Cold Chisel and Newcastle are very much blood brothers, born of a certain time with a mutual life experience. In the 1970s when Cold Chisel was born as a band, Newcastle was a working-class town through and through. Login or signup to continue reading The band and the city had a lot in common.
Fifty years later, the music is still a bridge linking the band and the city. Everyone has grown up, but the intrinsic values hold fast. After the first venues and dates were announced for Chisel's latest tour, The Big 5-0, which included one date, November 6, in Newcastle at the Entertainment Centre, there was probably a big sigh that shuddered through the suburbs.
Surely that's not going to be adequate for Chisel's huge Newcastle following to pay their good money and enjoy the full band, especially when it could really be their last tour? Lo and behold, this week the band confirmed six more dates, including an outdoor show at Roche Estate in the Hunter Valley (tickets on sale next week for the November 30 gig). Of course they added another Newcastle show. They even said it out loud: "We've tried to get to the places where the outcry was loudest," Chisel guitarist Ian Moss was quoted as saying.
It was inevitable there would be another Newcastle area show. Cold Chisel and Newcastle are related; they've been on a journey together from almost the beginning. Here's Chisel's Don Walker on ABC Radio last year: "When we left [Adelaide], the first place we could actually draw a crowd and they .
