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Short Biography
Cold Chisel announced today that their first new studio album in 14 years will be launched at
Bluesfest - where Cold Chisel are headlining on Thursday April 5 - ahead of its official release in
stores on Friday April 6 through Warner Music Australia. The album is titled No Plans and features
13 songs drawn from recording sessions across 2010 and 2011. The album features the final
recorded performances by drummer Steve Prestwich who passed away in January 2011 and also one
of his compositions 'I Got Things To Do'.
No Plans includes 'All For You' and 'HQ454 Monroe', two songs that Cold Chisel played on their
record-breaking Light The Nitro Tour in 2011 ...

Short Biography
Cold Chisel announced today that their first new studio album in 14 years will be launched at
Bluesfest - where Cold Chisel are headlining on Thursday April 5 - ahead of its official release in
stores on Friday April 6 through Warner Music Australia. The album is titled No Plans and features
13 songs drawn from recording sessions across 2010 and 2011. The album features the final
recorded performances by drummer Steve Prestwich who passed away in January 2011 and also one
of his compositions 'I Got Things To Do'.
No Plans includes 'All For You' and 'HQ454 Monroe', two songs that Cold Chisel played on their
record-breaking Light The Nitro Tour in 2011 and 11 previously unheard songs. The album will be
preceded by the single 'Everybody' which will be made available in late March.
"In late 2009 the five of us made plans to record together again and do a tour," said frontman
Jimmy Barnes. "After lots of twists and turns that's exactly what we've ended up doing but due
to Steve's passing those plans changed a lot along the way. The last two years have reminded all of
us that sometimes life deals up things you don't expect. You can't take anything or anyone for
granted. Sometimes it's best to have no plans."
In addition, the band has also announced that it will play two very special 'one night only' No Plans
Album Launch shows to take place at Melbourne's Festival Hall on Thursday April 12 and Sydney's
Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday April 18. After the huge venues the band played only 6 months ago,
these more intimate shows will be a great opportunity for fans to get up close and personal with
the band as they debut songs from the new album as well as performing all of their classics. Tickets
for these two album launch concerts will go on sale on Monday March 19.

In-depth Biography
Cold Chisel is the classic Australian pub rock band, playing a tough breed of rock and blues inspired by '70s bands like Free, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin, but characterized by the story-telling skills of their main songwriter, Don Walker, whose personal influences came from Bob Dylan. Between 1978 and 1983, Cold Chisel ruled as Australia's most popular band on record and on-stage. The band sold over three million records in Australia alone, two-thirds of that number after their bitter breakup.

They came together in Adelaide during September 1973 on the initiative of guitarist/singer Ian Moss. In the beginning, the band used a different name for every performance. After they used the name of the Don Walker song "Cold Chisel" for one particular performance, that name stuck. Keyboard player Walker gradually came up with a strong catalog of songs to match the group's tough rock reputation on-stage, centered mainly on their raw-voiced, vodka-swilling dripping-with-sweat singer Jimmy Barnes. At the start of 1977, the band resettled in Sydney hoping to land the record contract that had alluded them for more than a year. In the era of Fleetwood Mac, ELO, and the Eagles Cold Chisel's sound was not deemed commercial. However WEA Records took the chance and the first self-titled album was released in April 1978 without setting the world on fire. The first single, "Khe Sahn," about an Australian Vietnam veteran, was banned from airplay over part of the lyric. It has since become one of the most played classic rock tracks on Australian radio. The second album saw Cold Chisel into the Top Ten, less raw than the band on-stage, but concentrating on the songs. Filled with localized lyric references, Breakfast at Sweethearts earned the band its first platinum record. June 1980's East album took the band over the top, tougher than Breakfast at Sweethearts but still stacked with strong songs, this time with other bandmembers joining in the songwriting, and guitarist Ian Moss taking lead vocals on two songs with his strong soul voice. They followed East with the number one live album Swingshift while supporting the U.S. release of East with tours across the country. The next album was aimed at the world market, but its title said how out of place they felt. They called it Circus Animals. Tours of Europe and the U.K. followed.

Disillusionment set in when the band's music failed to find favor in America, adding to the internal tensions created by various members' songwriting ambitions and singer Jimmy Barnes' volatile personality. On innumerable occasions throughout the band's lifespan, he had quit the band and rejoined. But now, after ten years together, Cold Chisel decided to call it quits with a farewell tour ending at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in December 1983. Barnes immediately launched an incredibly successful solo career, accumulating seven Australian number one albums. Guitarist Ian Moss took five years off before releasing a number one album of his own, reuniting him with the songs of Don Walker. Walker started his own low-key recording and performing career, forging relationships with a varied assortment of Australian music makers, both rock and country. Drummer Steve Prestwich joined Little River Band for two years. Throughout the rest of the '80s and into the '90s, Cold Chisel albums kept selling and fans vainly hoped for a reunion. Then, after almost two years of secret discussions and jam sessions, a reunion album and tour were assembled in October 1998, but The Last Wave of Summer project proved to be a shadow of Cold Chisel's glorious past. ~ Ed Nimmervoll, Rovi