AC/DC tour - 2 Mar 2010 @ Adelaide Oval

THE world's most famous "schoolboy" and his mates are coming to Adelaide.

AC/DC - featuring the antics of strutting guitarist Angus Young in his trademark school shorts, blazer and cap - will return home for the first time in nine years as part of its Black Ice tour, performing at Adelaide Oval on March 2.

Tour promoters are lauding it as one of the biggest rock tours in Australian music history, with the band using no less than 48 semi-trailers for its stage rigging and equipment on the five-city extravaganza.

AC/DC, which burst on the music scene in 1975 with debut album High Voltage, still holds the record for the biggest-selling rock album of all time, with Back In Black selling more than 45 million copies.

Only Michael Jackson's pop classic Thriller has sold more - an extraordinary 100 million copies.

The band's latest effort, 2008's Black Ice, debuted at No. 1 in many countries - including the US and Australia.

Tour promoter Garry Van Egmond said fans could expect "two hours of amazing staging, all their hits and just a great rock 'n' roll concert".

Mr Van Egmond said the concert - certain to be a sell-out with 40,000 tickets on sale - would be a visual spectacular unrivalled in the world of rock, with props including a full-sized steam train.

"The train arrives on the stage - it's just incredible," he said. "It starts off with a film clip of them on the train, then it just arrives on the stage. Then, of course, they've got Rosie (a giant inflatable doll who appears during Whole Lotta Rosie) and a giant bell. And there are also cannons.

"Of all the shows I've been involved in, it is one of the more spectacular ones. Just the mechanics of it are really incredible."

One Adelaide fan who's excited about the announcement is John Antonello, 45, lead singer with Adelaide AC/DC tribute band High Voltage.

"It's been a long time coming," he said. "I've been to pretty much all of them, from the Back in Black tour in '81, Who Made Who in '88 at Globe Derby and the Thunderstruck and Ballbreaker shows at the Entertainment Centre."

Mr Antonello said AC/DC's music crossed age, gender and class. "Basically, it's just straight-between-the-eyes rock 'n' roll - nothing complicated," he said.

Tickets, at $99 for general admission and $149.90 for reserved seats, will go on sale through Ticketek on May 25.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25454200-5006301,00.html

sold!

steve you keen? surely you are..

I reckon me and Tommo are gonna be up for this.

I'm very keen.

Not sure I'm keen to do the camp out overnight to get tickets thing as I dare say that kind of effort will be necessary for this one.

 
No way, camping out ? What's the total capacity for Adelaide Oval now?, and by 2010 ?
There should be plenty of room !! I'll predict that the area around Light's Statue will also be rammed, the volume should be colossal !
Props to the AC/DC band and staff for putting in all that hard work. They'd be really enjoying the rewards of it now, inspirational.

I think it's 36,000 or so. I reckon AC/DC are one of the few bands who could attract that sort of crowd in Adelaide.

so fucking keen, i may actually be a mustard

Have been around the top of my "too see" list for many a year

Now for Chisel to reform and put on a private Holbrooks Show

sensational. we can buy tickets together!

awesome, when it comes to hard as nails in your face rock, nothing beats AC/DC

their style has influenced so many bands over the years

Tickets for Adelaide Oval go on sale at 12:30pm on Mon 25 May.

Tickets are:
"A" class General Admission (oval) = $150
"A" class General Admission (mound standing) = $150
"A" class Seating (I'm guessing seats at the front and to the immediate sides of the stage) = $150
"B" class General Admission (mound standing - I guess at the back??) = $100
"B" class Seating (stands I assume) = $100

http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=ACDC10&v=ADO&searchId=ab44ab52-05c2-46c0-b67d-30c74eb88d3d


and

AN AC/DC concert in Munich that drew noise complaints from half a city away guarantees Adelaide will shake all night long when the legendary rockers perform here next March.

There were 70,000 fans at the German city's Olympic Stadium on Friday, shaking the foundations and attracting noise complaints from suburban Unterhaching, almost 20km away. Deep Purple's 1975 Memorial Park concert could be heard in Semaphore, 16km away

Adelaide City councillor David Plumridge said council had asked the rockers to follow its guidelines for the Adelaide Oval concert on a Tuesday night. He admitted it "would be churlish to stand in their way".

"The council understands AC/DC is a very special kind of group," Mr Plumridge said.

"What we expect to happen is that our guidelines for noise emissions from events like this be followed as far as possible."

North Adelaide Society secretary John Bridgland said council had "some fairly disciplined policies about noise in the parklands and we expect that to be applied to every concert". "We're looking forward to seeing Angus's legs – he shouldn't be in short pants at his age," he said.

Tour promoter Garry Van Egmond said Adelaide could expect the same experience as Europe. "We play within the restrictions of the sound levels," he said. "I've just been in London and saw the concert indoors. It's not an Andre Rieu concert. In some places it's 115 (decibels), roughly the equivalent of a jet airliner taking off.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25514249-5006301,00.html

Got my ticket today! I have been on standby waiting list on Qantas for 6 months now!

so much for you hating 'corporate generic stadium rock'   

im keen but prob won't be able to get a ticket without putting effort to line up etc. Angus has always been a huge influence on me in terms of guitar playing

All you had to do was go online...

I got mine so see you all next March!

Black Ice is shite. I'm a big fan of their older gear but their no stuff just doesn't cut it

mix 102.3 and adelaide now have a petition going to get a second show in adelaide

http://www2.advertiser.com.au/comps_cms/comp.php?id=574&referrer=email&source=AN_email_nl

even if you have a ticket or dont intend on going, sign it for the people who missed out.

i reckon there are load of people out there with more tickets than they know what to do with, and will have to start selling them off at decent prices after they have divvied them out to their mates.

I loathe that attitude.  The 'I'll buy more than I need and sell off the others at a profit' is akin to buying a cd and burning it a thousand times to make money out of it! Greedy evil fuckers!  If anything you should only be able to sell back to the distributor, I don't care if they sell it at an inflated price at least they have something on the line. 

Is this where I get a "you were right Josh"?

its pretty retarded that there isnt say a 4-ticket maximum per person

was speaking to my bro about this and he has been trumped loads of times on the internet by geeks who set up accounts and software whereby they are the first inline and have the opp to buy say fifty tickets, and then proceed to put them directly onto ebay. they do this for pretty much every concert available.

fucking scum.

 The only reason I can think of is that a 4 ticket maximum would overwhelm ticketing resources.

 Totally agree though.

If the BDO out and other major concerts can do it so scalpers can't do their thing then why can't the promoters of the ACDC concert?

It's bullshit.

Sorry for the delay mate, Yeah, you were right ! Where the outlets open from 12:01 like most other places in the world when this kinda of huge event happens ? No ! (probably not) So while these hard-core people are camping out and for the last seven hours or so of that camp out, the on-line crew already have bought a vast majority of the tickets !! 10 ticket limit per customer, pffft... dickheads !! They obviously want people to fight the scalpers for them out front of the gate then ! ?? I think i know what you're getting at. You mean the outlets would have bigger line-ups, then yeah. But online-based sales? per IP or if the customer has registered with the ticket distributor and has a traceable number, shouldn't the on-line max. also be 4 ?
The concert promoters must let that internet-based-50-tickets-first-in-line-software stuff to go on all the time, because it may only represent a small percentage of profit they don't get. I guess people don't care at the end of the day, they'd pay anything for a good dose of music therapy, tailor-made to their exact needs...

Just release internet sale tickets two days after outlets.

I'd love to see a scalper at this concert! mofo would get fucked up!

Now that is a good idea! While it will inconvenience many (I for one used to buy most of my tix online) it will surely slow down those scalpers.

They'll have to resort to the old classic method pioneered by the Yakuza for console launches (eg. paying poor/homeless people to stand in line to buy consoles ala the PS3 launch).

No inconvenience really , can still buy them on line but two days later.




OOps forgot about things like country folk getting tickets.  Maybe only day or five hours after they go on sale

the petition didnt work and they will not be doing another adelaide show.

Don't know why they wouldn't. Would offset the cost of putting the show on even more. Think It's pretty safe to say they'd sell out a second show pretty damn quickly.

Either way, cunts. Fuck You AC/DC!

Are you guys sure there wasn't a 4 ticket limit?

There was in Melbourne for all 3 shows...

 I saw a guy on the news saying he had bought tickets for 14 of his mates.

 To be fair I dunno if he could have counted that far without taking his shoes off though *shrug*

Definitely no limit.

Saw picks in the paper of people coming out holding like 20 tickets in their hands.

wasn't the limit something ridiculous like 50?

I know a guy who got 32. There was a limit of 20 on ticketek then he got another 12 through the fan club. Wasnt to fair. Lucky i got 2 tickets tho ;-)

Fuckin AYE! Rangled a ticket for the Melbourne gig. The night before i leave the country.

ohhhh noes!!!   

I hope they were all for friends! Else I'm just wishin cancer on him!

Yea they were. Basically got his whole football team there.

just received my tix today

hurry up already...

sooo many people roaming the city streets in black ac/dc shirts today

haha and denim. so much denim.

 You weren't kidding!1000's!

mullet central in town tonight, cripes. i cant remember seeing so many bogans in one place since the mid 80s

I guess you haven't been to the Clipsal 500 then?

erm no

i used to live around the corner from one of the main gates, and every year without fail we used to gtfo of town. kinda got over watching fat bogans piss in our front yard, throw in their rubbish/bottles and harass our female friends.

cant say i thought the accadacca fans were like that though.

probably helps having only a few hours worth of drinks under the belt compared to 8+hrs like at clipsal!

My brother went to this and was blown away. He said it was the best concert he's ever been to.

me and weez sat outside and listened to a fair bit of it, angus was on fire!!

Yeah my bro said his solos were mad. The pyrotechnics and videos were incredible too.

Did anyone on AM go to it?

If so, what's the verdict?

i didn't go in but listened from outside had a good night cracking funnies with the yobbos.