AC/DC Hit London
Speaking at the Carling Hammersmith Apollo, before their one off show tonight AC/DC confirmed that they will be working on a new album and explained just what they got up to with the Rolling Stones.
Talking about tonight's show and the set list Angus Young said "We've been making albums since the crucifixion, so if you add them all up we've got to get through as many as we've made, try and do a bit of mix and match and try to get it right. We're still working the set list out. We've all got our favourites."
Playing the Apollo for the first time in twenty years, the band remember it fondly.
"It was really the first place we came to when we first come out of Australia, this was our make or break when we first came here. We had to make a go of it. We had a lot of debt, so we had to break into the music scene. We were discovered from here and from here it got us all over Europe from word of mouth and then from Europe to America. It's got special memories and it's a great venue. It was a good thing to do because we've got the DVD coming out. We did those small gigs in Germany and we thought it would only be fair to do it in England too. This is where it really started for the lads."
In a year that has seen AC/DC support the Rolling Stones, in both Europe and Canada, Young explained that how that collaboration came about.
"We got together in a kind of a strange way they were in Australia, which is our stomping ground and Keith Richards asked if me and Mal would come on and strum with him on stage, which was kind of a shock. You kind of feel like you're confronted by all of your demons at once and then from there, they asked us if we would do some days with them in Europe. We thought it would be something different, we decided to do it and it just kind of snowballed from there. We finished with them in Europe and they said come with us to Canada."
Brain Johnson the band's vocalist described just how thrilled they were with the time they've spent on the road this year.
"I love every minute of it. Every time you get on stage. This year's been fun, because you know we usually do an album and go on tour and this year we've had a lot of fun and excitement doing the gigs with the Stones in Germany and doing small gigs which we've never done, I've never done with the boys. Straight from a little place in Berlin which holds about 1000 people we went to Toronto, with half a million people there it was fun because we didn't have the whole set with us, we didn't have all the bells and whistles it was just the five lads on stage. You can feel like a real unit."
After tonight's sold out gig, fans will be chomping at the bit for new material and the Australian rockers don't intend to disappoint them.
"After this we'll be back writing again and getting a new album and definitely if we come on tour, besides doing major gigs, we want to do a lot of out of the way places."
Plenty more to come then. As Johnson put it "We'll just keep going until we run out of air."
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