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My line up for later this year is growing:

AC/DC - Murrayfield - August

Sleeper - Glasgow QM Union - October 

AC/DC Livewire (Tribute act) - O2 Academy - December

You cannae beat an AC/DC tribute band for a good festive night out, its impossible. 

Livewire seem to have settled on December gigs at the Academy, judging by the past few years.  Reviving the fine tradition when AB/CD used to play the Cathouse around Christmas / New Year, every year (which I miss greatly).

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20 hours ago, Clydeside_Sheep said:

My line up for later this year is growing:

AC/DC - Murrayfield - August

Sleeper - Glasgow QM Union - October 

AC/DC Livewire (Tribute act) - O2 Academy - December

You cannae beat an AC/DC tribute band for a good festive night out, its impossible. 

Livewire seem to have settled on December gigs at the Academy, judging by the past few years.  Reviving the fine tradition when AB/CD used to play the Cathouse around Christmas / New Year, every year (which I miss greatly).

That's a fine line up, I wouldn't mind seeing AC/DC one more time before they hang it up, which is likely after this year's shows.

After seeing Ghost last month with my kids, I'm taking them to the Iron Maiden show in Glasgow next month. Then it's back to Midalidare Festival in Bulgaria in July for a 3 day classic rock and metal fest. To hell with shyte UK festival weather and minky portaloos, it'll be 35-40'C every day and in the middle of a beautiful wine valley. Then it's Dream Theater in Plovdiv's ancient Amphitheatre. 

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9 hours ago, Jocky Balboa said:

That's a fine line up, I wouldn't mind seeing AC/DC one more time before they hang it up, which is likely after this year's shows.

After seeing Ghost last month with my kids, I'm taking them to the Iron Maiden show in Glasgow next month. Then it's back to Midalidare Festival in Bulgaria in July for a 3 day classic rock and metal fest. To hell with shyte UK festival weather and minky portaloos, it'll be 35-40'C every day and in the middle of a beautiful wine valley. Then it's Dream Theater in Plovdiv's ancient Amphitheatre. 

A festival in 40oC sounds like hell on earth.

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8 hours ago, cheesepipes said:

A festival in 40oC sounds like hell on earth.

Surprisingly, it's not. Firstly, they start around 4-5pm, to avoid midday sun, then running to around 1am. Secondly, it's an extremely dry heat in inland Bulgaria, so the very low humidity makes it bearable. Not always comfortable, but certainly better than the washouts I've been to at Download. Each to their own, of course.

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9 hours ago, cheesepipes said:

A festival in 40oC sounds like hell on earth.

 

1 hour ago, Jocky Balboa said:

Surprisingly, it's not. Firstly, they start around 4-5pm, to avoid midday sun, then running to around 1am. Secondly, it's an extremely dry heat in inland Bulgaria, so the very low humidity makes it bearable. Not always comfortable, but certainly better than the washouts I've been to at Download. Each to their own, of course.

You children wouldn’t survive 10-minutes at WWWY.

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On 5/12/2025 at 6:41 PM, Jocky Balboa said:

That's a fine line up, I wouldn't mind seeing AC/DC one more time before they hang it up, which is likely after this year's shows.

After seeing Ghost last month with my kids, I'm taking them to the Iron Maiden show in Glasgow next month. Then it's back to Midalidare Festival in Bulgaria in July for a 3 day classic rock and metal fest. To hell with shyte UK festival weather and minky portaloos, it'll be 35-40'C every day and in the middle of a beautiful wine valley. Then it's Dream Theater in Plovdiv's ancient Amphitheatre. 

Aye, looking forward to them all.   The bulgarian festival sounds great, how did you discover that?  How do you get on with language etc and is the currency exchange favourable?   cheers!

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34 minutes ago, Clydeside_Sheep said:

Aye, looking forward to them all.   The bulgarian festival sounds great, how did you discover that?  How do you get on with language etc and is the currency exchange favourable?   cheers!

Don’t worry, they still sing in English x

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On 5/19/2025 at 3:42 PM, Clydeside_Sheep said:

Aye, looking forward to them all.   The bulgarian festival sounds great, how did you discover that?  How do you get on with language etc and is the currency exchange favourable?   cheers!

My girlfriend is Bulgarian and she goes back every summer for the festival. Last year was fantastic, we had veterans like Deep Purple, Saxon and Accept alongside millennial bands like Primal Fear and Stratovarius. This year it'll also be great.

The language barrier isn't a problem for me when I'm with her obviously, but generally the under-50's almost all speaks English in some form. It's only when you go beyond the touristy areas and find a great deal of over-50's who grew up in the Cold War and before, who only speak Bulgarian and Russian (closely related languages, as Bulgaria invented the Cyrillic Alphabet). It's dirt cheap generally, but they are unfortunately ditching the Lev and adopting the Euro this summer, so I suspect inflation will kick in, like it did in Greece.

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On 6/4/2025 at 2:16 PM, minijc said:

Seen Springsteen once, easily still in my top 5 gigs, a proper act.

As predicted he was f***ing excellent. I could have swapped a couple of songs for others but the whole show was a joy. Big up to the lass in an Everton shirt spotted by the cameraman.

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