AC/DC could also be planning to tour Europe in 2024, as a German mayor by accident reveals plans for a present in Munich.
Speculation that the rock veterans can be hitting the street once more subsequent yr arose after Dieter Reiter, the mayor of Munich, by accident let slip to a reporter that AC/DC can be performing on the metropolis’s Olympic Stadium on June 12, 2024.
“I didn’t comprehend it was imagined to be a secret,” Reiter stated after inadvertently leaking the date of the AC/DC live performance throughout a metropolis council assembly (by way of Planet Radio).
If the present is confirmed by AC/DC and goes forward subsequent summer season, it’ll mark their first efficiency in Europe since their slot at Dusseldorf Espirit Arena in June 2016 – again when Axl Rose was appearing as frontman for the band.
It may also mark their first present since they made their comeback on the enormous Power Trip pageant in Indio, California again on October 7. The slot noticed the band shut out the second of three nights on the rock pageant, and featured an enormous 24-song set with Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams returning to the line-up.
Unsurprisingly, the unintended leak has led to some followers speculating that the present could also be half of a bigger European tour – probably together with reveals within the UK too.
At time of writing, nonetheless, the Munich present stays unconfirmed and the band haven’t but introduced any plans to play stay in Europe all through 2024.
If the tour does come to fruition, it’s anticipated that the band will recruit Matt Laug to tackle drumming duties for the stay reveals. This comes because the 55-year-old American drummer – who has additionally labored with the likes of Alice Cooper, Slash’s Snakepit and Alanis Morissette – took on the position for the Power Trip slot.
AC/DC didn’t clarify the absence of their longtime drummer Phil Rudd forward of the pageant slot final month. Rudd rejoined the band for his or her 2020 comeback album ‘Power Up’, and was beforehand faraway from the lineup after pleading responsible to prices of threatening to kill and drug possession again in 2015 (by way of Blabbermouth).
In different AC/DC information, followers of the band lately launched a marketing campaign to attempt to get the band to Number One for Christmas 2023.
The push is trying to get the band to the height place within the charts in celebration of their fiftieth anniversary, and comes a decade after an unique marketing campaign was created again in 2013 to mark their fortieth yr as a band.
