LISTEN IN To celebrate the release of the Last Stand Box Set, tonight at 7pm AEDT we are holding a Cold Chisel ‘Listening Party’… we’ll all be listening to a selection of songs from the Last Stand… And everyone’s invited! The Listening session will run for an hour and be playing songs from all of the Last Stand related titles as featured in the Last Stand 40th Anniversary Box Set.  Ian Moss will be joining the listening party, so get your (computer) keyboard…

“I remember it like it was yesterday. I didn’t know if we would ever play together again. It was frightening,” says Cold Chisel frontman, Jimmy Barnes, referring to the final Last Stand shows. “We walked out on stage and played like there was no tomorrow.” After a blitzkrieg run through Australia and New Zealand, Cold Chisel‘s Last Stand tour all came down to four huge shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in December 1983.  These shows were recorded and filmed to…

Cold Chisel Last Stand – 40th Anniversary Box Set Released: 17 November on Universal Music Australia CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER Cold Chisel‘s Last Stand is part of Australian music folklore.It was late 1983 and the swansong for the biggest band in the country.At the time, the tickets sold faster and in bigger numbers than any tour by an Australian artist, ever.The first show of the tour was at the Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland on September 20, 1983 – exactly 40 years ago today.After a…

Just on 10 years ago, Cold Chisel released announced the first release on their own, new label:  “The Live Tapes Vol. 1: Hordern Pavilion. April 18, 2012”. The special concert set featured 21 live recordings and was released as a Deluxe 2CD/1 DVD pack; a double CD; a Blu-Ray and Standard DVD; and via digital download and on streaming services.  The only thing they didn’t do was release it on vinyl! Due to the constant requests from fans, the band has remedied that – mastering…

“From the hard, parched saltpan of the album’s front cover to the bloodcurdling crescendo at the end of the last track (‘Letter To Alan’), Circus Animals screams of its birthplace. Even without the place names, ‘Bow River’, ‘Houndog’ ‘Taipan’ and ‘Numbers Fall’ all tell of the Australian experience – from the hot, barren coastal highways to the sloping indifference of Kings Cross, these are the Australian blues.” Coming on the back of the band’s breakthrough album East, which established Cold Chisel as the biggest…