ON THE ROAD: AC/DC
AC/DC:
BLACK ICE IN EUROPE
MARK CUNNINGHAM CLIMBED ABOARD THE EUROSTAR EXPRESS TO PARIS TO CATCH
A WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE... AND THE TRAIN THEME DIDN’T END AT LE GARE DU NORD.
At a time when political correctness and out on their first full-length tour since 2001.
saving the planet are supposed to take As someone who had only seen AC/DC once
precedence over simply enjoying life to the before, in 1980 at Hammy Odeon on the Back In
full, it would be ironic if the year’s biggest box Black tour (just after ex-Geordie frontman Brian
office smash turned out to be AC/DC’s Black Johnson took over from the late Bon Scott), I
Ice tour — one that employs between 20 and was keen to discover if the band can still cut the
30 trucks, has a set list filled with anti-feminist mustard in their late middle age. No problem! The
gestures, doesn’t seem to give a toss about current show is everything an AC/DC fan, young
challenging the boundaries of ‘safe’ noise or old, would hope or expect to see. A perfect
levels, and features a chain-smoking drummer. mix of classics and new material delivered with
These were merely passing thoughts as I maximum gusto.
watched the band perform at the top of their For the die-hards, the notion of guitar hero
game at the Palais Omnisports de Bercy in Paris Angus Young treading the boards without his
on February 25. Naughty, yes... but so refreshing trademark school tie, cap and shorts is simply
to know that the true spirit of no-compromise unacceptable, and he knows it. There he is, in
rock’n’roll is alive and well in the hands of this all his wild abandon, and whilst he’ll be 54 at Above: Production manager Dale ‘Opie’ Skjerseth
genre-defining Anglo-Australian band, currently the end of this month, he’s as fit as ever with no & production co-ordinator Alexis Wadley
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