First saw Chisel at The Dunedin Town Hall here in New Zealand on Saturday 24th September 1983. I was 8 weeks shy of my 20th birthday. That gig in Dunedin went off. Barnes climbed a speaker tower and someone in the audience on the floor threw something at him - could've been a bottle who knows, but Barnes had a bottle in one hand and instantly reacted by throwing it at whoever he believed threw one at him. Priceless. The energy at that gig was awesome. And it was only after I read Barnes autobiography I learned Chisel were about to break up. They played as professional as ever. Then I saw Jimmy Barnes play at the same venue on Friday 11th July 1986. It was a bigger sound than the Chisel gig back in '83 and tbh I enjoyed it more. And then in 2015 I saw Chisel play at Broadwater Parklands in Surfers Paradise as part of the Gold Coast 500 V8 Supercars event that my wife and I attended, we flew over from NZ. Chisel were on fire that evening. 28 songs. I thought they were even better than when I first heard them in '83. Finally in 2023 my wife and I were flying out of the Airlie Beach airport heading to Brisbane. On the bus to the airport I got chatting with the bus driver and he informed me Ian Moss was flying in to the Airlie Beach airport that day. He was due to play a gig at Airlie Beach on the 11th November. So I waited at the area where arrival passengers entered the Airlie Beach airport until I spotted Ian Moss coming and I approached and asked for his permission if I could take his photograph. He stopped and asked me if I wanted my photo taken with him. I couldn't believe my good fortune. So I got my photograph of Ian Moss with me included. Plus he took the time to talk with me for a short moment. I was rather nervous however found him very approachable and a superb gentleman. This video is awesome. I have read both Jimmy Barnes autobiographies 'Working Class Boy' and its sequel 'Working Class Man' excellent very readable and so brutally honest. I got see Jimmy Barnes Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories and Songs play at the Invercargill Civic Theatre on Monday 6th February 2016. It was awesome. I take my hat off to Cold Chisel. Maybe I will get to see them at Gibbston Valley near Queenstown in 2025 along with Icehouse who I fell in love with as well in the 1980s and also got see play live at The Dunedin Town Hall on Wednesday 15th August 1984. Love Australian rock music thank you! If you'd like to read a small part of my story please head to my Flickr [photo album] page and a newspaper article I featured in, in 1986: www.flickr.com/photos/35707376@N00/51986446472/in/album-72157649716035656/
I was there too! I was 16, and it was the first live music I had ever seen in my life. Midnight Oil opened for them. Every concert I've been to since then hasn't been as good.
Winds up in Adelaide where it all began. Yep, that's right and we only get a single gig when NSW locations including Sydney and neighbouring ACT get at least 6. Perhaps the boys wild life style in the earlier stages has impacted on their memories and the support and encouragement from the SA community in their formative years which was the springboard to their huge success later, is something they have forgotten or simply just disregard. Its been said that Jimmy has no time for the city his family cane to from Scotland and as Chisel seems to be all about him, perhaps that is the answer.
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First saw Chisel at The Dunedin Town Hall here in New Zealand on Saturday 24th September 1983. I was 8 weeks shy of my 20th birthday. That gig in Dunedin went off. Barnes climbed a speaker tower and someone in the audience on the floor threw something at him - could've been a bottle who knows, but Barnes had a bottle in one hand and instantly reacted by throwing it at whoever he believed threw one at him. Priceless. The energy at that gig was awesome. And it was only after I read Barnes autobiography I learned Chisel were about to break up. They played as professional as ever. Then I saw Jimmy Barnes play at the same venue on Friday 11th July 1986. It was a bigger sound than the Chisel gig back in '83 and tbh I enjoyed it more. And then in 2015 I saw Chisel play at Broadwater Parklands in Surfers Paradise as part of the Gold Coast 500 V8 Supercars event that my wife and I attended, we flew over from NZ. Chisel were on fire that evening. 28 songs. I thought they were even better than when I first heard them in '83. Finally in 2023 my wife and I were flying out of the Airlie Beach airport heading to Brisbane. On the bus to the airport I got chatting with the bus driver and he informed me Ian Moss was flying in to the Airlie Beach airport that day. He was due to play a gig at Airlie Beach on the 11th November. So I waited at the area where arrival passengers entered the Airlie Beach airport until I spotted Ian Moss coming and I approached and asked for his permission if I could take his photograph. He stopped and asked me if I wanted my photo taken with him. I couldn't believe my good fortune. So I got my photograph of Ian Moss with me included. Plus he took the time to talk with me for a short moment. I was rather nervous however found him very approachable and a superb gentleman. This video is awesome. I have read both Jimmy Barnes autobiographies 'Working Class Boy' and its sequel 'Working Class Man' excellent very readable and so brutally honest. I got see Jimmy Barnes Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories and Songs play at the Invercargill Civic Theatre on Monday 6th February 2016. It was awesome. I take my hat off to Cold Chisel. Maybe I will get to see them at Gibbston Valley near Queenstown in 2025 along with Icehouse who I fell in love with as well in the 1980s and also got see play live at The Dunedin Town Hall on Wednesday 15th August 1984. Love Australian rock music thank you! If you'd like to read a small part of my story please head to my Flickr [photo album] page and a newspaper article I featured in, in 1986: www.flickr.com/photos/35707376@N00/51986446472/in/album-72157649716035656/
I was there too! I was 16, and it was the first live music I had ever seen in my life. Midnight Oil opened for them. Every concert I've been to since then hasn't been as good.
Winds up in Adelaide where it all began. Yep, that's right and we only get a single gig when NSW locations including Sydney and neighbouring ACT get at least 6.
Perhaps the boys wild life style in the earlier stages has impacted on their memories and the support and encouragement from the SA community in their formative years which was the springboard to their huge success later, is something they have forgotten or simply just disregard.
Its been said that Jimmy has no time for the city his family cane to from Scotland and as Chisel seems to be all about him, perhaps that is the answer.
SONY: $US 500 million for the COLD CHISEL catalogue or F... off