Legendary exhausting rockers AC/DC have introduced their first tour of Australia in a decade.
The five-date trek will kick off on November 12 at Melbourne Cricket Floor and can embrace dates in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, earlier than wrapping up in Brisbane on December 14. Help on the tour will come from AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS.
Produced by TEG, AC/DC‘s fall 2025 tour would be the band’s first in Australia since 2015.
Tickets will go on sale at staggered instances on Thursday, June 26.
AC/DC 2025 Australian tour with particular friends AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS:
Nov. 12 – Melbourne Cricket Floor
Nov. 21 – Sydney Accor Stadium
Nov. 30 – Adelaide bp Adelaide Grand Remaining
Dec. 04 – Perth Optus Stadium
Dec. 14 – Brisbane Suncorp Stadium
The “Energy Up” tour shares its identify with AC/DC‘s 2020 album, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA chart in Australia and 20 different international locations across the globe. “Energy Up” notably notched the band’s third No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 and exploded as one of many best-selling albums of 2020 worldwide. It closed out the 12 months on Rolling Stone‘s “Prime 50 Albums Of 2020” and Consequence Of Sound‘s “Prime 50 Albums Of 2020.” Plus, it garnered Grammy Award nominations within the classes of “Greatest Rock Album’, “Greatest Rock Efficiency” and “Greatest Music Video” for “Shot In The Darkish”.
In 2024, the “Energy Up” tour kicked off in Europe with a staggering 1.7 million tickets offered within the first days of gross sales, finally surpassing 2 million tickets offered throughout 24 reveals. The band simply concluded 10 sold-out reveals in North America and has 15 extra reveals scheduled throughout Europe earlier than returning to Australia.
AC/DC performed its very first present on December 31, 1973 at Chequers Nightclub in Sydney, Australia. They’re one of the vital influential rock bands in historical past, with over 200 million albums offered worldwide. The band’s “Again In Black” LP is the best-selling album by any band ever and the third best-selling album by any artist, with world gross sales of fifty million and counting.
AC/DC was inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame in 2003. The band continues promoting out stadiums on a number of continents, promoting thousands and thousands of albums yearly and producing streams within the billions.
The “Energy Up” 2024 European tour marked AC/DC‘s first with the band’s new touring lineup, consisting of longtime singer Brian Johnson, founding member and lead guitarist Angus Younger, in addition to rhythm guitarist Stevie Younger (who formally joined the band in 2014, changing his uncle Malcolm Younger, who retired as a consequence of dementia),drummer Matt Laug (who joined in 2023, changing longtime drummer Phil Rudd) and former JANE’S ADDICTION bassist Chris Chaney, who got here on board in 2024 changing longtime bassist Cliff Williams. Williams retired from AC/DC after the conclusion of the 2016 “Rock Or Bust” tour, though he did return to the fold briefly for the 2020 “Energy Up” album and an look at Energy Journey.
AC/DC‘s “Energy Up” album got here out in November 2020. The follow-up to 2014’s “Rock Or Bust” was recorded over a six-week interval in August and September 2018 at Warehouse Studios in Vancouver with producer Brendan O’Brien, who additionally labored 2008’s “Black Ice” and “Rock Or Bust”.
AC/DC‘s present tour comes 9 years after Johnson bowed out of a 2016 run of reveals as a consequence of a listening to situation.
AC/DC press photograph courtesy of Columbia Data