The fansite a-ha.us are planning fan parties around the US concerts in May!
All the info about the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles fan parties is up on a-ha.us and party tickets for NY and LA are available to buy now!
Source and Information: Catherine from a-ha.us
a-ha.com announced two new shows on 29th March 2010.
a-ha will return to Austria for the first time since 2005 to play at Clam Castle in Linz on July 16. The concert is another joint bill with Simple Minds – last summer the two bands performed at an SWR3 concert in Neuwied, Germany – and tickets are on sale now.
This November, a-ha will be adding a stop in Moscow, Russia to the Ending on a High Note tour. Tickets for the November 9 concert in Moscow are available now at www.show.ru and www.olimpik.ru.
Source: a-ha.com
Signup for the a-ha.com Official Newsletter here. You will find this at the bottom of the page.
Apologies, it seems I have failed to post this when I should have.
from a-ha.com
a-ha will return to Japan to perform at the Summer Sonic Festival, taking place on August 7-8. The festival has two locations, Tokyo and Osaka. The ticket sale date has not been announced yet, and we don’t have information about which day/location a-ha is playing yet. However the following information has been posted on the Summer Sonic>/a> web site:
Date: Saturday, August 7 and; Sunday August 8
Doors: 9:00am
Start: 11:00am (both Tokyo and Osaka)
Tokyo Venue: Chiba Marine Staduim & Makuhari Messe
Price: 1-day ticket 15,800yen (approx. $170.00)
2-day ticket 29,000yen (approx. $300.00)
Osaka Venue: Maishima Summer Sonic Osaka Site
Price: 1-day ticket 14,500yen (approx. $150.00)
2-day ticket 26,500yen (approx. $270.00)
We’ll post more information as it is received.
A friend of mine sent me this link and I wanted to share it with you (look closely around the 1 minute and 10 seconds mark) and you’ll see the sign I made which says AUSSIE A-HA FANS which was shown on SkyNews UK that night!
Here are a couple of other videos from the day:
Analogue
Hunting High and Low
With thanks to Chrisf3000 for the videos.
I was browsing the Official Apparatjik Store at The Outland and I discovered they now have a free Screensaver. It comes in both a PC and a MAC version.
Here’s the link to download the Screensaver.
Jakob’s a-ha-live blog has posted an interview with Morten and his personal Manager, Sverre Flatby.
Click here to go to Jakob’s blog.
It was published 20th March 2010.
Alpha-Beta box set by Magne Furuholmen
This very special box set features 30 large square postcard prints by artist and musician Magne Furuholmen, presented in a custom made box, and including a one-off tracing paper text piece designed by the artist.
You can buy the Magne F Alpha-Beta Photocards from the Polite Shop here.
About the box set
The set features 30 148mm square postcard prints, including the 26 letters of the alphabet along with 3 Norwegian characters and an exclamation mark. Reproduced using high screen lithographic print on extra thick silk postcard stock. It is supplied in a hand finished custom box along with a special one off multiple by Magne, featuring a Nabokov quote.
Polite also have a Blog here.
With thanks to Dorien Petersen
I’ve some exciting news to share with fans of Morten’s solo music which I heard a little while ago.
I’ve heard he’s planning a new solo album for a release in 2011!
This is of course an unconfirmed rumour which was told to me by a friend.
Of course when I hear anything further about this I’ll let you know. I don’t think this project will start until a-ha has retired in December, unless Morten’s songwriting on the a-ha Ending on a High Note tour.
I hope to have more news on this but I don’t know when this will be forthcoming.
I’m definitely looking forward to his next solo release and I hope that the new album will receive a bigger release and a solo tour.
Like many other fans I ordered the physical cd+dvd from The Outland but have not yet received it in the post and I’ve been wondering what was happening with my order.
I’ve received an email from Sandbag. I guess all customers who’ve ordered it have received this email too but thought I’d write a blog about it just in case some of you haven’t noticed the email, perhaps it went into your junkmail or spam folders.
Karen
P.S The Outland are running a Competition. If you place an order for any product your entered into a chance to Win an Exclusive Signed Art Print!
The Competition closes 30th June 2010.
Here’s the message from Sandbag:
Dear Customer,
Thank you again for your recent order via the Apparatjik store.
We are putting the finishing touches to the ‘We are here’ CD/DVD preorder and are due to start production in the next week or so. We hope to start dispatching orders towards the end of April but will keep you all posted on any further development.
We do thank you for your continued patience and look forward to getting this fantastic pre order out to you as soon as possible.
Kind regards
Sandbag
SANDBAG LTD
Company Registration: 4382666
Country of Registration: UK
VAT: GB795917954
Address: PO BOX 2656, READING, RG1 8XR
I’ve just noticed an update on this film on the Internet Movie Database.
Yohan Barnevanderer translates to Yohan Child Wanderer
Synopsis:
With his family struggling to survive in late 1890s Norway and his father leaving on a ship for America to earn much needed money, 10-year-old Yohan devises some plans of his own to help his family. However, his jealous older brother has other ideas, and, unbeknown to their parents, he signs a contract with an agent for Yohan to become a farm laborer. Now consigned to being a child wanderer, Yohan is sent off to work on a faraway farm providing cheap labour. Yohan embarks on a long, rugged journey filled with danger, loneliness and feelings of abandonment. Along the way, he meets up with two other child wanderers, 8 year-old Anna and her younger brother. Together with other child wanderers and led by the menacing boy Aslak, the group makes its way on foot through the countryside with Yohan finally arriving at the farm where he is told to work. He becomes a shepherd boy, protecting the farmer’s livestock from wolves and grizzly bears. His boss, Nome, is a harsh disciplinarian and a tough man to please. Following his heart and with good intentions, Yohan makes decisions that are misunderstood by local adults and are sabotaged by other envious children. Unjustly accused, he is punished and beaten by Nome. Events only get worse, with wild animals attacking Nome’s herd on Yohan’s watch and Yohan’s discovery that his friend Anna and her brother have been beaten at a neighboring farm. Using his resourcefulness and ingenuity, a battered Yohan sets out to help his friend Anna and her brother escape from the farm owners.
Written by: Penelope Film (production company).
You can see the Official trailer on their Official YouTube site here. They won’t allow embedding links so I cannot include the trailer here.
Here‘s the Official movie site in English / here‘s the Norwegian site and here‘s the Official movie YouTube site.
The movie opens on 26th March in Norway. I’m not sure if Morten will be in attendance.
Click here to read the January 2010 blog I wrote when I found out about Morten’s role in this family movie.
I’d read about this online earlier. It’s been a busy day! Apologies for the delay in posting.
Here’s a partial posting from a-ha.com today:
Since the first Brazilian show in Bauru, the video & light show has evolved and especially the arrangements to ‘Analogue’ and ‘Swing Of Things’ are a real piece of art.
Tonight’s concert is effected by Morten’s throat infection which forces the band to drop ‘You Are The One’, ‘Early Morning’ and ‘Train Of Thought’ from the set list. However Brasilia’s audience happily helps Morten out singing whole parts of the songs including an extra special extended version of ‘Hunting High And Low’.
If you’d like to read the entire story Brasilia – Time to Wave Goodbye click here to visit a-ha.com.
Note: It looks like new posts on the official website don’t have links, they just get posted in the News section.
News from Catherine on West of the Moon forum.
The concert in Santiago has been rescheduled to March 23. There is an article here:
And it has also been confirmed by management & posted on a-ha.com twitter. More info to follow on a-ha.com.
News received from the Hugo Opdal Gallery about the Artival “Arts Festival” in June in Flø, Norway.
The “Go with the Flø” Artival is taking place 5-6th June. This is a collaboration with Paul Stolper Gallery in London. Magne F/Apparatjiks will be showing 8 new prints.
I will have more information from the Gallery very soon.
5th March 2010
Jakob’s translated an interview from Aftenposten with Magne and Morten about their thoughts on the recent concert in Buenos Aires.
You can read it here on Jakob’s site.
With thanks to LABSASARG.
Magne arriving in Buenos Aires on 2nd March 2010
Morten arriving in Buenos Aires on 2nd March 2010
Magne on the streets of Buenos Aires
Morten in Buenos Aires
Samanta Otero from Argentina sent me the setlist from last night’s show.
Here it is:
The Bandstand
Foot Of The Mountain
Analogue
Forever Not Yours
Summer Moved On
Move to Memphis
Crying In The Rain (The Everly Brothers cover)
Stay On These Roads
The Blood That Moves The Body
The Living Daylights
Early morning (acoustic)
And You Tell Me (acoustic)
Scoundrel Days
Cry Wolf
We’re Looking for the Whales
Manhattan Skyline
I’ve Been Losing You
Encore:
Living A Boy’s Adventure Tale
Hunting High And Low
Train Of Thought
The Sun Always Shines On T.V.
Take On Me
Karen says:
I don’t know what I was hoping for but there’s no Celice and no How Sweet It Was. I thought they would play different songs from EOTSWOTM. Crying in the Rain’s one of the songs I’d hoped they wouldn’t include from Memorial Beach.
It’ll be good to see if some songs are swapped, but from past experience they’ve only made very minor changes (from the concerts I’ve been to on the same tour).
Thankyou Samanta for the setlist and I wish you all the best with the photos.
Note: Please give Samanta credit for the setlist, if your re-posting it on another site.
Jakob’s posted an article about Foot of the Mountain going Silver in the UK.
You need to sell 60,000 albums to achieve this!
You’ll find it under 3rd March. Read it here.
Thanks Jakob!
I’ve been really busy lately so it wasn’t until this morning I realised the Ending on a High Note tour has started!
The first show took place at Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fan videos have started appearing on YouTube.
I must warn you please don’t watch these videos unless you want to see the live show in advance!
The Sun Always Shines on TV
Crying in the Rain
Take on Me
I’m sure there’ll be lots of new videos added to YouTube in the near future.
I’m waiting for someone to post a setlist for last night’s show and I’ll add once I have received it.
Thankyou to our friends in Argentina for filming the show and we’re sure you all enjoyed the concert. Also thanks to A-HA Facegroup for the links.
Thanks to: mgorearg for the video uploads.
I just went to a-ha.com to check for recent news and discovered its had a makeover and is now Black with Blue and not red, grey and white.
Here’s one of the looks the mainpage gave me when I went there a second time:
and here’s another
Everytime it loads it seems to load a different image, which keeps the site interesting!
It requires a lot more of a look and I’m going to make time to do that in about an hour.
I’m pretty impressed and felt for some time that it needed to be updated as the grey, red and white them harks back to 2005!
Do you like the new look of the Official site?
If your going to Oslo this October, November or December you can see the new exhibition announced today by the Nasjonalbiblioteket (The National Library of Norway) which runs from 20th October until 30th December 2010.
I’ve created an Event for it on Facebook, please RSVP here.
Here’s the exhibition page in Norwegian.
I hope you get the chance to see the Exhibition!
Here’s the article I posted about the exhibition a short time ago.
a-ha-live have posted a story about Morten supporting East Timor project.
You can read it here.
There’s a 23 minute video to watch (Norwegian).
Source: a-ha-live.com and aha-net.de
News from a-ha.com
3rd March 2010
The upcoming sold out a-ha show in Santiago, Chile on the 6th of March is cancelled.
Due to the current difficult circumstances in connection with the recent earthquake, the Chilean government has suspended all artistic activity in the country.
a-ha wishes to honour their Chilean fans and are now working on altering their plans to be able to add the Santiago date on to the end of their South American tour.
We will let you know more details as soon as everything is worked out.
Best wishes from a-ha, and our deepest sympathy to the people of Chile for the devastation and tragedy that this earthquake has caused them.
Source: a-ha.com
Photo by Stian Andersen
The National Library of Norway announces “Hunting High and Low: 25 Years with a-ha” Exhibition from 20th October 2010 until 30th December 2010.
Visit the National Library here.
This was also recently published on a-ha.com here.
If your going to Oslo this October, November or December you can RSVP to the exhibition here. This is for fans who use Facebook only. If you don’t have a Facebook account but would like to RSVP and perhaps join the unofficial group a-ha The Bandstand as well then you can signup here for a free account.
A very good and reliable friend of mine bought 5 x £32.50+ booking fee tickets to the concert in Birmingham on 19th November, but due to a mis-communication with a friend, she doesn’t need these tickets afterall.
She’s not looking to sell to make a profit and would like these to go to a fan for as close to face value as possible. And she doesn’t want to list them on Ebay unless absolutely necessary!
If your interested, please contact me and ask for her contact details.
The best way to sell is 4 tickets and a single, or 2 x 2 pairs + a single. If you are seriously interested, please don’t delay in contacting her because she might just take an offer to sell these as single, therefore if you need 4, 3 or 2 tickets you’ll miss out!
From a-ha-live.com
16 July: Clam Castle, Linz, Austria
2 – 8 August: Japan (TBC)
17 October: St Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland
4 – 11 November: Russia (TBC)
TBC means to be confirmed.
also a-ha-live wrote on 1st March 2010;
Update 2: According to this article from NTB, we can expect a lot of interesting releases and events this year, including:
- new deluxe editions of both Hunting High And Low and Scoundrel Days
- a new anthology
- updated edition of Jan Omdahl’s book “The Swing Of Things”
- the national library in Oslo will hold an a-ha exhibition
- a documentary
- a live DVD
- photo book
- plus a few more things
The link to NTB is on a-ha-live.com.
Thanks Jakob!
a-ha.com have published two new concerts. The first one for Toronto, Canada at Massey Hall on 10th May and the second one at Riviera in Chicago, USA on 13th May!
There’s a pre-sale for tickets tomorrow and you can get the links for those and find out the times they go on-sale at a-ha.com.
Photo: Stian Andersen
Today, the Norwegian Embassy in London published their March newsletter and there’s a story about the last UK tour with a link to concerts dates. They called it heartbreaking news that the band will split at the end of this year. a-ha are retiring!
You can read the full story here.
Visit the Norwegian Embassy in London’s website.
Thanks to Beatrice for sending me this link.
Magne and Morten held a press conference today to Announce the Summer stadium concerts in Norway!
Magne Furuholmen announced the new Norwegian Stadium dates on the a-ha Ending on a High Note – Farewell Tour, and said the band will give a Grant of 1 Million Norwegian Kroner to one band in each of the four cities.
Youtube link with thanks to Jonarnesen.
Note: Paul was absent but that’s probably because he’s in New York (where he lives).
Kjetil (pronounced Shetil) is a Norwegian composer, pianist, songrwiter and performer and he’s worked previously with Magne on Hermetic and also with Morten. He played piano on Morten’s tour in 2008 from the Special Evening concerts in Oslo and Royal Albert Hall London and he also played piano for Morten in Side-Vision which was a concert performed in a kirke (Church) in Kristiansund, Norway at the Kurkelandet Church. You can read a-ha-live news here.
Kjetil’s releasing a solo album in Norway today called Piano Poems. I think he’s very talented and I like listening to him play. I’ve heard him perform before (he’s the Norwegian Singer, Sissel’s (whom I also enjoy listening to ) – Musicial Director and I wanted to let you all know Kjetil’s got a solo album and to wish him well with his album.
You can hear him playing piano in this YouTube video. It’s Kjetil being photographed in the video.
You can buy the album in Platekompaniet stores.. I downloaded it in mp3 format from KIRKELIG kulturverksted’s website here.
Here’s the album cover:
and;
Here’s the Tracklist:
01. Amelie
02. 21/11
03. The Ladder
04. Hymn I – Velt alle dine vegne
05. February
06. 602
07. Sanctus
08. Hymn II – Lær med å kjenne dine veie
09. Geirriano
10. Daddy´s Theme
11. ADAE
12. 502
13. Hymn III – Jesus, din søte forening å smake
You can listen to very short audio clips of the songs here.
