AC/DC - Bagpipers Bid To Be Part Of Melbourne Season Of Bon Scott Tribute Show
July 12, 2011, 13 years ago
Annika Priest from Melbourne Leader is reporting:
He was the greatest frontman of the greatest Aussie rock band of all time.
He was also a postman, a bartender and truck packer. As a teen he was put in juvenile detention for having “unlawful carnal knowledge” and stealing petrol and was knocked back from the army for being “socially maladjusted”.
“We don’t have a lot of icons like him in this country, he was a real rebel,” said Melbourne singer Nick Barker, who fronts the band in the musical stage show Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be - The Bon Scott Story.
Directed by Rockwiz co-creator Brian Nankervis and written by Andrew Barker, Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be follows a similar format.
Rather than a dodgy tribute show with a bad wig-wearing impersonator, Scott’s thoroughly rock’n'roll life is recounted through narration by Barker and Doug Parkinson, who played on the same bill as Scott during the latter’s tenure in the bubblegum ‘60s band THE VALENTINES, interspersed with songs pumped out by a full-throttle band.
Read more here.
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be opens at the Athenaeum Theatre on Tuesday (July 12) for a limited two-week season.
