Ringside (Cold Chisel album)

Ringside is a live album released by Cold Chisel in 2003. Recorded over 4 nights in June 2003,[1] it spent 7 weeks in the Australian charts, peaking at number 27.[2]

Ringside
Live album by Cold Chisel
Released	November 2003
Genre	Pub rock
Label	Elektra
Cold Chisel chronology
The Studio Sessions 1978-1984 (1999) Ringside (2003) Standing on the Outside (2007)

Album details

The album contains two Steve Prestwich songs ("Lovelight", "All I Wanna Do") not released on any other Cold Chisel album, and "Fallen Angel" that later appeared on a solo Don Walker album. These were the first Cold Chisel songs to feature Prestwich and Walker on lead vocals.

Ringside features covers of Johnny Cash's "Big River", the standard "Cry Me a River", and Dragon's "Sunshine", written by Walker's friend Paul Hewson.

The concert was an attempt to feature the band, "performing in a smaller, intimate environment," and often, "in an acoustic format."[3] Inspired by Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback special, there was a 360 degree view of the rotating stage, with the furthest seats from the stage being within 30 metres.[4]

Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Home And Broken Hearted" – 4:14
2. "The Things I Love In You" – 3:06
3. "Cheap Wine" – 3:45
4. "Rosaline" – 6:19
5. "Breakfast At Sweethearts" – 3:59
6. "My Baby" – 4:13
7. "Houndog" – 4:59
8. "Plaza" – 2:48
9. "Fallen Angel" – 4:55
10. "Shipping Steel" – 4:13
11. "The Last Wave Of Summer" – 5:49
12. "Pretty Little Thing" – 3:18
13. "Merry Go Round" – 4:25
14. "Forever Now" – 5:32
15. "Khe Sanh" – 4:47

Disc 2

1. "Cry Me a River" – 3:46
2. "Four Walls" – 3:08
3. "Lovelight" – 3:33
4. "When the War is Over" – 6:00
5. "All I Wanna Do (Steve Vocal)" – 3:26
6. "Big River" – 2:43
7. "Painted Doll" – 2:34
8. "Saturday Night" – 5:42
9. "You Got Nothing I Want" – 3:12
10. "Rising Sun" – 3:26
11. "Flame Trees" – 4:38
12. "Bow River" – 7:12
13. "Water Into Wine" – 4:46
14. "F-111" – 3:36
15. "Sunshine" – 5:46
16. "Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)" – 4:34
17. "All I Wanna Do (Jimmy Vocal)" – 3:34

Charts

Chart (2003/04)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[5]	27

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[6]	Gold	35,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. "Ringside". coldchisel.com. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
2. "Cold Chisel - Ringside". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
3. Michael Lawrence (2012). Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys. Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Books. p. 275. ISBN 9781877096174.
4. "Cheap whine for another rock around the block". Sydney Morning Herald. 7 April 2003. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
5. "Australiancharts.com – Cold Chisel – Ringside". Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
6. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2003 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020.