Hole Full of Love

Starting in 1974 and stopping in 1980

Hole Full of Love have been on the road since 1994, which makes them older than a good many of the bands they share stages with. The five musicians are based in Frankfurt, and the remit they set themselves is unusually narrow: AC/DC as the group sounded while Bon Scott was the singer, roughly the stretch from 'High Voltage' to 'Highway to Hell'. Their own description of the material is honest hard rock'n'roll and nothing else. Most tribute acts eventually widen out to take in the hits that pay — this one went the other way and stayed put.

The division of labour on stage is fixed and has been for years. Dario Djurinovac sings Scott's parts and performs in a kilt, a nod to the singer's Kirriemuir birth. Karsten Kutscher plays Angus Young's lines in a wine-red school uniform and does the duck walk across the boards. A rhythm guitarist handles the Malcolm Young role along with backing vocals, with bass and drums behind; German venue listings have generally named only the two front men, so the rest of the line-up is not reliably documented.

Djurinovac has described his approach to the singing in plain terms — an attempt to carry across Scott's timbre and the feeling, rather than to impersonate him outright. It is a useful distinction, because the band's selling point to promoters is fidelity: the guitar solos reproduced note for note, the rhythm section reconstructed to match the records.

Wrexham, then Hannover

The group's one significant piece of original work came out of a chance meeting. In 2004 they played the world's largest AC/DC convention in Wrexham, north Wales, where they were seen by Martin Kent, who played guitar in Skunk Anansie under the name Ace, and Herman Frank of Accept. Both offered to produce a record of original songs.

The sessions took place in Hannover in 2006. The album appeared on 19 March 2007, self-released, under the shortened name Holefull to keep it distinct from the tribute show. It runs thirteen tracks and 46:39: twelve originals and a cover of Status Quo's 'Down Down'.

The reception was polite rather than enthusiastic. Reviewing it for metal.de, Markus Endres gave it six out of ten, calling it an appealing and solidly rocking debut of earthy, raw, straightforward hard rock with blues in it, while noting that the record turns monotonous over its length and that anyone looking for innovation would look in vain, given how heavily the AC/DC influence sits on nearly every element. That is the inherent trap of the project: a band whose whole craft is reproducing someone else's records was never likely to write its way out of them. No follow-up album has surfaced since, and the tribute show is what the band does.

Credentials from the source

Two endorsements do most of the work in their press material, and both have held up for a long time. The first is a line from Rock Hard in March 2005 naming them Germany's best AC/DC cover band; it still appears, verbatim, on venue listings more than twenty years later. The second is harder to argue with: Dave Evans, AC/DC's co-founder and the singer before Scott, has engaged them as his own supporting band.

Beyond that the support history is a run of hard rock names from the same lineage. They have opened for Rose Tattoo, shared stages with The Sweet, Axxis and Gotthard, and after a European tour with Foreigner were brought back as the opening act on that band's Greatest Hits tour. Foreigner's Mick Jones offered a line the band still quotes — very good song material and an excellent rock band — which, notably, is a verdict on their own writing rather than on the tribute. Rock Hard and Metal Hammer have both covered their career.

What Freiburg proves

The clearest evidence of their standing is a single room they return to every January. At the Jazzhaus in Freiburg on 12 January 2019 they played to around 400 people and got through 27 songs. The reviewer noted Kutscher stripping off his shirt during 'Bad Boy Boogie' and climbing onto a stage case to work the crowd, and placed the band among the better AC/DC tributes he had seen.

A year later, on 10 January 2020, the same venue sold out at 550, with tickets at €21.95 in advance and €23.00 on the door, for a set of roughly two hours. It opened on a 'Rock Around the Clock' intro, leaned unusually hard on Powerage — 'Gone Shootin'', 'Riff Raff' and 'Rock 'n Roll Damnation' — and moved through 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap', 'Girls Got Rhythm', 'T.N.T.', 'Problem Child', 'Highway to Hell', 'Touch Too Much' and 'High Voltage' before closing on 'Hells Bells' and 'Let There Be Rock'. The reviewer's observation was that the copying extended past the voice to the movements and the sequence of stage business.

Two breaches of their own 1970s rule are worth naming, because they are deliberate. 'Hells Bells' and 'Back in Black' are Brian Johnson songs from 1980, and both are in the programme. A report in the Freiburger Wochenbericht on 15 January 2025, after the band filled the Jazzhaus on consecutive nights, put the set as the entire Bon Scott era plus 'Back in Black'. The Freiburg pairing is now a fixture: the next two nights there are booked for 8 and 9 January 2027, priced between €27.40 and €40.60.

The run through autumn 2026

The current diary is a conventional German club and Kulturzentrum circuit rather than a theatre tour. Listings carry a Bensheim date on 24 October 2026 at €26.30, the Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche in Bad Homburg on 30 October at €25.00 with a 20:00 start, Cafe Hahn in Koblenz on 6 November, the Blues Garage in Isernhagen on 13 November with doors at 18:00 and the show at 20:00 for €30.00 in advance or €35.00 on the door, the Josef-Kohlmaier-Halle in Limburg on 20 November, the Scheuer in Idstein on 21 November and the Gaststätte Treffpunkt in Neu-Isenburg on 28 November at €25.20. JamBase counts fourteen dates ahead of them in total.

The shape is consistent: rooms in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Lower Saxony holding a few hundred, clustered from autumn into the new year, with admission between roughly €25 and €35. Pricing has moved slowly. The Kulturfabrik in Roth sold their 23 November 2024 show at €24.10 in advance, €26.00 on the door and €18.00 reduced, so the increase over two years is modest by current standards.

Nothing in their standing right now rests on a release. There is no new record, no label campaign and no reissue of the 2007 album; the whole position is the live diary, which is the honest shape of a thirty-two-year-old tribute act. The audience for Bon Scott's AC/DC has aged alongside them, and a band that never diversified has turned out to be well placed for it.