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Cold Chisel was formed in Adelaide in 1973 by Les Kaczmarek, Ian Moss, Don Walker, Steve Prestwich and Jimmy Barnes. In 1975 Les left and Phil Small joined to create the classic lineup. Relentless touring and timeless songs like ‘Khe Sanh’, ‘Flame Trees’, ‘Bow River’, ‘My Baby’, ‘Cheap Wine’, ‘Saturday Night’, ‘You Got Nothin’ I Want’ and ‘When the War is Over’ established their reputation as one of Australia’s fiercest rock’n’roll bands. They were inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame and received APRA’s prestigious ‘Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music’. Cold Chisel’s nine studio albums released between 1978 and 2019 sold nearly 7 million copies and capture the hopes, fears, anger and alienation of multiple generations.
In 1993 Cold Chisel was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and in 2001, Khe Sanh was named the 8th greatest Australian song of all time by APRA. Although, Cold Chisel broke up in 1983 they have successfully reformed several times since for national tours.
Visual Artist James Dodd has been commissioned to develop a mural celebrating the legacy of the band. The mural is titled Cold Chisel Lane.
RMT union drivers continue strike action against London Underground plans for a voluntary four-day week
Commuters in London face another two days of disruption as a second 24-hour tube strike starts from midday on Thursday.
No further talks have taken place to settle the dispute and drivers in the RMT union will continue industrial action against London Underground plans for a voluntary four-day week after the first 24-hour strike from midday on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Industry groups dismayed at hints policy will not be in king’s speech, as touts make huge sums from BBC Radio 1 event
Keir Starmer has been urged to honour his pledge to ban ticket touting, amid fears that the policy will be left out of next month’s king’s speech, potentially costing fans “hundreds of millions”.
Music industry groups called on the prime minister to act as fresh evidence showed that professional ticket “traders” had targeted BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend next month, making huge mark-ups through sites such as Viagogo and StubHub.
Continue reading...Campaign is said to be first time Labour-affiliated Unison is lobbying en masse against a key party policy
Migrant workers and the UK’s largest union will carry out a mass leafleting campaign in Shabana Mahmood’s Birmingham constituency to protest against a planned change in immigration policy.
The Labour-affiliated Unison union says the changes will adversely affect migrant care workers. About one-third of all care workers and one-fifth of all NHS workers are migrants.
Continue reading...Research shows fine carbon coating on silica in updraught causes electrical charge – and spectacular display
Researchers are a step closer to understanding volcanic lightning, one of the most spectacular atmospheric phenomena, which can be seen playing among the clouds of smoke and ash during an eruption. The intensity is extreme: the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, in the Tongan archipelago in 2022, produced more than 2,600 lightning flashes a minute stretching up to 19 miles (31km) above sea level.
We know that storm clouds become electrically charged as a result of collisions between ice crystals rising in updraughts and falling particles of graupel, or soft hail. The ice picks up positive charge and the hail negative. What has puzzled scientists is how a volcanic plume, which is dry and consists of ash and rock fragments, could pick up charge. Particles made from the same rocky material should not do that during collisions.
Continue reading...Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
It is time for the Thursday news quiz, where you must cling on to knowledge with both hands – even if, thanks to our quirky illustration by Anaïs Mims, they seem to have curled themselves into question marks. Like our primate friend above, you may find yourself swinging wildly between certainty and guesswork. Fifteen questions on the week’s news and culture await. There are no prizes, but we always enjoy hearing how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 244
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