Jimmy Barnes Announces Special Sydney/Melbourne Shows

The man who needs no introduction, Jimmy Barnes, has announced that he’ll be taking time out while on his massive upcoming 30:30 Hindsight Tour to play a pair of special shows – one each in Sydney and Melbourne – to play seminal albums For The Working Class Man and Freight Train Heart in full.

A third show, at Darwin’s Botanic Gardens Amphitheatre, has also been added to the impending sojourn, as has a fourth, at Warragul’s West Gippsland Arts Centre, taking the tour to the cusp of looking at covering a grand total of (yep, you guessed it) 30 appearances, including a scheduled headline slot at the Deni Ute Muster.

The former frontman of Aussie rock icons Cold Chisel will be swinging via the Enmore Theatre on October 17 and the Palais Theatre on October 18, at which he will canvass his 1985 and 1987 #1 ARIA-charting records as well as dipping into the rest of his voluminous back catalogue to round out the evening’s revelry.

The albums yielded such renowned hits as Working Class Man, I’d Die To Be With You Tonight, No Second Prize, Too Much Ain’t Enough Love and Waitin’ For The Heartache, and cemented his status as one of the nation’s most important modern rock figures of the past three decades.

The tour is being conducted in conjunction with the celebratory release of the 30:30 Hindsight LP, which boasts 17 new recordings of old favourites with assistance from the likes of Keith Urban, The Living End, Bernard Fanning, Shihad, Tina Arena, ‘Little’ Steven Van Zandt, Baby Animals and Jon Stevens, to name a few. The album will be released on Friday, August 29.

A Frontier Members pre-sale will be held for the two new metropolitan shows gets under way at 10am on Monday, August 18, and will be available for 24 hours or until pre-sale allocation is exhausted.

The general public will get their run at Barnesy passes from Monday, August 25. See the Gig Guide or The Music App for more information.