In further Jack White news, the pasty-faced star was on the guest list for Airbourne’s sold-out Plaza show last Saturday, along with the currently-recording-in-Vancouver AC/DC, and, er, Chad Kroeger. None of them showed up, according to Live Entertainment Director David Hawkes, but the Aussie hairballs’ show wasn’t short on excitement.

During the song “Girls in Black”, vocalist-guitarist Joel O’Keeffe climbed onto the bar, unleashed an extended guitar solo, jumped down between the bartenders, and then finished things off by swiping a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Returning to the stage, he took a couple of slugs and then shared the rest of the stolen bourbon with his impressively rabid fans.

“I’m sure it’s against liquor code,” Hawkes told the Straight, “but I think they did the same thing in Calgary, so it’s part of his shtick.” The band paid for the booze at the end of the night. “They put it down in their liquor order sheets that it was half a bottle of Jack Daniel’s,” Hawkes reported. “And then they have to put a reason why. They wrote ‘for rock ’n’ roll’.”