stories were just you know, the some
of the best shows we ever did with with the
little shows, you know, like I remember, I remember like
playing the larks Pier, you know, the Larkspeer in Adelaide,
and you know, and you know, everybody thinks, you know,
it was all glamorous and all that we were. We were,
you know, out there and we're playing a show. And
(06:30):
I remember standing on stage and this guy with bloody
with the beard and bloody footy jumper on, you know,
just looked wild and I was completely off his head
came running in and he pulled a shotgun out and
blasted the stage above me and and and right over
my head and all the half the stage sort of
collapsed on me. And we found and then he disappeared.
We found out later he did that because he was
(06:51):
enjoying the bandiction. Thank god, he liked us. I mean,
they were of things. It was these wild, wild moments
that were just you know, the best, the best times ever,
you know, we did. We know some of the some
of the greatest times we had were even before we
were famous, let alone. You know, you know, I'm swinging off,
(07:11):
swinging up a trapeze under underneath the motorbike when we're
doing on a high wire, when we're doing circus animals.
I remember sitting on a trapeze, you know, fifty feet
above the audience on a tightrope, drinking vodka and singing
at the same time, just going this is so unreal
and now, yeah, you wouldn't do it now, You couldn't
do it now. But but you know, I had incredible balance.
(07:33):
Someone's like the goat climb off, but I used to
climb over over and I'd eat anything as well. So
it's legimidted coat, but I was. But you know, it
was just you know, the this is that we were
a young band who just you know, who lived on
the edge all the time, and and over the years
that went from sort of death defying to to actually
(07:54):
living on the edge musically and finding what you know,
what was bringing us the most joy was actually you know,
we pushed ourselves, pushed the envelope musically, and and Coultures All,
by the time we made East were well and truly
pushing the envelope. You know, we were we were We'd
take it, we'd learn, we'd shake it up every time
we did an album. We did East and it was
a huge success. And we didn't say, oh, we're going
(08:15):
to go back in the studio and do another one
like that. We just threw it all up in the
air and said, let's see what we can do. Let's
make it better. And we came up with circus animals,
you know, and we've done that every time since. And
so coultures All as a man, we keep the essence
of what we've got, which is great songs, and we
and we approach them differently every time, and we come
out and you know, and we try to get more
out of what we do. I mean for me, and
(08:37):
that's why that's why we're still playing fifty years later.
We want the truth.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, Jimmy, he said that this show at Vailo the
Adelaide five hundred supercars that we're just announcing here will
be a really emotional one. Is that going to be
even more so for you, given you know, you went
some pretty hits through some pretty hairy and scary medical
times in this last little while, I think a lot
of us expected that we might be maybe not hearing
(09:02):
you again. Mate.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, in November last year, I mean I was I
remember November last year. It was out on tour the
Red Tata and I was really healthy. I mean I
was fit as a figure. I was swimming thirty laps
at the pool a day and training and doing all
sorts of stuff. And I got a I got a bug.
I got a bacteria in my blood as a staff infection,
it's called And the doctors, even though they don't know
(09:25):
how I got it. You know, you could get it
from a cuticle. You can get it from you know anything,
you know chi, you know, knock your leg or something.
I don't know how I got it, but it went
into my blood and it gave me viral pneumonia back
bacterial pneumonia. Sorry. And then and then it went in
in my back and I had to have serious major
back surgery. And then a week later it was in
my heart and I had to have open heart surgery.
(09:47):
And at that point, literally they were they weren't sure
I was going to pull through. And I remember lying
in hospital, I just and I could see them all
the best best medical team in Australia. You know, they
were all there, you know, which is a credit, you know,
I was. I was in the same treatment as anybody
else would get. It was a you know, incredible medical
system that kept me alive. But but I was lying
(10:07):
in bed and I'm thinking, I'm not going to make it,
you know, and and learn behold it did this, you know,
mayor just major seven hour surgery on my heart and
and and I woke up and and and I knew
it got through that, and that was that was the
most important thing. So then I just I was determined
to to get myself up and get back and get fit,
get healthy as quick as possible. And and and what
I want I did learn from from that time was
(10:30):
you don't take things for granted. So, you know, whenever
I get on stage now, I feel honored to be
up there and blessed to be at it. But being
in Adelaide be emotional from that perspective, but also from
that point of that's where we started. You know, we're
you know, we'll be playing there with with Charlie our
drammer of the last you know, twelve years. You know,
who joined us after Steve died and Steve was like
my brother and Steve, you know, Steve and I come
(10:52):
from Elizabeth out there and you know in Adelaide we
are and and when when when we lost Steve when
it was a huge, huge blow to us, you know,
not only as a friend, but as a songwriter. You know,
we were first and foremost we were brothers. But Steve
also happened to write some of the best songs in
the world and was the incredible drummer. So so what
I'll be playing and I'm sure we're going to see
some of Steves brothers turn up at the show, and
(11:14):
there'll be a lot of faces from my past in
the show. And it's just going to be awesome, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So, Jimmy, given it's going to be this great, big
emotional celebration. I suppose in a way, are you coming
to play in Adelaide aside from the music when you
come back to Adelaide? Is there anything that Jimmy Barnes
must do in his old stomping ground?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You know what, I whenever, just I just live you
know when I'm when I'm living alone Adelaide, I just
sort of that there's all these landmarks still. I remember working.
I was working as a as an apprentice when I
was sixteen years old at the Railways and Prospect there
and you drive down, you know, through Prospect, like I
remember walking these streets at six in the morning in
the rain, trying to get to work, you know, before
(11:56):
I joined the band. You know, I drive down through
Elizabeth and go the most Playful whatever it's called. But
but you know where Elizabeth West was, and I go
out and sit outside my old house and looking and
I remember what we went through in that house, and
some of it was pretty bloody traumatic. You know, there
was a lot of a lot of great times as well,
but but just you know, just going to look at
(12:16):
things that are and I remember everything, and we can
get thankful for everything that I got from Adelaide, because
I learned a lot in Adelaide. You know, by the
time we left, by the time Coaches left Adelaide, you know,
we were a really good rock and roll band, and
we were products of our environment. You know, we were
as good as the members of the band, but we're
molded in shape by the Adelaide you know, pub scene
(12:36):
and Adelaide audiences. But there were really tough guys, like
the guy with a shotgun. But there was a move,
there was a there was you know, a thousand the
first thousand people used to come and see us all
the time We're pack into that Lark Speed Hotel, and
half of that audience became dear friends of mine, you know.
And and I sort of see them and catch up
with them and in these days too, and so you know,
there's a there's a lot of things, you know. I
(12:57):
go go up the Port River, you know, and i'm
and have a look at the Port River and I
remember sitting there fishing when I was a kid, you know. Uh,
you know, it's there's a lot of a lot of
green and that's where I sat. That's where I escaped
from all the men, and uh, you know. And and
and gather my thoughts and think about what I was
going to do when I was when I was in a.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Band, Jimmy, before we let you go. All morning this morning,
we've been talking about partner perks, right, and I've had
the absolute good fortune of being beside you and Jane
when we were doing a tour with working class boy
your book. What would be a perk that Jane says
she gets from hanging out with Jimmy Barnes.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, I can get it at any restaurants. Like Jane
loves food and we love the best, love the best
food in the world. So you know, anytime there's you
know that, you bring up a restaurant they're going. So
they were booked out and then I'll ring up myself.
It's Jimmy Barnes put on my friendliest boys like, oh yes,
of course.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The massive perk that we are going to have is
happening on at the Veilo Adelaide five hundreds right from
ten o'clock today. Tickets will go on sale from Ticketmaster.
It is Cold Chisel's fiftieth anniversary to the Big five
OO Live at Valo Plus. They're bringing the Cruelty and
the super Jesus, Jimmy Barnes, your bloody legend. Cannot wait
to see you, good to.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Talk to you. Guys. Can't wait to get burner
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