{"id":131745,"date":"2025-11-12T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131745\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:35:10","slug":"watch-ac-dc-play-jailbreak-for-first-time-in-34-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131745\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch AC\/DC Play ‘Jailbreak’ for First Time in 34 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Australian leg of AC\/DC<\/a>\u2018s Power Up tour kicked off Wednesday evening at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, marking the band\u2019s first live appearance in their home country since 2015. To reward fans for their patience, the group dipped deep into their back catalog and dug out \u201cJailbreak\u201d for the first time since 1991.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJailbreak\u201d was first released as a single in England and Australia in 1976, and it appeared on the Australian edition of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, but it wasn\u2019t available in North America until 1984, when they released the \u201974 Jailbreak EP. The song was a live favorite throughout the Bon Scott Era, and Brian Johnson started singing it on the band\u2019s 1985 Flick of the Switch tour. But it hadn\u2019t surfaced anywhere since November 16, 1991, when AC\/DC wrapped up the Razor\u2019s Edge world tour at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\n\tAC\/DC are ostensibly on tour in support of Power Up, but they\u2019re only playing two songs (\u201cDemon Fire\u201d and \u201cShot in the Dark\u201d) from the 2020 LP. (They were unable to tour when it came out due to the pandemic.) The rest of the set comes from their extensive catalog. It\u2019s a 21-song show with 12 tunes coming from the Bon Scott period, and the other nine coming from Brian Johnson\u2019s era.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to Power Up, it was unclear if AC\/DC would ever tour with Johnson again due to the singer\u2019s hearing problems. He had to step away from their 2016 tour per doctor\u2019s orders. The group brought in Axl Rose to finish out the tour, stunning many longtime fans.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you run through the different scenarios, none of them were the best options,\u201d guitarist Angus Young told Rolling Stone in 2020. <\/a>\u201cYou think, \u2018Should we cancel?\u2019 Then we\u2019d have the other pieces, the legal stuff and whatnot. We got suggestions from management. \u2018Maybe if you try put something together that you might get \u2026\u2019 There was a list of people that might fill in. Out of the blue, Axl Rose contacted and said he could help out, which was very good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis wasn\u2019t the ideal scenario for Johnson. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel too good myself about the whole thing,\u201d he told Rolling Stone in 2020. \u201cBut that was then. With all bands and things, there are little bumps in the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut thanks to time away from the stage and a sophisticated new in-ear hearing device, Johnson was able to return to active AC\/DC duty for the creation of Power Up. They finally kicked off the tour in May 2024 with a new lineup of the band that included drummer Matt Laug and bassist Chris Chaney.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey wrap up the 2025 leg on Dec. 18 in Brisbane and head to South America in February 2026. Another U.S. stadium leg begins July 11, 2026, in Charlotte, North Carolina. They\u2019ll be joined by the Pretty Reckless at every show, wrapping up September 29 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian leg of AC\/DC\u2018s Power Up tour kicked off Wednesday evening at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, marking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[82962,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-131745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ac-dc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}