Friday night was a one-off rock fest with the cream of Australian rock gathering at the Enmore to play for one of our greats, Rose Tattoo guitarist Mick Cocks.
Mick is suffering from liver cancer.On Friday night, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss and Phil Small from Cold Chisel, You Am I, The Radiators, Screaming Jets, Dave Tice & Mark Evans and, of course, Rose Tattoo played for Mick.
I’m told I can’t go as far as calling this a Cold Chisel reunion. Well, for starters it wasn’t. But Barnesy, Mossy and Small did through in a healthy dose of Chisel classics.
Jimmy did his solo hits ‘Driving Wheels’ ‘No Second Prize’ and ‘Lay Down Your Guns’. Then he sang his Chisel belter ‘You Got Nothing I Want’.
Ian Moss came on to continue the Chisel flow with ‘Bow River’, he then did ‘Georgia On My Mind’ and finally Jimmy and Ian relived their finest joint vocal moment together from the Chisel days, ‘When The War Is Over’.
The music biz sends its love out to Mick. The Tatts have had a tragic few years losing Pete Wells, Ian Rilen and Lobby Loyde to cancer.
Friday night was one for the boys.
