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Jimmy Eat World returning to Australia to perform Futures

TEXAN rockers Jimmy Eat World are coming to Australia on their Futures 10 Year Anniversary tour, which has fans salivating.

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TEXAN rockers Jimmy Eat World have been on a steady rise since its breakthrough album Bleed American was released 13 years ago.

But ten years after its follow up, Futures , was released, now is the perfect time to get nostalgic.

It has been a fan favourite for a decade alongside the band’s earlier release Clarity so an Australian tour celebrating Futures this November has fans salivating and frontman Jim Adkins worried.

In the nicest possible way he explains there’s a lot of “crap” on Futures .

“I think that when we recorded that there was definitely a ‘more is more’ attitude that we had going into it,” he laughs.

“We really made Rich Costey, who was mixing it, earn his money.

“There is just so much crap on there ... I use that word lovingly and endearingly. There’s so much crap on there — going back and learning the songs it’s kind of challenging because they’re so many hooks buried in it and I only have two hands,” he laughs.

The year was 2004 and Jimmy Eat World was capitalising on the commercial success of Bleed American , which featured on many end of year lists, and lead single The Middle hit No. 1 on the alternative charts in America and cracked charts around the world.

Reconvening for a Futures , this time Adkins knew he had an audience wanting to hear what the band was up to.

“I thought about it for sure,” he says.

“That definitely heightened the pressure we put on ourselves. People were going to give us a shot, this record is going to come out and people are going to be curious and it is going to get

a shot and we better make sure we like it.

“I could definitely feel the record label was interested in what we were doing and that was a first for us really,” he continues.

“When we were on Capitol — for Static Prevails and Clarity we had our group of people that were cool and championed us but there wasn’t like a big company-wide understanding of us. For Bleed American we didn’t have a label so Futures was the first time there was a label into it and behind us and interested.”

The album deals with lost love, heartbreak and drug use throughout and a decade on Adkins is a much different person than he was when penning the album.

Adkins likens the experience of playing them live now to being in a time machine.

“I can sense that,” he says of the change he’s noticed from revisiting Futures .

“Futures there was definitely a bit more assertion of a world view. It’s definitely gated in that — that’s what the music on Futures captures for me. It’s reacted to and inspired to whatever

was going on in my life back then so when I sing them now it’s like a time capsule for me.

“There’s a handful of Futures songs that we’ve continued to play live this whole time. The ones we haven’t are like a mini time machine and takes me back.”

Adkins is actually enjoying doing interviews for the upcoming tour, hearing fanboys like this writer gush over an album they have loved for ten years.

“What’s awesome is that everyone says they like a different song,” he says when I tell him my favourite from that era.

“That’s really cool that you say you like The World you Love — it’s just great playing — I know that’s a lame answer — it’s a huge deal getting to play these songs that are so old but people still find something in that they can relate to and made it theirs.”

“It’s a humbling thing.”

And for fans looking wondering if Futures will get the same deluxe treatment that Bleed American did there’s good news.

“There will be something,” Adkins says.

“I’m not exactly sure what form it will be in Australia — but it’s important to have all these records available on vinyl and we may as well put together a whole bunch of stuff from that era with it.”

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In huge news for all the 90s emo kids, My Chemical Romance (aka MCR/My Chem) has announced Arizona’s finest Jimmy Eat World as support for their 2023 Australian arena tour.

Celebrating nearly three decades and ten albums, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind, will return to Australian shores for the first time in six years as part of MCR’s highly-anticipated 2023 tour.

My Chemical Romance / Jimmy Eat World Australian Tour 2023

• Entertainment Centre, Brisbane – Monday March 13
• Entertainment Centre, Brisbane – Tuesday March 14 (Sold Out)
• Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – Thursday March 16
• Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – Friday March 17 (Sold Out)
• Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney – Sunday March 19 (Sold Out)
• Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney – Monday March 20

Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide  here .

The Mesa, Arizona quartet’s commercial breakthrough came with the release of Bleed American, with single “The Middle” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total on the chart.

Futures, their follow-up album to Bleed American, featured single “Pain,” which also hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, made Billboard’s Hot 100 (No. 93), and is RIAA-certified Gold. In October 2019, the band released their tenth album, the critically acclaimed, Surviving.

June 2022 saw Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, single “Something Loud”.

My Chemical Romance’s March tour, will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012.

MCR first made their debut in 2002 with the independently released album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love”. The band signed to Reprise Records the following year and made its major-label debut with 2004’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge”, now 3x certified Platinum. The album contained the Platinum hit ‘I’m Not Okay (I Promise),’ the Gold-certified ‘Helena,’ and ‘The Ghost of You.’

Rolling Stone hailed the 3x Platinum “The Black Parade” as one of the top albums of 2006. The lead single ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ topped both Billboard’s Alternative Songs tally and the UK Official Singles chart and is now 3x Platinum.

The band toured extensively behind the album – appearing as characters from “The Black Parade” – and released the live album “The Black Parade is Dead!” in 2008. “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” was released in 2010 and topped Billboard’s Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts. It was followed by a series of singles later released as “Conventional Weapons” in 2013.

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Second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were announced off the back of their original shows instant sell-out.

For complete tour and ticket information, visit  livenation.com.au .

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Jimmy Eat World to Join My Chemical Romance in Australia Next Year!

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Tamara May

With tickets absolutely flying for My Chemical Romance’s first Australian tour in a decade , you would hope that Aussie emos will get to indulge in a just as iconic act in the lead-up to MCR’s return to the stage. And they have!! Live Nation have announced that Arizona punk rock quartet Jimmy Eat World will join Gerard Way and crew across their nationwide tour next March.

It’ll be the band’s first tour in Australia in six years after the band had to cancel their 2020 Download appearances due to a certain pandemic. Prepare to hear all their hits since Bleed American as well as their latest album, Surviving which was released in 2019. The boys also dropped their very first independent single ‘ Something Loud ‘ back in June.

Tickets are still available for all second shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. With Jimmy Eat World now on the bill, those seats won’t last long.

Words by Tamara May @citylightstam

For complete tour and ticket information, visit:  livenation.com.au

My Chemical Romance – East Coast Tour 2023 Support: Jimmy Eat World

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March 14 @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre   (SOLD OUT)

March 16 @ Rod Laver Arena, Melb –  NEW SHOW

March 17 @ Rod Laver Arena, Melb   (SOLD OUT)

March 19 @ QUDOS Bank Arena, Syd  (SOLD OUT)

March 20 @ QUDOS Bank Arena, Syd –  NEW SHOW

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My Chemical Romance announce Jimmy Eat World as guests on 2023 Australian tour

MELBOURNE, AU (Thursday, Sept 29 th 2022) – My Chemical Romance (aka MCR/My Chem) has announced Arizona’s finest Jimmy Eat World as support for their 2023 Australian arena tour.   Celebrating nearly three decades and ten albums, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch , and drummer Zach Lind , will return to Australian shores for the first time in six years.   The Mesa, Arizona quartet's commercial breakthrough came with the release of Bleed American , with single “The Middle” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total on the chart.    Futures , their follow-up album to  Bleed American , featured single “Pain,” which also hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, made Billboard’s Hot 100 (No. 93), and is RIAA-certified Gold. In October 2019, the band released their tenth album, the critically acclaimed,  Surviving .     June 2022 saw Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, single “Something Loud”.   My Chemical Romance’s March tour, will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012.   Second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were announced off the back of their original shows instant sell out; tickets for the additional shows are on sale now from livenation.com.au .   For complete tour and ticket information, visit livenation.com.au

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE WITH GUESTS JIMMY EAT WORLD AUSTRALIA 2023 ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, BRISBANE MON 13 MAR ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, BRISBANE - SOLD OUT TUE 14 MAR ROD LAVER ARENA, MELBOURNE THU 16 MAR ROD LAVER ARENA, MELBOURNE - SOLD OUT FRI 17 MAR QUDOS BANK ARENA, SYDNEY - SOLD OUT SUN 19 MAR QUDOS BANK ARENA, SYDNEY MON 20 MAR

Jimmy Eat World Join My Chemical Romance Australian Tour

Emo icons Jimmy Eat World have been announced as the main support for My Chemical Romance's feverishly-anticipated 2023 Australian tour.

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Emo icons Jimmy Eat World have been announced as the main support for My Chemical Romance 's feverishly-anticipated 2023 Australian tour. 

One of the most celebrated and influential bands in their genre, Jimmy Eat World will bring nearly three decades and ten albums worth of emotive rock tunes to the stadium environment in support of My Chemical Romance, when MCR's reunion tour finally reaches Australia in March.

Lead by vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins , and completed by rhythm guitarist/backing vocalist Tom Linton , bassist Rick Burch , and drummer Zach Lind , the Mesa, Arizona quartet are no strangers to Aussie audiences, having made countless visits over the years, inspiring big emotions and big ovations with each tour down under. 

Revered by '90s emo kids for their 1999 genre-staple Clarity  and embraced by the rest of the world thanks to the crossover success of early-'00s records Bleed American and Futures,  Jimmy Eat World have a catalogue of anthems the envy of most acts. 

Fans attending the My Chemical Romance tour can expect to hear Jimmy Eat World playing the likes of Lucky Denver Mint , The Middle, Sweetness,  Bleed American, Pain, Work, Futures, Big Casino, Chase This Light  and more.  

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June 2022 saw Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, the single Something Loud . 

My Chemical Romance’s March tour will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012. The addition of Jimmy Eat World should be a nostalgic trip for Aussie audiences, who witnessed both bands open for Green Day on their American Idiot  tour, with the two groups heading back to the stadium environment to celebrate My Chemical Romance's ascent to the top of the emo pile.

My Chemical Romance released The Foundations of Decay in May. Their first new music since returning from a long hiatus, The Foundations of Decay  offers the first signs that the band's creative minds are once again focused on My Chemical Romance. 

Tickets for the tour are on sale now, with second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney already added, following an instant sell-out of the first shows in each city.  For complete tour and ticket information, visit livenation.com.au .

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My Chemical Romance (aka MCR/My Chem ) has announced Arizona’s finest Jimmy Eat World as support for their 2023 Australian arena tour.

Celebrating nearly three decades and ten albums, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins , rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton , bassist Rick Burch , and drummer Zach Lind will return to Australian shores for the first time in six years.

The Mesa, Arizona quartet’s commercial breakthrough came with the release of Bleed American , with the single The Middle hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total on the chart. 

Futures , their follow-up album to  Bleed American , featured the single Pain which also hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, made Billboard’s Hot 100 (No. 93), and is RIAA-certified Gold. In October 2019, the band released their tenth album, the critically acclaimed,  Surviving .

June 2022 saw Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent single release, Something Loud .

My Chemical Romance’s March tour will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012.

Second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were announced off the back of their original show’s selling out quickly. Tickets for the additional shows are on sale now from livenation.com.au .

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Jimmy Eat World have been added to the My Chemical Romance Australian tour.

Jimmy Eat World premiered a new acoustic version of their current song ‘Something Loud’ today. The song is their first indie release through the label Exotic Location. When the band’s Jim Adkins got back to songwriting after Covid he came up with ‘Something Loud’ as a way to tell the story of the band.

My Chemical Romance have not toured Australia in 10 years. They last played for Big Day Out in 2012. Its been 12 years since their last album ‘Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys’ but a new song ‘The Foundations of Decay’ was recently recently.

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Jimmy Eat World Added To My Chemical Romance Australian Tour

Emo icons  Jimmy Eat World  have been announced as the main support for  My Chemical Romance 's feverishly-anticipated 2023 Australian tour. 

One of the most celebrated and influential bands in their genre, Jimmy Eat World will bring nearly three decades and ten albums worth of emotive rock tunes to the stadium environment in support of My Chemical Romance, when MCR's reunion tour finally reaches Australia in March.

Lead by vocalist and lead guitarist  Jim Adkins , and completed by rhythm guitarist/backing vocalist  Tom Linton , bassist  Rick Burch , and drummer  Zach Lind , the Mesa, Arizona quartet are no strangers to Aussie audiences, having made countless visits over the years, inspiring big emotions and big ovations with each tour down under. 

Revered by '90s emo kids for their 1999 genre-staple  Clarity   and embraced by the rest of the world thanks to the crossover success of early-'00s records  Bleed American  and  Futures ,  Jimmy Eat World have a catalogue of anthems the envy of most acts. 

Fans attending the My Chemical Romance tour can expect to hear Jimmy Eat World playing the likes of  Lucky Denver Mint ,  The Middle, Sweetness,  Bleed American, Pain, Work, Futures, Big Casino, Chase This Light  and more.   

Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, the single  Something Loud earlier this year.

My Chemical Romance’s March tour will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012. The addition of Jimmy Eat World should be a nostalgic trip for Aussie audiences, who witnessed both bands open for  Green Day  on their  American Idiot  tour, with the two groups heading back to the stadium environment in celebration of My Chemical Romance's rise to the to of the emo pile. 

My Chemical Romance released  The Foundations of Decay  in May. Their first new music since returning from a long hiatus,  The Foundations of Decay  offers the first signs that the band members creative minds are once again focused on My Chemical Romance. 

Tickets for the tour are on sale now, with second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney already added, following an instant sell-out of the first shows in each city.  For complete tour and ticket information, visit  livenation.com.au .   The Foundations Of Decay  is out now via all  streaming services 

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Emo icons  Jimmy Eat World  have been announced as the main support for  My Chemical Romance 's feverishly-anticipated 2023 Australian tour. 

Lead by vocalist and lead guitarist  Jim Adkins , and completed by rhythm guitarist/backing vocalist  Tom Linton , bassist  Rick Burch , and drummer  Zach Lind , the Mesa, Arizona quartet are no strangers to Aussie audiences, having made countless visits over the years, inspiring big emotions and big ovations with each tour down under. 

Revered by '90s emo kids for their 1999 genre-staple  Clarity   and embraced by the rest of the world thanks to the crossover success of early-'00s records  Bleed American  and  Futures ,  Jimmy Eat World have a catalogue of anthems the envy of most acts. 

Fans attending the My Chemical Romance tour can expect to hear Jimmy Eat World playing the likes of  Lucky Denver Mint ,  The Middle, Sweetness,  Bleed American, Pain, Work, Futures, Big Casino, Chase This Light  and more.   

Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, the single  Something Loud earlier this year.

My Chemical Romance’s March tour will be their first return to Australia since their appearance at Big Day Out festival in 2012. The addition of Jimmy Eat World should be a nostalgic trip for Aussie audiences, who witnessed both bands open for  Green Day  on their  American Idiot  tour, with the two groups heading back to the stadium environment in celebration of My Chemical Romance's rise to the to of the emo pile. 

My Chemical Romance released  The Foundations of Decay  in May. Their first new music since returning from a long hiatus,  The Foundations of Decay  offers the first signs that the band members creative minds are once again focused on My Chemical Romance. 

Tickets for the tour are on sale now, with second shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney already added, following an instant sell-out of the first shows in each city.  For complete tour and ticket information, visit  livenation.com.au .   The Foundations Of Decay  is out now via all  streaming services 

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My Chemical Romance (aka MCR/My Chem) has announced Arizona’s finest Jimmy Eat World as support for their 2023 Australian arena tour. Celebrating nearly three decades and ten albums, lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind, will return to Australian shores for the first time in six years. The Mesa, Arizona quartet’s commercial breakthrough came with the release of Bleed American , with single The Middle hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total on the chart. Futures , their follow-up album to Bleed American , featured single Pain , which also hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, made Billboard’s Hot 100 (No. 93), and is RIAA-certified Gold. In October 2019, the band released their tenth album, the critically acclaimed, Surviving . June 2022 saw Jimmy Eat World return with their first independent release, single Something Loud . Zach Lind talks to Hi Fi Way about the Australian tour.

It really has been a long time in between drinks with your last Australian tour six years ago. Are you excited about coming back? Oh yeah, for sure. We love coming there and it’s been way too long. We’re very much looking forward to being there.

Tours don’t get any bigger than My Chemical Romance. Does that friendship with those guys go back quite away? Yeah, we’ve played some shows with them here and there before and over the years we’ve crossed paths with them. When Gerard was doing a solo project, we crossed paths with him on some festivals. So yeah, we have a little bit of a connection with them and I’ve always respected them very much for the kind of band they’ve been. It’s really a great opportunity for us to play with them and to come down to Australia and see our Australian fans.

Does touring internationally feel like it’s almost back to the way it was pre-Covid? I think so. I think we’re getting pretty much to that point where it kind of feels like pre-Covid, obviously people will get sick and some people might not be available, but for the most part we try to be cautious and our priority is always to make sure that the show happens. If it’s not there, it’s very close to being there.

Are there any hints to the Australian tour set list? I think it’ll be a good selection of songs from throughout the catalogue. I think when we’re opening up or playing for someone else we try to stick to playing as many songs that people may know or recognise. I think that helps out when you’re trying to win people over. It’ll be something along those lines.

When you started touring again what was the energy like in those initial shows? I think the silver lining of not being able to play for a long time is when you get back to it, you really appreciate it. I think you don’t take it for granted that shows happen and tours happen and gathering a bunch of people in the same space is possible. I think all of those thing’s kind of take on a heightened sense of meaning and we have a greater sense of appreciation for it. It’s not always just a given that you can go do this kind of thing. We definitely have a newfound appreciation for the ability to travel and to play music for fans. That’s such a huge part of who we are as a band, so to be able to get back to it has been awesome.

Was it hard during the creative years to be creative come up with new songs. I read some other interviews where Jim was talking about being creatively exhausted and just finding it hard to write songs when he is not actually out on tour or just being or being around other things. I think for us, the hard part for us is we had just finished making an album. For us, in the history of our band, we pretty much put out an album every three years and we fell into this rhythm that wasn’t really planned, but the way things worked was that we would write it, we’d go on tour and promote an album that we just released, and then we would get off the road and take a break then start working on the next album. We rarely did a lot of writing when we were in the touring mode. With Covid, we didn’t have any possibility of playing shows, so you can fill your time recording, but we just got done recording, so our tank was empty at that point. We had to figure out a way to do something cool and be creative, we wanted to do something for fans and release stuff, we did a cover and we did some live acoustic performances. In the end making new music took a while for us to get to that mode.

While the path forward be more like what you did with the non-album singles which might lead to an album? It’s something that we’re trying, it’s been nice to write and release it and not have the pressure of having to do all these other songs as well. I think it’s been a really nice time for us to kind of, to give ourselves a little space to not have to write so many songs at once. It’s been a good way of getting us in that mode of writing and it’s just been different this time because we’ve been doing it in the midst of doing a lot of touring, so that’s kind of a first for us. We usually don’t work hard on writing and releasing new music while we’re in a touring mode. That’s been new and it’s been really challenging. It’s been fun, but it’s also a lot of work balancing those two modes that we usually over the years have kept separated.

Has this approach stirred the pot and generated a lot more ideas for songs? Yeah, I think that’s kind of it. It’s like taking small steps just to get back going, getting in that head space of being creative and establishing some momentum. We definitely want to release more albums and that’s definitely something we plan to do. It’s just a matter of when that time is right.

Surviving is a great album, and I can’t wait to hear what is next. Thanks. I appreciate that, man. It’s been cool for us because we feel like we’re learning every time we make an album. We’re learning something new and you’re always able to apply the thing you learn to the next thing. For us, I feel like we’re creatively engaged and in a good space that it should be feeling like there’s some momentum. That’s what we’re striving for, regardless of whether that’s what the audience hears or not.

With the two recent singles is that glimpse in to where Jimmy Eat World might be heading sonically? I mean the two songs are so different, so it’s a pretty big window. I wouldn’t read too much into that. I think those are what was in the well at the time. Whatever the future stuff sounds like, it’s hard to know.

Being independent and having full control over what you are doing is that even more exciting for the band? It makes sense for what we’re doing now for the singles, just like releasing them on their own. We felt like we didn’t need to make it more complicated than it is. It’s not like we’re opposed to working with partners or if we’re working with someone else, but it just felt right for this moment in time. We’re open to whatever it just depending on how, what our needs are at the time, honestly.

Are there any other plans in the pipeline for Jimmy Eat World this year? We’ll be doing more touring. We’re hoping, hoping to be busy writing new music. There will be more touring in the US and maybe somethings around our thirtieth anniversary as a band at some point in the year. We’re figuring out what that’s going to be and how that’s going to look right now.

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Jimmy Eat World: “We Didn’t Want to Limit Ourselves by Identifying as Emo”

By Jules LeFevre

For those of us who were around during the early to mid-2000s, there was barely a week in which you didn’t hear Jimmy Eat World’s ‘The Middle’ blasting from a City Beach shop.

The ubiquitous and beloved song, as well as the album it came from, 2001’s Bleed American, would largely define the Arizona band for years afterwards. Bleed American is now regarded as a classic of the era , marked by its punchy pop-punk sound and Jim Adkin’s steady and earnest vocals. The album’s success placed them firmly at the centre of emo’s rise, even if that label made them roll their eyes at the time.

Jimmy Eat World – ‘The Middle’

The band – made up of lead singer and guitarist Adkins, bassist Rick Burch, guitarist Tom Linton and drummer Zach Lind – could’ve been consigned to the scrap heap of 2000s history like many of their peers. But Jimmy Eat World were built differently, and over the years have continued to release successful albums.

They’re also beginning to be afforded the critical respect they missed out on in the early 2000s – Pitchfork , which tore the band apart in a review of Bleed American at the time, recently returned to their 1999 album Clarity and doused it with praise .

This month, Jimmy Eat World join their old mates My Chemical Romance on the road in Australia – a tour that was meant to take place before the pandemic threw everything up in the air. Late last year, Music Feeds caught up with Rick Burch to reflect on the last 20 years and discuss where the band find themselves in 2023.

Music Feeds: You have a long and shared history with My Chemical Romance. How does it feel to be getting back on the road with them?

Rick Burch: It’s really exciting. It’s a very long history and there’s so much that’s happened between then and now. It’s almost like getting to know an old friend all over again. We’re in very different places than we were, but we’re excited to be out playing music together.

MF: You are very different bands. And yet at one point – and even now – you were both described as “emo.” There was a time when you guys weren’t really comfortable with the emo label. How do you feel about it now?

Rick: You’re absolutely right. Early on, it felt like any artist could be boxed into a very simple realm, and that’s not something you’d want to embrace. We like to be free to create whatever it is we’re going to create. We didn’t want to limit ourselves by identifying ourselves in that way.

But as time has progressed… I don’t view the term as a limiting factor. It’s more of an identifier of a time and a place, I think. And, you know, we’re really honoured to be a part of that. It didn’t exist before and now it’s part of the musical landscape. It’s quite an honour.

MF: We’re in an emo revival at the moment. It must be interesting to have experienced the rise of that genre and now watch it come up again.

Rick : It is interesting. We really didn’t pay too much attention to it early on as the genre was developing and finding its identity. But now it’s a huge thing and it includes a lot of different bands and a lot of different fans of music. It’s a sensation to have witnessed the formation and then be still around to see a little bit of a revival.

It’s both nostalgia and also discovery. I meet people at gigs that were there back in the day and have been with us all along. And then also I meet people that this is their first season of gigs.

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MF: ‘Something Loud’ dropped a few months back, and it’s all about reflecting on those early years and being sad that you were in such a rush to grow up. Have your feelings changed towards that part of your career?

Rick : Yeah, that’s right. ‘Something Loud’ came together rather quickly. I think Jim really had the concept after we found out about the When We Were Young festival and that we were going to be a part of it. It launched us into remembering the past.

Looking back on those times, we were so focused on progression and moving forward that it was easy for us to not really appreciate where we were at the time. The song’s a bit of a look back on that and also an acceptance that it’s no longer and it will never be again.

MF: You followed up with ‘Place Your Debts.’ Can you tell me how that one came together?

Rick : I’m a big fan of that song, too – it’s kind of like the other side of the Jimmy Eat World coin. It’s not so much about live energy. It’s more of what we get into when we’re in the studio and working with sound to create textures and an environment and a new place, a new world. It was fully immersive.

It was really fun working in the studio to bring that song together. We did those two songs with Justin Meldal-Johnsen in the producer role. His energy and creativity and guidance and motivation were fantastic. He helps motivate us to do what we do at our best.

MF: I read an interview with Jim a couple of months back and he said you guys had briefly abandoned the album in favour of releasing singles. Is that still the case?

Rick : It’s really hard to say. We’re really not trying to predict anything. We’re just going with what feels right in the moment. Maybe a result of what’s happened in the last couple years. There are so many things that are out of our control. If we’re excited about something, we’ll put it forward and share it with the world, whether that’s one song or five songs or an album.

We’re always creating, we’re always writing and we’re definitely still fans of the album format.

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MF: A lot of artists that I’ve spoken to recently say that, although COVID was horrible for the industry, it also allowed them to have a break for the first time in years. Did you feel that at all?

Rick : Yeah. In speaking with colleagues, there’s definitely a sentiment of like, a reset button being pressed. “What do I really want to do with my platform or my life? Is this really what I want to be doing?”

We definitely went through those phases. Some of us were fortunate enough to be with family when the lockdowns happened, and some of us were kept apart from our families. It focuses the lens on what’s important to a person.

MF: Bleed American turned 21 in 2022. What’s it like to look back on that album after all these years?

Rick : It’s like being a proud parent. When we put that album together we didn’t know if we would still be a band in six months. There was so much uncertainty about how Jimmy World was gonna move forward because we didn’t have a label. We didn’t have management teams around us.

It was just the four of us in the studio making music. And we knew that that’s what we wanted to do, and so we did it. We didn’t know how it would be released. We didn’t know if it would be released [or] if anyone would ever hear it.

But it was released. It connected with audiences and it’s just… a real feeling of admiration and pride. And those songs are still out there putting smiles on people’s faces. It’s one of my favourite parts of performing songs like ‘The Middle.’ We’ve played the song more than any of our other songs. But every time it’s just a lightning bolt of positive energy. I’ll never grow tired of that.

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• Sunday, 19th March – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney NSW
• Monday, 20th March – March – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney NSW

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Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World Announce 2024 Tour

By Madison Bloom

Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World have announced a joint tour kicking off early next year. The So Much for (2our) Dust trek gets rolling on February 28 in Portland, Oregon, and stops off in Seattle, Austin, Orlando, Baltimore, New York, Nashville, Milwaukee, and more, before wrapping up on April 6 in Minneapolis. Ahead of their dates with Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy will also play a string of concerts in Europe and the United Kingdom this fall. Check out their full schedule, and find a teaser video, below.

Jimmy Eat World will join on every date of next year’s So Much for (2our) Dust tour, while bands like the Maine, Hot Mulligan, Daisy Grenade, Games We Play and Carr will join on select shows throughout the run.

Fall Out Boy concluded the three-month So Much for (Tour) Dust of North America just last month. The outing followed the band’s latest LP, S o Much (for) Stardust . Each night of that stretch featured the use of a Magic 8 Ball to surprise fans with a performance of a Fall Out Boy song that had never played live before. Special guests on the tour included Alkaline Trio, Bring Me the Horizon, New Found Glory, the Academy Is..., Daisy Grenade, Carr, Four Year Strong, and others.

So Much (for) Stardust marked Fall Out Boy’s first album since 2018’s Mania .

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Cyndi Lauper Announces 2024 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour

FIRST MAJOR TOUR IN OVER A DECADE KICKS OFF ON OCT. 18, WITH 23 STOPS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA INCLUDING HER DEBUT HEADLINING PERFORMANCE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

Tickets available starting tue., june 4 at 10 am local via presales, general onsale begins fri., june 7 at 10 am local on livenation.com.

Today, Cyndi Lauper has announced the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour.  Produced by Live Nation, the 23-city headlining tour – Lauper’s first major run in a decade – begins on October 18th at Bell Centre in Montreal, QC, making stops across North America in her hometown of New York City at the iconic Madison Square Garden, plus Boston, Nashville, Los Angeles, and more before wrapping up in Chicago, IL at United Center on December 5th. Throughout the tour, Lauper will be joined by special guests to be revealed at a later date.

Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning Tuesday, June 4. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, June 7 at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.com . Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, a guided backstage tour, pre-show VIP Lounge, exclusive tour poster & more. VIP package contents vary based on offer selected. For more information, visit vipnation.com .

The announcement of her farewell tour arrives alongside LET THE CANARY SING , a feature-length documentary film that explores Lauper’s extraordinary life and career. The documentary will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, June 4. In celebration of the tour and the film, Lauper will be honored with an imprint ceremony at the prestigious TCL Chinese Theatre Hollywood tomorrow (June 4) in Los Angeles. A special private screening of the film at the TCL Chinese Theatre will follow that evening, along with a Q&A.

Lauper will also be a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Wednesday, June 5 (ABC, 11:35PM ET/10:35PM CT), to talk about her farewell tour and LET THE CANARY SING .  She was also just profiled by CBS Sunday Morning .

Directed by Emmy® Award-winning documentarian Alison Ellwood, LET THE CANARY SING made its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.  Produced by Fine Point Films and Sony Music Entertainment in association with Concord Originals, the film chronicles Lauper’s meteoric ascent to stardom and her profound impact on generations through her music, ever-evolving punk style, unwavering feminism and tireless advocacy. The documentary takes the audience on an engaging exploration of a renowned and pioneering artist who has left a remarkable legacy with her art.

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, has released a companion product to the documentary of the same name. The LET THE CANARY SING companion album is a career-spanning collection that follows Lauper’s career. The album is available now on vinyl and as a digital expanded edition here .

Cyndi Lauper’s Farewell Tour is directed by Brian Burke and produced and designed in partnership with BrianBurkeCreative and DX7 Design.

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN FAREWELL TOUR DATES:

Fri Oct 18 | Montreal, QC | Bell Centre

Sun Oct 20 | Toronto, ON | Scotiabank Arena

Thu Oct 24 | Detroit, MI | Fox Theatre

Sat Oct 26 | Boston, MA | MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Sun Oct 27 | Washington, DC | Capital One Arena

Wed Oct 30 | New York, NY | Madison Square Garden

Fri Nov 01 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena

Sun Nov 03 | Columbus, OH | Schottenstein Center

Wed Nov 06 | Tampa, FL | Amalie Arena

Fri Nov 08 | Hollywood, FL | Hard Rock Hollywood

Sun Nov 10 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena

Tue Nov 12 | Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center

Thu Nov 14 | Austin, TX | Moody Center

Sat Nov 16 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center

Tue Nov 19 | Phoenix, AZ | Footprint Center

Wed Nov 20 | San Diego, CA | Viejas Arena

Sat Nov 23 | Los Angeles, CA | Intuit Dome

Sun Nov 24 | Palm Desert, CA | Acrisure Arena

Tue Nov 26 | San Francisco, CA | Chase Center

Sat Nov 30 | Portland, OR | Moda Center

Sun Dec 01 | Seattle, WA | Climate Pledge Arena

Wed Dec 04 | Minneapolis, MN | Target Center

Thu Dec 05 | Chicago, IL | United Center

ABOUT CYNDI LAUPER

Cyndi Lauper is a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning songwriter and performing artist with global record sales in excess of 50 million. Her iconic voice, influential punk glamor, and infectious live shows have catapulted her to stardom. Lauper won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist with her first album, She’s So Unusual , and became the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album including her anthem “Girls Just Want To Have Fun.”  Lauper has released ten additional studio albums, featuring classics like “Time After Time” and “True Colors,” and is a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and NY Times best-selling author.  In 2013, Lauper became the first solo woman to win Best Original Score (music and lyrics) for Kinky Boots .  She is also tireless in her advocacy work. She has been an activist since day one, always fighting for the underdog – especially women, people living with HIV/AIDS, and the LGBTQ community.

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From banned on radio to sacred anthems, how Cold Chisel worked their way into our hearts.

Sweat's flying, the crowd's pulsating and the raw, unfettered power of Cold Chisel is skidding towards a squealing, screeching halt.

It's December 1983, and Jimmy Barnes, the wild frontman of one of Australia's most loved rock groups, prowls the stage as the band goes hell for leather, fingers flying over keyboards, guitars and drums.

"Hold me mama, don't let go," Barnes sings, feverishly heading towards the crescendo. He flings his microphone away, the band hits the final notes and that's it, Cold Chisel has finished its Last Stand, the final concert of their final tour, ever.

Except, it wasn't. The fans would not let Chisel go.

Because for a huge cohort of Australian music lovers, Cold Chisel was more than a band. It was our voice, our confidante, our story. They were the bad-boy poets who reached deep into our ordinary life and shone it back at us, with all its grit and muted glory.

As Barnes tells Australian Story: "These songs have become a part of people's lives. People come up to me and say, 'I played your songs at my son's 21st. I danced my first dance with my wife to your songs. I buried my father to your songs'."

Chisel's legendary concerts grew the fanbase in the 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when radio wouldn't play them and record companies were wary.

But 51 years since Chisel formed (and reformed and split and reformed), multiple generations of Australians can blast out the words to Khe Sanh, Cheap Wine and Flame Trees.

Not all those fans were there in the early days, when fisticuffs and flying vodka bottles were part of the frisson of a Chisel concert. Many weren't even born. But they'll all have a favourite Chisel song, one that speaks directly to them.

And that, says lead guitarist Ian Moss — the perfect foil for Barnes, with his velvet vocals and low-key style — is the reason for Chisel's longevity. The songs.

"When we split up, I thought within two years it would be 'Cold who?' All gone," says Moss, as the band prepares to go on tour again.

"But it's just a great legacy to the songs. It's the songs. It all comes down to the songs."

Barnes' recklessness was 'part of the band's success'

Moss smiles as he recalls that day in 1973 when a 16-year-old Barnes walked into the Adelaide apartment of keyboard player Don Walker, the mastermind of Chisel's success.

Walker, Moss and some mates were forming a band and looking for a singer. Their first choice, John "Swanee" Swan, was busy but he suggested his little brother, James Barnes, who sang in a band in the gritty outer suburb of Elizabeth when he wasn't hanging out with his gang.

As Moss went to shake Barnes's hand, "Jim kind of just held back and eyed me kind of suspiciously … I wondered, 'What've we got here?'."

The makings of an Aussie rock legend. Volatile and insecure, Barnes admits he went into that room defensive, fearful of being insulted, and thinking if "worse came to worse, I could always swing at them". In later years, he would address his childhood filled with alcohol and violence but right then, the migrant boy from Scotland was swamped by a jumble of emotions.

But he could sing. Barnes pumped out a song by the British rock band Free and got the gig. Soon to follow was drummer Steve Prestwich, a quick-fisted Liverpudlian, and Phil Small, the even-tempered bass player. Cold Chisel was formed.

They hit the pub scene, playing in rough venues such as Adelaide's Largs Pier Hotel and found an audience that revelled in the cheeky wildness of the band — especially Barnes who was "out of control on booze and uppers", jumping off PA systems and picking fights.

"I started in Cold Chisel, troubled and became more troubled as we went on," Barnes says.

"In a way, my recklessness was part of what made the band successful, because there's other people out in the audience who were going through the same shit as what I did.

"They wanted to just lash out and have a big time. We gave them that opportunity. Anything could happen on stage. We were volatile. We were on the edge. It could go anywhere."

Often to fisticuffs. Chisel started to build staunch crowds but couldn't get a record deal. Industry reps would turn up to see Barnes and Prestwich – good mates and quick brawlers – going toe-to-toe.

"Steve and I would be at each other," Barnes says, "because I wanted to push him to play faster [and] he wanted me to bloody sing better and he'd throw things at me and I'd, you know, belt him." Barnes admits he "constantly argued with everybody" and left the band in a huff countless times.

"All that tension and all that friction was all created because we were so into the band," Barnes says. "If anybody didn't do their best on the night, the other ones would turn on him."

By 1977, they were living in Sydney and travelling in beat-up cars to far-flung gigs, doing mostly covers with a smattering of originals by Walker. The burden of drumming up gigs and money fell on Walker who was a few years older than the others, a bright bloke who'd ditched a career in quantum mechanics for life on the road with a rock band. Barnes was the showman but Walker was the methodical schemer, always planning the next move.

Says Small: "It was quite a chore for Don. All he wanted to do was just play and devote his time to reading and writing more songs and just enjoying himself like the rest of us."

They needed a manager — and Rod Willis needed a band to manage. Willis had worked overseas as a tour manager and went along to Chequers in Sydney's Chinatown to watch Cold Chisel play.

Says Willis: "The piano player started, he did this sort of Jerry Lee Lewis rolling thing. Then this good rhythm section kicked in and I was just going, 'Wow, this band can actually play'.

"Then suddenly this vocalist, this kid, started singing and I was going, 'Wow'. It was a unique voice."

Willis was on board. His advice: get some original songs. He booked a studio, despite Walker's protestations they couldn't afford it.

Walker came along with a song he thought might work: Khe Sanh.

The song 'not suitable for airplay'

To lifelong Chisel fan and music writer Mark Mordue, Khe Sanh rates right up there with Waltzing Matilda, a song that tapped into the Australian psyche and wouldn't let go.

"We love a song filled with defiant tragedy," Mordue says. "Waltzing Matilda is a swagman who drowns himself, who refuses to be arrested. Khe Sanh is the veteran who's psychologically damaged from his experiences in Vietnam and meandering around the country. But there's something heroic in that; the vet hasn't given up, he's still searching.

"It's all there in Khe Sanh. It's in a lot of Cold Chisel songs. This sort of feeling of damage — and of possibility."

It was Cold Chisel's first single, released in May 1978 — and soon rated "not suitable for airplay". The censors took umbrage at references to speed and Novocaine, and the lyrics, "And their legs were often open but their minds were always closed".

The fans loved it. They knew that those words and the searing lines that followed — "and their hearts were held in fast suburban chains" – evoked the Australia they were living in.

Publicity about the radio ban piqued interest and Chisel's live performances took off. "Literally things made a quantum leap," Barnes says. "Our crowds immediately doubled."

Says Walker: "It wasn't getting any airplay, but that was in 'radio world', we were in 'live world'. That's where our band was."

They were "the people's band", says Mordue, who recalls the dripping sweat, swirling smoke and full body impact of Chisel's thundering gigs. That only intensified when the band started playing its own songs from the 1978 debut album, Cold Chisel, and Breakfast at Sweethearts the following year.

"Young people [saw] themselves in the band and they liked the energy and the intelligence of the songwriting," Mordue says. "Barnes in the band brought the energy and Don Walker brought that lyrical intelligence."

Says Barnes: "Don would write songs for me to sing, which were about destroying the place, about kicking up. He must have known what I was going through, and he was writing songs about me and for me to sing and because he's a great songwriter, every single person in our audience thought that song was about them."

Then, in 1980, came their third album, East – and radio could ignore them no longer. "When East came out," Walker says, "it just blew from clubland out into the general population."

A big part of the success was Walker's commercially crafted songs such as Choirgirl, Cheap Wine and Standing on the Outside. "I saw how having songs on the radio can transform your life and I wanted a bit of that," he says. "I was trying to figure out how to write commercially successful melodies. In the end, it worked."

Plus, with Walker's urging, other members tried their hand at songwriting. Small brought the classic My Baby, Barnes poured his love for his future wife, Jane, into Rising Sun, Prestwich gave us Best Kept Lies and Moss wrote Never Before.

"It just seemed to be this … period of we were in love, that kind of feeling," Moss says. "Everything we were doing felt like gold."

And Australians basked in their reflected glory. Author Trent Dalton, a Chisel "super fan", believes the band continues its hold on Australians because "they took the time to speak to us".

"They're talking about working class Australia … most of us can recognise that," Dalton says. "The characters that they've noticed are all the people we know in our lives — it's so easy to transplant yourself into any number of those situations that they're singing about.

"What happens is the songs start out as hits and then they become anthems. And then with time, they become sacred."

East, with an album cover featuring Barnes passed out in a bath wearing an upside-down Japanese bandana, was the biggest selling album that year. That meant music industry recognition – and a spot at the 1980 TV Week Rock Music Awards presented by Countdown.

After all the years of being shunned, of struggling on the road and in the pubs, now the industry wanted to celebrate them. Cold Chisel had their own ideas. "We thought, f**k them, they did nothing for us," Small says.

As they appear on stage, Barnes takes a swig from a vodka bottle, Moss starts the riff to My Turn to Cry and the drums kick in. It's a fairly loyal rendition – until the lyrics change into an admonishment of all those who snubbed Cold Chisel on their rise to stardom.

"I never saw you at the Largs Hotel, I never saw you at Fitzroy Street, and now you're trying to use my face to sell TV Week," screams Barnes.

He hurls his microphone stand, yells "Eat this" on repeat and heads off with his vodka while Moss bashes his guitar against the amp.

It's wildly rock and roll — except the cheap guitar Moss bought for the occasion won't break.

He'd even taken a saw to it beforehand to make the job easier but "try as I may, and I gave it a good, good shot, I couldn't break it".

Within a year, they'd be on their way to the US – and find that was tough to crack, too.

'They just didn't get us': The US tour

Five different people, five complex personalities, all pumped up by their raging success at home but back on the road, trying to make it in the US. The Holy Grail, says Moss.

Their crusade didn't start well. Says Walker: "We went there into the teeth of a record company that actively hated us for one reason or another." The feeling became mutual quickly, the band objecting to being squeezed into a marketing style that was not them.

The band's US release, My Baby (the wrong choice, they thought), was sent to radio stations wrapped in diapers. "They didn't get us," Barnes says.

They had some good gigs, says Moss, but had left their run too late. After so long on the road in Australia, adds Walker, "we had neither the stamina nor the focus to go back to tours and do the hard stuff that you have to do in a new territory such as America".

Small also ponders if the Australianness of their sound was a barrier to US success. "They couldn't really understand the Australian culture in the lyric."

The pressures built. Some of them had girlfriends back home and missed them badly. Some didn't and wanted to cut loose. "There were some funny tensions on the road the whole time," Moss says.

Less than six weeks in, they bailed. It's a deep regret for the band but as Barnes says, he got a great song out of it. "You Got Nothing I Want," from the 1982 album Circus Animals, was one giant "up yours" to the record company executives.

Frictions followed Cold Chisel's next bid for international stardom in Europe, especially a second tour in Germany in 1983. Their music was gaining traction there but the band was falling apart.

Walker remembers Prestwich saying "we shouldn't f**king be here" the moment the plane landed. It set the tone. Says Moss: "We weren't knitting, weren't gelling."

Barnes and Prestwich were at each other. "I was trying to make him play too fast,"  Barnes says. "The songs were losing the groove and all that pushing and pulling … it was just becoming manic."

Then, one night, Walker had enough. He stood up, tipped his piano over and walked off stage.

Barnes knew the band had fractured. "[Walker] put everything, every waking minute of his day into making that band get to where it was and it was out of his control."

Cold Chisel came home, sacked Prestwich, started work on what was planned to be their fifth and final studio album, 20th Century, and began planning the Last Stand.

The Last Stand ... that wasn't

Sporting a very 1980s perm, 16-year-old Annette English is being interviewed as she waits with friends for the Last Stand concert to start. She's upset Cold Chisel is breaking up. "You can sort of really feel Australia through their songs," she says, "and really identify with it because you know what they're talking about."

Forty-one years on, through a call-out on Cold Chisel's social media, Australian Story tracked down English and one of her mates with her that day, Margie Brown — and found Chisel fandom doesn't die.

"The authenticity, that's what's lasting," says English as the two catch-up over a drink, joking about cheap wine. "It's not just the music, it's the authenticity of the language."

They remember how bad their seats were — right up the back, barely able to see the band, which had recalled Prestwich for the tour. But surging through the venue was a "freight train of energy".

Says Brown: "I remember going for it, I'm loving it, but deep down in my heart, I'm thinking, 'There's no way this beautiful band is going to stop here'."

Her intuition was spot on. In a wonderfully ironic twist, radio kept Chisel alive in the years after they split. "Every time we switched on the radio," Moss says, "there was a Cold Chisel song".

"I was 16 years old and had to be there ... I didn't want to miss out."

Rex Morris of Triple M says FM radio was all about albums, and Chisel had some great ones, demanded by listeners. "For a lot of Australians, Cold Chisel was the soundtrack to the best years of their lives," Morris says. Their manager, Rod Willis, capitalised on the nostalgia, releasing Last Stand's live recordings and compilation albums, gaining huge sales.

As the rest of the band adjusted to life beyond Chisel – Walker was happy to move on, Moss accepting, Small played with a range of bands and Prestwich toured with the Little River Band – Barnes moved quickly into a solo career. By September 1984, he'd released the album Bodyswerve, which topped the charts, followed by his signature song, Working Class Man.

Then, in 1989, Moss released Tucker's Daughter, written with Walker, and it went to number one.

"When you have two people that were the most visible members of the band having hits 10 years later, that has to be a factor in the long running interest in the band," Walker says.

Time moved on. Wounds healed. Momentum built. Come the mid-90s, all five Cold Chisel members were back together.

They kept their reunion secret for as long as they could, an impressive feat given they were rehearsing in such a prominent building: the Sydney Opera House.

Says Willis: "All those Chisel fans are out there wondering whether the band's ever going to get back together again and there they are, down in the bowels of the Sydney Opera House."

It wasn't always pretty. Barnes says band members were wary about getting back together, afraid ghosts would be disturbed.

"And those ghosts were evident … it was chaotic," Barnes says.

Walker remembers a lunch overlooking the harbour when the band was choosing which songs would go on the album, Last Wave of Summer. "That created a bit of tension," Walker says now, a more diplomatic response than in a 2007 interview when he said the choices were made through "psychological manipulation, sullen looks, petulance, tantrums, insane rages both faked and real, sexual coquettishness and pathological violence".

There were problems with engineers and producers, niggles and slights but, "there was great joy the moment we first lit something up and realised, 'Yeah, we can play together'," Walker says. "It's a bit rough, needs a bit of work, but it sounds pretty good."

The album hit number one and the band hit the road on tour. "It just felt like the old days," Small says, "and it was good to see the crowds turn up in the numbers they did."

Just like the old days, though, the tensions returned. "And the band imploded again," Willis says.

That's been the rhythm of Cold Chisel. Get back together, do great work, get on each other's nerves, split. Do it again. Says Barnes: "As we got older, it's not that Cold Chisel kept breaking up, it was just we had to lay it to rest, because we could only take so much of the intensity of it at one time."

And now, to paraphrase Khe Sanh, "they're drifting back to check things out again".

History repeats itself

One by one, they file into Barnes' home and into his studio. He turns on a track and Cold Chisel is in the groove, their heads nodding. In unison.

They've always loved each other, says Barnes. Sometimes they haven't liked each other but the bond is strong.

Says Walker: "There's good mutual history, there's bad mutual history. The bad mutual history tends to fade and get lost in the sepia until next time we try and do something."

Now's the time.

From October, under giant circus tents, Cold Chisel will reform for a national tour. There's some trepidation, says Moss, mostly because each muso believes he's still to deliver his best.

Says Barnes: "Our behaviour has mellowed, but our approach to music hasn't. I still want the same thing from that band that I've always wanted. And that's to be the best rock and roll band in the world."

Someone will be missing. Steve Prestwich, the irascible contrarian who kept the beat for most of Cold Chisel's career, died with a brain tumour in 2011. "It was like the world had fallen apart," Barnes says.

His music remains. Prestwich penned some of Cold Chisel's best-known songs: When the War is Over, Forever Now, and Walker put the words to Prestwich's music to create the crowd favourite, Flame Trees. US drummer, Charley Drayton, now plays with Chisel.

"Whenever we play [those songs]," says Barnes, "I still get misty, I get teary, thinking about Steve."

Barnes had his own brush with death late last year, when bacterial pneumonia spread to his heart, requiring open-heart surgery. "I could have died, and came close to it."

The scrappy bloke who walked into a suburban apartment in the 1970s and became a rockstar is 68 now. Moss and Small are 69 and Walker is 72. The musician Tex Perkins, who Walker collaborates with now, says Cold Chisel is Australia's Rolling Stones. "Our home example of, 'How long can you keep this going?'."

Whatever that timeframe, Cold Chisel's music lives on. Its timeless lyrics and fervent delivery, coupled with a romanticism for a time that looks rosier in the rear view mirror, continues to seduce new fans.

Trent Dalton, 45, says there are three generations of Chisel fans: the "lucky ones" who grew up with them, his own generation which found Chisel through parents and compilation records, and teenagers like his daughters who came to Chisel via modern-day versions, such as Sarah Blasko's rendition of Flame Trees.

"What a gift," Dalton says "This music that's just connected all these different generations of Australians."

Like the Vietnam veteran, listening to Khe Sanh and reminiscing about those nights in Saigon. Or the party crowd, getting ready to hit the town, with Saturday Night on repeat in their heads, or the middle-aged woman, visiting her hometown, Flame Trees blaring on the car radio.

It's the songs. It all comes down to the songs.

Producer: Ben Cheshire

Feature writer: Leisa Scott

Digital producer: Megan Mackander

Graphics: Nina Maile Gordon

Photos: Australian Story: Tom Hancock, ABC Archives, Bob King, Getty Images, Cold Chisel

Watch Australian Story's Cold Chisel: On the Outside Looking In documentary on ABC iview and YouTube .

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