There is a moment in every AC/DC set — it has been happening for more than fifty years — when Angus Young turns his back to the audience, drops into that crouch, and plays the kind of guitar solo that makes the stadium floor shake. You can describe it on paper. You cannot prepare for it in person. The Power Up Tour arrives at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday, August 31, at 7:00 PM.
About AC/DC
AC/DC formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1973 when brothers Angus and Malcolm Young assembled what would become one of the most durable bands in the history of recorded music. The catalog they built over the following five decades has moved over 200 million albums worldwide — a number anchored by Back in Black (1980), which remains the second-best-selling album of all time, behind only Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
The band arriving in Houston in 2026 carries particular weight. Power Up, the 2020 album this tour is built around, was drawn entirely from ideas that Angus and Malcolm developed together — but Malcolm Young died in November 2017, after a battle with dementia that had pulled him from the stage years before. “I always think he’s part of it, you know?” Angus Young has said. “He’s still with us in spirit. I still feel the presence.” The album’s title came from what Angus described as the band’s core identity: “AC/DC has always been about the power thing — when Power Up came into my head, I thought, yeah, that’s it.”
The return to these stages is its own story. Brian Johnson, who joined the band in 1980 following Bon Scott’s death and sang on every subsequent AC/DC album through the Rock or Bust era, was forced off the 2015–2016 tour mid-run with severe hearing damage threatening permanent deafness. “I couldn’t hear the tone of the guitars,” Johnson recalled. “I couldn’t get my pitch or key.” He spent three years working back to full form. He is on this tour.
The current lineup — Angus Young on lead guitar, Johnson on vocals, Stevie Young (Angus’s nephew, who stepped into the rhythm guitar chair permanently in 2014) on rhythm guitar, Matt Laug on drums, and Chris Chaney on bass — has now played together long enough that it functions as a band in full, not a tribute configuration for grieving fans. The production is stadium-scaled: massive cannons, relentless strobes, walls of amplifiers. Reports from earlier dates on this North American run indicate sets running approximately two hours.
About NRG Stadium
NRG Stadium, located on NRG Pkwy in Houston, holds 72,220 fans and by 2026 has served as a Super Bowl host, an NFL home, and a FIFA World Cup venue — which is to say it is one of the most tested large-scale event facilities in the country. The Houston date is the eleventh stop on a 17-date North American leg running from July 11 through September 29, 2026.
The stadium operates a clear bag policy: fans may carry one clear plastic, vinyl, or PVC bag no larger than 12″ × 6″ × 12″ along with a small hand-sized clutch purse. Accessible parking and ADA accommodations are available throughout the venue. Guest experience inquiries can be directed to guestexperience@nrgpark.com. Full event and venue details at nrgpark.com.
Tickets & The Bill
The Pretty Reckless — fronted by Taylor Momsen — opens, reprising the support role they held on the 2025 North American leg of this tour. The band released “For I Am Death” in August 2025, their first new material in four years, and they will arrive with some forward momentum of their own.
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. Show time is 7:00 PM. For the full Houston concert calendar, see our regional listings.