British rock superstars Muse will head the bill at this years Frequency Festival, it was announced today (Thurs).Organisers said they had signed the award-winning trio to perform at the open air event taking place at St. Pöltens Green Park from 19 to 21 August.English rock band Skunk Anansie, who reformed last year, will also perform […]
The Council of Carinthian Slovenes executive committee voted yesterday (Tues) in favour of its dissolution, head Karel Smolle announced.The decision must be approved by the Councils delegates at its 29 March meeting in order to become effective.Council deputy leader Rudi Vouk said the reason for the vote was the Slovene governments decision to cut its […]
A German man who decided to go ski touring by himself died in an avalanche yesterday (Thurs) in Styrias Liezen district, police said.The man, 63, from Hirten, Germany, had gone to Styria for a winter holiday as a member of a group of 15 people. The others decided to go skiing yesterday, but he opted […]
Music fans are being given the chance to decide about a part of the line-up at the biggest free of charge music festival in Europe.Organisers of the Vienna Donauinselfest said people can select 26 bands to perform on six of the events dozen stages on the festivals website, www.donauinselfest.atThe “Rock The Island Talent Contest” voting […]
Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and his Slovene counterpart Samuel Zbogar will meet on 16 March in Vienna, it was announced yesterday (Weds).Slovene news agency STA said yesterday that Zbogar would raise the situation of the Slovene minority in Carinthia at the meeting, including failure to put up bilingual place name signs […]
Sundays Bundesliga face-off between league leaders Red Bull Salzburg and second-place Rapid Vienna was sold out as of this morning (Tues), Rapid bosses have announced.The match will be vice champions Rapids chance to overtake the “Bulls” in the table again. Peter Pacults team are currently three points down to the star-studded side coached by Dutchman […]
The Bundesliga match between Magna Wiener Neustadt and vice champions Rapid Vienna is in doubt because of the weather.Magna Wiener Neustadt vice president Ernst Neumann said today (Tues): “The pitch has been cleared of the snow three times over the past few days. But the soil is icy.”Neumann said he expected no positive change unless […]
By William GreenA concert by rock legends AC/DC is to go ahead despite protests by environmental groups, it has emerged.Environmentalists had protested over the site of the gig set to take place at the airfield in Wels, Upper Austria, on 22 May claiming it posed a risk to the offspring of a number of endangered […]