Jimmy Barnes Announces New Shows For 'Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Tour' in Melbourne, Bowral and Sandstone Point
The Working Class Man is turning 40 – and you're all invited to the party!
To celebrate his landmark album For The Working Class Man, JIMMY BARNES is hitting the road for the Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Tour, proudly presented by MG Live and Face To Face Touring.
And due to overwhelming demand, the year's biggest party just got bigger, with the addition of three more shows – Saturday 21 March at Sandstone Point Hotel, Sandstone Point, QLD; Saturday 28 March at Centennial Vineyards, Bowral NSW; and Friday 10 April at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.
Telstra Members have exclusive access to the Telstra Plus Member presale, commencing Monday 17 November at 10.00am local time for 48 hours (or until presale allocation exhausted) via telstra.com/tickets
MG Live and Face To Face member presales, as well as a Jimmy Barnes fan club presale, start Wednesday 19 November at 11.00am local time for 48 hours, before general on sale commences Friday 21 November at 12.00pm local time. All ticket and tour information via mg.live and facetofacetouring.com.au
The new shows are in addition to the already announced shows: Saturday 22 November at Mount Duneed Estate, Geelong VIC; Sirromet, Mount Cotton QLD on Saturday 29 November; Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley NSW on Saturday 6 December; On The Steps at Opera House Forecourt, Sydney on Wednesday 10 December; The Regatta Grounds, Hobart TAS on Saturday 17 January; Peter Lehmann Wines, Barossa Valley, SA on Saturday 31 January; and Sandalford Wines, Swan Valley WA on Saturday 7 February.
And JIMMY BARNES has today announced that opening each show (aside from the Sydney Opera House and Rod Laver Arena) will be a very special guest – JOHN ROONEY.
John and Jimmy have a very special connection. On the night that Jimmy married Jane, Cold Chisel were doing a gig at the Comb and Cutter Hotel in Blacktown. The support act was a band called The Lonelyhearts – fronted by JOHN ROONEY. While Jimmy's career remained on stage, John's did a detour and he went on to become one of Australia's best orthopaedic surgeons.
"This man got me up dancing again when he operated on my hips, not once, not twice but three times," Jimmy reveals. "John Rooney will get you up dancing too."
As well as being Jimmy's "singing super surgeon", JOHN ROONEY has a new solo album called Hoodwink, produced by Kevin Shirley and featuring a stellar array of musicians, including Waddy Wachtel (Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks) on guitar, Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt) on bass, Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) on keyboards, and Jim Keltner (John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Traveling Wilburys) on drums.
And Jimmy appears on the opening track, Trouble Always Finds Me.
Also joining JIMMY BARNES for these epic shows are three of the biggest stars of the Working Class Man era who are also still at the top of their game – ICEHOUSE, IAN MOSS and KATE CEBERANO.
Released in December 1985, For The Working Class Man went straight to number one and helped define Jimmy's hugely successful solo career. As the authors of The 100 Best Australian Albums declared, "It defined both him and much of Australia."
The album spent seven weeks at number one, becoming Jimmy's longest-running chart-topper. And it has sold more than 500,000 copies in Australia.
Barnesy, as he's affectionately known, will be playing the iconic album from start to finish, taking the crowd from I'd Die To Be With You Tonight to Paradise, plus classic cuts from his chart-topping catalogue.
"For The Working Class Man was such a significant album in my life. I got to make the record with some amazing people, and it really set up the rest of my solo career.
I'm so excited to be celebrating For The Working Class Man with some of my dearest friends and favourite artists.
And I can think of no better way to mark this milestone than by performing these songs in some of the most beautiful and iconic venues across Australia."
Jimmy Barnes
For The Working Class Man is packed with classics, including Jimmy's first Top 10 solo single I'd Die To Be With You Tonight, the Top 40 smash Ride The Night Away, and the beautiful ballad that he wrote for his wife Jane, Without Your Love.
And, of course, the album features his signature song, the unofficial national anthem, Working Class Man.
For The Working Class Man also includes seven reworked songs from his chart-topping solo debut Bodyswerve, including No Second Prize, Daylight and Promise Me You'll Call.
The special 40th Anniversary Edition collection is released today via Mushroom Music, on CD, cassette and 2LP vinyl – the first time the album has been on two records since it hit the shelves in 1985. To celebrate the anniversary, Working Class Man (Ballad Version) is also available digitally today.
And that's not all. The acclaimed documentary Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Man is premiering on the Seven Network on Monday night (17 Nov). Directed by Andrew Farrell, this is the big-screen version of Barnesy's best-selling autobiography Working Class Man, the sequel to Working Class Boy.
Led by the evergreen Iva Davies, ICEHOUSE is responsible for one of the biggest Australian albums of all time – 1987's classic Man of Colours. Two singles from the album were smash hits in the US: Electric Blue (#7) and Crazy (#14). Iva also wrote the enduring classic Great Southern Land. As author Andrew P Street said, "Great Southern Land remains one of the greatest evocations of the sheer ancient emptiness of Australia." ICEHOUSE were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006.
Barnesy's Cold Chisel comrade IAN MOSS hit number one with his first solo album, Matchbook, featuring the classic Tucker's Daughter. After eight studio albums, he recently released the acclaimed live album Live At Anita's ("the new live album shows that Mossy's voice is still a thing of beauty, while his guitar work remains instinctive and inventive" – STACK magazine). In 2014, Mossy's fellow musicians ranked him as Australia's greatest guitarist in a News Corp poll.
KATE CEBERANO was still a teenager when For The Working Class Man was released, but she was already a star, fronting the band I'm Talking. Kate has recently been embracing Oz-music's rich past with her Australian Made: Live show – and is treating audiences to an encore on Jimmy's tour. Boasting a setlist of her own Platinum catalogue alongside songs made famous by Cold Chisel, ICEHOUSE, Divinyls through to Sia, Bernard Fanning and Wolfmother, this is a simultaneous act of grateful reflection and bold creative evolution.
JIMMY BARNES is the most successful artist in Australian chart history. He's had 16 solo number one albums – no artist has had more – plus six chart-topping albums with Cold Chisel. Barnesy's 21st solo album, DEFIANT, entered the Australian charts at number one in June this year.
These special shows will also honour a dear friend who was instrumental in the making of the album. The late-great Michael Gudinski said, "I'm as proud of For The Working Class Man as any album the Mushroom Group has released." Michael called the album Jimmy's gift to his fans – "a record for everyone who's believed in him … For The Working Class Man."
The time has come to celebrate the album in all its glory.
To celebrate his landmark album For The Working Class Man, JIMMY BARNES is hitting the road for the Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Tour, proudly presented by MG Live and Face To Face Touring.
And due to overwhelming demand, the year's biggest party just got bigger, with the addition of three more shows – Saturday 21 March at Sandstone Point Hotel, Sandstone Point, QLD; Saturday 28 March at Centennial Vineyards, Bowral NSW; and Friday 10 April at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.
Telstra Members have exclusive access to the Telstra Plus Member presale, commencing Monday 17 November at 10.00am local time for 48 hours (or until presale allocation exhausted) via telstra.com/tickets
MG Live and Face To Face member presales, as well as a Jimmy Barnes fan club presale, start Wednesday 19 November at 11.00am local time for 48 hours, before general on sale commences Friday 21 November at 12.00pm local time. All ticket and tour information via mg.live and facetofacetouring.com.au
The new shows are in addition to the already announced shows: Saturday 22 November at Mount Duneed Estate, Geelong VIC; Sirromet, Mount Cotton QLD on Saturday 29 November; Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley NSW on Saturday 6 December; On The Steps at Opera House Forecourt, Sydney on Wednesday 10 December; The Regatta Grounds, Hobart TAS on Saturday 17 January; Peter Lehmann Wines, Barossa Valley, SA on Saturday 31 January; and Sandalford Wines, Swan Valley WA on Saturday 7 February.
And JIMMY BARNES has today announced that opening each show (aside from the Sydney Opera House and Rod Laver Arena) will be a very special guest – JOHN ROONEY.
John and Jimmy have a very special connection. On the night that Jimmy married Jane, Cold Chisel were doing a gig at the Comb and Cutter Hotel in Blacktown. The support act was a band called The Lonelyhearts – fronted by JOHN ROONEY. While Jimmy's career remained on stage, John's did a detour and he went on to become one of Australia's best orthopaedic surgeons.
"This man got me up dancing again when he operated on my hips, not once, not twice but three times," Jimmy reveals. "John Rooney will get you up dancing too."
As well as being Jimmy's "singing super surgeon", JOHN ROONEY has a new solo album called Hoodwink, produced by Kevin Shirley and featuring a stellar array of musicians, including Waddy Wachtel (Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks) on guitar, Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt) on bass, Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) on keyboards, and Jim Keltner (John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Traveling Wilburys) on drums.
And Jimmy appears on the opening track, Trouble Always Finds Me.
Also joining JIMMY BARNES for these epic shows are three of the biggest stars of the Working Class Man era who are also still at the top of their game – ICEHOUSE, IAN MOSS and KATE CEBERANO.
Released in December 1985, For The Working Class Man went straight to number one and helped define Jimmy's hugely successful solo career. As the authors of The 100 Best Australian Albums declared, "It defined both him and much of Australia."
The album spent seven weeks at number one, becoming Jimmy's longest-running chart-topper. And it has sold more than 500,000 copies in Australia.
Barnesy, as he's affectionately known, will be playing the iconic album from start to finish, taking the crowd from I'd Die To Be With You Tonight to Paradise, plus classic cuts from his chart-topping catalogue.
"For The Working Class Man was such a significant album in my life. I got to make the record with some amazing people, and it really set up the rest of my solo career.
I'm so excited to be celebrating For The Working Class Man with some of my dearest friends and favourite artists.
And I can think of no better way to mark this milestone than by performing these songs in some of the most beautiful and iconic venues across Australia."
Jimmy Barnes
For The Working Class Man is packed with classics, including Jimmy's first Top 10 solo single I'd Die To Be With You Tonight, the Top 40 smash Ride The Night Away, and the beautiful ballad that he wrote for his wife Jane, Without Your Love.
And, of course, the album features his signature song, the unofficial national anthem, Working Class Man.
For The Working Class Man also includes seven reworked songs from his chart-topping solo debut Bodyswerve, including No Second Prize, Daylight and Promise Me You'll Call.
The special 40th Anniversary Edition collection is released today via Mushroom Music, on CD, cassette and 2LP vinyl – the first time the album has been on two records since it hit the shelves in 1985. To celebrate the anniversary, Working Class Man (Ballad Version) is also available digitally today.
And that's not all. The acclaimed documentary Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Man is premiering on the Seven Network on Monday night (17 Nov). Directed by Andrew Farrell, this is the big-screen version of Barnesy's best-selling autobiography Working Class Man, the sequel to Working Class Boy.
Led by the evergreen Iva Davies, ICEHOUSE is responsible for one of the biggest Australian albums of all time – 1987's classic Man of Colours. Two singles from the album were smash hits in the US: Electric Blue (#7) and Crazy (#14). Iva also wrote the enduring classic Great Southern Land. As author Andrew P Street said, "Great Southern Land remains one of the greatest evocations of the sheer ancient emptiness of Australia." ICEHOUSE were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006.
Barnesy's Cold Chisel comrade IAN MOSS hit number one with his first solo album, Matchbook, featuring the classic Tucker's Daughter. After eight studio albums, he recently released the acclaimed live album Live At Anita's ("the new live album shows that Mossy's voice is still a thing of beauty, while his guitar work remains instinctive and inventive" – STACK magazine). In 2014, Mossy's fellow musicians ranked him as Australia's greatest guitarist in a News Corp poll.
KATE CEBERANO was still a teenager when For The Working Class Man was released, but she was already a star, fronting the band I'm Talking. Kate has recently been embracing Oz-music's rich past with her Australian Made: Live show – and is treating audiences to an encore on Jimmy's tour. Boasting a setlist of her own Platinum catalogue alongside songs made famous by Cold Chisel, ICEHOUSE, Divinyls through to Sia, Bernard Fanning and Wolfmother, this is a simultaneous act of grateful reflection and bold creative evolution.
JIMMY BARNES is the most successful artist in Australian chart history. He's had 16 solo number one albums – no artist has had more – plus six chart-topping albums with Cold Chisel. Barnesy's 21st solo album, DEFIANT, entered the Australian charts at number one in June this year.
These special shows will also honour a dear friend who was instrumental in the making of the album. The late-great Michael Gudinski said, "I'm as proud of For The Working Class Man as any album the Mushroom Group has released." Michael called the album Jimmy's gift to his fans – "a record for everyone who's believed in him … For The Working Class Man."
The time has come to celebrate the album in all its glory.
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