AC/DC tease their return to touring: “Are you prepared?”
AC/DC have teased a return to touring – dropping a teaser on-line that asks followers whether or not they’re “prepared”.
The rock veterans hinted to followers that plans to hit the highway are underway earlier this morning (February 6), once they shared a cryptic replace on their social media channels.
Taking to X/Twitter, Angus Younger and co. shared a 20-second-long clip that reveals their iconic lightning bolt image flickering in opposition to a darkish background, earlier than the phrases ‘ARE YOU READY’ abruptly flash onto the display screen.
Within the background, their 1990 music ‘Are You Prepared’ performs, and the band’s brand later fills up the display screen. Test it out beneath.
— AC/DC (@acdc) February 6, 2024
Since its add, followers have been fast to take a position that the brand new replace is the band constructing hype as they put together to announce an upcoming tour.
If these rumours show to be true, and the band announce plans to carry out throughout the UK and Europe, it’ll mark their first reveals on the continent since their slot at Dusseldorf Espirit Area in June 2016 – again when Axl Rose was appearing as frontman for the band.
It should additionally mark a few of their first dwell gigs since they made their comeback on the big Energy Journey competition in Indio, California again on October 7. The slot noticed the band shut out the second of three nights on the rock competition and featured an enormous 24-song set with Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams returning to the line-up.
Rumours that the rock icons can be saying a collection of dwell reveals in 2024 first arose again in November when Dieter Reiter, the mayor of Munich, by chance let slip to a reporter that AC/DC can be performing on the metropolis’s Olympic Stadium on June 12.
“I didn’t realize it was speculated to be a secret,” Reiter mentioned after inadvertently leaking the date of the AC/DC live performance throughout a metropolis council assembly (through Planet Radio).
Extra lately, it was additionally reported that the band had been set to play an upcoming tour in Brazil this yr.
Preliminary hypothesis was began by the Brazilian publication O Globo, who claimed the band will play 4 reveals within the nation. In line with the report, two of the reveals will probably be staged at Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, whereas the opposite two will probably be dates at Rock In Rio competition in Rio de Janeiro.
In different AC/DC information, in the direction of the top of final yr, followers of the band launched a marketing campaign to try to get the band to Quantity One for Christmas 2023.
The push regarded to get the band to the height place within the charts in celebration of their fiftieth anniversary, and got here a decade after an unique marketing campaign was created again in 2013 to mark their fortieth yr as a band. The height place finally went to Wham!’s ‘80s basic, ‘Final Christmas’.