Hamburg, April 29th (Picture from mopo.de)
The German leg of Morten’s solo tour started at the Congress Center in Hamburg yesterday, in front of 1900 fans.
The 19-song setlist was the same as in Russia. But despite a busy touring schedule, Morten’s voice remains strong, as evidenced in this performance of Stay On These Roads.
There’s a review and photo gallery from Hamburg at mopo.de.
Morten was a guest on the popular German TV-show Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel yesterday, broadcast live on ZDF from the city of Fulda.
In addition to a short interview, he did a playback performance of “Scared Of Heights”.
Both the performance and interview can be seen on YouTube.
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Comments Off on Morten on Willkommen bei Carmen NebelIn addition to being this year’s artist at the annual Peer Gynt culture festival at Vinstra (see March 29th story), Magne has now also been chosen to be this year’s artist at the annual Olsokdagene festival at the historical site of Stiklestad, opening on July 23rd.
As adressa.no reports, Magne’s exhibition at the festival will include a unique graphic print inspired by Stiklestad, only available in 20 copies.
Magne will be present at the opening on July 23rd. The exhibition is open until sometime in August.
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St. Petersburg, April 26th
Morten ended the Russian part of the tour on Thursday, with a concert at the Little Ice Palace in St. Petersburg.
No changes in the setlist, which has been the same since the second concert in Novosibirsk.
But after Morten missed his cue (once again), Crying In The Rain turned into a real trainwreck – demonstrating how difficult it is to correct things when you’re using a lot of pre-programmed sounds.
Check out other YouTube clips from the concert here.
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Magne interviewed after the show, with Marius Beck and Marianne Pentha
The first live show of The Voice was broadcast from Chateau Neuf in Oslo last night, where Team Magne competed against Team Yosef.
Magne’s five talents had to be reduced to three by the end of the night, decided by both viewer votes and Magne’s own choices.
Shaun Bartlett got the most votes from the viewers, and Magne wanted to keep Monika Blomeid and Martin Halla on the team. So Marius Beck and Marianne Pentha are both out of the game.
“This was an incredibly difficult choice. I would have wanted to keep all my talents, they all deserve to be in the final”, Magne said after the show.
The performances can be seen here:
Marius Beck Martin Halla Marianne Pentha Shaun Bartlett Monika Blomeid
Earlier in the week TV2.no posted a 6-minute video interview with Magne and Marius Beck, which can be seen here.
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Out Of My Hands climbs up to #1 in its second week on the Norwegian album chart, making it the third of Morten’s solo albums to reach the top spot in Norway.
The album is also starting to appear in album charts outside Norway and Germany:
And in the German single chart, “Scared Of Heights” climbs up from #92 to #60 in its third week.
VG has an article about Apparatjik’s upcoming performance at the Roskilde Festival today.
“This will be the first Apparatjik performance on a regular stage, so that will be interesting. Most of us in Apparatjik have been on a stage in front of 30.000 people before, but I still think there may be a few people in the audience that we’re not familiar with”, Magne says.
He can also promise more Apparatjik shows later in the year:
“We’ll be doing some spectacular outdoor performances in the autumn, probably in Norway as well. These will be very different from normal concerts and more similar to the project we did at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin last year.”
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Minsk, April 25th
(Picture from ultra-music.com)
Morten and his band visited Belarus yesterday, to perform at the Palace of Sport in Minsk.
Before the concert Morten did a half-hour press conference with local journalists.
Setlist was the same as before, but there are only a couple of YouTube clips online so far: Spanish Steps and Take On Me.
Photo galleries:
strenger.livejournal.com
Moscow, April 24th
(Picture from lifemusic.ru)
Morten played at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow on Tuesday, where the setlist remained the same as in the three previous concerts. After the concert he did a signing session.
As the tour reached the capital, there were are lot more videos being uploaded to YouTube. So instead of linking to individual clips here, you can explore them yourself:
Moscow on YouTube
And check out this great photo gallery:
tony-blackberry.livejournal.com
Yekaterinburg, April 22nd
Reports from Russian fans indicate that yesterday’s concert at the Cosmos hall in Yekaterinburg had the same setlist as in Tomsk.
Video clips on YouTube so far include Burn Money Burn, Crying In The Rain, Forever Not Yours and Take On Me.
The tour continues in Moscow tomorrow.
And some news from Morten’s official website; Out Of My Hands enters the German album chart at #3 in its first week, which should be considered a very good result.
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