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AC/DC In Battle To Save Concert As “Highway To Hell” May Scare Off Birds



Dec 27, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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Australian News.Com:

AUSSIE rockers 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 11, 13 and 15.

The band sold 180,000 tickets for those shows.


  • Birdddog

    :beer: :beer:

  • mike3481

    This reminds me of a 4th of July hoopla about 6 years ago concerning the fireworks display over Monterey harbor disturbing the sea lion colony that hauls out onto the breakwater.

    The city said F.U. and Green Peace, the Sierra Club and The Surf Rider Foundation all of whom by that time had been taken over by radical leftists, sent observers to monitor what actually happened.

    The city sent a video crew. :cool:

    Anyways, the fireworks started, the sea lions hauled ass back into the water and just hung around, looking up at the fireworks.

    Twenty minutes after the fireworks ended, every single sea lion hauled out back onto the breakwater.

    The local rag quoted one of the hippie/commie observers, “The sea lions just didn’t care”. :lol:

    And neither would the birds in Austria. :wink:

  • Mich

    THUNDERSTRUCK :)

  • Joe Mudd

    AC/DC still sucking after all these years :gun::cry:

  • Hawkerdriver (Pisson the Koran)

    I dedicate “For Those About to Rock”to all the brave patriots fighting and dying in Tehran today.God speed warriors!