{"id":974131,"date":"2026-05-20T21:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/974131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:56:29","slug":"six-photos-capture-ac-dc-tribute-act-as-live-wire-rock-the-old-woollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/974131\/","title":{"rendered":"Six photos capture AC\/DC tribute act as Live\/Wire rock The Old Woollen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Words: George Jenkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Photos: John McEvoy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Live\/Wire, an AC\/DC tribute act, played to an Old Woollen venue which was packed with diehard rock fans.<\/p>\n<p>The six-piece act, who have over 20 years of touring experience, attracted a large crowd to the 500-capacity Farsley venue on Saturday, 16 May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Old Woollen, which sits in Sunny Bank Mills, has hosted Live\/Wire annually for the past three years, with each show seeing impressive turnouts, particularly their 2024 show, which sold out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour set covers all the hits from AC\/DC\u2019s over 50-year career, with Podge Blacksmith as lead vocalist, replicating legendary frontman Brian Johnson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a slideshow of images of the gig by photographer John McEvoy:<\/p>\n<p>Live\/Wire are set to continue their tour until late August, with the next Yorkshire-based show coming in Barnsley on 12 June.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-19.08.56-645x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164819\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bramleybaths.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.bramleybaths.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Words: George Jenkins Photos: John McEvoy Live\/Wire, an AC\/DC tribute act, played to an Old Woollen venue which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":974132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,208169,393,209403,213111,4884,271462,1860,209404,212370,16,15],"class_list":["post-974131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-community-reporters","tag-england","tag-farsley","tag-george-jenkins","tag-great-britain","tag-john-mcevoy","tag-leeds","tag-sunny-bank-mills","tag-the-old-woollen","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116609141136706761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}