WITH SPECIAL GUESTS MARK WILKINSON & LACHLAN EDWARDS (SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & NEWCASTLE ONLY)
- Ian Moss (Cold Chisel) will perform songs lifted from his legendary 1989 debut solo album Matchbook + many more in a national six-week run this November & December, celebrating the album’s 30th anniversary
- Matchbook hit #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in 1989 & remained in the Top 10 for 14 weeks, selling over 200,000+ copies
It saw Moss win Album of the Year, Best Male Artist and Breakthrough Artist – Album at the 1990 ARIA Awards & delivered the classic ‘Tucker’s Daughter’
1989. Bob Hawke is
still Prime Minister, Canberra and Hawthorn are NRL and VFL Premiers, the
Berlin Wall came down and Bart Simpson became a TV superstar. Tim Burton’s Batman was released,
the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and it was the final
months of the 1980s… It was also the year acclaimed Cold Chisel
co-founder and guitarist Ian
Moss stepped out front and centre, to release what would become
a milestone Australian album – Matchbook.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his iconic debut, Mossy and his four-piece band
will hit the road in November and December 2019 for a national six-week run
which will see the globally respected songwriter and legendary guitarist
performing iconic tracks from Matchbook,
plus more fan favourites. Covering Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane,
Wollongong, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth, tickets are on sale Monday 17 June via frontiertouring.com/ianmoss.
“Like my loyal fan base, Matchbook
has been very good to me and it has allowed me to travel and play music that
has been embraced by fans all over Australia and abroad. And for that, I am
very grateful.” – Ian Moss.
Recorded at Rhinoceros
Studios in Sydney and Oceanways Studios in Los Angeles with Chris Lord-Age and
Ian Moss at the helm, Matchbook
was the perfect bookend to a decade that saw music change and the era of MTV
begin. Matchbook
provided four iconic singles that would further establish Moss as one of the
best songwriters of his generation: ‘Tucker’s Daughter’
(#2 on the ARIA Singles Chart & #6 in New Zealand), ‘Telephone Booth’,
‘Out Of The Fire’
and ‘Mr. Rain’.
The album was released on August 1, 1989 and peaked at #1 on the ARIA Albums
Chart. It remained in the Top 10 for an amazing 14 weeks, shipping more than
200,000 copies in the first 12 months alone.
Six of the album’s 10 songs, including ‘Tucker’s Daughter’, were written by
Cold Chisel bandmate Don Walker; two were co-written by Moss and Walker; and
one co-written by Moss, Walker and Cold Chisel drummer, Steve Prestwich.
At the ARIA Music Awards in 1990, Matchbook
won Album of the Year, Best Male Artist and Breakthrough Artist – Album. At the
same ceremony Moss won Breakthrough Artist – Single and Song of the Year
(shared with Don Walker) for ‘Tucker’s Daughter’, as well as being nominated
for Single of the Year.
Any album that can pierce the barriers that lay between people from the city to
the bush, from corporate office towers to shearing sheds in searing 40 degree
heat, is unique.
Matchbook is
one such album.
Joining Mossy on this tour is Sydney’s Mark Wilkinson,
performing solo nationally. Mark’s latest album, Blue Eyed Girls,
has seen the former busker sell over 70,000 discs to date, landing at #1 on
Australia’s Independent Albums Chart. He’s already supported the likes of Brian
Wilson, Peter Frampton and Seal – now it’s Mossy’s turn.
Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle audiences will enjoy special guest Lachlan Edwards.
This young indie singer-songwriter from Newcastle can count Kasey Chambers as
one of his fans, thanks to early singles which have been embraced by triple j,
including ‘These Days’ and ‘Little Things’ (the latter earning the #1
spot on triple j Unearthed’s Roots Chart).
Join Ian Moss and his band this summer as they travel the country bringing one
of Australia’s best-loved albums back to life. Don’t miss out!
IAN
MOSS
MATCHBOOK 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
AUSTRALIA
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
2019
With special guests Mark Wilkinson (all shows)
& Lachlan Edwards (Sydney, Melbourne & Newcastle)
Presented by Frontier Touring and Triple M
FRONTIER MEMBERS PRE-SALE
via frontiertouring.com/ianmoss
Runs 24 hours from: Thursday 13 June (12pm AEST)
or until pre-sale allocation exhausted
GENERAL
PUBLIC ON SALE
Begins: Monday 17 June
(12pm local time)
Friday
1 November
Enmore Theatre | Sydney,
NSW
Lic. All Ages
ticketek.com.au | 132 849
Friday 8
November
Anita’s Theatre |
Thirroul, NSW
Lic. All Ages (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
ticketmaster.com.au | 136 100
Friday 15
November
Thebarton Theatre |
Adelaide, SA
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.com.au | 136 100
Saturday 16
November
Palais Theatre |
Melbourne, VIC
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.com.au | 136 100
Friday 22
November
Canberra Theatre |
Canberra, ACT
Lic. All Ages
canberratheatrecentre.com.au | 02 6275 2700
Saturday 23
November
City Hall | Newcastle,
NSW
Lic. All Ages
ticketek.com.au | 132 849
Friday 29
November
The Tivoli | Brisbane,
QLD
18+
ticketmaster.com.au | 136 100
Saturday 7
December
Crown Theatre | Perth,
WA
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.com.au | 136 100
Patrons are advised to
purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers.
We cannot guarantee any
ticket purchase made through any means other than
the official ticketing
agents listed on the Frontier website.