Barnesy fans across the region were ecstatic when he announced that Bathurst would be one of only two Central West concerts when he embarks on a tour next year.

Tickets to the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre concert next April were available pre-sale to Friends of BMEC, while tickets for the general public, which were released on Monday, sold out within 30 minutes.

Centre manager Stephen Champion said on Monday he couldn’t recall any other event selling out so quickly.

“Basically, the show was sold out by 10.30am,” he said. 

“There are one or two seats, just single tickets, but everything else is gone.”

Mr Champion said the pre-sale tickets were also snapped up.

“We had people join the Friends of BMEC so they could get in early,” he said.

Mr Champion said it was great Bathurst was getting such a high calibre performer.

On Monday, Mr Champion said it was a possibility promoters of the tour would consider a second concert in Bathurst, but nothing had been confirmed.

On Thursday, however, promoters confirmed there would be no second concert “at this stage”.

BMEC assistant manager Leonie Smith said BMEC had received many calls from people wanting to know if there would be a second concert, but “at this stage, we’re advising people it isn’t happening”.

Barnes announced his national tour last week.

Apart from his BMEC show on Saturday, April 7, his only other Central West show will be at the Parklands Resort and Conference Centre in Mudgee on Thursday, April 5.

Working Class Man: An Evening of Stories and Songs is the sequel to the acclaimed live show Barnes toured following the release of his first bestselling memoir, Working Class Boy, in 2016.

This new tour follows the release of part two of the memoir, titled Working Class Man, this week.

In Working Class Boy, Barnes revealed the previously untold details of what was a profoundly troubled childhood. 

That memoir won the Australian Book Industry Award for best biography of 2016 and was also the country’s number one selling non-fiction title last year, with sales now topping 150,000 copies.

Working Class Man begins in 1974 as Barnes leaves Adelaide with a then-unknown rock group called Cold Chisel.  

Next year’s tour will also help promote the work of Lifeline as Barnes will be drawing further attention to the issues of addiction and mental health.