For the next album, featuring my own songs, I’d expect it to follow the same style. In 2007 he told the Sydney Morning Herald, “I haven’t made my definitive album yet.” Ten years later with his the self-titled “Ian Moss”, he might have just done that. fbq('track', 'PageView');\\ img height="1" width="1" style="display:none"\ In 2008, Moss was on the Australian television series It Takes Two, singing duets with celebrities and showing a side of his musical character that surprised many listeners. Ian has 3 jobs listed on their profile. The album went on to win Album of the Year, Best Male Artist and Breakthrough Artist – Album, Breakthrough Artist – Single and Song of the Year (shared with Don Walker) for ‘Tucker’s Daughter’ at the ARIA Music Awards in 1990. They hit the road and paid their dues, playing countless one-night stands across the country. 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. It showed that there was a different side of my music that hadn’t really been heard by enough people before.” Mossy is now allowing his guitar work to take a back seat while he concentrates on singing – which is the focus of his new album Soul on West 53rd that features fresh takes on classic soul songs from the likes of Sam Cooke, Al Green, Otis Redding and Levi Stubbs. In 1989, Moss toured for 25 weeks, playing dynamic and energetic performances five or six nights every week to virtually full houses across Australia. 2018 will bring a new chapter in Ian’s career as he releases the new self-titled studio album, his sixth, and heads to the road for what will be his biggest national tour in decades.

PURCHASE SNIPPET \ See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Ian’s … Crowds were left hungry for more. Fate intervened when he answered an advertisement for a guitarist in a shop window in 1973, joining the band that was to become a legend in Australia – Cold Chisel. 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. His debut album Matchbook, released in August 1989, entered the charts at No 1 and remained there for three consecutive weeks. At the ARIA Music Awards in 1990, Matchbook won Album of the Year, Best Male Artist and Breakthrough Artist – Album. The album was released on August 1, 1989 and peaked at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. When he went back out on the road, Moss’s live shows drew a hoard of Chisel faithful and a league of new fans. The track was co-written by Moss with Don Walker, also from Cold Chisel. The album was released on August 1, 1989 and peaked at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. \

Contribute. This is the pure stuff. When audiences hear the power and excitement on Soul on West 53rd, it will reinforce what Ian Moss has to offer as a vocalist of repute. He’s already supported the likes of Brian Wilson to Peter Frampton to Seal – now it’s Mossy’s turn. They’d say ‘Yeah, we knew you sang, but we didn’t know you could really sing’.

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. and more from FamousFix.com, The Scene, Anger and Tears, Cold Chisel, Catfish, www.ianmoss.com.au/, www.facebook.com/pages/Ian-Moss/89019570431, http://ianmoss.com.au. Login n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\ 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.

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. 1989. After Moss joined organist and principal songwriter Don Walker and drummer Steve Prestwich, the group took shape with singer Jimmy Barnes and eventually bass player Phil Small, starting the hard grind of playing gigs on the back of flatbed trucks and in suburban hotels. Rain’. \ s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)\}(window, document,'script',\ In 1993, Moss consolidated his growing European fan base with tours in April and May through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, earning high praise in fantastic reviews. n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)\};\ music, It’s no accident that the album is self-titled. It reminded the Australian public of Moss’s alluring talent and diversity as a performer, as did another Cold Chisel reunion tour in 2003 and his input to Jimmy Barnes’ Double Happiness album of duets in 2005. By 1980, with the release of the seminal East album, Cold Chisel was the biggest band in the country. 2019 saw the 30th Anniversary of the iconic and landmark album Matchbook and a national tour with a killer band that received rave reviews. This product of New York recording sessions with producer Danny Kortchmar and an all-star band of soul session musicians, including drummer Steve Jordan, Leon Pendarvis on keyboards, Neil Jason on bass and Hugh McCracken on guitar, is another bold venture from Moss that will certainly turn heads. The anthemic song – which Moss wrote in collaboration with Don Walker – sat in the Top 10 for 11 weeks and hit No 1 for two weeks, achieving gold sales status after 15 weeks and selling more than 73,000 copies. “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. Classic Mossy. By continuing past this page, you agree to our terms of use. As Cold Chisel’s biographer Anthony O’Grady observed, “When Moss goes into guitar dream world he pulls out chords and notes and sounds that do not fit the plot as such, but which create new dimensions – astounding stuff that can never be reached through intellectual process, only through a quantum leap of intuition and imagination.”, © IAN MOSS 2020. The reputation and status of Cold Chisel steadily grew, mainly on the strength of blistering live shows, and in time their well-crafted recordings became staples of radio airplay. “It’s nice to fantasise about that, taking my soul songs to America. To support the album release, Moss undertook an extensive tour with former Noiseworks and INXS singer Jon Stevens, and further touring in early 2008 showed Moss to be an especially dextrous musical stylist; not just a rock player, not just an acoustic strummer, but a truly seasoned and rounded musical talent. However, efforts to translate overwhelming Australian success to Europe and the United States failed to gain traction, serving to demoralise, frustrate and eventually dissolve the band at the height of its creative powers.

Ian Moss and Megan Williams are separated... See \ }. Ian Moss is a member of the following lists: 1956 births, ARIA Award winners and Lead guitarists.. In that group's initial eleven year phase from 1973 to 1984, Moss was recorded on all five studio albums, three of which reached number one on the national Kent Music Report Albums Chart.

I kept wondering what they thought I’d been doing for past 30 years. The anthemic song – which Moss wrote in collaboration with Don Walker – sat in the Top 10 for 11 weeks and hit No 1 for two weeks, achieving gold sales status after 15 weeks and selling more than 73,000 copies. In October 2018 he performed the Cold Chisel classic ‘Flame Trees’ to a global audience of millions at the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games on the Steps of the iconic Sydney Opera House. photos, “The result is tough, ballsy blues meets rock… plenty of heart, alive and kicking.”. “Working with such classic songs has brought a lot of ideas for original material as well. Ian Moss is one of Australia’s iconic musicians, respected as a guitar soloist, songwriter and singer. Join Ian Moss and his band this summer as they travel the country bringing one of Australia’s best-loved albums back to life. Moss took stock of his musical output in 1995, changing direction to embrace the blues in bolder fashion, and in the studio this translated to recording a much tougher album than his previous releases suggested. 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. “It was a significant new path for me.” Heartened by success for that album, a second chapter of Moss’s acoustic recordings – his sixth solo album Let’s All Get Together, released in 2007 – saw the input of guests including James Morrison and Margaret Urlich adding colour to striking new interpretations of familiar songs, including Flame Trees and Choir Girl. He is the founding mainstay guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel. Ian Richard Moss (born 20 March 1955) is an Australian rock musician from Alice Springs. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. Moss’s second solo single, Telephone Booth, was released in June that year, hit the Top 10 and remained in the Top 20 for 10 weeks. it remained in the Top 10 for an amazing 14 weeks, shipping more than 200,000 copies in the first 12 months alone. He was invited to record an album of acoustic songs for Liberation Music and the Six Strings album – part of the Liberation Blue label’s engaging acoustic series – was the result. \ It was both flattering and frustrating. Click here to find personal data about Ian Moss including phone numbers, addresses, directorships, electoral roll information, related property prices and other useful information. While primarily recognised as an axeman of unusual tenacity and sweet melodic sensibility, Ian’s distinctive vocal is the essential signature of his soulful, bluesy muse – as it has been since his first tentative foray into music during the early 1970s.

Joining Mossy on this tour is Sydney’s Mark Wilkinson, performing solo nationally. 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. Barnes remembered young Mossy as “a boy from the bush who didn’t wear shoes but played fantastic”. 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.