Jimmy Barnes bellowed as often as he sang, but he and his bandmates moved the crowd at the first of two sold-out Sydney shows.
It was easy to take for granted, amid all the hype that helped fill this circus tent plonked in the Entertainment Quarter to the brim, that Cold Chisel’s 50th-anniversary tour is a remarkable moment.
No other major Australian band has endured that long with the majority of its classic line-up intact, and probably never will again. Chisel themselves could have been stopped at 49 when Jimmy Barnes had open-heart surgery last December, but then their singer is also easily taken for granted. If you’d closed your eyes when he ripped into openerJust as remarkable as Chisel’s 50 years was that the average age of the punters here was probably about the same.
Ian Moss remained an endlessly inventive guitarist, sustaining interest despite having a solo on virtually everything, from the coruscating rock ofThe engine room of Phil Small on bass, Charley Drayton on drums and the zen-like Don Walker on keyboards was as tight as ever, and it was a joy to see Walker add an exuberant solo to his immortalThe elder Barnes, meanwhile, had lost none of his ferocity or emotional commitment, even if he was bellowing more than singing at times.
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