The Edwards Tavern was the most packed I had ever seen it. It was about 27436527 degrees inside, I reckon they turned off the aircon to make everyone drink more!

Thunderstruck played three sets of great AC/DC stuff, the third set was with Dave Evans. I really didnt know what to expect when Dave came out on stage - everyone was hangin for him to get out there (definitely no offence to the regular singer of Thunderstruck! He does an awesome Brian Johnson, and sings the Bon tracks like Brian sings em (I reckon anyway!)). After a couple of hours of blasting out track after track of classic AC/DC material they launched into their third set with Dave. "Rockin in the PArlour" was first up. I was blown away by just how powerful this track sounded live and in your face - definitely better live than the original recording if only for the big volume of the PA's!

Dave burst out on stage and launched into it - you could see he was really worked up for it. He sang it just like it was recorded but with a lot more 'edge' in his voice and really got the crowd worked up - everyone went nuts when he came out. Straight into "Can I sit next to you Girl?" next ( i think!!) and this was fantastic too - "baby please dont go" as well was great. I was in AC/DC heaven. Dave was really pumped, you could see it when he sang. The whole band was on fire!

Then Dave said a few words about Bon, said how he used to see Bon down the front at the early AC/DC shows. He said how for him AC/DC was still the best band in the world and how much respect he had for Bon cos he was the guy who took em to the whole world. Everybody in the place echoed his sentiments. Then he said he'd picked out four tracks that Bon had recorded with 'DC that he felt told a bit of a story about the way Bon lived to sing in tribute to him. The band launched into (and not necessarily in this order! it was a big night!) TNT, Long way to the Top (complete with a piper on stage!!!), a more solemn moment with Ride On, then topped the night off with Highway to Hell. I'm pretty sure those were the tracks played.

After the show Dave hung out in the pub for a while signing posters etc and answering questions and was just generally a great guy - very willing to talk about his time in the band and his life since. Myself and a couple of friends were lucky enough to be able to chat with him upstairs for near on an hour - it was great fun, we were joking around about the early videos he did with the band and he related a few stories from the early days over a few bourbons. The night was a complete success in every way - the band was tiiiiiiiiiiiggggght and rockin, Dave was an all round top bloke and sang with everything he had, and most of all we all paid tribute to the memory of Bon.

To Dave Evans and Thunderstruck - I salute you!!

Cheers, Clint.