Cold Chisel’s 50th anniversary tour is turning into a blockbuster.
Demand has been so great for tickets, the legendary Aussie rockers have added six more shows to their already extensive national jaunt.
The tour will commence in October with the hitmakers playing through November.
Dubbed ‘The Big Five-0’ tour, frontman Jimmy Barnes and bandmates Ian Moss, Phil Small and Don Walker initially announced 11 gigs.
But the tour has now ballooned to a whopping 17 shows, with new gigs in NSW, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
Legendary Australian rockers Cold Chisel have added SIX more shows to their 50th anniversary tour
The tour will kick off at the Petersons Winery in Armidale on October 5 and finish up in Adelaide, where the Chisels were founded in 1973, on November 17.
The first of the new concert dates will take place in Sydney at the Entertainment Quarter on October 12.
The band has also added a show at Sydney’s massive Qudos Arena on November 16.
The tour has now ballooned to a whopping 17 shows, with new gigs in NSW, Western Australia , Victoria, and Queensland
It comes after the band offered a staggering reward to anyone who can produce lost footage from their wild Australian tour in the early ’80s.
The veteran rockers appeared on The Project on Wednesday to discuss their upcoming national tour and put out an appeal to fans to recover the footage.
‘We had a motorbike act which had a girl on a trapeze swinging underneath a highwire. I thought I could do that,’ singer Barnes began.
The band have also offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who can produce lost footage from their wild Australian tour in the early ’80s
‘I might have been singing Wild Thing while hanging on a trapeze under a highwire strapped to a motorbike swinging over the audience drinking a bottle of vodka.’
Pianist Walker added it was from their Sydney Circus Animals tour in the early ’80s, and Barnes jumped in and said the whole band was desperate to recover event footage.
‘You know who you are. You’ve got our film, bring it back! We can’t remember the show, do it and I’ll let you live,’ Barnes joked.
Jimmy Barnes said he performed some wild stunts on the Circus Animals tour and was desperate to see footage of it – and co-host Waleed Aly later said the band would pay $10,000 to the first person to produce a clip from the concert
However, later on co-host Waleed Aly said the band was now offering a jaw-dropping sum as a reward to anyone who could present them with event footage.
‘If you have the lost footage, the band are offering the first person to come forward a $10,000 reward! Fake the video, do something,’ Aly said.
The iconic band reunited to celebrate their 50th anniversary by announcing an Australia-wide tour.
‘The Big Five-0 will be a night like no other. This time, the band isn’t touring to promote a new album; they are touring for the best possible reason… because we all love playing gigs together,’ the band said on their Facebook page.
‘Their anniversary provides scope for a show that features all the classic songs with which Cold Chisel carved their unique place in Oz Rock history – Khe Sanh, Bow River, Flame Trees, You Got Nothing I Want, When The War Is Over, My Baby, Cheap Wine, Choirgirl, Last Wave Of Summer, Breakfast At Sweethearts, Forever Now and so many more.’
Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide in 1973, with Moss on guitar and vocals, Prestwich on drums and Walker on piano and keyboard.
Barnes joined the band at the end of that year, on lead vocals – he was just 17 at the time.
