We snuck into Villaggio le Reggiane yesterday to see the spirit of the pre-concert. We glimpse a distinguished gentleman. The first track on the large white iPod, given to him by his mother at 20, is fixed in stone. ‘Thunderstruck’, followed closely by ‘Shoot to Thrill’, the second track of the album ‘Back in Black’ and made further immortal by the version contained in the film ‘Iron Man 2’. Alvise, dentisthe is ready to sing it at the top of his lungs together with his idols, but in the meantime he runs away towards his own 4 year old girl the truck from Erbazzone Reggio Emilia makes a determined move before managing to get a photo taken.
AC/DC concert: fans are thrilled (photo Artioli)
It goes better with a couple who arrived in the morning from Turin, Laura and Maurizio Savino, to whom we ask how long they have been following the Australian band. “Always – she replies, and could it have been otherwise? – Ever since I learned to understand who they were. I was a teenager and I couldn’t help but be carried away by that type of adrenaline and charge, only them. Unique. The encores? I wish they would play ‘Sin City’. But if it’s already in the set-up it’s difficult.” The couple makes it known that after Reggio will fly to see them on June 12th in Monaco.
We come across a small group. Three people, two of whom are from Reggio Emilia, Nikita and Filomena, and Antonio, who arrived from Milan. “The first time I saw them in 1991, the ticket cost 40 thousand lire – attacks Nikita, decked out from head to toe in Ac/Dc style –. It was money at the time.” Antonio has been following them for 30 years: “When I was born my dad was already listening to them, so it was a natural process.”
Reggiana is Elena Belletti, plumber at Coopservice, fan of the group for 25 years playing. Next to her, intent on inspecting the t-shirts to perhaps ask her mother to buy her one, there is his little son Lorenzo, 8 years old: “It will be his first concert. Tonight I’ll also bring my 13-year-old daughter. I would really like to listen to ‘Thunderstruck’ and TNT’ again.” Parked in front of the beer truck Alessandro Vasirani, teacher. “It’s very difficult to predict what they will choose to say goodbye to. ‘Back in Black’? Let’s hope”.
Everything is ready for AC/DC in Reggio Emilia
The security
The anti-crime division of the Reggio Police Headquarters, for the anniversary of the international day dedicated to missing childrenwill be present in the police station set up in the Arena.
