Vancouver Gets AC/DC Day

11/05/08 3:25pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan will declare Nov. 28 AC/DC Day.

Sullivan made the announcement on Vancouver's 99.3 THE FOX FM on Tuesday. He said he'd make an official proclamation on Nov. 28, the day AC/DC play Vancouver's General Motors Place.

The proclamation will be made in conjunction with British Columbia's Great Beginnings initiative, which will revitalize four of Vancouver's historic neighbourhoods. Sullivan noted that AC/DC recorded their recently released new album, Black Ice, at Vancouver's Warehouse Studios, which was the original location of Vancouver's City Hall. It's located in Gastown, a Great Beginnings neighbourhood.

FOX had apparently been on Sullivan's case to make the announcement for a few years. Sullivan stated that it was important to attract attention to Vancouver's recording industry, especially since the city will be the home of the 2009 Juno Awards, which Nardwuar The Human Serviette should host.

In the same interview, Sullivan said he might reform Spinal Chord, the band he was in prior to becoming mayor, even though he said he'd originally been joking.

"I said it tongue-in-cheek to some of the interviewers on the radio," Sullivan later told the Vancouver Province newspaper. "But, hey, why not?"

Sullivan said his favourite AC/DC song is "Highway To Hell."

AC/DC are on tour in support of Black Ice, and it could end up being singer Brian Johnson's last jaunt. Johnson, 61, said he doesn't want to look old and wants to quit before he does.

"It's not that I want to give in, but there's a time where you say, 'I'm gonna give it one more try,'" Johnson told the World Entertainment News Network. "You shouldn't go out there and have people say, 'You should have seen them 10 years ago, but God bless 'em.' I hate that."

Black Ice, which debuted at #1 on the Canadian Nielsen SoundScan sales chart last week, is still the top selling album in Canada and the U.S.

You can see AC/DC here:

Nov. 7 Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre
Nov. 28 Vancouver, BC @ General Motors Place
Jan. 9 Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre