AC/DC New Album/Tour
Discussion
lambysdad said:
Been trying all morning to get tickets for Wembley, no success. 
See Tickets have some at face value....http://www.seetickets.com/tour/ac-dc/
jontymo said:
Got ours for Hampden Park, hotels booked, roll on June.
May have 2 tickets spare sat next to me and the wife but cannot confirm until Jan if anyone interested.
Might be interested in those, Jon, if available - we've already booked the blooming hotel but couldn't get the tickets!May have 2 tickets spare sat next to me and the wife but cannot confirm until Jan if anyone interested.
according to blabbermouth (which is never the best for facts)
Tickets for AC/DC's 2015 tour are reportedly going fast, with the band's July 1 stop in Dublin, Ireland at Aviva Stadium (52,000 capacity) selling out in less than 20 minutes, according to Independent.ie, and all 72,500 tickets to the band's London Wembley Stadium show on July 4 selling out in under an hour, according to NME.com.
Meanwhile, all 48,000 tickets for AC/DC's June 5, 2015 concert at Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, Switzerland were snapped up in six minutes but media reported that some were being resold within an hour at five times the price.
Just wow @ ticket sales
Tickets for AC/DC's 2015 tour are reportedly going fast, with the band's July 1 stop in Dublin, Ireland at Aviva Stadium (52,000 capacity) selling out in less than 20 minutes, according to Independent.ie, and all 72,500 tickets to the band's London Wembley Stadium show on July 4 selling out in under an hour, according to NME.com.
Meanwhile, all 48,000 tickets for AC/DC's June 5, 2015 concert at Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, Switzerland were snapped up in six minutes but media reported that some were being resold within an hour at five times the price.
Just wow @ ticket sales
MikeT66 said:
jontymo said:
Got ours for Hampden Park, hotels booked, roll on June.
May have 2 tickets spare sat next to me and the wife but cannot confirm until Jan if anyone interested.
Might be interested in those, Jon, if available - we've already booked the blooming hotel but couldn't get the tickets!May have 2 tickets spare sat next to me and the wife but cannot confirm until Jan if anyone interested.
Jon
jontymo said:
MikeT66 said:
jontymo said:
Got ours for Hampden Park, hotels booked, roll on June.
May have 2 tickets spare sat next to me and the wife but cannot confirm until Jan if anyone interested.
Might be interested in those, Jon, if available - we've already booked the blooming hotel but couldn't get the tickets!May have 2 tickets spare sat next to me and the wife but cannot confirm until Jan if anyone interested.
Jon
Holy thread resurrection batman...
Well, AC/DC last night at Hampden Park in Glasgow, and I have to say...I was a little disappointed. I have loads of AC/DC albums but I'd never seen them in concert before; so one for the bucket list. So the good news, the songs were well played/delivered, and most of the numbers you'd want were in there (and some you probably didn't need); Angus came on stage in his schoolboy outfit, and Brian had his cap.
So it stated well with the first number and Brian saying that they were there to play rock, or some such... Then we had a number that in truth was too loud for the sound system to reproduce adequately. So at the end of the first number the lights go out, the video stops, and they all huddle round the drum kit for some reason. I guessed maybe they were maybe discussing a technical fault. But a few minutes later we're off again playing. But actually that was the modus operandi between numbers - turn everything off and go in to a wee huddle. So the audience gets all fired up during the tune, then we all stand about looking at each other for a few minutes wondering what's going to happen next, and then it all kicks off again, but by now the atmosphere's gone and we're starting from scratch again.
Having seen Brian Johnson on TV on car programmes and the like, I'd have expected he'd have been up for some banter between numbers; and would have had the skills to keep the crowd going continually for 90 minutes or whatever. Sadly not. Sure he delivers the numbers, but the other front-man skill of engaging the audience just wasn't there. Apart from saying we play rock at the beginning and saying we salute you at the end, I'm not sure he said another bl00dy word all night? This had to be the most sterile concert I've ever been to. If I just wanted to hear the tunes with a couple of minutes gap in-between I could have played them on my iPod and paused it for an infeasibly long time time between tracks. If I'd just wanted to see Angus Young's antics then there's plenty of clips on YouTube. But I wanted an involving experience...and that, sadly, wasn't there. We could have had the same show with a totally different audience (and this was Glasgow after all, not known for being shrinking violets); hell, we would have had just the same show in a rehearsal with no audience!
I intentionally didn't rush in to see the support band 'Vintage Trouble', having come really just to experience AC/DC. But Brian...take a lesson from that band's front-man. Here was a band nobody knew, playing tunes nobody had heard of, but he had the crowd on-side and involved; we knew he was happy to be there, and we were happy to be there too. Not really sure if Brian (and the band) were happy to be there or not, or just doing their job.
Marked contract to James Taylor who I saw earlier in the year (I have wide tastes). Sure it was a totally different concert, but he involved the audience - possibly like no-one else I've seen. Humble and self-deprecating, we learned more about him and his music (actually, maybe we didn't, but it felt that way); he came across as such a great guy...but most importantly we all felt we shared in something special, and shared it without a break.
I just don't think I've ever seen a concert where the lead simply doesn't engage with the audience like that. Just looking at and pointing to the audience on occasion doesn't count as getting involved. So yes, been there, seen it, got a Tee shirt...but while there's some bands I'd pay to see again and a again, AC/DC is now an itch that's been scratched.
But to be clear, it's not the performance in the numbers I'm criticising; it was just that was all there was...
There was loads of technology there - if Brian (or Angus) isn't up to the job of holding an audience between numbers, and they can't play from one number to the next without a big break, then at least play us a video, or show us some picture. Hell even an Australian tourist board advert and a few kangaroos would have kept us entertained between numbers.
And again we get a self-indulgent far-too-long guitar solo session. Angus, we know you can play a bit; that's why we've come to see the band. But we don't need however long it was of jamming through an inadequate sound system; in the time wasted we could have had another tune (like how about 'Heatseeker'?). But it's not just AC/DC that's guilty of that. I've never met anyone in an audience (who's sober) who enjoys these solo sessions; at least we weren't then subjected to a drum solo and a bass solo. Always strikes me a but like masturbation - whoever's doing it has a great time; but it's not so good for the spectators, who don't really know what to do with themselves.
So...better sound (unless you knew the lyrics, I'd guess the vocals were unintelligible), or turn it down a few clicks if you can't make it sound right; DO SOMETHING between numbers - hey, talk to us, we've paid your wages to be here; and cut out the w@anky guitar solo.
Buy yes I enjoyed it and glad I went, but maybe a 5/10, not a 10/10. That still maybe goes to Aerosmith at that level.
And as an aside, what gives with folks throwing beer glasses in the crowd...albeit plastic ones? Happens at loads of concerts these days, and nobody seems to be too concerned apart from the folks that get hit/wet. Why don't the other concert-goers beat the sh!t out of anyone the see throwing something...it's not as if the folks beside them haven't seen the perpetrator. For the money folks pay for tickets, 10p extra a seat would surely pay for some hi-res security cameras with playback, a few folks to monitor them, and some security with a radio connection to haul these idiots out and eject them. Or are folks just happy with the status quo (and they were far better at holding the audience too
) with the real chance to get hit and covered with beer or worse.
Hey ho. Rant (of sorts) over. And I still can't hear a bl00dy thing.
Well, AC/DC last night at Hampden Park in Glasgow, and I have to say...I was a little disappointed. I have loads of AC/DC albums but I'd never seen them in concert before; so one for the bucket list. So the good news, the songs were well played/delivered, and most of the numbers you'd want were in there (and some you probably didn't need); Angus came on stage in his schoolboy outfit, and Brian had his cap.
So it stated well with the first number and Brian saying that they were there to play rock, or some such... Then we had a number that in truth was too loud for the sound system to reproduce adequately. So at the end of the first number the lights go out, the video stops, and they all huddle round the drum kit for some reason. I guessed maybe they were maybe discussing a technical fault. But a few minutes later we're off again playing. But actually that was the modus operandi between numbers - turn everything off and go in to a wee huddle. So the audience gets all fired up during the tune, then we all stand about looking at each other for a few minutes wondering what's going to happen next, and then it all kicks off again, but by now the atmosphere's gone and we're starting from scratch again.
Having seen Brian Johnson on TV on car programmes and the like, I'd have expected he'd have been up for some banter between numbers; and would have had the skills to keep the crowd going continually for 90 minutes or whatever. Sadly not. Sure he delivers the numbers, but the other front-man skill of engaging the audience just wasn't there. Apart from saying we play rock at the beginning and saying we salute you at the end, I'm not sure he said another bl00dy word all night? This had to be the most sterile concert I've ever been to. If I just wanted to hear the tunes with a couple of minutes gap in-between I could have played them on my iPod and paused it for an infeasibly long time time between tracks. If I'd just wanted to see Angus Young's antics then there's plenty of clips on YouTube. But I wanted an involving experience...and that, sadly, wasn't there. We could have had the same show with a totally different audience (and this was Glasgow after all, not known for being shrinking violets); hell, we would have had just the same show in a rehearsal with no audience!
I intentionally didn't rush in to see the support band 'Vintage Trouble', having come really just to experience AC/DC. But Brian...take a lesson from that band's front-man. Here was a band nobody knew, playing tunes nobody had heard of, but he had the crowd on-side and involved; we knew he was happy to be there, and we were happy to be there too. Not really sure if Brian (and the band) were happy to be there or not, or just doing their job.
Marked contract to James Taylor who I saw earlier in the year (I have wide tastes). Sure it was a totally different concert, but he involved the audience - possibly like no-one else I've seen. Humble and self-deprecating, we learned more about him and his music (actually, maybe we didn't, but it felt that way); he came across as such a great guy...but most importantly we all felt we shared in something special, and shared it without a break.
I just don't think I've ever seen a concert where the lead simply doesn't engage with the audience like that. Just looking at and pointing to the audience on occasion doesn't count as getting involved. So yes, been there, seen it, got a Tee shirt...but while there's some bands I'd pay to see again and a again, AC/DC is now an itch that's been scratched.
But to be clear, it's not the performance in the numbers I'm criticising; it was just that was all there was...
There was loads of technology there - if Brian (or Angus) isn't up to the job of holding an audience between numbers, and they can't play from one number to the next without a big break, then at least play us a video, or show us some picture. Hell even an Australian tourist board advert and a few kangaroos would have kept us entertained between numbers.
And again we get a self-indulgent far-too-long guitar solo session. Angus, we know you can play a bit; that's why we've come to see the band. But we don't need however long it was of jamming through an inadequate sound system; in the time wasted we could have had another tune (like how about 'Heatseeker'?). But it's not just AC/DC that's guilty of that. I've never met anyone in an audience (who's sober) who enjoys these solo sessions; at least we weren't then subjected to a drum solo and a bass solo. Always strikes me a but like masturbation - whoever's doing it has a great time; but it's not so good for the spectators, who don't really know what to do with themselves.
So...better sound (unless you knew the lyrics, I'd guess the vocals were unintelligible), or turn it down a few clicks if you can't make it sound right; DO SOMETHING between numbers - hey, talk to us, we've paid your wages to be here; and cut out the w@anky guitar solo.
Buy yes I enjoyed it and glad I went, but maybe a 5/10, not a 10/10. That still maybe goes to Aerosmith at that level.
And as an aside, what gives with folks throwing beer glasses in the crowd...albeit plastic ones? Happens at loads of concerts these days, and nobody seems to be too concerned apart from the folks that get hit/wet. Why don't the other concert-goers beat the sh!t out of anyone the see throwing something...it's not as if the folks beside them haven't seen the perpetrator. For the money folks pay for tickets, 10p extra a seat would surely pay for some hi-res security cameras with playback, a few folks to monitor them, and some security with a radio connection to haul these idiots out and eject them. Or are folks just happy with the status quo (and they were far better at holding the audience too
) with the real chance to get hit and covered with beer or worse. Hey ho. Rant (of sorts) over. And I still can't hear a bl00dy thing.
I had my finger on the trigger when the tour & tickets were announced. Couldn't justify the prices and I was quite hacked off at the choice of venues (no offence to the 3 cities they went to but they couldn't have been further apart).
Alot of my favourite bands seem to be just going through the motions now (Quo & Motorhead to name a couple).
Alot of my favourite bands seem to be just going through the motions now (Quo & Motorhead to name a couple).
MonkeyBusiness said:
Alot of my favourite bands seem to be just going through the motions now (Quo & Motorhead to name a couple).
Not surprising really as they are all pensioners.. 
Going to AC/DC on Saturday, mostly to bring my two little boys boys who loves them and I don't think we will get many (any) more chances.
By the way I could buy a couple of tickets for Saturdays show if anyone is selling!
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