Cold Chisel review: superhuman vocals from Jimmy Barnes anchor immortal songs in triumphant tour opener
Group fires up chilly night before 10,000-strong crowd with blistering 24-song set that exemplifies their decades as a fixture on Australia’s rock’n’roll landscape
Petersons Winery, Armidale
On the screens flanking the stage at Petersons Winery in Armidale, you can clearly see the scar at the top of Jimmy Barnes’ big barrel chest. It’s a visible legacy of the singer’s second round of open-heart surgery in December last year, after a serious bout of bacterial pneumonia nearly killed him.
Two months ago, he had a hip replacement that also left him fighting off an infection, which kept him tethered to a drip for weeks. You wouldn’t know it. Watching him tear through Cold Chisel’s 24-song set on the first official stop of their Big Five-0 tour, Barnes looks indestructible. At this rate, he’ll outlive all of us and Keith Richards combined.
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