Shutting Down Our Town

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"Shutting Down Our Town"
Shutting Down Our Town by Jimmy Barnes.jpg
Single by Jimmy Barnes
from the album My Criminal Record
Released26 April 2019 (2019-04-26)
Length4:44
Label BloodLines
Songwriter(s) Troy Cassar-Daley
Jimmy Barnes singles chronology
"My Criminal Record"
(2019)		"Shutting Down Our Town"
(2019)		"I Won't Let You Down"
(2019)

"Shutting Down Our Town" is a song by Australian rock musician, Jimmy Barnes. It was released on 26 April 2019 as the second single from Barnes' studio album My Criminal Record .

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In the week after its release, the song was the second most added song on radio, behind "Me!" by Taylor Swift. [1]

At the APRA Music Awards of 2020, "Shutting Down Our Town" won the Most Performed Rock Work of the Year. [2] [3] [4]

Background and release

Troy Cassar-Daley wrote "Shutting Down Our Town" for Barnes after finding inspiration from the Barnes' 2016 memoir Working Class Boy. Barnes said "I changed a couple of words just because of local knowledge, but it was 99.999% Troy's song” adding "...he played it to me and I immediately felt the connection." [5] Barnes said "This song has a lot of personal meaning. It's about growing up in Elizabeth and the closing down of the Holden factory where I once worked as a young working class boy in North Adelaide" adding "I drove through there not long after I heard the song for the first time, and I felt a pain in my heart for the people there who are battling, trying to make a living when everything is stacked up against them." [6] Barnes admits the song moved him to tears. [7]

"It's sort of a heartland "Working Class Man" anthem... This was written by somebody who feels the pain, and who's writing about the darker side of Australia which I never wanted to face before." [8]

Barnes premiered the song in November 2018 during his One Electric Day concert [9] and was officially released on 26 April 2019. [10]

Music video

The music video for "Shutting Down Our Town" was released on 6 May 2019. [11] [12]

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Australia Digital Tracks (ARIA) [13] 35

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [14] Gold35,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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  2. ↑ "Tones and I Leads Nominations for 2020 Virtual APRA Awards". Noise11. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "2020 Awards". APRA. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. ↑ Cooper, Nathanael (25 May 2020). "Tones and I, Hilltop Hoods dominate 2020 APRA Music Awards". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "SOTD: Jimmy Barnes unveils hometown single penned by Troy Cassar-Daley". the music network. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "The Story Behind The New Song From Jimmy Barnes". Triple M. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "The Story Behind The New Song From Jimmy Barnes". 92.5 Gold FM. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "JIMMY BARNES RELEASES NEW SINGLE 'SHUTTING DOWN OUR TOWN'". Mushroom Promotions. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "Jimmy Barnes Introduces Two New Songs at One Electric Day". noise11. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  10. ↑ "New Jimmy Barnes 'Shutting Down Our Town' Is About Elizabeth, South Australia #Listen". noise11. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  11. ↑ "Jimmy Barnes – Shutting Down Our Town (Official Video)". YouTube. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  12. ↑ "JIMMY BARNES HAS RELEASED A FILM CLIP FOR HIS NEW SONG ABOUT ELIZABETH". Five AA. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
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