Vardinio'sCat Posted 13 October 2016 Share Posted 13 October 2016 5 hours ago, artursteppe said: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kakoschka. All this quality around at the same time as each other, in the same country, incredible. It was a truly remarkable place before the war. My grandparents fled Vienna to England (with assistance from the Quakers) in 1938, when my grandad's call-up papers for the German army arrived. They would have ended up in the camps if they had stayed. So I know a fair amount about that extraordinary concentration of cultural dynamism in Vienna, although it wasn't just the arts that were vibrant. At one period around 1913 you had Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Tito (as well as Freud and Jung) living in the city. Those famous coffee houses were buzzing with new ideas, and not all of them were good ones! Interestingly, Leicester was big on temperance, coffee houses and radicalism at one time, but that is a different story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwichfox Posted 13 October 2016 Share Posted 13 October 2016 37 minutes ago, Vardinio'sCat said: Interestingly, Leicester was big on temperance, coffee houses and radicalism at one time, but that is a different story... Would that be in the sixties when the group "Family" were doing gigs in Brucciani's coffe bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vardinio'sCat Posted 13 October 2016 Share Posted 13 October 2016 2 minutes ago, norwichfox said: Would that be in the sixties when the group "Family" were doing gigs in Brucciani's coffe bar? I was thinking a bit earlier than that, late Victorian times (when Thomas Cook was doing his thing), but I guess we could stretch my point a bit. https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/ElliottPagesfromvolumeXLVII-8.pdf I never thought of Brucciani's as a hotbed of political radicalism before, but I'm obviously a bit younger than you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 13 October 2016 Share Posted 13 October 2016 On 30 June 2016 at 13:18, Tuna said: Good news for us but i'm baffled by the spate of early international retirements in recent years. Re: CF He's got his wife and kids living in America and a dream of being kicker in an NFL outfit. Thats enough of a reason to chuck it in I would have thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPeakFox Posted 27 October 2016 Share Posted 27 October 2016 As well as Mozart, you also have Schubert, Mahler and Haydn, to name 3 more great composers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 27 October 2016 Share Posted 27 October 2016 Austria has a horrendous legal system which favors locals above Foreigners.. So if you come hear and marry a local, be careful as a Divorce will kill you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lako42 Posted 27 October 2016 Share Posted 27 October 2016 2 hours ago, mozartfox said: Austria has a horrendous legal system which favors locals above Foreigners.. So if you come hear and marry a local, be careful as a Divorce will kill you.. Unfortunately being a man trumps that in pretty much any country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 27 October 2016 Share Posted 27 October 2016 7 hours ago, Lako42 said: Unfortunately being a man trumps that in pretty much any country. Off topic and not really the correct place to discuss, but trust me Austria may be a wonderful place for a holiday, but the Court System is like their Bundesliga - shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingcarr21 Posted 2 November 2016 Share Posted 2 November 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/fc80fbaa-54e8-4597-b795-c75fa1595872 Taxi to training. Not bad for a quick laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 14 November 2016 Share Posted 14 November 2016 Just a quick reminder for everyone that Christian Fuchs will get an official farewell from the Austria national football team tomorrow evening before the friendly against Slovakia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylofox Posted 14 November 2016 Share Posted 14 November 2016 52 minutes ago, MC Prussian said: Just a quick reminder for everyone that Christian Fuchs will get an official farewell from the Austria national football team tomorrow evening before the friendly against Slovakia. You mean they are going to tell him to Fuchs off. Not very nice of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 14 November 2016 Share Posted 14 November 2016 25 minutes ago, sylofox said: You mean they are going to tell him to Fuchs off. Not very nice of them. I was more thinking of an event under the "For Fuchs' Sake" moniker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 16 November 2016 Share Posted 16 November 2016 Christian Fuchs at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna yesterday - nevermind the choreo in his honour, there were just about 14'000 people at the game (less than one third of the total capacity): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 3 January 2017 Share Posted 3 January 2017 A Middlesbrough fan just catching up on Fuchs' name http://mashable.com/2017/01/03/christian-fuchs-surname-reaction/#Xy9R3Mrm6mqC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxfanazer Posted 3 January 2017 Share Posted 3 January 2017 29 minutes ago, davieG said: A Middlesbrough fan just catching up on Fuchs' name http://mashable.com/2017/01/03/christian-fuchs-surname-reaction/#Xy9R3Mrm6mqC Saw this on Facebook He looks like Gareth from the office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylofox Posted 3 January 2017 Share Posted 3 January 2017 On 13/10/2016 at 15:30, norwichfox said: Would that be in the sixties when the group "Family" were doing gigs in Brucciani's coffe bar? Wow just seen this. As a kid I lived opposite some of the band. Did not realise anyone had heard of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwichfox Posted 3 January 2017 Share Posted 3 January 2017 3 minutes ago, sylofox said: Wow just seen this. As a kid I lived opposite some of the band. Did not realise anyone had heard of them Great band, reformed again in 2013, but I understand that they disbanded again 2016. somewhere up in the attic I'll still have the "In My Own Time" single.....sad aren't I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylofox Posted 3 January 2017 Share Posted 3 January 2017 2 minutes ago, norwichfox said: Great band, reformed again in 2013, but I understand that they disbanded again 2016. somewhere up in the attic I'll still have the "In My Own Time" single.....sad aren't I Yup To young to remember anything they did. Just remember them loading and unloading a van. Then my parents talking about them when I was older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brigfox Posted 3 January 2017 Share Posted 3 January 2017 I saw them at Keele Uni. in late 60s, brilliant. Still have an LP of theirs, which I've kept and can still play, despite chipping a piece out of the rim 40 years ago BTW, the Middlesborough fan has undoubtedly just realised the Fuchs/Fox connection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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