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Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band formed in Adelaide in 1973.

Cold Chisel is Jimmy Barnes + Ian Moss + Steve Prestwich + Phil Small + Don Walker

EARLY DAYS: 1974-77

Beginning in Adelaide in late 1973, it wasn't till January 1974 that the band began playing under their new and definitive moniker, Cold Chisel. In 1975 Cold Chisel consolidated into its classic line-up:

Jimmy Barnes (vocals): born in Glasgow, Scotland

Ian Moss (guitar/vocals): born in Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Steve Prestwich (drums): born in Liverpool, UK

Phil Small (bass): born in Adelaide, South Australia

Don Walker (piano): born in Ayr, Queensland

Cold Chisel moved to Sydney via Melbourne in 1976. Impassioned hard rock covers got the band gigs while Don Walker developed original songs. He zeroed in on the hopes, fears, anger and alienation, as well as the humour, of the working and student under-classes. Appreciative Cold Chisel armies formed. They followed the band from venue to venue, appearing just before Cold Chisel played and leaving directly afterwards. In late 1977, WEA (now Warner Music) signed the band to a modest contract, just in case there was a hit record somewhere in the mayhem.


LIGHT A LONG FUSE: 1978-79

The first two albums, Cold Chisel and Breakfast at Sweethearts presented the live classics Khe Sanh, Home and Broken Hearted, One Long Day, Merry-Go-Round, Shipping Steel, Breakfast at Sweethearts and Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye). But the band was not happy with either album. Cold Chisel suffered from studio debutante nerves. Production difficulties on Breakfast left a bitter aftertaste. Khe Sanh, originally banned from commercial radio for its lyric content, subsequently became Australia's 'unofficial national anthem' and the Australian cricket team's victory song. In late 1979, they found studio satisfaction recording Choirgirl with young producer/engineer Mark Opitz.


#1 WITH A BULLET: 1980/82

The 1980 Top 10 single, Cheap Wine, previewed the album East, where all band members contributed songs. East peaked at #2 then stayed in the Top 10 for 26 weeks and in the chart for a record 63 weeks. Choirgirl, Cheap Wine, Star Hotel, Rising Sun, Standing on the Outside and Four Walls became embedded into our national identity. The double live Swingshift hit #1 in 1981. Two months later the band toured America. Live performances rattled headliners including Joe Walsh and Cheap Trick but East went missing from the charts before the band arrived and it never returned. Back in Australia, the band recorded Circus Animals, which was led-out by Barnes' vehement You Got Nothing I Want. Walker's songwriting advanced into the compelling, spleen-venting rock of Taipan, Houndog and Letter to Alan. The melodic uplift of Prestwich's Forever Now and When the War is Over and Moss' Bow River became radio staples. Forever Now made #4, Cold Chisel's only Top 5 single.



UP & DOWN & OUT: 1983

1983 began with a triumphant headlining performance at the Narara Music Festival before a jubilant crowd of 30,000. But by August the band had begun to splinter, with Prestwich the first to go and tensions between the other members reaching breaking point. Cold Chisel decided it was 'time gentlemen please' and recalled Prestwich to complete a final album and for a 26-date arena tour, The Last Stand. The album, Twentieth Century, added the title track, Saturday Night, Painted Doll, No Sense, Hold Me Tight and Flame Trees to the Cold Chisel paradigm. The album debuted #1 early 1984.


CHISEL BY CHOICE: 1984/2010

Jimmy Barnes hit the ground running with 1984's Bodyswerve, the first of eight consecutive #1 albums (Barnes has now scored 12 individual # 1 albums), while Walker, Moss, Prestwich and Small took time to reaffirm themselves. In 1989, Don Walker formed Catfish and released Unlimited Address while Ian Moss debuted #1 with the album Matchbook, with many of the songs written by Walker. Steve Prestwich joined Little River Band for a period and developed his songwriting. Phil Small forsook music for family life. But radio and record buyers kept Cold Chisel as present tense and ultimately the band decided to work together again in 1995. In 1998, after traversing many speed humps a new album, The Last Wave of Summer, debuted #1 with 100,000 presales. The title track, Yakuza Girls, Way Down and Things I Love in You stood tall next to the band's earlier work. The triumphant Last Wave arena tour drew 150,000. Lingering disputes within the band were resolved in 2003/4 by 16 Ringside shows that exhilarated band and audiences. "It's been fun darlings," said Barnes, "Let's do it again sometime." One-off performances followed: In 2005, Cold Chisel headlined the Melbourne benefit for Boxing Day tsunami victims. In December 2009, Cold Chisel played to 50,000 at the Sydney V8 Supercars event and in October 2010 the band headlined the Deni Ute Muster to a record-breaking crowd of 25,000.


FOREVER NOW: 2011

In 2010 Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Don Walker, Steve Prestwich and Phil Small got together secretly and wrote and recorded a handful of songs and realised that the magic was there. With plans to continue performing and recording, the band was gutted in January 2011 when drummer Steve Prestwich passed away suddenly as a result of complications from a brain tumour. With Steve's performances and some of his songs captured on tape, the band ultimately felt compelled to continue with the plans they had begun. Recording continued through May and June with drummer Charley Drayton.

In July 2011, the band rolled out the biggest archival release in Australian music history, remastering all of their extensive catalogue and unearthing 56 new or rare live and studio recordings. It was the first time ever that the band had released their music digitally and it saw 8 of their albums hit the ARIA Top 100 Albums chart and numerous songs hit the singles chart. In a strange twist of fate, almost 35 years after it was first released Khe Sanh hit the Australian Top 40 for the first time!

Cold Chisel then announced their most extensive tour in 30 years and when tickets for the Light The Nitro tour were released in early August, the band was overwhelmed by the massive public reaction, selling over 170,000 tickets in the first day and ultimately going on to sell over 325,000 tickets across Australia and New Zealand.

But the stats were just the background .. when the band stepped onstage 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 raves reviews from the critics and the public alike. Meanwhile their compilation album, The Best of Cold Chisel - All For You, which featured 2 of their new recordings, debuted at #2 on the national ARIA Albums chart and is now officially triple platinum.


NO PLANS / THE LIVE TAPES: 2012 - 2014

In April 2012 Cold Chisel released its 7th studio album, No Plans, which was the album they started recording in 2010, and it features the last recorded performances of Steve Prestwich. No Plans was universally hailed by the critics and debuted at # 1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and the iTunes album chart and immediately went gold. The band played four special shows around the release of the album, including headlining the 2012 Bluesfest festival in Byron Bay (the first Australian band to do so) and an intimate, one-night-only show at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion. In an Australian first, the Hordern Pavilion show was broadcast live to over 100 cinemas around Australia.

In late 2013, Cold Chisel announced that after 35 years of working with Warner Music they were establishing their own label, Cold Chisel Music, with distribution by Universal Music Australia. Cold Chisel Music now releases all of the band's existing catalogue of music, concert films and any new recordings. The first new release was The Live Tapes - Vol 1 - Live at the Hordern, documenting on film and audio the band's blistering Hordern Pavilion show in April 2012 (subsequent releases Live Tapes - Vol 2 - Live At Bombay Rock 1979 was released in 2014 and Live Tapes - Vol 3 - Live at the Manly Vale Hotel 1980 was released in late 2016).

In January 2013 the band was honoured by Australia Post as part of the Australian Legend stamp series - the second time an Australian stamp has featured Cold Chisel. In November 2014 Cold Chisel's Khe Sanh was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry of historically, culturally and aesthetically significant sound recordings.


ONE NIGHT STAND: 2015

In March 2015, Cold Chisel returned to Adelaide, where it all began for them 40 years earlier, and played a special one-off show as part of the Clipsal 500, attracting a record Clipsal crowd of 35,000+ for their blistering performance. The band also entered the studio across February and March to begin work on their 8th studio album. The resulting album, The Perfect Crime, was released in October 2015 and debuted at # 1 on the ARIA Top 100 Australia Albums Chart. Receiving huge critical acclaim, the album was immediately certified Gold.

In May 2015, Cold Chisel announced two special shows under the banner The 'Last Stand' of Sydney's Entertainment Centre, to mark the closing of the iconic Sydney venue in December 2015. Referencing its legendary 1983 Last Stand Tour, the announcement captured the fascination and excitement of music fans across the country - selling all 20,000 tickets within minutes.

So overwhelming was the demand for these shows that the band responded by announcing its One Night Stand national tour, which had 18 stops across Australia and New Zealand, concluding at Sydney's Entertainment Centre in December with three shows that literally brought the house down.


GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER: 2016 - 2023

At the APRA Awards in April 2016, Cold Chisel received the prestigious Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music. And Don Walker's acceptance speech said it all so much better than all of these words: http://www.coldchisel.com/don-walker-acceptance-speech-cold-chisel-ted-albert-award-for-outstanding-services-to-australian-music.

On June 23, 2017 Cold Chisel announced two special shows, one in Newcastle at the inaugural Newcastle 500 Supercar race on Saturday November 25 and the other at the Derwent Entertainment Centre on Thursday November 23.

The band also announced the November 2017 release of their biggest live release ever - The 'Last Stand' of The Sydney Entertainment Centre - The Live Tapes Vol 4 - 32 songs drawn from the band's last two nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre before the iconic venue was demolished.

October 2019 saw Cold Chisel announce their ninth studio album Blood Moon alongside the 15-date national Blood Moon Tour 2020, which was their first ever outdoor Summer tour. The critically acclaimed album dropped in December 2019 and debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart (breaking the record for the Australian band with most time between their first #1 and their latest - 38 years from 1981 until 2019). The sold out tour saw Cold Chisel play some of their biggest shows ever (24,000 people in Geelong) and they became the first band to play the huge (and sold out) Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta (25,000 people). Additionally, Getting The Band Back Together, the single from Blood Moon, won the award for the Most Performed Rock Work at the 2021 APRA Awards.

In December 2020, Cold Chisel released the visceral Live Tapes Vol 5 - Live At The Bondi Lifesaver, Feb 1980, which featured numerous pre-East songs sporting different arrangements and lyrics. The band were captured here in hi-speed form.

In late 2023, the band celebrated the 40th Anniversary of legendary Last Stand shows with a stunning box set, collecting everything recorded and filmed from those shows on vinyl, CD and DVD.

50 - NOT OUT: 2024

On 29 May 2024 Cold Chisel announced their 50th Anniversary Tour: The Big Five-0, with special guests The Cruel Sea and Karen Lee Andrews playing most shows. It sees the band playing special gigs under a circus big top tent in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and then unique shows in other locations around the country before concluding where it all began for Cold Chisel, in Adelaide, on 17 November 2024.

The band also announced a new and definitive greatest hits double album 50 Years - The Best Of (which features one new Don Walker-penned song You've Got To Move). It is set for release on 23 August 2024.

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With accumulated album sales of almost 7 million and an unquenchable demand for tickets whenever they tour, the Australian public continues to reaffirm its deep connection with the inimitable Cold Chisel.


COLD CHISEL: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

7.3 million albums sold in Australia
ARIA Hall of Fame Inductees
2011: Massive archival and digital release - 8 albums entering the ARIA Top 100 Album Chart
2011: Light The Nitro Tour sold 325,000 tickets (biggest ever tour by an Australian-based band). 170,000 tickets sold in the first day alone.
2011: All For You - The Best of Cold Chisel album has remained in the ARIA Top 100 for over 355 weeks. Officially 4 x Platinum.
2012: Album No Plans debuted at #1 on ARIA Top 100 Australia Albums Chart. It achieves Gold accreditation
2013: Cold Chisel honoured with its own stamp as part of the 'Australian Legends' Stamp Series
2014: Khe Sanh added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry of historically, culturally and aesthetically significant sound recordings
2015 March: Cold Chisel played to a record 35,000+ people at the Clipsal 500, Adelaide
2015 May: Cold Chisel sold 20,000 tickets within minutes to their The 'Last Stand' of Sydney's Entertainment Centre shows, to mark the closure of the iconic venue. The band soon announces its One Night Stand Tour, playing one show only at 18 stops across Australia and New Zealand. Cold Chisel becomes the first Australian band to headline (and sell-out) the famous Hanging Rock at Mt Macedon, Victoria.
2015 October: The band's 8th studio album The Perfect Crime debuted at # 1 on ARIA Top 100 Australia Albums Chart. Receiving incredible critical acclaim, the album was immediately certified Gold.
2016 APRA Awards: Cold Chisel receives the prestigious Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
2019 December: The band's 9th studio album Blood Moon debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart - breaking the record for the Australian band with most time between their first #1 and their latest - 38 years from 1981 until 2019.
Early 2020: Cold Chisel played some of their biggest shows ever on their first national outdoor Summer tour, the sold out Blood Moon Tour 2020

EARLY DAYS: 1973-77

Beginning in Adelaide in 1973, it wasn't until 1975 that Cold Chisel consolidated into its definitive line-up:

Jimmy Barnes (vocals): born in Glasgow, Scotland
Ian Moss (guitar/vocals): born in Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Steve Prestwich (drums): born in Liverpool, UK
Phil Small (bass): born in Adelaide, South Australia
Don Walker (piano): born in Ayr, Queensland

Cold Chisel moved to Sydney via Melbourne in 1976. Impassioned hard rock covers got the band gigs while Don Walker developed original songs. He zeroed in on the hopes, fears, anger and alienation, as well as the humour, of the working and student under-classes. Appreciative Cold Chisel armies formed. They followed the band from venue to venue, appearing just before Cold Chisel played and leaving directly afterwards. In late 1977, WEA (now Warner Music) signed the band to a modest contract, just in case there was a hit record somewhere in the mayhem.

LIGHT A LONG FUSE: 1978-79

The first two albums, Cold Chisel and Breakfast at Sweethearts presented the live classics "Khe Sanh", "Home and Broken Hearted", "One Long Day", "Merry-Go-Round", "Shipping Steel", "Breakfast at Sweethearts" and "Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)". But the band was not happy with either album. Cold Chisel suffered from studio debutante nerves. Production difficulties on Breakfast left a bitter aftertaste. "Khe Sanh", originally banned from commercial radio for its lyric content, subsequently became Australia's 'unofficial national anthem' and the Australian cricket team's victory song. In late 1979, they found studio satisfaction recording "Choirgirl" with young producer/engineer Mark Opitz.

#1 WITH A BULLET: 1980/82

The 1980 Top 10 single, "Cheap Wine", previewed the album East, where all band members contributed songs. East peaked at #2 then stayed in the Top 10 for 26 weeks and in the chart for a record 63 weeks. "Choirgirl", "Cheap Wine", "Star Hotel", "Rising Sun", "Standing on the Outside" and "Four Walls" became embedded into our national identity. The double live Swingshift hit #1 in 1981. Two months later the band toured America. Live performances rattled headliners including Joe Walsh and Cheap Trick but East went missing from the charts before the band arrived and it never returned. Back in Australia, the band recorded Circus Animals, which was led-out by Barnes' vehement "You Got Nothing I Want". Walker's songwriting advanced into the compelling, spleen-venting rock of "Taipan", "Houndog" and "Letter to Alan". The melodic uplift of Prestwich's "Forever Now" and "When the War is Over" and Moss' "Bow River" became radio staples. "Forever Now" made #4, Cold Chisel's only Top 5 single.

UP & DOWN & OUT: 1983

1983 began with a triumphant headlining performance at the Narara Music Festival before a jubilant crowd of 30,000. But by August the band had begun to splinter, with Prestwich the first to go and tensions between the other members reaching breaking point. Cold Chisel decided it was 'time gentlemen please' and recalled Prestwich to complete a final album and for a 26-date arena tour, The Last Stand. The album, Twentieth Century, added the title track, "Saturday Night", "Painted Doll", "No Sense", "Hold Me Tight" and "Flame Trees" to the Cold Chisel paradigm. The album debuted #1 early 1984.

CHISEL BY CHOICE: 1984/2010

Jimmy Barnes hit the ground running with 1984's Bodyswerve, the first of eight consecutive #1 albums, while Walker, Moss, Prestwich and Small took time to reaffirm themselves. In 1989, Don Walker formed Catfish and released Unlimited Address while Ian Moss debuted #1 with the album Matchbook, the majority of songs written by Walker. Steve Prestwich joined Little River Band for a period and developed his songwriting. Phil Small forsook music for family life. But radio and record buyers kept Cold Chisel as present tense and ultimately the band decided to work together again in 1995. In 1998, after traversing many speed humps a new album, The Last Wave of Summer, debuted #1 with 100,000 presales. The title track, "Yakuza Girls", "Way Down" and "Things I Love in You" stood tall next to the band's earlier work. The triumphant Last Wave arena tour drew 150,000. Lingering disputes within the band were resolved in 2003/4 by 16 Ringside shows that exhilarated band and audiences. "It's been fun darlings," said Barnes, "Let's do it again sometime." One-off performances followed: In 2005, Cold Chisel headlined the Melbourne benefit for Boxing Day tsunami victims. In December 2009, Cold Chisel played to 50,000 at the Sydney V8 Supercars event and in October 2010 the band headlined the Deni Ute Muster to a record-breaking crowd of 25,000.

FOREVER NOW: 2011

In 2010 Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Don Walker, Steve Prestwich and Phil Small got together secretly and wrote and recorded a handful of songs and realised that the magic was there. With plans to continue performing and recording, the band was gutted in January 2011 when drummer Steve Prestwich passed away suddenly as a result of complications from a brain tumour. With Steve's performances and some of his songs captured on tape, the band ultimately felt compelled to continue with the plans they had begun. Recording continued through May and June with drummer Charley Drayton.

In July 2011, the band rolled out the biggest archival release in Australian music history, remastering all of their extensive catalogue and unearthing 56 new or rare live and studio recordings. It was the first time ever that the band had released their music digitally and it saw 8 of their albums hit the ARIA Top 100 Albums chart and numerous songs hit the singles chart. In a strange twist of fate, almost 35 years after it was first released "Khe Sanh" hit the Australian Top 40 for the first time!

Cold Chisel then announced their most extensive tour in 30 years and when tickets for the Light The Nitro tour were released in early August, the band was overwhelmed by the massive public reaction, selling over 170,000 tickets in the first day and ultimately going on to sell over 325,000 tickets across Australia and New Zealand.

But the stats were just the background.. when the band stepped onstage 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 raves reviews from the critics and the public alike. Meanwhile their compilation album, "The Best of Cold Chisel - All For You", which featured 2 of their new recordings, debuted at #2 on the national ARIA Albums chart and is now officially triple platinum.

NO PLANS / THE LIVE TAPES: 2012 - 2014

In April 2012 Cold Chisel released its 7th studio album, No Plans, which was the album they started recording in 2010, and it features the last recorded performances of Steve Prestwich. No Plans was universally hailed by the critics and debuted at # 1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and the iTunes album chart and immediately went gold. The band played four special shows around the release of the album, including headlining the 2012 Bluesfest festival in Byron Bay (the first Australian band to do so) and an intimate, one-night-only show at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion. In an Australian first, the Hordern Pavilion show was broadcast live to over 100 cinemas around Australia.

In late 2013, Cold Chisel announced that after 35 years of working with Warner Music they were establishing their own label, Cold Chisel Music, with distribution by Universal Music Australia. Cold Chisel Music now releases all of the band's existing catalogue of music, concert films and any new recordings. The first new release was The Live Tapes - Vol 1 - Live at the Hordern, documenting on film and audio the band's blistering Hordern Pavilion show in April 2012 (subsequent releases Live Tapes - Vol 2 - Live At Bombay Rock 1979 was released in 2014 and Live Tapes - Vol 3 - Live at the Manly Vale Hotel, 1980 was released in late 2016).

In January 2013 the band was honoured by Australia Post as part of the Australian Legend stamp series - the second time an Australian stamp has featured Cold Chisel. In November 2014 Cold Chisel's 'Khe Sanh' was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry of historically, culturally and aesthetically significant sound recordings.

ONE NIGHT STAND: 2015

In March 2015, Cold Chisel returned to Adelaide, where it all began for them 40 years earlier, and played a special one-off show as part of the Clipsal 500, attracting a record Clipsal crowd of 35,000+ for their blistering performance. The band also entered the studio across February and March to begin work on their 8th studio album. The resulting album, The Perfect Crime, was released in October 2015 and debuted at # 1 on the ARIA Top 100 Australia Albums Chart. Receiving huge critical acclaim, the album was immediately certified Gold.

In May 2015, Cold Chisel announced two special shows under the banner The 'Last Stand' of Sydney's Entertainment Centre, to mark the closing of the iconic Sydney venue in December 2015. Referencing its legendary 1983 Last Stand tour, the announcement captured the fascination and excitement of music fans across the country - selling all 20,000 tickets within minutes.

So overwhelming was the demand for these shows that the band responded by announcing its One Night Stand national tour, which had 18 stops across Australia and New Zealand, concluding at Sydney's Entertainment Centre in December with three shows that literally brought the house down.

LOOKING FORWARD: 2016 - NOW

At the APRA Awards in April 2016, Cold Chisel received the prestigious Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music. And Don Walker's acceptance speech said it all so much better than all of these words: https://www.coldchisel.com/don-walker-acceptance-speech-cold-chisel-ted-albert-award-for-outstanding-services-to-australian-music.

On June 23, 2017 Cold Chisel announced two special shows, one in Newcastle at the inaugural Newcastle 500 Supercar race on Saturday November 25 and the other at the Derwent Entertainment Centre on Thursday November 23. This marks the band's first shows in these cities since the Light The Nitro tour in 2011.

The band also announced the November 2017 release of their biggest live release ever - The 'Last Stand' of The Sydney Entertainment Centre - The Live Tapes Vol 4 - 32 songs drawn from the band's last two nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre before the iconic venue was demolished.

In late 2018, Cold Chisel released their iconic Best Of compilation 'All For You' on vinyl for the very first time - helping push the 4 x Platinum record back into the ARIA Albums Chart top 5, with the album remaining in the top 40 for an additional 30 weeks and counting. According to media reports, the band will be recording new music for release over the summer of 2019/20.

October 2019 saw Cold Chisel announce their ninth studio album 'Blood Moon' alongside the 15-date national 'Blood Moon Tour 2020', which was their first ever outdoor Summer tour. The critically acclaimed album dropped in December 2019 and debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart (breaking the record for the Australian band with most time between their first #1 and their latest - 38 years from 1981 until 2019). The sold out tour saw Cold Chisel play some of their biggest shows ever (24,000 people in Geelong) and they became the first band to play the huge (and sold out) Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta (25,000 people).

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With accumulated album sales of almost 7 million and an unquenchable demand for tickets whenever they tour, the Australian public continues to reaffirm its deep connection with the inimitable Cold Chisel.

COLD CHISEL: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

6.9 Million albums sold in Australia
ARIA Hall of Fame Inductees
2011 Massive archival and digital release - 8 albums entering the ARIA Top 100 Album Chart.
2011 Light The Nitro tour sold 325,000 tickets (biggest ever tour by an Australian-based band). 170,000 tickets sold in the first day alone.
2011 All For You - The Best of Cold Chisel album has never fallen out of the ARIA Top 100 Album Chart (253 weeks so far). Officially Triple Platinum.
2012 Album No Plans debuted at # 1 on ARIA Top 100 Australia Albums Chart. It achieves Gold accreditation.
2013 Cold Chisel honoured with its own stamp as part of the 'Australian Legends' Stamp Series
2014 'Khe Sanh' added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry of historically, culturally and aesthetically significant sound recordings
2015 March: Cold Chisel played to a record 35,000+ people at the Clipsal 500, Adelaide
2015 May: Cold Chisel sold 20,000 tickets within minutes to their The 'Last Stand' of Sydney's Entertainment Centre shows, to mark the closure of the iconic venue. The band soon announces its One Night Stand tour, playing one show only at 18 stops across Australia and New Zealand. Cold Chisel becomes the first Australian band to headline (and sell-out) the famous Hanging Rock at Mt Macedon, Victoria.
2015 October: The band's 8th studio album The Perfect Crime debuted at # 1 on ARIA Top 100 Australia Albums Chart. Receiving incredible critical acclaim, the album was immediately certified Gold.
2016 At the APRA Awards, Cold Chisel receives the prestigious Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.
2019 December: The band's 9th studio album 'Blood Moon' debuted at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart - breaking the record for the Australian band with most time between their first #1 and their latest - 38 years from 1981 until 2019.
Early 2020: Cold Chisel played some of their biggest shows ever on their first national outdoor Summer tour, the sold out 'Blood Moon Tour 2020'

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums, Les Kaczmarek on bass and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes on lead vocals and, in 1975, Phil Small became their bass guitarist. The group disbanded in late 1983 but subsequently re-formed several times. Musicologist Ian McFarlane wrote that they became "one of Australia's best-loved groups" as well as "one of the best live bands", fusing "a combination of rockabilly, hard rock and rough-house soul'n'blues that was defiantly Australian in outlook."

Eight of their studio albums have reached the Australian top five, Breakfast at Sweethearts (February 1979), East (June 1980), Circus Animals (March 1982, No. 1), Twentieth Century (April 1984, No. 1), The Last Wave of Summer (October 1998, No. 1), No Plans (April 2012), The Perfect Crime (October 2015) and Blood Moon (December 2019, No. 1). They have achieved six number-one albums on the ARIA Charts, the latest being their 2024 compilation 50 Years - The Best Of. Their top-10 singles are "Cheap Wine" (1980), "Forever Now" (1982), "Hands Out of My Pocket" (1994) and "The Things I Love in You" (1998).
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993 they were inducted into the Hall of Fame. In 2001 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) listed their single "Khe Sanh" (May 1978) at No. 8 of the all-time best Australian songs. Circus Animals was listed at No. 4 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums (October 2010), while East appeared at No. 53. They won The Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards of 2016. Cold Chisel's popularity is almost entirely confined to Australia and New Zealand, with their songs and musicianship highlighting working class life. Their early bass guitarist (1973-75), Les Kaczmarek, died in December 2008; Steve Prestwich died of a brain tumour in January 2011.

History

1973-1978: Beginnings

Cold Chisel originally formed as Orange in Adelaide in 1973 as a heavy metal band with Ted Broniecki on keyboards, Les Kaczmarek on bass guitar, Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano. Their early material included cover versions of Free and Deep Purple material. Broniecki left by September 1973 and seventeen-year-old singer Jimmy Barnes - called Jim Barnes during their initial career - joined in December.
The group changed its name several times, often for every live performance, before choosing "Cold Chisel" after an early Don Walker song of that title, and that name stuck. Barnes' relationship with the others was volatile: he often came to blows with Prestwich and left the band several times. During these periods Moss would handle vocals until Barnes returned. Walker emerged as the group's primary songwriter and spent 1974 in Armidale, completing his studies in quantum mechanics. Barnes' older brother, John Swan, was a member of Cold Chisel around this time, providing backing vocals and percussion. After several violent incidents, including beating up a roadie, he was fired. In mid-1975 Barnes left to join Fraternity as Bon Scott's replacement on lead vocals, alongside Swan on drums and vocals.
Kaczmarek left Cold Chisel during 1975 and was replaced by Phil Small on bass guitar. In November of that year, without Barnes, they recorded their early demos.
In May 1976 Cold Chisel relocated to Melbourne, but "frustrated by their lack of progress," they moved on to Sydney in early 1977. In May 1977, Barnes told his fellow members that he would leave again. From July he joined Feather for a few weeks, on co-lead vocals with Swan - they were a Sydney-based hard rock group, which had evolved from Blackfeather. A farewell performance for Cold Chisel, with Barnes aboard, went so well that the singer changed his mind and returned. In the following month the Warner Music Group signed the group.

1978-1979: Cold Chisel and Breakfast at Sweethearts

In the early months of 1978 Cold Chisel recorded their self-titled debut album with their manager and producer, Peter Walker (ex-Bakery). All tracks were written by Don Walker, except "Juliet", where Barnes composed its melody and Walker the lyrics. Cold Chisel was released in April and included guest studio musicians: Dave Blight on harmonica (who became a regular on-stage guest) and saxophonists Joe Camilleri and Wilbur Wilde (from Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons). Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described how, "[it] failed to capture the band's renowned live firepower, despite the presence of such crowd favourites as 'Khe Sanh', 'Home and Broken Hearted' and 'One Long Day'." It reached the top 40 on the Kent Music Report and was certified gold.
In May 1978, "Khe Sanh" was released as their debut single but it was declared too offensive for commercial radio due to the sexual implication of the lyrics, e.g. "Their legs were often open/But their minds were always closed." However, it was played regularly on Sydney youth radio station Double J, which was not subject to the restrictions as it was part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Another ABC program, Countdown's producers asked them to change the lyric but they refused. Despite such setbacks, "Khe Sanh" reached No. 41 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. It became Cold Chisel's signature tune and was popular among their fans. They later remixed the track, with re-recorded vocals, for inclusion on the international version of their third album, East (June 1980).
The band's next release was a live five-track extended play, You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine, in November 1978. McFarlane observed, "It captured the band in its favoured element, fired by raucous versions of Walker's 'Merry-Go-Round' and Chip Taylor's 'Wild Thing'." It was recorded at the Regent Theatre, Sydney in 1977, when they had Midnight Oil as one of the support acts. Australian writer Ed Nimmervoll described a typical performance by Cold Chisel: "Everybody was talking about them anyway, drawn by the songs, and Jim Barnes' presence on stage, crouched, sweating, as he roared his vocals into the microphone at the top of his lungs." The EP peaked at No. 35 on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart.
"Merry Go Round" was re-recorded for their second studio album, Breakfast at Sweethearts (February 1979). This was recorded between July 1978 and January 1979 with producer Richard Batchens, who had previously worked with Richard Clapton, Sherbet and Blackfeather. Batchens smoothed out the band's rough edges and attempted to give their songs a sophisticated sound. With regards to this approach, the band were unsatisfied with the finished product. It peaked at No. 4 and was the top-selling album in Australia by a locally based artist for that year; it was certified platinum. The majority of its tracks were written by Walker, with Barnes and Walker on the lead single, "Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye)" (September 1978), and Moss contributed to "Dresden". "Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye)" became a live favourite, and was covered by U2 during Australian tours in the 1980s.

1979-1980: East

Cold Chisel had gained national chart success and increased popularity of their fans without significant commercial radio airplay. The members developed reputations for wild behaviour, particularly Barnes, who claimed to have had sex with over 1000 women and who consumed more than a bottle of vodka each night while performing. In late 1979, severing their relationship with Batchens, Cold Chisel chose Mark Opitz to produce the next single, "Choirgirl" (November). It is a Walker composition dealing with a young woman's experience with abortion. Despite the subject matter it reached No. 14.
"Choirgirl" paved the way for the group's third studio album, East (June 1980), with Opitz producing. Recorded over two months in early 1980, East, reached No. 2 and is the second highest selling album by an Australian artist for that year. The Australian Women's Weekly's Gregg Flynn noticed, "[they are] one of the few Australian bands in which each member is capable of writing hit songs." Despite the continued dominance of Walker, the other members contributed more tracks to their play list, and this was their first album to have songs written by each one. McFarlane described it as, "a confident, fully realised work of tremendous scope." Nimmervoll explained how, "This time everything fell into place, the sound, the songs, the playing... East was a triumph. [The group] were now the undisputed No. 1 rock band in Australia."
The album varied from straight-ahead rock tracks "Standing on the Outside" and "My Turn to Cry" to rockabilly-flavoured work-outs ("Rising Sun", written about Barnes' relationship with his then-girlfriend Jane Mahoney) and pop-laced love songs ("My Baby" by Phil Small, featuring Joe Camilleri on saxophone) to a poignant piano ballad about prison life, "Four Walls". The cover art showed Barnes reclined in a bathtub wearing a kamikaze bandanna in a room littered with junk and was inspired by Jacques-Louis David's 1793 painting The Death of Marat. The Ian Moss-penned "Never Before" was chosen as the first song to air on the ABC's youth radio station, Triple J, when it switched to the FM band that year. Supporting the release of East, Cold Chisel embarked on the Youth in Asia Tour from May 1980, which took its name from a lyric in "Star Hotel".
In late 1980, the Aboriginal rock reggae band No Fixed Address supported the band on its Summer Offensive tour to the east coast, with the final concert on 20 December at the University of Adelaide.

1981-1982: Swingshift to Circus Animals

The Youth in Asia Tour performances were used for Cold Chisel's double live album, Swingshift (March 1981). Nimmervoll declared, "[the group] rammed what they were all about with [this album]." In March 1981 the band won seven categories: Best Australian Album, Most Outstanding Achievement, Best Recorded Song Writer, Best Australian Producer, Best Australian Record Cover Design, Most Popular Group and Most Popular Record, at the Countdown/TV Week pop music awards for 1980. They attended the ceremony at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and were due to perform: however, as a protest against a TV magazine's involvement, they refused to accept any trophy and finished the night with "My Turn to Cry". After one verse and chorus, they smashed up the set and left the stage.
Swingshift debuted at No 1, which demonstrated their status as the highest-selling local act. With a slightly different track listing, East was issued in the United States and they undertook their first US tour in mid-1981. Ahead of the tour they had issued "My Baby" for the North America market and it reached the top 40 on Billboard's chart, Mainstream Rock. They were generally popular as a live act there, but the US branch of their label did little to promote the album. According to Barnes' biographer, Toby Creswell, at one point they were ushered into an office to listen to the US master tape to find it had substantial hiss and other ambient noise, which made it almost unable to be released. Nevertheless, the album reached the lower region of the Billboard 200 in July. The group were booed off stage after a lacklustre performance in Dayton, Ohio in May 1981 opening for Ted Nugent. Other support slots they took were for Cheap Trick, Joe Walsh, Heart and the Marshall Tucker Band. European audiences were more accepting of the Australian band and they developed a fan base in Germany.
In August 1981 Cold Chisel began work on a fourth studio album, Circus Animals (March 1982), again with Opitz producing. To launch the album, the band performed under a circus tent at Wentworth Park in Sydney and toured heavily once more, including a show in Darwin that attracted more than 10 percent of the city's population. It peaked at No. 1 in both Australia and on the Official New Zealand Music Chart. In October 2010 it was listed at No. 4 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums by music journalists Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell.
Its lead single, "You Got Nothing I Want" (November 1981), is an aggressive Barnes-penned hard rock track, which attacked the US industry for its handling of the band on their recent tour. The song caused problems for Barnes when he later attempted to break into the US market as a solo performer; senior music executives there continued to hold it against him. Like its predecessor, Circus Animals contained songs of contrasting styles, with harder-edged tracks like "Bow River" and "Hound Dog" beside more expansive ballads such as the next two singles, "Forever Now" (March 1982) and "When the War Is Over" (August), both written by Prestwich. "Forever Now" is their highest-charting single in two Australasian markets: No. 4 on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart and No. 2 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart.
"When the War Is Over" is the most-covered Cold Chisel track - Uriah Heep included a version on their 1989 album, Raging Silence; John Farnham recorded it while he and Prestwich were members of Little River Band in the mid-1980s and again for his 1988 solo album, Age of Reason. The song was also a No. 1 hit for former Australian Idol contestant Cosima De Vito in 2004 and was performed by Bobby Flynn during that show's 2006 season. "Forever Now" was covered, as a country waltz, by Australian band the Reels.

1983: Break-up

Success outside Australasia continued to elude Cold Chisel and friction occurred between the members. According to McFarlane, "[the] failed attempts to break into the American market represented a major blow... [their] earthy, high-energy rock was overlooked." In early 1983 they toured Germany but the shows went so badly that in the middle of the tour Walker up-ended his keyboard and stormed off stage during a show. After returning to Australia, Prestwich was fired and replaced by Ray Arnott, formerly of the 1970s progressive rockers Spectrum and country rockers the Dingoes.
After this, Barnes requested a large advance from management. Now married with a young child, reckless spending had left him almost broke. His request was refused as there was a standing arrangement that any advance to one band member had to be paid to all the others. After a meeting on 17 August during which Barnes quit the band, it was decided that the group would split up. A farewell concert series, The Last Stand, was planned and a final studio album, Twentieth Century (February 1984), was recorded. Prestwich returned for that tour, which began in October. Before the last four scheduled shows in Sydney, Barnes lost his voice and those dates were postponed to mid-December.

The band's final performances were at the Sydney Entertainment Centre from 12 to 15 December 1983 - ten years since their first live appearance as Cold Chisel in Adelaide - and the group then disbanded. The Sydney shows formed the basis of a concert film, The Last Stand (July 1984), which became the biggest-selling cinema-released concert documentary by an Australian band to that time. Other recordings from the tour were used on a live album, The Barking Spiders Live: 1983 (1984); the title is a reference to the pseudonym the group occasionally used when playing warm-up shows before tours. Some were also used as B-sides for a three-CD singles package, Three Big XXX Hits, issued ahead of the release of their 1994 compilation album, Teenage Love.
During breaks in the tour, Twentieth Century was recorded. It was a fragmentary process, spread across various studios and sessions as the individual members often refused to work together - both Arnott (on ten tracks) and Prestwich (on three tracks) are recorded as drummers. The album reached No. 1 and provided the singles "Saturday Night" (March 1984) and "Flame Trees" (August), both of which remain radio staples. "Flame Trees", co-written by Prestwich and Walker, took its title from the BBC series The Flame Trees of Thika, although it was lyrically inspired by Walker's hometown of Grafton. Barnes later recorded an acoustic version for his 1993 solo album, Flesh and Wood, and it was also covered by Sarah Blasko in 2006.

1984-1996: Aftermath and ARIA Hall of Fame

Barnes launched his solo career in January 1984, which has provided nine Australian number-one studio albums and an array of hit singles, including "Too Much Ain't Enough Love", which peaked at No. 1. He has recorded with INXS, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker and John Farnham to become one of the country's most popular male rock singers. Prestwich joined Little River Band in 1984 and appeared on the albums Playing to Win and No Reins, before departing in 1986 to join Farnham's touring band. Moss, Small and Walker took extended breaks from music.
Small maintained a low profile as a member in a variety of minor groups Pound, the Earls of Duke and the Outsiders. Walker formed Catfish in 1988, ostensibly a solo band with a variable membership, which included Moss, Charlie Owen and Dave Blight at times. Catfish's recordings during this phase attracted little commercial success. During 1988 and 1989 Walker wrote several tracks for Moss including the singles "Tucker's Daughter" (November 1988) and "Telephone Booth" (June 1989), which appeared on Moss' debut solo album, Matchbook (August 1989). Both the album and "Tucker's Daughter" peaked at No. 1. Moss won five trophies at the ARIA Music Awards of 1990. His other solo albums met with less chart or award success.
Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, Cold Chisel were courted to re-form but refused, at one point reportedly turning down a $5 million offer to play a sole show in each of the major Australian state capitals. Moss and Walker often collaborated on projects; neither worked with Barnes until Walker wrote "Stone Cold" for the singer's sixth studio album, Heat (October 1993). The pair recorded an acoustic version for Flesh and Wood (December). Thanks primarily to continued radio airplay and Barnes' solo success, Cold Chisel's legacy remained solidly intact. By the early 1990s the group had surpassed 3 million album sales, most sold since 1983. The 1991 compilation album, Chisel, was re-issued and re-packaged several times, once with the long-deleted 1978 EP as a bonus disc and a second time in 2001 as a double album. The Last Stand soundtrack album was finally released in 1992. In 1994 a complete album of previously unreleased demo and rare live recordings, Teenage Love, was released, which provided three singles.

1997-2010: Reunion

Cold Chisel reunited in October 1997, with the line-up of Barnes, Moss, Prestwich, Small and Walker. They recorded their sixth studio album, The Last Wave of Summer (October 1998), from February to July with the band members co-producing. They supported it with a national tour. The album debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 2003 they re-grouped for the Ringside Tour and in 2005 again to perform at a benefit for the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. Founding bass guitarist, Les Kaczmarek, died of liver failure on 5 December 2008, aged 53. Walker described him as "a wonderful and beguiling man in every respect."
On 10 September 2009 Cold Chisel announced they would re-form for a one-off performance at the Sydney 500 V8 Supercars event on 5 December. The band performed at Stadium Australia to the largest crowd of its career, with more than 45,000 fans in attendance. They played a single live show in 2010: at the Deniliquin ute muster in October. In December Moss confirmed that Cold Chisel were working on new material for an album.

2011-2019: Death of Steve Prestwich and The Perfect Crime

In January 2011 Steve Prestwich was diagnosed with a brain tumour; he underwent surgery on 14 January but never regained consciousness and died two days later, aged 56. All six of Cold Chisel's studio albums were re-released in digital and CD formats in mid-2011. Three digital-only albums were released - Never Before, Besides and Covered - as well as a new compilation album, The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You, which peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Charts. The thirty-date Light the Nitro Tour was announced in July along with the news that former Divinyls and Catfish drummer Charley Drayton had replaced Prestwich. Most shows on the tour sold out within days and new dates were later announced for early 2012.
No Plans, their seventh studio album, was released in April 2012, with Kevin Shirley producing, which peaked at No. 2. The Australian's Stephen Fitzpatrick rated it as four-and-a-half out of five and found its lead track, "All for You", "speaks of redemption; of a man's ability to make something of himself through love." The track "I Got Things to Do" was written and sung by Prestwich, which Fitzpatrick described as "the bittersweet finale", a song that had "a vocal track the other band members did not know existed until after [Prestwich's] death." Midway through 2012 they embarked on a short UK tour and played with Soundgarden and Mars Volta at Hard Rock Calling at London's Hyde Park.
The group's eighth studio album, The Perfect Crime, appeared in October 2015, again with Shirley producing, which peaked at No. 2. Martin Boulton of The Sydney Morning Herald rated it at four out of five stars and explained that the album does what Cold Chisel always does: "work incredibly hard, not take any shortcuts and play the hell out of the songs." The album, Boulton writes, "delves further back to their rock'n'roll roots with chief songwriter [Walker] carving up the keys, guitarist [Moss] both gritty and sublime and the [Small/Drayton] engine room firing on every cylinder. Barnes' voice sounds worn, wonderful and better than ever."
The band's latest album, Blood Moon, was released in December 2019. The album debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Album Chart, the band's fifth to reach the top. Half of the songs had lyrics written by Barnes and music by Walker, a new combination for Cold Chisel, with Barnes noting his increased confidence after writing two autobiographies.

2024: 50th anniversary tour

On 29 May 2024, Cold Chisel announced The Big Five-O Live tour, celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. The tour began in Armidale on 5 October 2024 and ending in New Zealand in January 2025. It was released on various formats on 8 August 2025.

Musical style and lyrical themes

McFarlane described Cold Chisel's early career in his Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999): "after ten years on the road, [they] called it a day. Not that the band split up for want of success; by that stage [they] had built up a reputation previously uncharted in Australian rock history. By virtue of the profound effect the band's music had on the many thousands of fans who witnessed its awesome power, Cold Chisel remains one of Australia's best-loved groups. As one of the best live bands of its day, [they] fused a combination of rockabilly, hard rock and rough-house soul'n'blues that was defiantly Australian in outlook." The Canberra Times' Luis Feliu, in July 1978, observed, "This is not just another Australian rock band, no mediocrity here, and their honest, hard-working approach looks like paying off." He further wrote, "the range of styles tackled and done convincingly, from hard rock to blues, boogie, rhythm and blues, is where the appeal lies."
Influences from blues and early rock n' roll was broadly apparent, fostered by the love of those styles by Moss, Barnes and Walker. Small and Prestwich contributed strong pop sensibilities. This allowed volatile rock songs like "You Got Nothing I Want" and "Merry-Go-Round" to stand beside thoughtful ballads like "Choirgirl", pop-flavoured love songs like "My Baby" and caustic political statements like "Star Hotel", an attack on the late-1970s government of Malcolm Fraser, inspired by the Star Hotel riot in Newcastle.
The songs were not overtly political but rather observations of everyday life within Australian society and culture, in which the members with their various backgrounds (Moss was from Alice Springs, Walker grew up in rural New South Wales, Barnes and Prestwich were working-class immigrants from the UK) were quite well able to provide.
Cold Chisel's songs were about distinctly Australian experiences, a factor often cited as a major reason for the band's lack of international appeal. "Saturday Night" and "Breakfast at Sweethearts" were observations of the urban experience of Sydney's Kings Cross district where Walker lived for many years. "Misfits", which featured on the B-side to "My Baby", was about homeless kids in the suburbs surrounding Sydney. Songs like "Shipping Steel" and "Standing on The Outside" were working-class anthems and many others featured characters trapped in mundane, everyday existences, yearning for the good times of the past ("Flame Trees") or for something better from life ("Bow River").

Recognition

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993 they were inducted into the Hall of Fame. While repackages and compilations accounted for much of these sales, 1994's Teenage Love provided two of its singles, which were top-ten hits. When the group finally re-formed in 1998 the resultant album was also a major hit and the follow-up tour sold out almost immediately. In 2001 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) listed their single "Khe Sanh" (May 1978) at No. 8 of the all-time best Australian songs.
Cold Chisel were one of the first Australian acts to have become the subject of a major tribute album. In 2007, Standing on the Outside: The Songs of Cold Chisel was released, featuring a collection of the band's songs as performed by artists including The Living End, Evermore, Something for Kate, Pete Murray, Katie Noonan, You Am I, Paul Kelly, Alex Lloyd, Thirsty Merc and Ben Lee, many of whom were children when Cold Chisel first disbanded and some, like the members of Evermore, had not even been born. Circus Animals was listed at No. 4 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums (October 2010), while East appeared at No. 53. They won The Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards of 2016.
In March 2021, a previously unnamed lane off Burnett Street (off Currie Street) in the Adelaide central business district, near where the band had its first residency in the 1970s, was officially named Cold Chisel Lane. On one of its walls, there is a 50-metre (160 ft) mural by Adelaide artist James Dodd, inspired by the band.

Discography

Cold Chisel (1978)
Breakfast at Sweethearts (1979)
East (1980)
Circus Animals (1982)
Twentieth Century (1984)
The Last Wave of Summer (1998)
No Plans (2012)
The Perfect Crime (2015)
Blood Moon (2019)

APRA Awards

The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". They commenced in 1982.

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. Cold Chisel was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993.

Helpmann Awards

The Helpmann Awards is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia since 2001.

South Australian Music Awards

The South Australian Music Awards are annual awards that exist to recognise, promote and celebrate excellence in the South Australian contemporary music industry. They commenced in 2012. The South Australian Music Hall of Fame celebrates the careers of successful music industry personalities.

TV Week / Countdown Awards

Countdown was an Australian pop music TV series on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974 to 1987, it presented music awards from 1979 to 1987, initially in conjunction with magazine TV Week. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards.




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