IN THE BLOODY MOONLIGHT
Like the sight of koalas munching on a eucalypt, politicians with spiderwebs for brains, and the distinct sound of VB tinnies cracking open on a hot summer’s arvo, Cold Chisel are a fundamental bastion of Australian culture. Anthems like “Khe Sanh” and “Choirgirl” are ingrained in our minds as sonic adaptions of our identities, and you’d be hard pressed to find a cobber that can’t belt the chorus of “Cheap Wine” on instinct. They play for the underdogs that bring our country together; the blue-collar blokes and shielas that make our day-to-days as bright as they are.
So how do you make Australia’s favourite band just that extra little bit truer and bluer? Well, how about stripping back the boundaries that often confine them in concert, tear off the roof (quite literally) and let them shine under the stars that illuminate our summer nights? That’s what Cold Chisel are doing with their monumental Blood Moon tour: a truly one-of-a-kind run of entirely outdoors, summer-set jams set to sprawl across our shores in the early weeks of 2020.
Fuelling the tour is the band’s hotly awaited ninth studio album, also dubbed Blood Moon. A distinctly collaborative effort between the band’s motley crew of creative dynamites (keyboardist Don
