Tickets avaliable through www.heatseeker.com.au from Monday 8th February
Lets party at AC/DC Lane! Melbourne Victoria
Tribute to Bon in Sydney NSW - 19th February 2010
Tribute to Bon in Fremantle WA - 19th February 2010
Bookings at www.highwaytohelltour.com
High voltage AC/DC tour kicks-off in Fremantle
Australia’s best-known rock bands is AC/DC,
Fremantle Tram Tours, has researched the Scottish-born lead singer’s somewhat wild teenage years spent in WA’s port city to develop an entertaining tour that takes in Bon's childhood home, schools he attended, his brief brush with the law in Fremantle Prison, a commemorative statue and his grave at the Fremantle Cemetery.
Bon's grave is reportedly the most visited in the country - the National Trust of Australia classifies it as a heritage site – and it regularly draws comparison to the homage shown at The Doors front man Jim Morrison’s plot at Paris’ Père-Lachaise cemetery.
The interactive Highway to Hell tour will enable people to select which particular AC/DC songs are played during the 90-minute tour that starts and ends at the Bon Scott statue near Cicerello’s at Fishing Boat Harbour three times each Sunday. Another mid-week day will be included as demand for the tour grows.
And as if perfectly staged, the accidental blowing-up of an amplifier on the tour vehicle during early testing suggests this will be an authentic rock ‘n ‘ roll experience. The tour will explore the charismatic performer’s life such as how he got the nickname “Bon” and the mystery surrounding his premature death at age 33.
The tour is just one of many attractions which draw 3.5 millions tourists to WA, including the iconic port city of Fremantle each year. For more information on attractions: www.visitfremantle.com.au & www.highwaytohelltour.com
Renowned Australian Rock Photographer Graeme Webber has released two classic images of AC/DC Front man Bon Scott to coincide with the 30thanniversary of the passing of the Australian Rock 'n' Roll Legend. The images are in poster form on photo quality paper and are available through LabX in Melbourne for $25 plus postage and handling. For more details contact Ray by email:
Rock of ages: AC/DC paraphenalia on show at Melbourne's Arts Centre.
Source: Herald Sun
The Arts Centre is set to be shaken to its foundations with an AC/DC exhibition opening Saturday 7th November 2009. Rarities include a leather jacket owned by late singer Bon Scott as well as his passport, handwritten lyrics to Highway to Hell and personal letters.
The free exhibition stretches back to the immigration papers signed when the families of Scott and band members Angus and Malcolm Young arrived in Australia.
It is the first exhibition the band have approved with items donated by Scott's mother.
Angus's sister Margaret has dug up two of his early costumes she made, and Young donated a prototype version of the schoolboy outfit he is now famous for.
"We've got the Super Ang outfit, which he wore on Countdown in 1975 and a devil costume that's rarely been seen," curator Tim Fisher said.
The band's formative years spent in Melbourne are represented with photos of gigs from the Council Club Hotel in Preston to North Altona Tech in 1975.
As well as one of Angus' custom-made guitars, live videos and archival interviews, their on-stage cannon has been shipped in."What I've found is that for 35 years AC/DC have put their fans first," Fisher said.
