The imminent erection of the Bon Scott Bronze Statue in Fremantle is drawing fans from around the world. Because of the distance, many international Bon-lovers won’t be able to make it on the 24th of February, but they seem to be following the events from afar with fascination. Franck, a passionate fan from Paris, contacted… Continue reading Franck’s Brush with Bon
Category: Fandom
Demolition Damo
Damo is one helluva fan. My first big one! I contacted him through a friend of mine, a musician called Lucas who plays a miked-up a shard of glass with his mouth, complete with saliva and blood smearing all over its surface. Damo’s musical predilections, while also pretty wild, at least use conventional guitars and… Continue reading Demolition Damo
Meeting Clinton Walker
(Clinton Walker looking over the Bon Scott timeline he constructed while writing his book…) It just so happens that one of Bon Scott’s biggest fans lives in Dulwich Hill, only fifteen minutes walk from my house. Last Thursday Katie and I popped around for a cup of tea with him. He took us out to… Continue reading Meeting Clinton Walker
Being a “Fan”…
[Sampdoria Fans in the “Gradinata Sud” – photo pinched from lucadea…] The Bon Scott Blog spluttered to life late last week. It’s a weird project for me. On the one hand I am relishing my relative ignorance of the subject, so that I can be the student in an enormous worldwide classroom in which my… Continue reading Being a “Fan”…
hero ick, icon ick
The following email, entitled “hero ick, icon ick” came through from my friend Anne today: hows this. not a word for months and then a deluge. no, but it’s interesting, this next blog you’ll be doing. half an hour ago i was googling heath ledger who’s apparently just overdosed in his manhattan digs. can’t say… Continue reading hero ick, icon ick
Beginning the Bon Scott Blog
I’m starting a new project. It’s all about Bon Scott, the singer from AC/DC. He died in 1980. During the first half of this year there will be a Bon Scott Project in Fremantle, Western Australia. That’s where he spent much of his childhood, and that’s where he’s buried. Apparently his is the most visited… Continue reading Beginning the Bon Scott Blog