AC/DC set to headline Adelaide supercars’ post-race concert
For the first time in a decade, rock and roll band responsible for hits like ‘Highway to Hell’ and ‘Back in Black’ will return to Adelaide.
The Grammy Award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted band, AC/DC, will return to Adelaide for the first time in a decade to headline the newly rebadged bp Adelaide Grand Final Sunday concert on November 30.
This is part of their 2025 POWER UP Tour, named after their 2020 album, POWER UP. The band is responsible for global hits like ‘Thunderstruck’, ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’, ‘Highway to Hell’ and more.
The Australian leg of the POWER UP tour will also travel to Melbourne (November 12), Sydney (November 21), Perth (December 4) and Brisbane (December 14), the band confirmed via Instagram.
Band members consist of Angus Young on lead guitar, vocalist Brian Johnson, rhythm guitarist Stevie Young, drummer Matt Laug and bass player Chris Chaney, who are set to make their way home down under.
Melbourne-based rock band Amyl and the Sniffers will be joining AC/DC for the POWER UP tour.
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Premier Peter Malinauskas said this is the “hottest ticket in town”.
“AC/DC have a long and rich connection to our city and we are thrilled to welcome the band to headline the bp Adelaide Grand Final as we usher in a new era of racing,” he said.
“The event will provide a unique high-octane, high voltage, high energy experience not only for local fans, but those who choose to follow this international rock’n’roll juggernaut around the world.”
The band is a natural fit for the rubber-burning mini-festival, whose lineups have often leaned towards stadium-friendly legacy acts that pack plenty of volume, a hint of theatricality — and a lot of testosterone. Past headliners have included KISS, Motley Crue, Cold Chisel, The Killers, and Robbie Williams.
Four-time-Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and The Hunger Games star Lenny Kravitz will join AC/DC and headline the Saturday night concert on 29 November.
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The Saturday night concert will be the last pit stop of Kravitz’s first Australian tour in over a decade, which will also hit arenas in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Melbourne and Mildura on his way down south.
Along with 90s hits like ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’, ‘Fly Away’, and ‘Let Love Rule’, Kravitz will be touring on the back of his latest record Blue Electric Light, an album whose synth-heavy singles promise plenty of dancefloor friendly moments for those preparing to hit the bitumen in November.
Kravitz will be joined on Saturday by Melbourne retro rockers Jet, currently riding high on the 21st anniversary of their breakthrough debut album Get Born.
Premier Peter Malinauskas broke the news on Instagram last week with a clip from How I Met Your Mother.
“Lenny Kravitz is a global superstar – an incredible performer who will rock the crowd on Saturday night at the track,” the premier said in a statement
“The new era of the bp Adelaide Grand Final is going to take everything you know about the bp Adelaide Grand Final and dial it up louder.”
The bp Adelaide Grand Final runs Thursday, November 27 to Sunday, November 30, with tickets on sale now. Tickets for the AC/DC POWER UP tour go on sale to the general public from Thursday.
In the meantime, we can all enjoy Kravitz’s other claim to fame: as the subject of some of Architectural Digest’s most outrageously elaborate house tour videos.