Cold Chisel To Release 50th Anniversary Tour Live Album, Vinyl, DVD
If you missed out on Chisel’s epic 50th anniversary tour, here’s your chance to be part of the action.
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Last year saw Cold Chisel embark on their mammoth 50th anniversary The Big Five-0 Tour across Australia and New Zealand.
Selling over 250,000 tickets across 23 shows, the pride of South Australia proved why they are one of the country’s most enduring acts. Each performance was an experience, with Chisel playing all the hits alongside deep cuts and crowd favourites, including ‘Flame Trees’, ‘Khe Sanh’, ‘Bow River’, ‘You Got Nothing I Want’, ‘My Baby’, ‘Choirgirl’, ‘When The War Is Over’, ‘Standing on the Outside’ and many more.
To celebrate the tour, Chisel are releasing a live album, available on vinyl and CD, along with a live DVD, of their epic gig at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl that took place on Saturday, 23 November.
“Every show on our Big Five-0 Tour had something special, but the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, with 37° temperatures and an incredible audience, really brought out a blistering and joyous performance from all of us onstage,” says frontman Jimmy Barnes. “The crowd nearly drowned us out, they sang so loud and proud. It was a show we will never forget.”
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The live performance includes 24 songs captured on Saturday 23 November 2024, along with three additional tracks (‘Plaza’, ‘Mr Crown Prosecutor’ and ‘Wild Colonial Boy’) recorded the night before on Friday, 22 November, that were not played at the Saturday show.
The album was produced and mixed by the band's longtime collaborator, Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley, and comes in three vinyl colourways – classic black vinyl, red vinyl with black splatters (JB HiFi exclusive) and direct-to-consumer picture disc (available via the band’s merchandisers, Love Police).
The CD version is a double-disc edition with a six-page booklet, while the DVD release was directed by Andrew Lord and fully captures the emotion and power of the Melbourne concert. Along with the concert film, the two-disc DVD edition includes ten extra songs and more than 60 minutes of interviews and never-before-seen photographs, footage and stories from Chisel’s 50-year archive.
“50 years old, Cold Chisel are on fire in this film – I’ve never seen audiences punching the air one moment and openly sobbing the next,” says producer Paul Clarke. “I feel like we caught Cold Chisel on a brilliant night in Melbourne. According to the band, they have never played better.”
Cold Chisel The Big Five-0 Tour live arrives Friday 8 August. Pre-order here.
