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AC/DC New album and Tour.

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  • #1142
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,716 ✭✭✭✭briany


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121279700#Comment_121279700

    Rumour is true, but the operation isn't for himself, rather it was to raise funds for the care of a woman he describes as 'the love of his life' who has terminal cancer. This would likely explain his absence from Power Trip, wanting to stay home and help look after her.

    https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/301009996/acdc-rocker-phil-rudd-sells-up-for-love-of-his-life-who-is-dying-of-cancer




  • #1143
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Given how grim it was for him the last time they toured it's nice to see something heartwarming like that.

    If there is a tour hope he can make it, although reading acdcfans, the lads over there seem more accepting of Laug than Slade.



  • #1144
    briany
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121386574#Comment_121386574

    Not hard to see why. Slade is a class act, but he's something like 76 and well past his best at this point.



  • #1145
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Fuckin PINK is playing the Aviva next year. Jaysus



  • #1146
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121395708#Comment_121395708

    Looking like The Stones will be back in Croke Park in August



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  • #1147
    Mental Mickey
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121396130#Comment_121396130

    Meh



  • #1148
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121398511#Comment_121398511

    yeah have to agree with you, much prefer it to be AC/DC

    feels less than 6 years since that Croke Park show, was brillant tbf but think they will need a strong support lineup this time round. The Academic was such as odd choice looking at other cities support



  • #1149
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Looking at acdcfans apparently Chris Chaney will be on bass for the tour, disappointing if true, but if Cliff doesn't want to tour what can you do, makes me glad I saw the Back in Black line up 15 years ago.



  • #1150
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748665#Comment_121748665

    Can't say I know much about him. Saying Paul Rudd won't tour either. Suppose casuals won't care

    Please be Croke Park instead of Slane



  • #1151
    Penfailed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121749256#Comment_121749256

    Please be Slane instead of Croke Park 😁

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Franz Ferdinand, Stereolab, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic



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  • #1152
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121749800#Comment_121749800

    Phoenix Park here we go



  • #1153
    Penfailed
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121750449#Comment_121750449

    😆!

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Franz Ferdinand, Stereolab, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic



  • #1154
    scudzilla
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748665#Comment_121748665

    Latest rumour is that Duff (GnR) will be playing Bass



  • #1155
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121754786#Comment_121754786

    Ah sure we had Axl/DC in the past

    Not sure will Duff sell more tickets

    The casuals wont give a toss or notice, hopefully they dont take the piss for the ticket price



  • #1156
    scudzilla
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121755064#Comment_121755064

    Dont think selling tickets is an issue, they'll fly out whatever

    They need a replacement for Cliff and Duff is more then competent



  • #1157
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121755070#Comment_121755070

    pity Rudd wont be there too (if the chatter is true)

    my gig going days were in the infancy back in 2009 when the classic lineup played 3Arena and Punchestown. That was a solid summer of gigs



  • #1158
    scudzilla
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121755160#Comment_121755160

    First seen them in 88 in Birmingham, seen them countless times since, Growing up in North Wales and being only 90mins from Manchester or 2hrs from Birmingham was great.

    Was at the last gig in the Point, decided to skip the Punchestown one

    Best ive seen them was prob Donington 91, some line up that day.

    I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place for the announcement tomorrow

    I love Slane as it's only 15mins from me gaff but a kunt to get in and out of, Croke would be easier but sound is known to be shite



  • #1159
    Penfailed
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    Confirmed for Croke Park on the 17th of August.

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Sprints, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Scratch

    Gigs '26 - Deftones, Sleaford Mods, Franz Ferdinand, Stereolab, Clutch, Big Thief, The Cure, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, IDLES, Electric Picnic



  • #1160
    fyfe79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭fyfe79


    Dublin's a sell-out fairly lively. No surprise, really. Got in to buy but couldn't justify putting down €313.50 for 2 tickets.

    Post edited by fyfe79 on


  • #1161
    cosatron
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121774425#Comment_121774425

    the pricing is horrific, how are they getting away with this. Pearl jam is also in the region of €127 for a standing ticket.



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  • #1162
    bnt
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121775054#Comment_121775054

    The short answer to the ticket price question is that bands have learned to charge roughly what scalpers would be charging. Bands underpricing tickets was what gave scalpers a market to exploit.

    It looks like Chris Chaney on bass and Matt Laug on drums. Stevie's been in the band for a decade already, which is a bit startling.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #1163
    Riddle101
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    Managed to sort myself a ticket for AC/DC. Was very touch and go this morning, waiting in a queue of about 20,000.



  • #1164
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    New song Brian has done with Slash, until he starts screaming towards the end you nearly won't recognise him, could have used that more with AC/DC.

    https://youtu.be/QAxBEfKeOzw?si=DAWkgKEJRB0sCqnP




  • #1165
    Wanderer78
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    for those still looking for tickets, just hang tight, some extra tickets have gone on sale since the original on sale date, none dynamically adjusted, averaging between 150 - 200 each, more may go on sale, but some will more than likely become available closer to date via fan resales

    chat here about it....

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058335812/acdc-croke-park-sat-aug-17th




  • #1166
    evillive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭evillive


    Got caught this morning🙄🙄🙄

    https://www.laoistoday.ie/2024/04/01/legendary-rock-group-ac-dc-to-perform-rare-intimate-gig-in-laois/



  • #1167
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Tour starting tonight in Gelsenkirchen, I'm guessing they'll start with Realize.



  • #1168
    PTH2009
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122147612#Comment_122147612

    Looking like it won't be a 'custom build stage'



  • #1169
    briany
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    Angus is absolutely ripping it up (for his age). OK, he's not throwing the shapes he used to, which is understandable, but he's rolled the clock back on his playing. He must have been practicing…

    Laug is a very able stand-in for Rudd.

    Chaney seems solid.

    Problem is that they're never going to have the organic understanding between them that Rudd and Williams would have had. It would be impossible to gain this in such a short space of time, even for professional players like them.

    Brian is doing his best, and it's not that he's out of tune or anything, but he has to modify so much of the melodies in order to make it sound OK that it's just not the same. But it's some achievement just to still be up there, at his age.



  • #1170
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    The lads over on acdcfans love Laug, they were moaning a lot about Slade a few years ago, Dublin will be a good concert just won't be the same without Cliff and Phil.



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  • #1171
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    15 years since Punchestown tonight, if you told me that night I'd be going to see them again in 2024 I'd think that was mental, granted Malcolm's dead and it's two session lads in place of Cliff and Phil.



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