The rumour mill is in overdrive: an AC/DC tour announcement is coming, and another big hint has just dropped.
Per Whatslively, the iconic Australian rock band’s signature lightning bolt was seen projected at Melbourne’s MCG on Friday night (June 20th), one of the stadiums rumoured to host the band on a 2025 tour.
It comes after multiple sources told Rolling Stone AU/NZ that AC/DC will embark on their first stadium tour of Australia in over a decade later this year.
AC/DC’s last visit was in 2015 as part of their Rock or Bust world tour.
On that occasion, Angus Young and co. shifted more than 520,000 tickets across 11 coast-to-coast dates, including shows in Auckland and Wellington.
Their previous tour Down Under was the record-busting Black Ice stadium run of 2009, which sold some 750,000 tickets, including 650,000 in Australia alone.
AC/DC are tight with Melbourne-based Van Egmond Group, which presented both tours and previous treks. The company is now part of TEG Group, through an acquisition completed in 2020, and run by managing director Christo Van Egmond, whose father, the late impresario Garry Van Egmond, was the band’s go-to man in Australasia.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band are about to embark on another pan-European stadium run, their second in 12 months, kicking off June 26th at Letňany Airport in Prague, Czech Republic, followed by stops in Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, France, and Scotland. North American dates have just wrapped up.
The Australian rock heavyweights are on the road in support of their 2020 album Power Up, which, like so much of the good stuff in life, was delayed by the pandemic.
Their 17th and latest LP, Power Up gave Akka Dakka their sixth No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and leaders on the Billboard 200 and Official U.K. Albums Chart. AC/DC’s entire catalog is administered by Sony Music Publishing on a worldwide basis through a partnership struck in 2021 with Alberts.
