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AC/DC Austria Concert News
Riff Raff, AC/DC could have to cancel a sold-out concert because their big sound poses a danger to rare birds. Animal rights campaigners are threatening legal action if the veteran band goes ahead with a gig planned for Wels airport in Austria in May. Hans Uhl of BirdLife said birds nesting in the area at the time would be threatened by anthems such as Highway To Hell and You Shook Me All Night Long. "The second biggest colony of curlews in Upper Austria and various other ground-nesting birds must not become endangered," Mr Uhl said, The Daily Telegraph reports. Tickets for the event - which sees the group return after playing to a sold-out crowd at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium last May - sold out after going on sale earlier this month. The event's 80,000 tickets were sold out within hours. In Australia, the band's Melbourne concerts at Etihad Stadium in February had been in doubt after AFL objections earlier this year. The AFL said the dates would clash with a possible pre-season NAB Cup match. But the signing of a new contract between the league and the stadium has allowed AC/DC to go ahead with the three Melbourne shows on February 11th, 13th and 15th. The band sold 180,000 tickets for those shows. source: The Daily Telegraph via .news.com.au
The band should tell this to the animal rights campaigners and maybe the birds... Rock 'N' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution!!!!!
This is one of the more ridiculous things I've read today... Looks like the countdown to extinction.
Well and here we go again with our austrian mates. First they had a problem to make the Dc gig on the donau insel festival and now its not allowed on the airport of wels. Maybe i can get you all more informations after the local ticketstore has announced this news as "official"