AC/DC Announce Australian Tour; Cities Plan Big Welcome Home

AC/DC are to receive a big welcome home when they return in the spring for their first Down Under shows in more than a decade.
As announced June 23 by TEG Van Egmond, the Sydney-formed band is initially taking in Melbourne Cricket Ground (Nov. 21) which has a 100,000-concert capacity; Sydney’s 83,500-seat Accor Stadium (Nov. 21); the 61,266-seat Optus Stadium, Perth (Dec. 4); and Brisbane’s 52,500-seat Brisbane Suncorp Stadium (Dec. 14).
Tickets for the tour, which includes Amyl & the Sniffers in support, go on sale June 26.
AC/DC will also headline the Nov. 30 concert of the four-day bp Adelaide Grand Final supercars event, which draws 250,000. Other acts confirmed are Lenny Kravitz and Jet.
South Australia premier Peter Malinauskas revealed the band insisted on tickets staying low at A$99 (US$63.60) for their concert. “The world’s greatest rock and roll band headlining the greatest motorsport event in the country, it’s hard to imagine a better fit,” he said.
Their last visit to the state drew 53,000 to Adelaide Oval.
The “POWER UP Tour” follows Rock or Bust in 2015 which sold a total of 520,000 tix in Australia, and 650,000 on 2009’s Black Ice. Both were through the then-known Van Egmond Group.
AC/DC toured U.S. stadiums this spring, beginning with Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank stadium, where the band grossed $6,524,900 on a 46,176-ticket sellout, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports.
A number of cities are working on high profile AC/DC events to coincide. Melbourne’s lord mayor Nick Reece invited them to recreate its iconic music video for “It’s A Long Way To The Top” to mark its 50th anniversary next February.
For the then-cost of $380 (US 245.57), the band was filmed performing on a flatbed truck along main thoroughfare, Swanston Street, accompanied by the Rats of Tobruk Pipe Band.
The recreation would include a week of shows in City Square by local acts. If the band didn’t take part, AC/DC tribute bands will play on the truck.
AC/DC is repped by CAA’s Christopher Dalston.
