COLD CHISEL Announce their return to the Murray River for A Day on the Green !!!

Regional fans of Cold Chisel can rejoice as Roundhouse Entertainment,

In news that will create massive excitement in Albury Wodonga and surrounding Murray river regions, a day on the green will present Cold Chisel at All Saints Estate, Rutherglen on Tuesday January 7th, 2020!

For those that have attended previous ADOTG events at the wonderful All Saints Estate you’ll all know what a wonderful venue it is and how it makes for a splended concert location!

Cold Chisel will deliver their famed songbook to spellbound audiences, playing across a mammoth run at some of Australia’s finest outdoor venues. Which in itself are a rare thing with the fact standing that since their legendary Last Stand tour way back in 1983, Cold Chisel has re-formed for just four national tours.

Now, for the first time ever, this iconic Australian band will be playing 14 very special outdoor shows in Australia and New Zealand during summer, including an unforgettable a day on the green at All Saints Estate, Rutherglen on Tuesday January 7, 2020.

There’s nothing more Australian than hot sun, warm waves and Cold Chisel. The band’s classic songs like Khe Sanh, Flame Trees, Bow River, My Baby, Cheap Wine, Saturday Night and You Got Nothing I Want have become the soundtrack to our summers.

And with one of only three Summer outdoor Victorian shows, tickets to this event will be in huge demand when they go on sale on Monday October 21 at 11.00am from Ticketmaster, with pre-sale tickets going on sale on Wednesday October 16 at 2.00pm.

It’s called the Blood Moon Tour 2020 – named after a rare lunar eclipse where the sun, earth and moon all briefly align before returning to their own orbits.

“You might get to see a blood moon once in your life,” explains the band’s main songwriter and piano player, Don Walker. “Apparently there’s going to be one just before dawn when we’re in Melbourne on this tour, but we didn’t actually know that when we chose the name. Maybe it’s a sign.”

Fittingly, the tour will boast a series of line-ups that are as rare and memorable as a Blood Moon.

Joining Cold Chisel at All Saints Estate, Rutherlgen, will be Birds of Tokyo and Magic Dirt.

“We’ve only done four tours since the early ’80s so we need to make each of them count,” explains the band’s frontman, Jimmy Barnes. “We knew that if we were going to get the band back together for another full tour it would have to be something really special. We wanted great line-ups and unusual places so that people would remember these gigs for a long, long time.”

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Birds of Tokyo & Magic Dirt

Since forming in Adelaide in 1973 and blasting onto the national scene in the late ’70s, Cold Chisel has created a uniquely Australian fusion of rockabilly, roughhouse soul, and blues. Between 1978 and 1983 the original line-up of Don Walker, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss (guitar/vocals), Phil Small (bass) and Steve Prestwich (drums) recorded five studio albums that became Australian classics. 1978’s self-titled debut and 1979’s Breakfast At Sweethearts initially received little support from mainstream media but eventually went gold based on nonstop touring. 1980’s East was their huge commercial breakthrough and 1982’s Circus Animals saw them top the charts. However, by the time Twentieth Century was released in 1984 the band had already flamed out, making their unforgettable Last Stand in arenas around the country. In 1998 Cold Chisel reformed briefly for a chart-topping album and tour called The Last Wave Of Summer. An ‘unplugged’ style run of dates called Ringside followed five years later, then in 2011 the group was working on a new studio album that became No Plans when Steve Prestwich sadly died from complications during surgery for a brain tumour. Eventually Charley Drayton agreed to step in to help complete what Steve began and he’s played drums with the band ever since, including on the record-breaking Light The Nitro Tour and 2015’s platinum certified The Perfect Crime.

The band is currently putting the finishing touches to some more new music they recorded earlier this year with Charley and they plan to release at least some of it before the Blood Moon Tour. Further announcements will be made about that in the weeks or months ahead.

Over the course of their career Cold Chisel has sold almost 7 million albums across vinyl, cassette, CD, downloads and streaming. They’ve been inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame and received the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music. However, their greatest achievements are their songs. It’s a body of work that has defined and echoed who we are. For more than 40 years Cold Chisel has defied the odds, ignored the trends, and blazed their own trail. The band has endeared themselves to all sorts of Australians because their uncompromising attitude articulates our hopes, fears, alienation and humour, and because they are simply one of the most ferocious live rock ‘n’ roll outfits on earth.