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| Let’s Blame the Birds: Tickets for AC/DC in Austria Going for a €1 |
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The Australian band’s Black Ice tour has been hotly anticipated the length and breadth of Europe and hailed, in many countries, as the concert of the year. Rave reviews greeted the band’s appearances in Sofia and Bucharest a few days ago, so what’s gone wrong in Wels?
Tickets were selling fast, at €83 a pop, when they first went on the market. They were limited to four per individual, but it’s unlikely this would have stopped some resourseful types hoping to make a quick buck on resale. But prospective resellers obviously didn’t take into account some pesky birds, some even more pesky conservationists and a bomb... not to mention another quota of tickets being issued. But back to the birds. AC/DC’s concert is to take place at Wels airfield, which also happens to be a nesting place for birds. Strange, but true. Conservationists were perfectly happy for the place to be used as an airfield but they were very unhappy with the prospect of a loud rock concert taking place there and almost skotched the AC/DC gig. Finally, the bird lovers were pacified with the aid of a load of limited edition T-shirts, printed with the slogan: "We are good ... FOR BIRDS”. The income from the sale will go to conservation projects. That settled, the airport then experienced an imaginary bomb alert. Something to do with WWII or perhaps a last ditch stand by the more hard core conservationists? Whichever, for a second time the concert hung in the balance. Now, with the all clear given and only two days to go, the City of Wels is looking forward to 80,000 AC/DC fans descending on it. And it seems nothing more can go wrong. Or can it? Clearly, ticket resellers are not so sure, or they wouldn’t be advertising tickets for such bargain bucket prices. Let’s hope for the sake of AC/DC’s fans, that the resellers aren’t privvy to more Wels shenanigans in the pipeline. Related Articles: Eventim Tickets are now also on MySpace! A deal between CTS Eventim AG, Europe's market leader in the
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When they first went on sale in November 2009, tickets for AC/DC’s gig in Wels, Austria, this coming Saturday, sold out within days. Now, according to website, 