Rock legends AC/DC have introduced they’re going to play their first Scottish live performance in a decade this summer season.
The gang will play 12 dates throughout 10 nations sooner than concluding their at Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh on 21 August.
Shaped in Australia in 1973, the band have a devoted Scottish fanbase thru Scottish-born participants Bon Scott and Angus and Malcolm Younger.
Lovers ultimate noticed the band on Scottish soil in 2015 at Hampden Stadium however the workforce proceed to be celebrated every year at BonFest in Kirriemuir.
The Edinburgh display is the one efficiency the band will give in the United Kingdom with different dates throughout Europe beginning in June.
The Energy Up excursion, named after the band’s newest studio album, kicks off within the Czech Republic on 26 June.
The album is the band’s first because the demise of Malcolm Younger in 2017.
Lead singer Brian Johnson prior to now informed the BBC the band nonetheless has a “giant connection” with Scotland.
He mentioned when the band were given in combination once more to paintings at the album, they “truly sought after to do one thing for Malcolm – simply to make him proud.
“He used to be the band,” he mentioned. “Him and Angus began it, however it used to be Malcolm’s concept. He used to be our religious chief.”
Malcolm and Angus Younger had been born and raised in Glasgow, shifting to Australia in 1963.
A decade later, the primary iteration of AC/DC used to be shaped.
The road up went thru many diversifications, however stabilised across the Younger brothers, singer Bon Scott – who used to be born in Angus and in addition moved to Australia – drummer Phil Rudd, and bassist Mark Evans.
When Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning in 1980, he used to be changed as lead singer through Brian Johnson.
The live performance provides to an already busy line-up at Murrayfield this summer season with Oasis set to accomplish 3 nights in August.
AC/DC have offered greater than 200 million albums international and had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Reputation in 2003.
Tickets for the band’s Ecu presentations will probably be to be had from 10:00 on 7 February.
