Cold Chisel: how I learned to love Oz rock’s last great survivors

As the rock giants take their new album – and Grinspoon – around Australia, Andrew Stafford reveals how he shook off his aversion to all that masculine camaraderie and opened his earsI used to hate Cold Chisel. As a teenager in the 1980s, it was hard to avoid them. FM radio couldn’t get enough of them, and Khe Sanh was especially ubiquitous, pumped out of every muscle-car stereo at the beach like an extra pipeline of exhaust fumes. Despite growing up in the outer eastern suburb