Fan calendar submission deadline is Tonight!

The deadline for submissions for the calendar project are due by Midnight (US time) tonight, 30th November 2009.

I’m sorry for the very late notice on this but I’ve not logged into the West of the Moon fan forum for about 5 days and therefore didn’t know that the deadline was looming.

Here‘s a link to the thread on the WOTM forum.

The link below contains the instructions written by Sandra:

Submissions

Scroll to the bottom of the page, the instructions are the 3rd item from the bottom.

Photo submissions must be your own photos. Please don’t submit photos which belong to others.

I’m looking forward to seeing lots of fantastic photos!

Note: You must be a member of the West of the Moon fan forum in order to participate.

Apparatjik (free download)

Some of you are already aware of Magne’s involvement in the new music, art and film project known as Apparatjik. Your interest has not gone unnoticed and is greatly appreciated. For those of you who are not we are very excited to announce that the very first piece of music from the band’s debut album is now available to download for free at Apparatjik.com

After clicking on the above link, enter your name and on the next line enter your email address, then select the Country you live in (from the drop-down box) and click on ENLIST and then you will receive a file (login to the email account you just used to sign-up to their site) and the free track is called Electric Eye.mp3

Source: a-ha.com

2010 German concerts on-sale now!

a-ha.com have Officially posted the dates that we found out about a few days ago.

Fans in Germany have 17 a-ha concerts to look forward to in 2010! Here you can find out about these tour dates. Tickets are on sale now!

Links to buy tickets are posted on a-ha.com (but not sold by a-ha.com) here, or here’s the direct link to eventim.de.

The eventim site is in German but you can select another language in the drop-down box on the top right hand side of the main site or from the main a-ha ticket page (link above).

news update 27/11/09

I’m just writing to let you know I still don’t know dates for the Australian, Canadian, or US tour next year.

Recently, dates were announced for Germany in July and October next year but these haven’t been published on a-ha.com

The German tour dates were posted in a blog on 26th November. You can see those dates here.

As soon as I hear anything in regard to tour dates for next year I’ll definitely post news of this.

I’m hoping we’ll have some of the dates officially announced before Christmas but it may not happen until January.

2010 fan calendar project

The West of the Moon (a-ha fan forum) are going to create and print a fan calendar for 2010.

In 2009 we had an Official calendar but Management have decided not to do an official one next year.

If you’d like to know more about the 2010 fan calendar project, please visit:

west of the moon 2010 fan calendar project

Submissions will be requested shortly.

If you haven’t yet joined West of the Moon forum, you can find information on how to join here:

How to Register at west of the moon

Note: Copyrighted photos can’t be used and submitted photos must be those you’ve taken yourself.

Ending on a High Note Farewell Tour 2010

Thanks to Ildiko for drawing my attention to Jakob’s site posting 25/11/09.

and the German tour dates for 2010 at:

mlk.com.

Need tickets for 04.12.10? (Oslo)

A friend on facebook named Tanya invited me to her group for fans looking for tickets to this show.

I suggest you join the group and hopefully fans with spares will post news there. I suggest avoiding rip-offs on Ebay!

I don’t have a ticket for a-ha finale 4/12/10… can you help?

*You’ll need your own facebook account in order to join the group.

If you don’t have a facebook account, you can sign-up (free) here. The registration link goes directly to facebook.com.

Vote for Shadowside

Please vote for Shadowside in a poll at gotv.at.

Just click on the vote button next to a-ha / shadowside (see picture).

Shadowside’s currently at No. 2 in the poll with The Rasmus in first place.

With thanks to Jerry Oliver Crothers for information on this poll.

Foot of the Mountain [Deluxe Edition] CD+DVD

Updated: 18 November 2009

Originally posted 29 October 2009

The link for the deluxe version of the Foot of the Mountain album has re-appeared on Amazon.de. Originally the cost was EUR20.99 but the price is now EUR17.99.

The deluxe version is probably the standard album + a DVD.

The release date is 4 December 2009.

According to the German forum the tracklist should be:

CD
“standard” album

DVD
Foot Of The Mountain live for SWR3
Riding The Crest live for SWR3
Foot of the Mountain (video)
Shadowside (video)
Nothing is keeping you here (video)

Thanks to arite, Jakob and Caterina.

Note: Caterina said: But please don’t take this as definitive because I may have misunderstood. The album is out on December 4th and I’m sure we’ll hear more in a few weeks.

Two UK concert reviews

Here‘s a review of the first concert in Birmingham on 2nd November.

and here‘s a review of the show at the O2 Arena in London on 4th November.

Take On Me Channel 4′s 3D Week (UK)

I was just watching Film4 and the music for Channel 4′s new 3D week starting 16th November plays Take On Me.

Here’s the video.

Thanks to tvlivesite for the upload.

 

 

Shadowside (2 track single) [download only] UK

Today, I was sent links to the 2 track single version (download only). It says the release date was 01/11/09.

Here’s how it the single appears on HMV’s website

The iTunes UK store says:

1. Shadowside 4:54

2. Shadowside (new single version) 3:31

You can buy it as an mp3 download from HMV here.

Here’s the same item from iTunes UK for £1.49 (download only) or £0.79 each.

I noticed on the iTunes version the tracklisting is reversed to the HMV listening.

iTunes UK says:

1. Shadowside (new single version) 3:58
2. Shadowside 4.54

Both HMV and iTunes offer to download a single track for £0.79 each or buy both for £1.49.

Here‘s the link to buy it directly from the iTunes UK store.

Thankyou to Jeni for alerting me to the release and for the relevant webstore links.

I’d prefer we had proper physical cd-single releases and weren’t forced to download!

Third Oslo show – 02.12.10 (on-sale) now

Apologies for not posting this on Wednesday but I was at the O2 concert in London when I received news of this, and tickets for the show went on sale yesterday morning. Unfortunately, I didn’t have internet access until I returned home.

I doubt its sold out and I’m sure there’ll be another Oslo concert, or more concerts announced in Norway. I’m holding out for a concert announcement for Bergen.

Third Oslo show on sale for December next year | 11-04-09

Both the shows on December 4 and December 3, 2010, in Oslo Spektrum are now sold out.

Another concert has been added on December 2, 2010, and will go on sale at 9 am CET on Thursday November 5, 2009.

Tickets can be purchased at www.billettservice.no

Source: a-ha.com

Signup for the Official a-ha.com Newsletter here. Scroll to the bottom of the page, enter your email address into the box and click go.

London o2 (04.11.09)

Here’s a few photos I took last night. I’ll post a few more in the next few days.

Nothing Is Keeping You Here [Video]

Here’s the official video for the current UK single.

With thanks to Bea and ahabrasil

Magne Interview 27.10.09 (UK)

I’ve just discovered an article published on 27th October from newsshopper.co.uk. I’ve added a few highlight paragraphs (a link to the full interview’s at the bottom of the page).

INTERVIEW: A-Ha’s Magne Furuholmen talks about the group’s latest album and their farewell tours

11:51am Tuesday 27th October 2009. By Matthew Jenkin

Magne Furuholmen is one third of pop band A-Ha. He tells MATTHEW JENKIN why he still loves Take On Me and how their farewell tour is now hysteria free.

NEXT year marks the 25th anniversary of A-ha’s multi-platinum debut album Hunting High and Low and back in the 80s the Norwegian trio generated teenage hysteria and general pandemonium wherever they went.

Despite a seven year split in the 90s the band reformed in 1999 and have since gone on to win the Q Inspiration Award, in 2006, in honour of their lasting musical influence.

But depsite selling more than 35 million albums and having 15 top 10 singles in the UK alone, A-Ha’s Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy have decided to call it a day.

The Scandinavian heart-throbs say the split will give them a chance to pursue their own individual passions and they will perform one of their last concerts at The O2 arena next Wednesday.

The band’s current album Foot of the Mountain has received critical acclaim and marks a return to the classic pop sound that made A-ha one of the biggest acts in the world.

You can read the full interview here.

The 1st of 3 UK shows 02.11.09

The first of 3 UK concerts starts tonight at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena.

The band then play Manchester’s MEN Arena on Tuesday and finally London’s O2 Arena on Wednesday (04.11.09).

The tour then moves to Oslo, Norway on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th November at Oslo Spektrum.

On 10th November the band play 1 show in Paris and the following night 1 show in Brussels.

The tour visits 3 more cities in Germany, 1 show in Poland, 2 shows in St. Petersburg and Moscow and then 1 date on 25th November in Tokyo, Japan.

Click here to see the Foot of the Mountain tour dates and tickets are still available.

Shadowside single release 02.11.09 (UK)

UPDATED: 7th November 2009

Please read a new post about this release as I have links to download the 2 track single online.

Here‘s the new blog post.

 

 

Update: 02.11.09 – 05:20am

After quite a few hours thinking about this post and further online investigations – I think this is the album track version and not a Single release. My reasons are: The price is cheap, the listing on play.com doesn’t have the artwork for the single, the German Shadowside release was a 2 track physical cd with a demo version of Mother Nature Goes to Heaven on it and I think it would be quite similar for a UK release and also I could find no sign of this release on iTunes UK store or at 7digital.com, which I find strange, especially as iTunes seem to have a-ha releases up earlier than release day eg like Nothing Is Keeping You Here single, which I downloaded 1 day before the release through the UK web store. No sign of this on HMV or Amazon UK etc.

If I can find information to support the Single release, I’ll publish another update soon.

Tomorrow Shadowside, the 3rd single from the album Foot of the Mountain is available to download.

You can download from play.com here. Unfortunately. I couldn’t find any sign of the single to pre-order/download from the iTunes UK Store but it may appear on their site tomorrow.

The single’s another download only release.

With thanks to Jeni for the news.

Magne’s Birthday (01.11.09)

Happy 47th Birthday Magne!

I posted a birthday message to him on his official myspace.