AC/DC: LG Arena, Birmingham NEC - Review, setlist and pictures

Apr 24 2009 By Paul Cole

AD/DC at the NEC

Apr 24 2009

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A BALDING 54 year-old bloke dressed in school uniform is doing a tacky striptease as the band plays a song about sexually transmitted disease.

But there’s no sign of Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. This isn’t the embarrassing Birmingham audition for Britain’s Got Talent.

In fact, more than 12,000 people are baying for more. Welcome back to the strange world of Angus Young and Aussie rock legends AC/DC.

The loudest pub band on the planet are back in barnstorming business, playing blues-based rock that most wannabe groups could master.

It’s just that they do it bigger and better than anybody else – and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. Their steel was forged in Australia, after all.

“We’re going to mix and match!” growls Geordie frontman Brian Johnson, looking for all the world like an extra from the Black Country Museum.