Tuesday 24th February 2004
The Australian film "Thunderstruck" is set to hit Australian cinemas on the 20th May 2004.
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The official Asia web site www.asiaworld.org has posted a current picture of
former AC/DC drummer Chris Slade in the studio in their news page.
World's Greatest AC/DC Tribute
Release date 27th January 27 2004
Label - Big Eye Music
- Highway To Hell - Quiet Riot
- Rocker - The Vibrators
- It's A Long Way To The Top (Mission UK Remix) - Lemmy
- TNT - Sister Machine Gun
- Big Balls - The Dwarves
- Back In Black (Die Krupps Remix) - Phil Collen
- Touch Too Much - Agression
- Whole Lotta Rosie (Controlled Bleeding Mix) - Joined At The Head
- Sin City - Great White
- Walk All Over You (Synical Remix) - Dee Snider
- Hell's Bells - Razed In Black
- Squealer - Genitorturers
- For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - Godflesh
Available at
Amazon USA
Amazon UK
Amazon Germany
Amazon Canada
Amazon France
Amazon Japan
A review of the recent "Sunday for Sammy" concert is now online at Sharon's Jimmy Nail web site.
Thunder by the Bay raises $30,000 for kids
The 6th annual "Thunder by the Bay" Bike Fest Weekend party at Robarts Arena that included the surprise appearance of AC/DC lead Brian Johnson singing with the Greg Billings Band, raised
$30,000 for children's programs under the United Way umbrella.
Source www.heraldtribune.com
Monday 16th February 2004
Now online is a fan's review of the New DualDisc release of "Back in Black" Click here to read
Friday 13th February 2004
In an interview featured at www.undercover.com.au
Fifa Riccobono, CEO of Albert Productions, has confirmed that songs have been written for the next record but the band is yet to start recording.
Monday 9th February 2004
Western Australia Premier Geoff Gallup makes a brief appearance in the AC/DC related film "Thunderstruck".
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The soundtrack for the film is
- Long way to the top - The Jack
- Run to Paradise - David Campbell
- Living in the City - The Cassanovas
- Smoke on the Water - Senor Coconut & his orchestra
- Hello how are you - Adius and Carmel Merciti
- Take it - Killing Heidi
- TNT - Hayseed Dixie
- The Quest - Score
- Spousal Abuse - Peggy Adams
- Total Eclipse - The Thunderstruck boys
- Total Eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tyler
- Good times medley - Score
- The Final Countdown - Europe
- High Test Love - Scooter Lee
- Drop Kick me Jesus - The Blackeyed Susans
- Boys in Action - Score
- Jupiter's Landscape - Bon Scott & Fraternity
- Robbo and Simmo - Score
- Crash and Burn - The Jack
Wednesday 4th February 2004
Back in Black released on DualDisc
Sony have apparently released a few titles on a new form of CD/DVD disc called DualDisc.
Included in the thirteen titles that have been released in a test market
of Boston and Seattle is AC/DC's "Back in Black" album.
DualDiscs appears to be a double-sided disc , with one side a compact disc , the other side a DVD.
Related articles
www.highfidelityreview.com
www.highfidelityreview.com (part 2)
Monday 2nd February 2004
Sunday for Sammy 2004
Some of Newcastle's finest actors and musicians paid tribute to Sammy Johnson at a charity event on
the 1st February 2004.
The performance included the appearance of Auf Wiedersehen Pet actors "Tim Healy, Jimmy Nail and Kevin Whately" as well
as appearances by Peter Peverley , AC/DC's Brian Johnson, Denise Welch, Angie Lonsdale and a rocking house band with Lindisfarne's Billy Mitchell and Ray Laidlaw, Ray Stubbs, Brendan Healy.
According to a news report the roof was raised at the finale
when Brian Johnson belted out the Tina Turner hit "Nutbush City Limits" before joining
the entire cast for a version of
Lindisfarne's Run For Home.
Source IC Newcastle
see also www.communityfoundation.org.uk
Brian Johnson was quoted as saying in Italian music magazine "Rock Hard" that
the next album will include "harder" riffs than what
appeared on their last studio album Stiff Upper Lip.
The magazine also stated that this time around Brian Johnson will be writing the lyrics again.
Former short-term drummer with AC/DC , Ron Carpenter has been exploring the use of digital technology to make music.
Carpenter has devised a 3-D system of live music performance he calls Plex which he plans to demonstrate at the
music trade show "ENTECH (Entertainment Technology) 2004" in Sydney in April.
Carpenter was recently quoted in an artricle featured in the Sydney Morning Herald as saying that he quit AC/DC in 1974
as he thought the band would get nowhere playing covers of other musicians' songs.
Source Sydney Morning Herald
A few interesting photographs from Den Haag 1976 can be found on
Hilco Arendshorst's web site
James Griffiths of The Guardian recently reviewed AC/DC's double DVD box set. (Here is a copy of the review)
This box-set packages together two different shows by the Antipodean rock goliaths, one from their most recent Stiff Upper Lip tour and another from 1996.
The set lists are not greatly different, the packaging is minimal and the extra features are barely worth mentioning. On the positive side, you do get a big dollop of live surround-sound AC/DC, complete with giant bronze Angus Young statues, huge chiming bells with Brian Johnson hanging off them, and canons firing all over the place.
Rolling Stones the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world? Don't believe a word.
Paintbox - "Getting Ready for Love"
This Vanda/Young pseudonym track from 1970 is included on a various artists
CD
"94 Baker Street Songs - Songs Of Apple Publishing" (RPM270)
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