Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC, recently expressed his enthusiasm for the potential of going on tour once again to support their latest album, Power Up, released in 2020. The band’s upcoming appearance at the Power Trip festival in California, scheduled for this October, has ignited hope among fans for additional shows. Johnson opened up about the challenges the band had to overcome in reuniting after the onset of the pandemic in early 2020.
AC/DC, who haven’t performed live for over seven years, are now poised to take the stage as the headliners of the Power Trip festival in California this October. Johnson subtly suggested that this particular show might pave the way for more exhilarating performances by AC/DC. Prior to the pandemic, the band had been gearing up to promote their latest album, Power Up, which was released in 2020.
“I’m so excited because three years ago we did get together [before] Power Up the album came out,” Johnson said in a new interview on the Fuelling Around podcast.
“We started to rehearse in Amsterdam. Phil [Rudd] was back on drums, I had this new earpiece that we’d invented. It was fantastic. Honestly, I’ve never heard the band so tight. For three weeks, I think we had one day off because we wanted to be there in each other’s company.
“We f*cked up a few words, chords and just got them tight again, and then our tour manager came up and said: ‘Hey listen, guys, we’ve got this thing, it’s called the Chinese Flu or some kind of sh*t, just go home for six weeks and we’ll meet again in London’.
“You know what happened there. Angus [Young] and Phil, New Zealand, and Australia just wouldn’t let them out for months and months afterward.”
“It does take a lot of time to get a band like AC/DC together again. Most of the crew were out working with other people,” he added.
“Trying to get those guys back together again was tough but I’ve got my fingers crossed – everything is going ok. The most important thing about it all is the eagerness we all feel, the juices are running again.”
On the upcoming Power Trip festival performance, Brian said:
“We decided to do this wonderful show that they’ve put together out in the desert near Palm Springs, near Coachella.”
“It’s all rock and roll bands. It’s fantastic. I think it’s just a statement to say that rock and roll is a legitimate form of music. It really has made a difference. Ozzy [Osbourne] is coming out of retirement so I’ll be able to see my old pals again. The GUNS N’ ROSES boys, the METALLICA boys and the IRON MAIDEN boys — all in one field. Boy, what a party!”
“It’s going to be in a beautiful valley, near Coachella, but I don’t get involved in that kind of thing. I just like to turn up, get up and just rock my little socks off until I drop.”
79 comments
I HOPE THEY COME TO Kansas City, Missouri USA. I would love to see the boys one more time before my disease finishes me off! I have been a huge fan since 1979 at 13 years old. The chance to meet them and get an autograph on a pic guard for my Les Paul would be more than I could ever male a last wish for!
I really hope and prey that you get to see them. I live in the UK and would love to see them. But for you I hope you see them. X
Please please come to Dallas/Fort Worth Texas!!!!!!
Good choice! Let’s hope!
🏴 🏴 🏴 P L E A S E 🙏
Scotland would be awesome ! Murrayfield !!!
Heck yeah!
Québec Canada SVP
Sweden Rock?🙏
Groningen the place to be !!!
France 2024 Hellfest peut être ?
Make it a world tour with all those bands you mentioned and come to the UK massive party
They are making it a World Tour starting in Europe
Montreal Quebec.
Please come to Las Vegas Nevada USA
They most likely will play the super bowl and a gig or two before the big game might as well be in the making keep those fingers crossed
AC/DC come back to Canberra it’s been too long. I went to Ginninderra High School in the early 2000 And Bon Scott played there in 1975
Been to Bon Scott Cr in Canberra??
Hope to see you in Dublin
Please come back to Columbus Ohio please Brian
Poland please !!!!!
Any where I’m comming just tell me when and where
It would be another dream come true in my 56 years if you did another tour and make a stop in the states of Washington or Oregon or Northern California. It would finally give me a chance to see you live in person for my 1st time ever ❤️
AC/DC come back to Switzerland.
I hope to see you anywhere in Switzerland!🇨🇭
Please come to to Bon’s resting place Western Australia, don’t snob us like a lot of other bands!
Praha (Prague) airport Letñany
Hope they come home to Australia.
Please come to the UK
Please come too Montréal, Québec, Canada 🇨🇦
Please come to Toronto Ont. Can.🇨🇦 Would love to hear you guys once again !🎶🥁🎸🎤🎶🤞👍
Please come to the Great State of Tennessee….I have always been one of your biggest fans and I can finally say I can come see you guys before you stop!!!
Please come to Croatia.🤟
Brian , you’ve got to bring the boys back to your original birthplace. Anywhere in the north of uk preferably, st James park.
Brian you have to come back home and play StJames Park Newcastle. You could invite your mate Sam Fender. Fingers crossed.
Hopefully Kansas City Missouri
Come to Watford Colosseum it will sell out
Charlotte NC Spectrum Center.
I last saw them in the Black Ice tour..omg!!ROCK ANDROLL WILL NEVER DIE
Come to Phoenix!!!!
Hit the Baltimore Washington area love to see you guys for the 16th time
Come to uk please mate
Come to NZ!!
Yesssss please🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Please come back to Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
Hope to see you in Melbourne Australia
Back to Glasgow, to Hamden, always impress the Scottish crowd
Please come to NM your my all time favorite band and would love for you to come back to Albuquerque, NM I know it’s been years since you’ve been out here but u have many many fans just waiting for you to come back! I was fortunate enough to see you in Vegas b4 the Pandemic. That was an experience I’ll never forget!!!!
Connecticut PLEASE Bridgeport would be nice
osisko en lumiere aout 2024
My granddaughter is a huge fan! Please tour for the younger generation! ❤️
Louisville, Kentucky is always ready to Rock.
Please come to Corpus Christi, TX. We’d love to see you before you all retire. 🤟👍
Praying you schedule London UK into the schedule 🙏🙏
Hope the come to Ireland (slane Castle)
Welcome back to Melbourne the capital of Rock music
Please come to Boston!
Please come to Boston!
Please come to Seattle/ Tacoma Washington!
Pinkpop 2024?
Please come to Columbus Ohio! We missed you guys before Covid ruined everything!
SO hope they make it to Dallas! (or anywhere close)
Please Come to El Paso, Texas
Look forward to se you in Denmark for a koncert…🙏🤩
Chicago!!!!!!!Please….
Believe it or not I have every CD that they put out. Don’t want to see Axl Rose, Brian is their singer. I would have liked to have seen Bon but unfortunately, he passed away before I got the chance. Please don’t forget the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. We know how to show a band of your stature a good time and your fans are not into invading your privacy, like New York City or L.A. is.
Come to Charlotte, North Carolina please
Come to El Paso, Texas or Phoenix, Arizona
The Ball Park, IN OLD ORCHARD BEACH ,MAINE ⛱️ The BEST AND LOUDEST STAGE SHOW I’VE EVER SEEN!
Please come back to the home of rock Cleveland.
Belgie Werchter aub
Come to San Antonio,Tx.
Please come to Greenville South Carolina. Seen ya’ll last in 2001 at the then called Bilo Center now Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
Please come to the Netherlands
Come rock the heck out of Austin TEXAS!!!
Edinburgh, Hidalgo, or San Antonio Texas would be a great opportunity to see my favorite band. I’ve seen them before but, I would like to see them again to take my nieces. AC/DC greatest rock band in the world. Thanks!!!
Anywhere in Europe…I will come..just for you to sign my GEORDIE album
Please come to South Africa! We hardly ever get hard rock or metal bands here.
If they don’t come to South Africa it ain’t a world tour. Africa the big ass continent, looks like an elephant, the one with the pyramids. Okey so doooown at the bottom of the elephants trunk is South Africa. I know not much ambition when they sat around the table trying to think of a name.
We are ready in Tampa. Fl.!!
Come to Canada again. New Brunswick woukd be awesome 👌