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Yesterday I got this great email and pic from the librarians at the Fremantle City Library… One thing is for sure, my rather stereotyped view of librarians has undergone a rapid transformation these past weeks…
Hi Lucas,
How’s it going? It’s Rachael here again, from Fremantle City Library.
We’re keeping the Bon Scott spirit going, and with that in mind when we got our hands on some of those tattoos (fake) from the Fremantle Arts Centre, one of our librarians suddenly had an idea…
Regards
Rachael
I love this photo, sent by Justin, an artist from Perth doing a project in Darwin, to Jasmin from the Fremantle Arts Centre. The Bon Scott Project sure has sensitised a lot of people to sightings of Bon stuff!
Here is Justin’s message to Jasmin:
Hi Jasmin
Ten minutes after arriving in Darwin I saw a stencil of Mr Bon Scott
in the Smith St Mall.
It is attached for your pleasure/horror
All best
Justin
…not MY guest book - the guest book from the exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre! Some great stuff there: see some more scanned pages…
(thanks to Marisa from the Arts Centre for sending them thru…)
Enrique, my Bon Scott source from southern Spain, just tipped me off about the potential release date of the new acca dacca album. See below for details hot off the press:
According to Billboard.com, The first AC/DC album in eight years is due to drop this August with production from Brendan O’Brien. The album will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart in the US with Australian retailers tp be confirmed…
AC/DC’s next studio album will be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart stores in the United States, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The as-yet-untitled Columbia album, which, as previously reported, was produced by Brendan O’Brien, is expected in the fall.
The new AC/DC album is the legendary hard rock act’s first since 2000’s “Stiff Upper Lip,” which has shifted more than 930,000 copies. A tour is expected to follow its release.
AC/DC is one of the only major acts yet to make its music available via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. In August 2007, Verizon Wireless snagged the exclusive rights to sell the band’s entire back catalog through March 2008, becoming the first and only digital music store to offer AC/DC’s content. However, the deal was limited to full-album downloads, one of the reason’s AC/DC’s music has not appeared in digital form to date.
Check out Billboard.com for full details.
It’s taken longer than I would have liked, but the messages have started to flow from the LED Welcome Sign in Fremantle!
First cab off the rank is Pablo, our tireless Argentinian correspondent. His message, translated into English, goes something like this:
GREETINGS FROM
ARGENTINA–MY
HEART IS
WITH YOU ALL
LET THERE BE BON!
Thanks Pablo. If you want to download a larger version of the file for your own collection, click here.
Keep the messages coming in folks! If you don’t know what this is all about, read more about the TXT BON NOW! project.
The ABC really is getting its 8 cents a day outta the Bon Scott Project!
Today I spoke on the radio with Richard Stubbs from the Melbourne branch of our national broadcaster. And you know what? It was the most enjoyable media gig I’ve done so far (oh, apart from dressing up as Gene Simmons for the air guitar championships I guess)!
Growing up in Western Australia during the 1980s, my brother and I knew Richard as “that amusing guy in the brick ads on TV”. He played this heart-throb bricklayer who all the women thought was totally dreamy. He had good biceps. (I can’t remember the particular brand of brick he advertised…)
And now he works as a radio DJ in Melbourne!
I hope one day Richard meets my university supervisor. Both of them seem to be obsessed with the problem of how a blog can possibly be “a work of art”, since it looks nothing like a painting. Phew, he put me through the wringer on this interview. (I’ll leave it to you as to whether my arguments were convincing at all.)
But seriously, the man did his homework!
Journalists take note: it’s so much more fun for the interviewee when you do a little research before conducting the interview. Good onya Richard (and Brad, his producer, who was probably the one who did most of the work!)
You can listen to the interview here.
(Note for context: just before this MP3 audio file kicks in, Richard has just played Jailbreak at very high volume…)
Thanks to Sally (who I first encountered at the WA Air Guitar Championships) for sending thru these great action-pix from the launch of the Bon Scott Project at the Freo Arts Centre. Above is The Wild Man from the Wheatbelt, who performed a blistering version of “Let There Be Rock”.
Here are a few shots of FAC/DC (facca dacca) in action:
Continue reading ‘Sally’s Photos From Bon Scott Project Launch’
Lots of media coverage this weekend! Thanks to Jon for sending through the link to this video clip that appeared on ABC TV Stateline on Friday night.
As you can see from the screengrab above, the Hamilton Hill Clan is featured. The TV cameraman has done a great little piece of trick photography in their AC/DC den - one after the other the family members pop into the picture miraculously! Worth watching just for that! (And also for the bit when the ever-polite Jasmin exclaims “Look how hairy his chest is!!” he he…)
[PS: Anyone got any tips about how to capture/download that video?]
Me in my Bon Scott Blog nook writing this blog entry!
Here I am writing in my little nook under the stairs at the Fremantle Arts Centre. In an hour the exhibition will open. FAC/DC (facca dacca) are rehearsing “Ride On”. A fluffy white dog just walked past (not joking!). I wish my girlfriend could be here. Someone just brought me a cup of black tea (no beer for me yet). My phone says “No Space For New Messages”. I shall have to delete to receive. I just wandered around the galleries and took a few snaps. Not all the works are visible yet (some are behind locked doors and others are videos waiting to be switched on. But here’s a little taster for you!
Continue reading ‘The exhibition, almost there…’
If you plug away, blogging every day about a particular subject, sooner or later you strike gold. Today this happened to me.
My mum mentioned to a guy at her work that her son was doing a project about Bon Scott. As seems to happen fairly regularly in Perth, her colleague, Greg, casually replied that he “had nearly met Bon” one time back in the 1970s. He began to tell her the story, but mum’s eyes glazed over. Her grasp of the phenomenon of Bon is fairly weak, to say the least. But she passed on the website address, and Greg promptly wrote up this great tale, which I am proud to present in its entirety here. Thanks Greg.
Continue reading ‘Greg’s Story’
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