Cold Chisel’s 50th anniversary tour is becoming a box office hit.
Demand for tickets has been so great that the legendary Australian rockers have added six more shows to their already extensive national tour.
The tour will begin in October and the hitmakers will play until November.
Dubbed ‘The Big Five-0’ tour, frontman Jimmy Barnes and his bandmates Ian Moss, Phil Small and Don Walker initially announced 11 shows.
But the tour has now ballooned to a whopping 17 shows, with new gigs in New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
Legendary Australian rockers Cold Chisel have added SIX more shows to their 50th anniversary tour
The tour will kick off at Petersons Winery in Armidale on October 5 and finish in Adelaide, where the Chisels were founded in 1973, on November 17.
The first of the new concert dates will take place in Sydney at the Entertainment Quarter on October 12.
The band also added a show at Sydney’s massive Qudos Arena on November 16.
The tour has now ballooned to a whopping 17 shows, with new gigs in New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
It comes after the band offered a staggering reward to anyone who could produce lost footage from their wild tour of Australia in the early 1980s.
The veteran rockers appeared on The Project on Wednesday to talk about their upcoming national tour and call on fans to bring back the footage.
‘We had a motorcycle act where there was a girl on a trapeze swinging under a tightrope. I thought I could do that,” singer Barnes began.
The band has also offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who can produce lost footage from their wild tour of Australia in the early 1980s.
“I could have been singing Wild Thing while hanging from a trapeze under a tightrope tied to a motorcycle swinging over the audience drinking a bottle of vodka.”
Pianist Walker added that it was from their Sydney Circus Animals tour in the early ’80s, and Barnes chimed in and said the whole band was desperate to recover footage from the event.
‘You know who you are. You’ve got our movie, bring it back! We can’t remember the show, do it and I’ll let you live,’ Barnes joked.
Jimmy Barnes said he performed some wild stunts on the Circus Animals tour and was desperate to see footage of it, and co-host Waleed Aly later said the band would pay $10,000 to the first person to produce a clip of the concert.
However, co-host Waleed Aly later said that the band was now offering a staggering sum as a reward to anyone who could present them with footage from the event.
‘If you have the missing footage, the gang is offering the first person to come forward a $10,000 reward! Fake the video, do something,’ Aly said.
The iconic band reunited to celebrate their 50th anniversary by announcing an Australia-wide tour.
‘The Big Five-0 will be a night like no other. This time, the band is not touring to promote a new album; “They are on tour for the best possible reason… because we all love playing together,” the band said on their Facebook page.
‘Their anniversary offers possibilities for a show that features all the classic songs with which Cold Chisel carved out their unique place in Oz Rock history: Khe Sanh, Bow River, Flame Trees, You Got Nothing I Want, When The War Is Over, My Baby. , Cheap Wine, Choirgirl, Last Wave Of Summer, Breakfast At Sweethearts, Forever Now and many more.
Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide in 1973, with Moss on guitar and vocals, Prestwich on drums and Walker on piano and keyboard.
Barnes joined the band later that year, on lead vocals; he was only 17 years old at the time.