AC/DC concerting to Bucharest - bluff around the world

The joke about AC/DC concert to Bucharest is already "travelling" around the world, making the subject of the global press, but also to music sites, which state that "the promoters of the event lied when they announced the famous Australian band as the headliner of Bucharest Rock Arena".

"Making much ado about this event from the end of May, outside Bucharest, the concert of rock band AC/DC was actually a joke meant to generate profit to an unknown company, PlayCool, as all Romanian press agencies disclosed on Wednesday.

According to NewsIn, Tuesday evening there was issued a press release on the band's official web site, which gave the lie to their participation to Bucharest Rock Arena, in this way forcing the company in charge with ticket selling, TicketPoint, to make it public that this concert was not to be held. According to some representatives of one of the companies organising this concert, One Event, the 8,000 persons who already bought tickets against prices between 25 and 200 Euros, will receive all their money back

After the band denied the rumour of their concerting to Bucharest, One Event representatives tried to contact PlayCool, but the latter refuse to pick up their phones. AFP [Romanian Press Agency] states that, according to Romanian media, PlayCool has been registered starting from March, in Bucharest, by an Israeli company.

According to "Adevãrul" [Romanian national newspaper], PlayCool, the company praising about bringing AC/DC in, is just a small business with a capital of 200 lei. the company is registered with Commerce Register on 16^th of March 2009.

The owner and the legal representative of the company is Douchan Eran, Israeli citizen, who will turn 29 on 31^st of May, the day on which the AC/DC concert was about to take place. PlayCool headquarters are in a block of flats, at the 3^rd floor, in Titan neighbourhood.

Available in 21 languages, acdcrocks.com is stating that the tickets for this concert have already been sold online and in stores. The same site, advertising each and every event related to AC/DC, did no previous announce, not even as a rumour, about the Australian group visiting the Romanian capital

On bravewords.com, we find the same piece of information, with the further mention that, in order to avoid unpleasant surprises, fans are advised to visit the band's official website.

On Wednesday, TicketPoint and One Event representatives announced that Bucharest Rock Arena, scheduled for May 30 and 31 to take place at the 15^th kilometre of the Sun Highway, will not be held, and the sum of 250,000.00 Euros collected from ticket selling will be given back to buyers.