Episode 378 - Cold Chisel Part 2

From smoky pubs in Adelaide to selling out arenas across the country, Cold Chisel became the voice of a generation. Fronted by Jim Barnes, the band’s raw energy and working-class anthems captured the spirit of Australia in the late 70s and 80s, their legacy continuing all the way until tomorrow. With hits like Khe Sanh and Flame Trees, they weren’t just making music — they were telling the stories of everyday Aussies.

In this episode, we dig into the band’s origins, their meteoric rise, the chaos of fame, and the lasting impact they’ve had on Australian music culture. Whether you’re a diehard fan or new to their legacy, Cold Chisel’s story is one of grit, passion, and pure rock ’n’ roll.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A strange, spiraling white light was spotted in the early
morning sky over Sydney, with even skeptical witnesses wondering if
it was a UFO.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
They were last seen on the beach with the tall
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of it.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
More than seventeen years after Harold Holt disappeared into raging
surf at Chevy A Beach, his widow has finally revealed
his last romantic words.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Gocky, terrifying, mesmerizing. That's the way a number of Australians
have described the alleged encounter with the YOWI.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
It's time the wed Crap in Australian podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Welcome to the week Crap and to show your podcast,
I'm your host Matthew Sol joining me for another episode,
of course, is the researcher extraordinaire herself, poly Soul.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
It has been a very long time since we've done
a banned series that has actually ended in two episodes,
and I believe that this might be an.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm very confident that we'll be able to wrap this
up in a second episode, Holly, because inevitably, as things rise,
they two must fall, and that is exactly what it
is about happened to Cold Chisel as people split off
into solo careers and you know that inevitable breakup of
the band situation. So Holly, without further ado, let's find

(01:25):
out how it all falls apart.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Even as Cold Chisel made music that sowed the fishes
within the band widened, creative tensions such as Walker's perfectionism,
Barnes's volatility, Moss's technical precision, Presswick sway, and small steady
pragmatism created combustible nights at hotels and tour buses.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
In early nineteen eighty three, Presswitch was forced to leave
the band due to back injury sustain in a car accident.
His place was taken by Journeyman drummer Gary Young ex
Daddy Cool Jojo Zip and the Falcons, who filled an
for a six week tour. By June, Presswich had announced
his departure from the band, and Rayannette as Spectrum Dingoes

(02:07):
took over. Then in August, Cold Chisel announced its breakup.
Presswitch rejoined for the last Stan tour of October, which
marked the band's tenth anniversary. On the twelfth of December
nineteen eighty three, at the Sydney Entertainment Center, col Chisel
played its last show together. Quote from Encyclopedia entry for
Cold Chisel, Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop, A mcfallan,

(02:30):
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
This wasn't the end, however, as they still had another
album to release. Twentieth Century, released in April nineteen eighty four,
was born a frustration and emotional fracture. It debuted at
number one Anyway. Saturday Night was a raucous anthem, and
Flame Trees, which was co written between Walker and Prestwick,
was much more sedated, showing the vast shifting tones within

(02:55):
the band's discordinate personalities.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
One of Australia's most successful rock bands, Cold Chisel will
split up after a major tour in October. The band's
management announced the decision yesterday, but did not reveal the reasons.
The group is currently recording a final studio album, the
Farewell Tour, which starts in Canberra on October first. Quote
from The Canberra Times, Tuesday, twenty third of August nineteen

(03:19):
eighty three, page fifteen, Cold Chisel to.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Split up and once again The Canberra Times struck gold
with doing half a sentence at the end.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I wonder what was the go with their editors back
in the day, because they seem pretty atrocious.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
The Last Stand tour ran through late nineteen eighty three,
culminating in a final show at the Sydney Entertainment Center
on December fifteenth, which saw Prestwick return on drums when
he could. The crowd sang Goodbye Astrad Goodbye as a
farewell ritual. At the end of the final show, the
band said goodbye finally, brutally and finally. The recording of

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the tour was later released in October nineteen ninety two,
and in November nineteen ninety two it peaked at number seven.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know somewhat music related Holly, as people may have
figured out through some of these podcasts that we've done.
Holly and I have a what would you describe it as, Holly,
A burgeoning vinyl collection?

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Eclectic?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Eclectic, There's definitely true. How do you feel about live albums?

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I hate them. I hate live recordings of songs because
I have Okay, the way my brain works is I
end up with an internal jukebox that goes all through
the day, so if I hear a live version, it's
not the same as the one that's in my head
and it causes a very big problem for my brain.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
You have a little bit of disconnect there. Absolutely, that's
really interesting. Sometimes I really enjoy a live album, and
the reason I bring it up is because you've heard
of the band popa Roach. Yes, well, they're part of
that new metal wave and I often will slack off
new metal as people who listened to this podcast we'll

(04:54):
hear slighter sight.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Where does young bloodsit in that? Because like, I've only
just started listening to his music, so I'm not actually
sure where he's sitting.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I don't know. You know, I haven't. I haven't listened
to enough of it to really give you a proper
critique of that. I knew that, I know that Ozzy
Osbourne really likes him or liked him, sorry rather rip
of course, poor Rossie Osborne. So I don't, I don't know.

(05:23):
What do you think you've been listening to it? Do
you think it's poppy or do you think it's rocky?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
It's very poppy, and there were lots will be lots
of people who are like, he's wearing eyeliner, it has
to be rock now it's very poppy.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Then I probably put it into the same category that
I put something like Evanescence in. Then a pop punk yeah,
maybe emo punk. I'm not sure there. But yeah. So
I was listening to popa Roach's live album that's coming
out getting a re release on Final and I have

(05:55):
to say their music sounds much better live.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Remind me what songs Poper did my lab Bitten too beat?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's why last Resort suffocation, no Breathe, then don't give
Up arm bleed?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Why did you bleep that out like we say it
all the time.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't know, probably because every now and again I
encountered the edited version through the advertising. Yeah, No, I
was just sort of curious as to what you think
about that, because, yeah, I wouldn't mind expanding our collection
into more live pressings.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
No, don't listen to them when I'm around over have
to throw something.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
What's your favorite band of all time? Then it'd have
to be like what Spice Girls? Right?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
It's actually like a four way split. It depends on
where I'm sitting which one it is Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys,
My Chemical Romance or powder Finger.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Actually five way add Garden in them be funny to
get you like a live Backstreet Boy album.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Especially from the modern version, because it's not.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Good anyway, little digression and there. I was just curious
as to what your feeling was towards live albums.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
The band split up and what followed was a strange interregnum.
Phil Small took day jobs. He loaded trucks, worked in
warehouses at PolyGram It admitted years later that for a
while he felt like a musician paused mid air with
no widder Land, but still played a small pub shows
when he could. Jimmy Barnes launched his solo career almost

(07:25):
immediately after the split. His debut solo album, Body Swerve,
was released in September nineteen eighty four and went straight
to number one on the Australian charts. This marked the
beginning of a long and hugely successful solo run, with
Barnes eventually becoming one of the country's best selling others.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's really hard to believe, isn't it's usually a very
it's just a marketing employee, or you know, perhaps there's
some bad blood. They split apart and then they're like,
we're never doing this again, and then ten years later
they're like, ah, we're being a bit childish.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, of the five bands that I named as my favorite,
the only ones that haven't had a resurgence a Savage Garden,
and that's because Daniel Jones refuses to get on the
stage ever.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Again, well, he never wanted to do it in the
first place.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
He started it, he recruited Darren Hayes. They blew up
and he went, this is too fucking much for me.
I'm getting out. I'm going to be producer. I'm going
to be a songwriter. I am not doing on stage
and Darren Hayes was like, go solo.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
True, but he's also been a producer now too, hasn't he. Yeah,
because they've both been producing local Australian acts. And I
think also when it comes to Savage Garden, there was
a lot of turbulence in his personal life. As you know,
he was able to come out as gay. I believe
he was married for some time, wasn't he.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
I believe he had two kids as well.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, so you know there was a lot going
on in that poor man's life, and imagine he was
quite anxiety riddled. So yeah, that makes sense. In the
month since the last Stand tour, the Swan song for
Cold Chisel Barnes has rested, mellowed and pender plethora of
new hits for his recently formed band, amply titled Jimmy Barnes.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
So that's how you can tell the difference between if
it's Cold Chisel or whether it's Jimmy Barnes.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's just Jimmy Barns.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Jim Barnes is Cold Chisel. Jimmy Barnes is Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Barns, right, So that's that's the marketing slip, right, that
makes a lot of sense, And that makes a lot
of sense that we are like Jim Barnes. Who the
fuck is that? But I suppose for an entire generation
of Cold Chisel fans, Jim Barnes was Jim Barnes and
Jimmy Barnes was the man who took on the solo
career very successful one. After a three week tour of

(09:33):
Queensland northern New South Wales, Barnes is back home in
Borrel rehearsing a fresh set of dates around the state.
The new band is made up of a number of
old faces from the Australian rock scene, handpicked by Barnes.
Bruce Howe on bass, Malcolm Estik and Chris Stockley on
guitar and Ray Arenott on drums each has more than

(09:53):
Pete's dues in the Fickle World over rock and Roll. Yeah,
Chris Stockley used to be in the Dingoes. Barnes remembers
Ray well. He did a few Cold Chisel tours and
played on the last Cold Chisel album. He also had
his own band, the Rude Dudes. Malcolm was the guitar
player for Stars and he played at the Andy Durant
Memorial concert. He's also played with Borick Smith's Big Combo

(10:15):
and he's played for Renee. Bruce is from an Adelaide
band called Mickey Finn. Before they were called Mickey Finn,
they were called The Fraternity. I sang for the Fraternity
for six months in nineteen seventy four. I left Cold
Chisel for a while stayed with them. Fraternity used to
be Bond Scott's band before I joined them. Quote from
The Camera Times, Wednesday, thirtieth of May nineteen eighty four,

(10:35):
page twenty four. Barnes pick's old faces for his new
rock band and as we mentioned on the previous episode,
Fraternity as the Australian band that never could.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
That's why they had to change the name, and they
still couldn't. Steve Preswick joined the Little River Band in
nineteen eighty four, staying for around two years in contributing
as both drummer and songwriter. Later, he re teamed up
with Ian Moss in Moss's solo projects and continue to
write for other artists. Presswick remained closely tied to the

(11:07):
Cold Chisel circle, his songs often finding their way back
into the band's repertoire. Preswick wrote for other artists, later
forming Cold Chisel related projects, and Moss launched a solo
career in nineteen eighty nine. His album Matchbook earned acclaim,
especially for the Moss pen ballad Tucker's Daughter. I knew
I'd known that name somewhere, and then as soon as

(11:28):
I saw that song title, I knew where I'd heard
him before.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, so you're going to have to elaborate here, Jesus,
is what you're saying that the name Tucker, for some
reason has no I.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Know the song Tucker's Daughter, but I couldn't match who
wrote it or sang it with the guy from Cold Chisel.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'm glad you clarified that you made me when you
listen to the edit, you'll understand why I asked that question.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Don Walker pursued a more low key path, forming the
band Catfish and releasing solo albums that leaned into his
storytelling and darker lyrical style. He also worked as a
songwriter for other artists, keeping a lower public profile compared
to Barns and Moss. Bassis feel small likewise state in music,
though largely out of the spotlight, continuing to play live

(12:17):
whenever he could while balancing other work. The pieces of
Chisel shattered, but the music stayed. Paradoxically, their break reinforced
their legend. Their albums played constantly on FM radio, Their
demographic aged up but passed records down. We know someone
who personally did.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
The Chisel catalog sold more after the breakup than ever before,
even without performing. They became Australian myth. By the early
two thousands, they'd sold three million records, two thirds of
which were after they split up. In October nineteen ninety one,
the Cold Chisel compilation album Chisel was released. Matthew, did

(12:57):
you end up looking in our collection to see which
albums we had?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know?

Speaker 4 (13:00):
What?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Why am I even guessing, Holly? When I have that
wonderful little app called Discogs sitting right on my phone
with our entire collection in it. Why why am I
doing these things the hard way, Holly?

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Because you're stillaying for time while you look it.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Up, don't you our editing tricks away? Yes. So we
have the original preassing of Cold Chisel, self titled. That
is the nineteen seventy eight edition, which is the gatefold.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
What does that mean it fold?

Speaker 1 (13:35):
It folds open like a book. Yeah, yeah, so if
it's just you know how somemers leave are a sleeve, yeah,
if it's gate hold, it opens up like a gate
You can even get sleeves for gateholds now, which is interesting.
So yes, that album actually sells for about eighty nine

(13:56):
dollars sometimes, so there you go, not too bad. We
have the Best of Cold Chizel, which is a recent
release that was re released in twenty eighteen, so that's
two LP's there.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
And we have which Jimmy Buns have We've got for.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
The Working Classman, which.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Is also has Working Classman on it.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Which is also gatefold and released in nineteen eighty five.
So those are the three that we have in our collection.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Chisel was basically a best of album and ended up
peaking on the charts at number three. It was eventually
certified three times platinum recall platinum.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Holly is the preferred vernacular.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
I believe the difference between Chisel and Cold Chisel the
numbers that they get, is that in nineteen eighty three,
the gate posts to get to platinum changed, So they
went from being I think it was thirty thousand to
get gold and then fifty thousand to get platinum yep,
changed to fifty thousand to get gold and seventy thousand

(14:59):
to get platinum. So in order to get multi platinum
after nineteen eighty three, you actually had to sell more copies, right.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
See. I always thought that the numbers were higher than that.
That's all it is. Oh see, I thought you had
to like to get gold to So what is the
levels here?

Speaker 4 (15:16):
We've got platinum, so we've got gold, gold, So you've
got silver, gold, platinum, right, and then you just multiply platinum.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah. See, in my head, I always thought that gold
was a million you had to sell a million copies.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
No, it hasn't been that ever. It's because we don't
really sell that much physical media. Even in the nineties,
we didn't sell that much physical media.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I mean you could still even in the nineties, so
you could still easily go platinum or even in some
cases triple platinum. I mean, I believe Navana was triple platinum.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Triple platinum is twenty one, two hundred and ten thousand.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
And Minogue definitely had a couple of multiplatinums. Yeah, I
think it was really in the era of MP three music.
So I'm going to take a wild stab here and
say I'm going to go back to my high school years.
I really believe that the death of physical music happens

(16:12):
probably two thousand and eight into two thousand and eleven.
It's around that period. It's that period between me leaving
high school and coming to the camera times that you
start to see the erosion of physical media. Yeah, not completely, like,
but it started around that point because music music was

(16:36):
the first to die. Like as soon as everyone had
an iPhone and they could put all their music on
their phone and then you could hook that up in
your car, that was it. You know, it was pretty
much the end of it because I look, I grew
up in the era of those massive hi fi systems
that had you know, a double cassette deck and vinyl
record player on top and a CD player in the middle.

(16:59):
Then I saw things like the multi changer CD player
in the car boot. And then I saw the you know,
the MP three disc where you could put you know,
hundreds of songs onto one single disc and put it
in your car, the front loading CD car player. You know,
all of those things I saw, But I would definitely

(17:21):
say between two thousand and eight and twenty eleven you
started to see the dip. Past two thy and eleven,
music was definitely becoming a digital format.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Only I'd argue it was actually closer to two thousand
and five because that's when I got my first MV repoint.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, that's fair, but you've got to remember the democratization
of that technology. It wasn't cheap for everyone to have one.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Oh the MV three player I had was cheap. Dad
got it off eBay.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
I had one that had it could hold like fifteen songs.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, mine was like one hundred and twenty six megabytes.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
They were terrible, absolutely shocking.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
The reason why you think it takes millions of copies
to chief gold or platinum is because that's what it
is in America, right but here it's different because we
only have less than twenty million people here. It doesn't
make sense to be like, you have to sell a
million copies because that's one in twenty people in Australia
buying one, and that's never gonna fucking hit.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's true. No, that's yeah. I thought. So it's different
for the States because.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
They have a bigger audience, so you need bigger numbers.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Makes perfect sense.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
And we have a quote here.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Interesting. Cold Chisel continued into nineteen ninety nine, with the
eight times platinum selling over five hundred and sixty thousand units,
Fizzle compilation returning to twenty seven on the National chart
during October. East West Warner then issued the seven CD
box set The Studio Sessions between nineteen seventy eight and
nineteen eighty four during December. The box set included the

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five studio albums Cold Chisel, Breakfast at Sweetheart's, East Circus,
Animals in Twentieth Century, plus the Live Swingshift double CD.
Each CD except Twingshift had been digitally remastered with a
special CD ROM enhanced component added. By that stage, lead
singer Jimmy Barnes had relaunched his solo career. Quote from

(19:10):
Encyclopedia entry for Cold Chisel Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and
Pop Ian McFarlane, nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Remember the era where CD ROM enhancement was a thing
that was remarketable.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yes, and that would apply to one of your favorite bands,
Bean Savage Garden.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yes they did so.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I think it was their second release, which was Affirmation. Yes, yes,
so the second release of Affirmation had a bunch of
behind the scenes stuff in there. It also included documents
on photos of scripts, sorry, scripts of lyrics, notes on
those lyrics, songwriting and all that sort of stuff. I

(19:48):
remember it coming with I think it was maybe six
or seven behind the scenes little videos that you could watch.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
I remember my parents being very impressed that I could
bring all that up for them.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Ah, what a humble time it used to be.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, I remember dad being very confused. It's like, why
is there a video of them playing tennis? And I
was like, I guess because they thought you might be
interested in watching that, and he's like I'm not. I'm
like fair enough.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
All good dad. In March nineteen ninety three, Cold Chisel
were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, cementing their
place as one of Australia's most significant rock bands. That
same year, they were also recognized with an award for
achieving sales of over two million records in Australia, a
milestone that reflected their enduring popularity even during their years.

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Reunion talk circulated through the nineties, but relatively little happened
until nineteen ninety seven. Behind the scenes, the label had
offered the band five million dollars to return for a
five stop tour of the major Australian capital cities, which
they rejected.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
That looked more props, Tom.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't need five million, fuck off pretty much like
it could have for million. Isn't enough for me to
live in a fucking room with those guys again?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, isn't that? What happened with the Spice Girls is
that they were very close to doing a reunion tour
and then Jerry pulled it back. It was Victoria bes
because she was like, you.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Can't stand dealing with anymore.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
I don't need this in my life.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, She's like, I'm married to David Beckham, Why the
fuck would I need to do this?

Speaker 1 (21:24):
My favorite Victoria Beckham takedown, though, actually comes from David Beckham.
Have you seen the clip of them from their Netflix documentary?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Possibly remind me right.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
She's telling the camera how she comes from a working
class family, and then David Beckham pops his head back
around the corner and he says, tell them the truth,
and she goes, I am telling them the truth. And
he goes, what pa, did your father drop you to
school in? And she's like, well, that's different circumstances. He goes,
what car did you did your dad drop you to

(21:55):
school in? And she's like, BMW, that's not a working
was not a working class car that is not driven
by a working classmate. So it tied all together back
to Cold Chisel.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Could Chisel performed interviews together, but never confirmed a reunion. However,
the seed was planted. In November nineteen ninety four, Teenage
Love was released, which was composed of twenty four never
released songs pulled out of the archives.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I love that even though they have completely split apart
the labels, just like, we're just going to keep releasing
cultures or stuff.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
They started with thirty three and they got rid of some,
so there might be another album on his way. This
was all new material. And of course it started more rumors.
In October nineteen ninety eight. The Last Wave of Summer,
their first studio album since twentieth Century, was released for
download and purchase.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
In nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes, for download one of those really shitty HTML websites.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Right, because I would imagine that would be taking quite
some time. It's on a fifty six PPS mode week.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Long thing for one song I'm a stream How big
is a song? Well, how big was a song? Weft
BND A.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Couple of megabytes? Like, it's not big, but still I
think you'd have to download it. So because you've got
to remember, like you only got four hours you could
have download within that four hour window.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
You were paying through the nose.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
You were screwed because yeah, bit Torrentine hadn't sort of
come into vogue yet, and it wasn't until Napster was
sued by Metallica that things sort of changed. All that
pirate wear or that bloke with ah.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
The grand old days a browsing LimeWire.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
It was the wild West of the Internet. Yeah, it
was children. Letting me take your back to the Internet
of nineteen ninety nine. Well, you had to sit there
and wait ten minutes for a boob.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
And that was just to the eyebrows.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Remember I think they made that joke in the Simpsons. Yeah,
Comic book guy is trying to download it a nude
picture of Captain Janeway and yeah, Homer's just offering internet services.
He has no idea what they're about. And he's ad
pops up and it's like the Internet King. Perhaps he
can provide me with faster nudity. It's a different time. Yes.

(24:17):
Following on from Cold Chisel's reformation in October nineteen ninety seven,
the first new Chisel recording for fifteen years, Yakuza Girls,
was placed on the Internet in nineteen ninety eight for
fans to download. The website received some thirty one thousand
hits in the first hour and over two hundred thousand
hits in the first twelve. The track was then released
as the B side to the CD single The Things

(24:40):
I Love in You. Hmm okay, that's an interesting title.
They do that with a lot of yeah, so there's
a metaphor there, or no, not a metaphor in Insinuation
Toundra and I Tolandra the first official release single since
nineteen eighty four. The single hit eleven on the National
The band's highly anticipated new album, The Last Wave of Summer,

(25:03):
emerged in October. It immediately left to the National one
spot in the first week of release, promptly selling one
hundred and forty thousand units to to qualify for double
platinum status. Recorded between October nineteen ninety seven and June
nineteen ninety eight, with four different engineers Coney Cohen, Paul mccircher,
Rick Will and Klju Kanuma, the album brought Cold Chizzel

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firmly into the nineteen nineties. The tracks range from the
raging opener Babies on Fire to the Steve Preswich Penn
ballads Way Down and Water Into Wine. John Walker wrote
nine of the fourteen tracks. The band toured for the
first time in fifteen years to full concert auditoriums. The
second single, way Down February nineteen ninety nine, featured Ian

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Moss on lead vocals. Quote from Encyclopedia entry for co
Pault Chisel Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pomp.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
A national tour followed in nineteen ninety nine and again
in two thousand and is free, with almost every show
selling out within hours of the tickets going on sale.
Remember when back in the day you could actually buy
a ticket before the scalpers got hold of them. Nope,
well well I did because I got powder bingo.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
But yeah, yeah, no it was. It wasn't as wild
West as it is today.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Wild West automated.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I mean wild West in the regards that a bunch
of thieves are stealing all the shit and then selling
it to your back for triple the price. But I
mean that yet, even if you do manage to get
a ticket, what was Taylor Swift ticket selling for in Melbourne?

Speaker 4 (26:32):
I have six hundred for the ship ones for.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
The ship ones exactly. That's a lot of fucking money.
And look, I don't I don't even blame the bands.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
It is the ticket, mastered, ticketec and so on.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Those are part of the problem. The other problem is
Spotify generates fuck all money for a lot of beans,
and so for them to you know, survive in some cases,
and I'm not talking about legacy bands, they're already multimillionaires,
fuck them. But with some other beans, you know you
are going to have to charge a bit of a
higher ticket price. That being said, a lot of indies,

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mid range bands, mid tier beans. They do sell their
tickets for a relatively cheap price. So I don't know,
what do you think, musos, You let me know about
the current state of ticketing in Australia.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
In nineteen ninety seven, Cold Chisel was the third most
played Australian band on Australian commercial radio, directly behind John
Farnham and Crowded House.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
You're a voice trying to understand it or.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Something I'm going to do like a super cut of
You're the Voice and then always take the weather with
you or something.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
I often hear You're the voice playing at work all
the time. It frequents in Australian retails, doors everywhere. It
is still on the radio to this day. John farm
Farnham's version of it, which I believe is a cover.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
I don't know. I actually have been listening to a
different version of it.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
But my favorite experience with that song is from There's
the Naked Gun movie that's just come out with Liam
Neeson right. It's directed by one of the Lonely Island guys.
Lonely Island is a parody pop band and they've made
a couple of films. One of their first films was
called hot Rod and there's a point where they're walking

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down the street feeling very triumphant, and that song's playing
at super Positive and there's like Danny McBride and Andy
Samberg and they're sort of walking down the street and
that turns into a fucking riot and they're very confused.
They're like, man, that started off so positive and then
turned into that was terrible. Man, that was absolutely horrendous,
And that's what I always associate that song with. Anyway,

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that was a hell of a distraction. Continue on, Well,
I was going.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
To do a slightly more distraction, like there's a version
of your the voice that actually intercuts indigenous Australian language
into it. Oh yeah, I've heard that one, Mitch Tambo,
So go out and listen to that one. I actually
prefer that over John Farnham, which will probably get me
deported from Australia, but it's true.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
No, I don't know necessarily how people to me. John
Farnham always felt like band that or a singer that
became popular with teenage girls.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
In nineteen fifties, at least, because I've seen he does
go back that far. Yes, because I've seen a video
clip of him singing and dancing in black and white. Wow,
see the cleaning lady, Go listen to it.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, So I kind of feel like he started there
and then those teenage girls grew up and then took
it into their midlives in the eighties nineties.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
You don't suppose that's something that happens to every band,
Cole gizzledo. You.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well, like I said to you last week, you know
that those two guys picking up the dad rock album
and it's like limb biscuits on it, you know, And
so all of us eventually, and I'll happen to your
kids later.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
In two thousand and three, Cold Chisel staged the Ringside Tour,
which presented the band in a more intimate setting than
their usual arena sized shows. The concerts were performed in
the round, with the stage position at the center of
the venue and the audience surrounding them on all sites.
This format highlighted the band's musical interplay and gave longtime
fans a chance to see Cold Chisel up close, blending

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the strip back arrangements with their trademark ferocity.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
So if that knocked back five million dollars, how much
do you think they were paid to get back on
the road. There have to be what fifteen.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Twenty Yeah, at least, I'd say.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Especially because all these albums that have been released after
the band had dissolved were continuing to make huge amounts
of money.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Let's still make a shit under Royald now.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh of course, but you would have to think that, Yeah,
if they knocked back five million, it must have been
a hell of a payday.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
The shows were recorded and released as the live album
Ringside in two thousand and three. On the fourteenth of
March two thousand and five, Cultures were reunited again for
a one off benefit concert at Melbourne's Sydney Maya Music Bowl,
performing alongside a lineup of other Australian acts to raise
funds for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami. The event

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drew a crowd of over twenty thousand people and raised
millions of dollars for relief efforts. For many fans, it
was an emotional moment seeing the band come together for
a humanitarian cause, channeling their energy into something far beyond music.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Organizers of last night's tsunami benefit concert in Melbourne, hoping
the event raised five hundred thousand dollars for the victims
of the Boxing Day disaster. A final figure is expected
to be known in the next few days. More than
ten thousand people watched some of Australia's biggest rock names,
such as the Sydney a Sorry rock names at the
Sydney Meya Music Bowl, including Cultures Or, John Farnham and

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Billy Thorpe, promoted Glenn and Wheatles as the headline act.
Daddy Cole, who reunited for the cause, did not disappoint.
Quote from the thousands of rock at Tsunami eight Concert ABC,
Monday twenty eighth February two thousand and five, the tsunami
in question, of course happened in Bali.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
It was Indonesia at least.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes, I'm pretty sure it was Bali, right, I.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Know it was Indonesia, I just don't remember with Jiland.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Australians often holiday over in those sort of areas and
so in a way it's of course it's good.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
It's Australia's holiday home. So that's why they wanted to.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Read and that's all right, Like yeah, it's like if
someone was, oh, you know, why is Australia involved in this,
It's like because we hang out there a lot. I
don't know how I feel about Yeah, the way we
threat Bali, you sort of see what I mean though,
it's like, would would anyone like would if Australians have cared?
If not a bunch of Australians have been hit with
the tsunami?

Speaker 4 (32:52):
No, probably not.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, So it's a it's a bit of a not.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
As a collective anyway.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's not like a benefit concept for the bushfires bushfires
or you know, California bushfire relief or the for Kashima
disaster or something like that. It was like, you know, oh, yeah,
some Australians got sort of swept away, so we're going
to raise money for the Yeah, it's complicated. Yeah, it's all. Yeah.

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So if you're sort of scratching your head there going
why would they do a relief concept for Bali having
a tsunami? That is the reason. And like holidays, like
police said, it's kind of our holiday island complicated.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
On December fifth, two thousand and eight, Tradgedy struck when
Orange founding bassis Les Cosmak died of liver failure. Left
the band decades earlier. This contribution to the formative years
of Cold Chisel remained an important part of their history.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
A musician dying of liver failure, get out of here.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
I'm always shocked when it's something else. On September ten,
two thousand and nine, the band announced they would reform
for a one off performance at the Sydney five hundred
and eight Supercars event held on the fifth of December.
The crowd through a staggering forty five thousand people, marking
the largest audience the band had ever played too. Cold
Chisel then played a single show in October twenty ten.

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The dun equin Danilo's.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
That's a good one, Holly, I've actually never seen it
written out the correct pronunciation for that deniloquent pronunciation. Yes,
it is deniloquent. The only reason I know that is
because my cousins lived there for a time.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
The doneloquent ute muster in you the ute muster in.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
It's often referred to as the Danny yute muster.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
That's probably where I've actually heard of it. I have
never seen it spelled out. In December twenty ten, Moss
claimed that Chisel was working once again on some new material.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Cold Chisel is playing a national tour and we'll record
a new album next year. Lead singer Jimmy Barnes has confirmed.
Barnes revealed the news as he and the legendary Ossie
five piece rock band get up to go on stage
before more than twenty thousand fans at the Deniliquin Yute
Muster concert on Saturday night. Two new songs have been
written for the album, and one of them, Or for You,

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by keyboard player and songwriter Don Walker, was on Chisel's
set list for the iconic outback event. Quote from Cold
Chisel Air's new song at Ute Muster ABC Saturday at
the second October twenty ten.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
It's funny it was around this era as well that
ACDC released a brand new album after like ten fifteen
years of nothing.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
What year was it again? Refresh my memory here, it's
two thousand and eleven, right.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
I believe so because I was at university and I
believe I was at Cambre so or it would have
been like twenty ten to twenty eleven.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, the album you're thinking of is eight is Black
Ice and it's not great. No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
In less than a month, bad news hit the band.
Steve Preswick was diagnosed with the brain tumor and he
was scheduled to go in for surgery for on January fourteen,
twenty eleven. Despite the surgery going well, Preswick never agained
consciousness from the anesthesia and died January sixteenth, twenty eleven,
at the age of fifty six.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
That's always awful, isn't it When the surgery for all
intents and purposes, is successful, but the person's body just
can't make it through it.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
You know, even with anesthetic and things like that, you know,
there's still a lot of trauma going on, and you know,
sometimes your body's just say I'm done.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's one of the reasons they don't like operating on
very old people like eighties nineties year olds, because more
more likely than not, they won't wake up again.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
The band canceled shows surrounding the event, grieving both publicly
and privately. In mid twenty eleven, Cold Chissel re released
all six of their studio albums on both CD and
digital platforms, introducing remastered versions to a new audience. This
they released three digital only compilations never before besides In Covered,

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plus a new best of collection All for You, which
reached number two on the ariat carts that same year,
they embarked on the Light the Nitro Tour, a massive
thirty date run across Australia. Most shows sold out rapidly,
prompting additional dates in early twenty twelve.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
So they're basically like John Farnman men, Yeah, yeah, at
this point we're on Farewell Tour number three.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
The difference is Finnham can't find anything else to do
with his life, so it was just like kid go,
It's just like, you're going to give me another zero. Yep,
all right, I'm coming. The tour featured the Vinyls drummer
Charlie Drayton behind the kit, filling in after the passing
of Steve Preswick.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Cold Chisel then announced the most extensive tour in thirty years,
and when tickets for the Light the Nitro Tour released
in early August, the band was overwhelmed by the massive
public reaction, selling over one hundred and seventy thousand tickets
in the first day and ultimately going on to sell
over three hundred and twenty five thousand tickets across Australia
and New Zealand. But the starts were just the background

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when the band stepped on stage for the first of
the shows of the Light the Nitro Tour, the music
did the talking across the country. The tour was met
with unanimous rave reviews from the critics and the public alike. Meanwhile,
their compilation album The Best of Cold Chisel or for You,
which featured two of their new recordings, debuted at number
two on the National Aria Albums Chants and is now

(38:29):
officially triple platinum. And we have it in our collection.
That's from a Cold chiselofficial bio Coldschisel dot com.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Cold Chisel then released No Plans in twenty twelve, a
record that included Presstwick's final recordings, including the track I
Got Things to Do, which was sung by Prestwick himself.
The album debuted at number two. In March twenty twelve,
Adelaide City Council honored the band by renaming a small
lane of Burnett Street, near one of their earliest residents,

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as Cold Chisel Laine. A fifty meter mural was painted
along the wall of the laneway, commemorating their role in
Australian rock history. Earlier that year, the band briefly took
their music overseas again, joining Soundgarden at the Hard Rock
Calling Festival in Hyde Park, London. It was a short
UK tour but marked a rare international appearance in their

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lady years. In October twenty fifteen, the band released the
Perfect Crime, produced by Kevin Caveman. Shirley, then followed with
the album Blood Moon in December twenty nineteen. They're still
fucking going.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Have you listened to the modern stuff? No?

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I've listened to the ones that are on the radio
and that's about it. In twenty twenty four, Cold Chisel
marked their fiftieth anniversary with the Big Five Oh Tour,
twenty three shows, starting in Armadale, New South Wales on
October fifth, twenty twenty four, and ending in New Zealand
earlier this year. Over twenty over two hundred thousand fans
attended the shows. The band launched a major compilation, is

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the Best Of, with a new track You've Got to Move,
debuting at number one. The tuur drew crowds from stadiums
to vineyards each night, a celebration of endurance.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Somewhere, someone somewhere in Australia is listening to a Cold
Chisel song right now. Perhaps it's you tarrying with the
ever present Hassan or with Qui Girl, Cheap Wine, Breakfast
at Sweethearts or forever Now, maybe without even needing to
tune the radio to the nearest classic at station or
dig out the records, you can hear those songs in
your head like I can hear them as if each

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were a part of some interior musical script learned off
by heart so long ago now that you can't recall
a time when you didn't know it. Quote from standing
on the Outside and when Crawfield The Monthly October twenty fifteen.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Cold Chisel influenced countless acts. Mid eighties bands like in
Excess and Midnight Oil all took hues from Chisel's mix
of narrative realism and rock swagger.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
Chisel quickly realized that their strength and success wouldn't be
in overseas stardom. They built a domestic empire that defied identity.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
I think that's where they stand out from the other
Australian bands that were covered.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Everyone else went international.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah, because ACDC had two quite successful tours of the
UK and America. They're very popular in America and to
this day are still very popular in America, and that's
indicative of the use of the music in pop culture.
You know, it's the soundtrack for Iron Man, it is
used in shows like Stranger Things. You know, their music

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is very, very popular overseas, in excess, had huge success overseas,
tremendous success overseas, and you would also argue that Kylie
Minogue predominantly was more popular in Europe than she was here.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
England and France are her two main bases. Yeah, and
then you got the Wiggles, which are just fucking everywhere.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
They're one of the biggest international acts around the world.
So Cold Chisel I think sets itself apart from all
of those other bands that we've talked about on this
show because they did build a local empire and maintained
a local empire, and I think that is what makes
them so different. Off the backs of Australians. They found

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success and never ventured past it.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Cold Chisel remains on heavy rotation in every pub, pub
and bar, with crowds reproducing Paisan by Heart in pubs
across the country every fucking night. Their reputation is etched
in national culture. Standing on the outside. The songs of
Cold Chisel in two thousand and seven featured covers by
artists like Paul Kelly. You am I the living end

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young voices who grew up on Chisel. In twenty twenty four,
as part of their fiftieth anniversary celebrations, the band announced
that they were searching for missing nineteen eighty two film
footage of their and evening with the Surface Animal show.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Just before we read this quote here, I would like
to say on behalf of music, Paul Kelly, you don't
need to release an album every two weeks, mate, like
just fucking chill.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
None of these guys really need a revival pass like
nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
So I uh on the Universal Music Shop for Australia
the other day because they had this really good salelong
and I was sort of perusing some of the titles.
There were eight Paul Kelly albums on discount on the
website in stock eight. He doesn't need to release that
much music. And this quote, Sorry, Paul.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Kelly, I mean I agree.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
It's the mystery which has affects cultures or for four decades,
and now the Treasured rockers are offering a ten thousand
dollars reward in an attempt to solve it. Could have
been a little bit more than that. As Jimmy Barnes
and the band reunite to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary with
the National Twour, they are desperate to find the missing
films of their Extraordinary and Evening with the Circus Animals
shows in nineteen eighty two, Like some of their Big

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Five Oh shows later this year, those Over the Top
gigs to launch their fourth record, Circus Animals was held
under a big top. The nineteen eighty two concept, filmed
at Wentworth Parking Inn, Sydney on April seventeenth and eighteenth,
remained the stuff of legend to Chisel fans. They closed
with Barns flying above the audience on a trapeze underneath
a stunt motorcycle racing along its hite wire as he's

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sang goodbye Astrid goodbye, with the microphone in one hand
and his trademark all of Vodka in the other.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
This is why he wants the film because Pixar didn't
Happy God.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
It's the ultimate hold my beer moment, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Oh my vodka?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
But the Rockers high flying stunt was in the only
dangerous moment of the first night at Wentworth Park. Barnes
and bear mates in Mouston. Walker Phil Small and original
drummer Steve Presswitch were upstage before they burst into their
signature opener, standing on the outside by the circus animals.
The shows were opened by a performance featuring trapeze artists,
dancing elephants, lions, tigers, and stunt motorcyclists. The Big Top

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was down near the dog Track in Sydney. Outside the tent,
they all had these animals, elephants and lamas and shit.
Barnes recalled and I think the loud music startled them
and on the first night a whole herd of camels
or something ran through the crowd. So the second night
there were no more animals. The only animals in the
circus were us. While the band have audio recordings of
those historic shows, the only surviving footage forms the live

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music videos for the Bow River and Taipan, where you
can also see the classic crowd going off under the
Big Top. The Chisel team had undertaken exhaustive archival searches
for the missing film over the years, but turned up nothing,
and now as they celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of their
filmation in Adelaide, they are hoping fans or an industry

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insider might be able to unearth the footage from someone's
backyard shed under their bed, or gathering dust on the
shelves of an old film editing studio willing to pay
ten thousand dollars for the return quote from cultures or
two or more shows and a ten K reward, announced
Kathy mcgabe a culturesl dot.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Com that reward is still outstanding. So if you have
that film footage, I'm guaranteeing at this point you'd probably
ask them to add at least one more zero to
the end of that sum.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
And tell us that we sain't you. By the way,
So if you hear it from this and you're like, hey,
my old dad has these film raels and you put
it on, you know.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
There's Jimmy Barnes with an elephant.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, like one out of the ten is not your
parents from the nineteen sixties using a personal camcorder for
reasons that let's just leave that up to the imagination.
And one of those film reels happens to be some
of that footage, you find it and get ten k
at least tell them that we sent you well as
soon as as soon as you could film in your home. Holy,
that's all it was.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
I mean, that's why technology gets pushed forward, especially video
and audio technology, because pawn.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
At the whole market on a go pros go pros
was saved by the porn industry. Yeah. God, imagine that
you'll like find all these reels and you think it's
super cool and you go get them digitized and it's
just your parents in swinger clubs. I'm not saying your
parents specifically, Holly, I'm just saying that.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
You know, my words there were voicing everybody's feeling towards
finding their own parents' sex tapes, sex reels. Chisel have
spaced out activity twenty twelve, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty four reunions,
but they've never really retired, with drummer Charlie Drayton now

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filling in bassis, feel small, still steady. He brought us
Don Walker writing notes from Sydney, and Ian Moss rejoined
Cold Chisel remains alive not only as a legacy act,
but as a living, breathing band that still chooses to
make music. Tanjins remain. Walker has said they'd pread carefully
now after age and losses, but the old stage fire
is still there.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
I mean, we heard Jimmy Barnes perform, I want to say,
back in twenty thirteen, I believe it was. It was
twenty thirteen for the Australia A Concert. And you know,
as far as I was concerned, I mean, I know
that's quite some time ago. Now, nearly eleven years ago.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
You want to redo your math. Sorry, nearly thirteen.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
So that was nearly thirteen years ago. But man, he's
still brought it. I think he still performed great. Like
I think he was still performing really really well even
back then.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
Played once they were a pub rock band, played twice,
they were a national institution. Played fifty years later. There
are family stitched into memory from the band orangin Adelaide
in nineteen seventy three, through five, classic studio albums, legendary
live shows, breakdowns and reunions. Cold Chisel didn't just wear

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the time. They shaped it for a nation trying to
find its voice, and they still have more voice to give.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Every record we've made has added to the fan playlist.
At this point, I'm not saying that we'll never record again.
It's really about celebrating the fifty years that we've got
Barnes said, the great thing that I've learned about Cold
Chisel is that it's never really over. When we get
the urge to play. Nothing has gone to stop us.
Quote from Cold Chisel to more shows and a ten

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K reward and now it's Kathy mcgabe, Cold Chisel dot
com and Holly. Before you rattle off the famous solo
songs there, just wanted to quickly add as well in
their new iteration as they perform together. A lot of
things that probably hampered them back in the past not
there anymore. Jimmy Barnes is sober. I think that that

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makes a big difference, and a lot of them have
been able to live pretty successful lives. Funnily enough, they
didn't do what in excess did I'll say that much thankfully.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
They did not just cling to life desperately.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
No, I think they. I think they maintained a steady
presence through very smart business decisions and not coming back
in an appalling state like a meat loaf for example. Yeah,
you know, I think that they continue to maintain a

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certain quality that still encourages people to go and listen
to them. I think if they'd lost that quality and
if they hadn't cleaned themselves up a little bit, I think,
you know, they would eventually have become the thing that
sort of ac DC is now, which is quite frankly
a joke. You know, It's like ACDC is like Grandfather's Acts.

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It's had ten new heads and ten new arms, but
it's still Grandfather's Acts.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
I also think the fact that every member of Col
Chisel has the attitude of well, I can do it
on my own anyway, So if we're going to hang out,
we're going to.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Do it properly, properly. Yeah, I'm not just.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Pashing doing a cash grab because I can do that
on my own, so we might as well do something properly.
And then there's a final thing. I went through and
I looked up the most famous song either written or
performed by each of the band members. Jimmy Barnes of
course has Working Class.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Man which ick and hard to make a living.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Which I can't listen to without the Adam Hills version
of Advanced Australia Fair playing over the top of it.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Yeah, that's one of those weird things that gets inside
the Holly's skull.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
My jic box is kind of fucked up. Working class Man,
released nineteen eighty five for each number five in Australia
and became his signature song as well as the anthem
of pubs and Australia in.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
General, many drunken nights. At the end of the night,
everyone holding a beer and singing and carrying on.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Ian Moss's peace song was Tucker's Daughter, released nineteen eighty nine,
which went straight to number one in Australia and won
the ARIA Single of the Year. Don Walker's key song
was The Year that He Was Cool, which he released
as part of Catfish in nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Nutser He Said, Oh Josh.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Which didn't tart highly but became his most recognized solo
track as well as a cult favorite for its dark,
witty storytelling. Steve Preswicks When the War Is Over nineteen
eighty two, When the War Is of.

Speaker 5 (52:55):
A Gotta gard.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
He actually wrote the song that is the most covered
fucking Cold Chisel song on the planet. It reached number
twenty five for Cold Chisel. It became iconic through later
covers by John Farnham, which did a top ten hit
in nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
That My Band to Nosh and No Time, No Day.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Colusso Medovido on Australian idol You.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
And we use the chat the shoulder still so young,
some how so much shoulder?

Speaker 4 (53:39):
How can nag home and Nagima and even in Moss
and Jimmy Barnes eventually covered individually.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Well he no Mad Gorless Steel Listen Harday.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Finally, Phil Small released My Baby nineteen eighty with Cold Chisel.
It hit number forty in Australia or remains his best
known contribution as a songwriter and gave Ian Moss one
of his earliest lead vocal roles.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
And I think looking at their individual careers there as well, Holly,
and like you alluded to, this is the success of
Cold Chisel is because you have five very talented people
who I think honestly respected each other's worth.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
It's almost like one of those super beans, all these
soli artists who just came together to dis chisel and
then fucked off again.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like Toto like that. Yeah. The concept
of a superman, in case you're not familiar, is that
you take a band member from a couple of successful
bands and you put them all together and you create
a super band. But yeah, Holly, it is almost like
a super band without the mo being part of successful bands.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
First, there's solo atists.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Afterwards you Jimmy Barnes and fraternity and I'm sorry Fraternity,
I feel bad for them. Well, ladies and gentlemen. That
wraps up our brief history on at the Lives and
Times of Cold Chisel. We hope you've enjoyed it, but
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Speaker 4 (57:33):
No, I think I'm just gonna leave it with like
little bits of each of the most famous solo songs
put together. I think everyone wants a remind of what
those songs are, or I can do a super part
of every single fucking cover of When the War Is Off.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
And Holy True Reform has actually given final words while
saying that she is not going to give final words.
She is a contradiction wrapped up.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
In a human, decisive PERSONIFI.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Well, thank you very much for joining us. Lads and gentlemen.
Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and we'll
say you next week for more we Crap in Australia.
Until then, Bye for now.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Bye you and I we send teacher the story.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Just to page a mos soon or it's home.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
How can I go home and not get on like you?
And I had a side set on something.

Speaker 5 (58:35):
Home. This doesn't mean out days and.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
I got thens before.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Then, cast.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
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Speaker 1 (59:24):
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