Happy Birthday Angus McKinnon Young !

Tuesday 26th March 2002

Visitors to an Australian sheep station have been treated to a demonstration of synchronised shearing to the music of AC/DC. Shearers at the 142 year old Jondaryan Woolshed in Queensland performed the demostration.
Source www.ananova.com

Sunday 24th March 2002

Dave Evans to tour America.
Dave Evans, (original lead singer of AC/DC) is about to announce a 2 month tour of the United States.

The tour is expected to start in Los Angeles on June 15th 2002, approximately 35 - 40 dates will be announced soon.

The tour coincides with the release of the CD " A Hell of a Night" (in the USA). Dave's live tribute to the late Bon Scott, the CD will be released by Perris Records...a track to be lifted from this CD will feature on another release by Perris,,, Dave's version of "It's a long way to the top(if you wanna rock'n'roll)" is to be included on a tribute AC/DC project, which will include members from Ted Nugent's band, among many other profile artists........... Watch this space !

Info thanks to Simon Croft and also Dave Evans - www.daveevans.au.com

Tuesday 19th March 2002

Chris Turner promo video offer !
Serious collectors of Australian music and completists when it comes to collecting material even remotely connected with AC/DC may be interested in the possible availability of a Chris Turner promo video which features "Mark Evans".

John White (the webmaster of the Dave Tice website) is in the process of trying to persuade the record company to run off a small batch of copies of the videoclip of the track "Get off my Back". The track in question appeared on Chris Turner's Exile album and features former AC/DC bass player Mark Evans.

If John can get enough interested fans/collectors to express an interest to purchase the promo video then he reckons the record company would reproduce the promo video and make it available to fans.

If anyone is seriously interested or if they would wish to recieve further details contact John at jdw@isd.canberra.edu.au

Friday 15th March 2002

Jimmy Nail pays homage to AC/DC.
A promotional picture for the forthcoming UK Television programe "Auf Wiedersehen Pet (series 3)" features actor/singer Jimmy Nail wearing an AC/DC T-shirt. Click here to view the picture.

Brian and Cliff go looking for an Uptown girl ?
Surprise guests at the Billy Joel concert in Tampa on Saturday 9th March , were AC/DC legends Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams. After taunting the Hall of Fame for not including AC/DC , Billy Joel introduced Brian and Cliff to the 19.5 thousand crowd before launching into a rendition of "Highway to Hell" with them.
News thanks to Tim and also the Tampa Tribune

Tuesday 5th March 2002

New AC/DC Book in June ?

A new AC/DC book by Steve Rosen is scheduled to be published in June according to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

ABBA no match for Acca-Dacca

Organisers of the ABBA Karaoke competition almost met their Waterloo at Balmain's Cat and Feddle Hotel on Saturday night thanks to a local heckler "Acca Dacca Dave".

At first Dave mistook the costumed backing band for the Travelling Wilburies and spent the first two sets ripping into them with a few pointed and quite tasteless jibes.

He was eventually enticed on stage for a rendition of ABBA's "Rock me" which degenerated into a version of the only song he knows - AC/DC's "You shook me all night long".

Naturally, Dave brought the house down and, just after he fell off the stage the judges decalred him the winner with a near perfect score.

Dave was later loaded into an ambulance but by lunchtime Sunday he was back, declaring himself ready for the second heat this Saturday.