For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Contact: Amy Cokel

309-676-5000

Matt Bahan, Program Director and Morning On-Air Personality for WIXO 105.7 The X and REGENT BROADCASTING OF PEORIA, is proud to announce the AC/DC “Rally to Peoria!” The first ever AC/DC to Peoria “Rally” will be held at the Peoria Civic Center, on Saturday January 10th at 1:30pm. It will occur outside the Civic Center Theater on Circle Terrace, next to City Hall on Fulton Street.

A large stage with AC/DC music playing and petitions for fans to sign will be available. The “X”, along with sister station, 95-5, WGLO are asking the thousands of AC/DC fans of Central Illinois to “show their AC/DC passion” and help bring the band to Peoria in 2009. Fans are being asked to come out, faces painted, bodies painted, with posters, for one hour in the middle of Winter to show their “AC/DC obsession.” This event will be hosted by Bahan and the “X” and WGLO staffs.

Matt Bahan, on his Morning show on WIXO, “105-7-The-X-Rocks” has been “fanning the flames” to get the band to Peoria all of 2008, and now, the band is listening.

“It’s been 25 years since AC/DC has been to the Civic Center, they are welcomed here, the fans want it, we want it, and now we have to prove to them just how crazy we are, to make this happen in 2009.” Bahan continues, “We have reached the right people, so now is the right time to show them just how obsessed we are, so we’re asking the Rock fans of Central Illinois to come out in the dead of winter, and just go crazy with their AC/DC passion. We will have a great photo opportunity. We’ll film this rally, and have petitions for fans to sign. We will then send all of this to AC/DC and they will know for sure just how obsessed we are to get them here in 2009.”

Join Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis, Local Concert Promoter Jay Goldberg and Matt Bahan of the “X” this coming Monday, December 22nd at 10:00am at the Peoria Civic Center main lobby for the official press conference for this event.

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