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The Stick This In Your Fusebox 2008 Tour

LIVE/WIRE have established themselves as the hardest working AC/DC tribute act in the UK. They are also unique, due to having both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras portrayed by two individual singers, in the same two hour plus performance.

The band continues to develop and enhance their live performance to attain their ultimate goal, which focuses on the professional delivery of the AC/DC show in the bigger venues. The ‘Stick This In Your Fusebox’ 2008 tour sees the presentation of a full AC/DC show with the cannons, the Hells Bell, the walkways, backdrops and drapes. With Andy, Ed and Daz providing the rock hard rhythm section that you can set a watch to, Lorne cutting the rug with the frenetic fret board antics as Angus Young plus Jon and Grant as the legendary Bon Scott and larynx shredding Geordie, Brian Johnson, respectively, LIVE/WIRE hold all the aces.

“Attention to detail” is their watchword. From the AC/DC signature sound, the instruments, the stage attire, right through to recreating the moves and the grooves. ……. it’s all present & correct. If you are going to replicate an AC/DC show, you have to do it right. The band pride themselves on putting on an exact replica of an AC/DC show that gives the fans ultimate value for money and keeps them coming back for more. A LIVE/WIRE show is all about the band and the fans being in it together. The ‘Stick This tour will see the largest production yet for the audience to savour.   Who said bigger isn’t better?!! LIVE/WIRE don’t just want to invite you to an AC/DC show …… they want to put you slap bang in the front row centre of the whole maelstrom!

As any AC/DC fan will tell you – ‘There is only one AC/DC.’ Similarly, there is only one complete AC/DC show – and that is LIVE/WIRE …..

LIVE/WIRE are -  Lorne Shippen (Angus Young), Andy Tinker (Malcolm Young), Grant Foster (Brian Johnson), John Belford (Bon Scott), Eddie Clarke (Cliff Williams) and Daz Wood (Phil Rudd)

LIVEWIRE TIMELINE

1997 – Band formed in Hull, Humberside, U.K.

1999 – Show starts to gain an excellent reputation established around Yorkshire and East Midlands.

2000 – Gary Foster (founder member and ‘Angaz’) dons the school uniform for the first time.

2001 – Supported U.F.O. and Wishbone Ash at the Rock and Blues Festival. Toured the West Country to sold out audiences, performed live on Scottish radio and performed to 200 German AC/DC fans on the eve of the AC/DC Milton Keynes show on the Stiff Upper Lip tour.

2002 – Clocks up nearly a 100 shows during the calendar year and records an album of AC/DC classics.

2003 – More headway gained as the band, now in heavy demand, start to play theatres, art venues and are a regular attraction at the UK’s top bike festivals.

2004 – More of the same – but better! The band are commissioned to record yet another album, which leads to appearances on Compilation albums worldwide.

2005 – John joins, making LIVE/WIRE a SIX man tribute, able to recreate the sound AND look of both eras of AC/DC.

2006 – Grant joins in June, completing the band’s objective to have a formidable representation of both Bon and Brian eras.

2007 – LIVEWIRE were sad to accept founder member Gary Foster’s step down, for health reasons, but he will always be a part of the band he helped create. After standing in for a number of shows, Lorne was successfully recruited as the ‘Lock Up Your Mothers’ tour loomed large. Andy then joined on rhythm to complete the circle and give LIVE/WIRE it’s truest line up to date.

THE BALL CONTINUES TO ROLL……

After the gig .....

Firstly, thank you to everyone who turned out for Live/Wire's first Newcastle gig. There was a big crowd and we are sure Brian Johnson would have been delighted to have been there if he wasn't soaking up the sun in Florida.

Right from the off, the crowd were jumping the band hit the stage running [honest] and away we sent on a fabulous AC/DC journey. They really did a cracking job in every department with the bare chested John Belford leading the line as Bon Scott.

Half way into the show and it was Grant Foster's turn to strut his stuff. Back stage, he said "It's ok playing Geordie legend Brian Johnson down in Brighton, but here in Newcastle in front of his home crowd, it's definitely walking into the lion's den" Grant need not have worried, he did a brilliant job. The Geordie accent needs a touch of polish, but he's got Brian's mannerisms and certainly has the singing off to a T.

We are trying to get the lads back in the Autumn for what will no double be another belter of a gig.