Singer Jimmy Barnes has cancelled his summer season tour to endure pressing again and hip surgical procedure for extreme ache from years of gruelling performances.
The 66-year-old solo artist and Cold Chisel frontman will probably be unable to carry out for a number of months after the operations however goals to be again on the street within the second half of subsequent yr.
In an announcement, Barnes mentioned he had skilled again and hip issues for years however issues had instantly obtained worse in current weeks, leaving him in “constant and severe pain”.
“I’ve been jumping off PAs and stomping around stages for nearly 50 years, but it’s finally caught up with me,” he mentioned.
“As everybody knows, it’s against my religion to blow out gigs but the doctors tell me I need an operation as soon as possible and it will really limit my movement for a few months.”
Barnes underwent emergency again surgical procedure in 2014 after experiencing issues from an earlier process.
The singer will carry out because the headline act on the Adelaide 500 Supercars race on Saturday as scheduled however will cancel the rest of his dwell gigs over summer season to permit time for restoration.
The cancellations embrace a deliberate Byron Bay Bluesfest unveiling of his new challenge, The Barnestormers.
Scottish-born Barnes joined Adelaide-based Cold Chisel within the early Nineteen Seventies and the band went on to launch a string of hit albums.
He launched into a profitable solo profession in 1983, though the band reunited in 1997.
Barnes additionally underwent open coronary heart surgical procedure in 2007 to appropriate a congenital situation.
