Unique tour features songs and stories
Jimmy Barnes Book – Working Class Boy. Barnes performs Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories and Songs, Claudelands Arena, Friday, February 17 at 7pm.
Yes folks the legend that is Jimmy Barnes is coming to Hamilton with his first spoken word tour.
This unique live theatrical production is a companion piece to the eagerly anticipated and recently released first volume of his memoirs - Working Class Boy and we have a copy up for grabs!
The book was written entirely by Jimmy Barnes. It tells the raw and confronting story of fleeing the poverty of Scotland only to endure violence and abuse as an immigrant in the suburbs of Adelaide.
The book explains what drove Jimmy to ultimately escape everything via rock’n’roll and its associated lifestyle.
Fittingly, the childhood memoir ends with an 18-year-old Jimmy and the fellow members of his new band, Cold Chisel, fleeing South Australia in the back of a truck full of musical equipment.
This special live event will see Jimmy sharing stories from his troubled childhood and delinquent adolescence.
It will also see him accompanied by his musical com- panions, delivering intimate performances, of some key songs drawn from his earliest years.
Expect lots of storytelling providing a real insight into the events that shaped Jimmy’s life and his music.
‘‘Just like the book, this live show will tell the story of an imperfect childhood that has led to me becoming an imperfect adult,’’ he explained.
‘‘I spent most of my life running from my childhood and now it seems like my time to face it. So this is the story of a lifetime spent running away. Running from fear. Running from shame but at the same time running from hope. ‘‘I’m not running anymore.’’ Barnes is back and there’s a story to be told!
Tickets from Ticketek. Competition by Fill The House Tickets Project – proudly supporting families of children with cancer.
To be in to win, email your name, address and daytime telephone number(s), to hpfthcomps@gmail.com, with Barnes Book in the Subject, by midday Wednesday, February 1.