Welcome to 2026 Cold Chisel fans… we hope the summer is treating you well.
People have been asking for this for a while:
Three classic albums – Teenage Love, The Last Wave of Summer and No Plans – are set to become available for the first time ever as stand-alone vinyl releases. All three albums were released at the height of the CD and were only ever issued on vinyl in 2014 as part of the Cold Chisel Vinyl Box Set (which has long-since sold out). So it’s good news that we are now reissuing all three of them individually.
All three are available for pre-order now and will be released everywhere on Friday February 27.
A little about them:
TEENAGE LOVE – COLD CHISEL
In their first ten years (1973 – 1983), Cold Chisel were moving with such speed and intensity that it was inevitable that some great songs and performances were left by the wayside. In early 1994, eleven years after their Last Stand shows, their manager and the band’s main songwriter, Don Walker discovered a trawl of old tapes and started listening. What they found surprised/shocked them. Many of these songs were demos or offcuts, but they had an electric charge or a raw honesty that was undeniable. Ultimately 16 tracks were compiled onto Teenage Love and for many in the band and the audience it became one of their favourite releases.
“Hands Out Of My Pocket,” a demo from 1980’s East captures the wild energy of one of Jimmy Barnes’ first songs, a sound typical of Cold Chisel’s live shows from the era. ‘Drinkin In Port Lincoln’ similarly defines the feral spirit of the band’s earliest Adelaide days. And there’s an early version of Barnes’ ‘A Little Bit Of Daylight’ which was left off Twentieth Century and later reworked by the singer for his solo debut. ‘Nothing But You’ is a cool, mid-tempo song from drummer Steve Prestwich, warmly rendered by Ian Moss. And two of the standouts are the haunting, Walker-penned ballads ‘It Ain’t Wrong’ and live mainstay ‘The Party’s Over’.
WATCH VIDEO – ‘HAND OUT OF MY POCKET’
Teenage Love
- Hands Out Of My Pocket
- Nothing But You
- When the Sun Goes Down
- Suicide Sal
- It Ain’t Wrong
- Teenage Love Affair
- Monica
- Mona and the Preacher
- Drinkin’ in Port Lincoln
- Payday in a Pub
- Metho Blues
- Yesterdays
- Notion for You
- F-111
- A Little Bit of Daylight
- The Party’s Over
THE LAST WAVE OF SUMMER – COLD CHISEL
In the years after the band’s 1983 Last Stand break-up tour and their 1984 album Twentieth Century, radio playlists and record buyers kept Cold Chisel as present tense – the band’s legacy only growing larger. After a lot of dust had settled and relationships were repaired, the band quietly agreed to work together again in 1995. In 1998, after traversing many speed bumps, the band’s 6th album, the gloriously sprawling Last Wave of Summer, debuted #1 with 100,000 presales.
Led by Don Walker’s adrenaline-charged rockabilly gem Yakuza Girls and followed quickly by his more polished The Things I Love In You, it confirmed that the band was still sharp on its tools and had lost none of its trademark fire. From a reported 70 songs that were workshopped, 14 songs were released on the original album and then, after a period, an expanded edition featuring 20 songs was issued. What it revealed was just how much the band had grown as songwriters – with all members contributing essential songs. Not surprising, Don Walker contributes the lion’s share, with his additional standouts being Mr Crown Prosecutor, This Time Round and the sweeping epic title track, while Prestwich delivers two of the album’s strongest songs, the single Water Into Wine and the hook-laden Way Down. The band undertook a huge national tour, but didn’t record again until 2012’s No Plans. Lead singer, Jimmy Barnes cites The Last Wave Of Summer as his favourite Cold Chisel album – and we’re not about to argue.
WATCH VIDEO – ‘THE THINGS I LOVE IN YOU’
The Last Wave Of Summer
- Mr. Crown Prosecutor
- The Things I Love In You
- Baby’s On Fire
- This Time Round
- Bal-A-Versailles
- Yakuza Girls
- Once Around The Sun
- Somewhere In The Silence
- By My Side
- Water Into Wine
- Never Stop Loving You
- Red Sand
- Angel In My Room
- Pretty Little Thing
- Someone Caught My Eye
- He Can’t Believe It’s Over with You
- Way Down
- This Old Car
- So Hard
- The Last Wave Of Summer
NO PLANS – COLD CHISEL
When Cold Chisel secretly started recording new material in 2010, it marked the start of a new set of plans, plans which “had the floor drop out from underneath them,” as keyboard player Don Walker put it, when drummer Steve Prestwich passed away in January 2011. “A few months after Steve died we picked things up again and thought, ‘What do we do here?’ We thought we had to get something positive out of losing Steve, and the most positive thing we can do is spend more time together and enjoy playing music,” singer Jimmy Barnes says. “So we finished the record.” Released in 2012, Prestwich’s shadow looms large over No Plans. Not only on the three songs he plays on, but also on the songs that emerged following his passing. Walker compares the past to the present numerous times throughout the album without leaning on easy nostalgia: On the brilliant first single. ‘All For You’, old anger gives way to a newfound calm and restraint. It’s possibly Walker’s finest love song; ‘Our Old Flame’ sees a protagonist confronted with a past lover who makes him consider and compare the boy he was with the man he became; on ‘This Day’ the character is calling someone from “a situation long forgotten, better left alone.” But not all is reflective and considered: The album’s title track and opening song, is a venomous blast from Barnes on an unhinged Don Walker track – a fantastic call to action.
And if the album closer, the Prestwich-penned ‘I Got Things To Do’ comes as a surprise to the listener, then imagine the shock the band felt upon discovering a vocal track they weren’t previously aware of. “The album was being mixed by Kevin Shirley in Los Angeles and at the end of play each day he was sending us over his mixes for our assessment, which is normally a reasonably dry process,” Walker explains. “In the middle of it all, in the middle of the night, in comes a Steve vocal that we didn’t know existed.” Jimmy had recorded a great vocal for this song, but then, seemingly from the grave, comes this haunting original vocal from Steve.
Prestwich’s final song tragically hints at unfinished business in its title, but the song itself offers more than that: it speaks of life getting in the way of love, of prioritising the wrong things. In the wake of his passing, his lyrics serve as a poignant reminder that life is short.
WATCH VIDEO – ‘ALL FOR YOU’
NO PLANS
1. No Plans
2. Everybody
3. All For You
4. HQ454 Monroe
5. Dead And Laid To Rest
6. Missing A Girl
7. Too Late
8. I Gotta Get Back On The Road
9. Our Old Flame
10. This Day
11. Summer Moon
12. The Horizon
13. I Got Things To Do (Jimmy Vocal)
14. I Got Things To Do (Steve Vocal)
These albums are available to pre-order now, from:
And they available at all good independent stores on Friday February 27
