AC/DC are on a highway to Australia.
The legendary rock band will make a triumphant homecoming in late 2025, multiple sources tell Rolling Stone AU/NZ, for their first stadium tour of these parts in a decade.
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 is 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.
The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band is 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 and France, and Scotland. North American dates have just wrapped-up.
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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.
AC/DC is one of only two bands inducted into both the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and the ARIA Hall of Fame (the Bee Gees are the other band). They got the Rock Hall nod in 2003, and theirs was one of the first names read out for induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, back in 1988.
Reps for the band could not be reached for comment.
