Cold Chisel To Be Inducted Into SA Music Hall Of Fame

Australian pub-rock legends Cold Chisel's forthcoming home-town appearance at Adelaide's Clipsal 500 race now seems doubly sweet a prospect with today's news that the veteran band will be inducted into the AMC South Australian Music Hall Of Fame during the event on Sunday, 1 March.

Having been announced for the Clipsal 500 in August, Cold Chisel are now set to precede their South Australian appearance with a one-off show in Canberra this Thursday — their local headline show in almost three years, and their first performance in the nation's capital since 2011. Then, having sufficiently warmed up, they'll greet more than 30,000 fans in Adelaide to celebrate not just the Clipsal 500 but the 40th anniversary of definitive line-up Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Phil Small and Don Walker (with drummer Charley Drayton) as a cohesive unit, in addition to their newly announced induction into the Adelaide Music Collective-curated Hall Of Fame.

In joining the Hall Of Fame, Cold Chisel will stand alongside artists such as the late Jim Keays, Glenn Shorrock, John 'Swanee' Swan, John and Rick Brewster (The Angels), The Twilights' John Bywaters, Peter Tillbrook of the Masters Apprentices, Peter Combe, John Schumann and Doug Ashdown — and that's just since the Hall of Fame was established less than 12 months ago.

"There couldn't be a South Australian Music Hall Of Fame without Cold Chisel in it," Hall Of Fame founder David 'Daisy' Day explained in a statement. "The AMC has been waiting for the perfect opportunity to have the band together in Adelaide so that we could honour them.

"It took a unique kind of band to win over tough pub audiences in Adelaide back then. Chisel did, and they went on to be able to do it anywhere, never forgetting where they started out."

"Cold Chisel lived and shared through their lyrics the essence of South Australia in the 1970s and '80s," Tourism Minister Leon Bignell added. "Tales of growing up in the Adelaide suburbs, days working on the docks at Port Adelaide, the pub music scene and the value of mateship; these are the stories that resonate with Australians to this day."

Cold Chisel perform at the Clipsal 500 this Sunday, 1 March. For more information about the four-day event, check the website.