Markus Haider

In 2011 Markus Haider tried a Schlager project and released a CD titled "Auftritt". His Artist Name in this project was called Michael Mende. Even though the CD was not ready produced by that date, his producer Johnny Matrix submitted a track called "Bella scusami" to the Alpen Grand Prix in Italy, in which he won 2nd place. List of Winner at Alpen Grand Prix 2011</ref> This track also was 8 weeks on Belgian National Radio (brf2) Schlager-Charts with highest ranking on #19. "Die 1509. Schlagerparade von Sonntag, dem 18. Dezember 2011". Retrieved 20 November 2017 .

Markus Haider also appears as an actor in a few movies. Nicolas Neuhold is director of the short film „Würstelstand“ and a close fried to Haider. Together the made a project „Cannes - through the eyes of the hunter“, which was Neuholds students final assignment. This short film was nominated for the Students Television Awards 2000 by the Royal Television Society.

The popular cover of Sway performed by Haider was part of a relatively recent tribute show to the Rat Pack performed at Entropolos Theatre, it is believed that the date of the performance is somewhere around 2009 but the location of the performance is still unknown. The black-and-white hue of the video was later added to the video by Niki Lappas - the band's editor - giving the performance a more dated look, resulting in confusion as to the date of the performance and the identity of the performer is, with many uploaders mistakenly labelling it a Frank Sinatra performance, despite there being no known Sinatra performance of the song. The cacophonous, adorating audience featured in the video was spliced from a Beatles performance on February 9, 1964.