The three a-ha concerts at The Wiltern in Los Angeles are the latest to be rescheduled for next year. Here are the new dates:
07 April 2022: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, USA
08 April 2022: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, USA
09 April 2022: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, USA
Original tickets remain valid.
The seven a-ha concerts in Japan have now been rescheduled again, to January 2022. Here are the new dates:
13 January: Civic Hall, Fukuoka, Japan
15 January: Tokyo Dome City Hall, Tokyo, Japan
16 January: Tokyo Dome City Hall, Tokyo, Japan
18 January: Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
19 January: Grand Cube Osaka, Osaka, Japan
21 January: Tokyo Dome City Hall, Tokyo, Japan
22 January: City Culture Hall, Shizuoka, Japan
Original tickets for all shows are still valid – except for the concert in Osaka, where the venue has been changed from Festival Hall to Grand Cube Osaka. All original Osaka tickets will be refunded and new tickets put on sale soon. More info on the website of Japanese concert promoter Creativeman.
Meanwhile in Portugal, the Rock in Rio Lisboa Festival has been postponed once again – to June 2022. It remains to be seen if a-ha will still be a part of the lineup for a third time.
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As expected, the European Hunting High and Low tour planned for April and May this year has now officially been rescheduled for 2022, due to Covid-19.
Here are the new dates, as announced on a-ha.com:
28 April: Partille Arena, Gothenburg, Sweden
29 April: Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
01 May: O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
04 May: AFAS Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands
05 May: Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
07 May: Le Zenith, Paris, France
09 May: Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
11 May: Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin, Germany
12 May: Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany
14 May: Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
15 May: Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany
18 May: DNB Arena, Stavanger, Norway
20 May: Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway
21 May: Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway
24 May: BIC, Bournemouth, UK
25 May: M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK
27 May: The SSE Arena, Wembley, London, UK
28 May: Utilita Arena, Birmingham, UK
Original tickets remain valid. See a list of all upcoming dates here.
Update: The special screening of a-ha – The Movie has also been rescheduled accordingly. The new date is 19 May 2022 at Colosseum Cinema in Oslo. Original tickets remain valid for this screening as well.
Please note that the world premiere of a-ha – The Movie is now planned for sometime in 2021, meaning 19 May 2022 is now billed as a “special screening” instead.
On ‘This Morning’, 1 February 2021
Morten was a guest on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ today, joining in live from Norway, to talk about his time on The Masked Singer. The whole interview can be seen on YouTube.
“I needed to get out of my comfort zone, and this was a good way of doing that”, he said of why he chose to take part.
On the Masked Singer panel not recognizing him, even as he sang “Take On Me”:
“I thought it was blatantly obvious, [even] before then, that it was me.”
On singing inside the costume:
“My personal sound system was failing me, so it was very confusing. That made it harder. It also made it impossible for me to dodge my voice or to play with it in other ways, because I had no center.”
On the a-ha tour being postponed:
“We had to pull the plug on a big tour, because of the pandemic, like a lot of my peers have had to do. The fortunate thing for people like myself is that you would use this period as a hiatus and that means you can write songs and do other things that we would have been doing in off-times anyway.”
Morten was also a guest on Heart Breakfast today. A video clip of that interview is available here.
There were also additional comments in interviews with RadioTimes and Mirror.
This viking has broken records and forged his own way.
After appearing in four episodes of The Masked Singer UK, tonight it was time for Viking to take off his mask. And as most people had guessed for weeks, it turned out to be Morten Harket under the helmet.
The song he performed tonight was “The Scientist” by Coldplay, but he received the fewest votes from the studio audience and had to be unmasked.
Here is the moment when his identity is finally revealed:
“My main reason for joining was that I knew how much I would be exposed to performing conditions of which I would have very little control. It’s the complete opposite of my usual mindset. Knowing I would hate that, was an excellent reason”, Morten says in an interview with a-ha.com.
He admits that performing inside the viking costume was quite challenging:
“It was decidedly uncomfortable to navigate, especially as my sound system was getting wonky… that and the confines of the helmet sometimes reaching my elbows. At times I kind of felt like a drunk trying to cross the M4. To be inside the costume made my movements even clumsier than my usual standard :)”
Morten was also interviewed by Will Njobvu on Unmasked on ITV Hub.
Before the unmasking, one of the additional clues on tonight’s episode was Viking quoting a lyric from one of Morten’s solo songs: “I cannot take what you cannot give” from “I’m The One” (2012).
A moment from the 2017 documentary a-ha Unplugged – På innsiden
Magne posted another new demo recording on Instagram last Thursday, which appears to be called “Time is on Your Side”.
This is the third new song he’s posted during the last month, following “I’m In” and “God is in the Details”.
Meanwhile, Paul has been sharing some newly drawn sketches on his Instagram, which can be seen here, here, here and here.
Paul has also been known to make paintings on canvas, some of which were part of his solo exhibition “Rammer” at Lillehammer in 1998. A selection of his paintings can be seen in this picture, posted by Augie some years ago.
As for new music, Savoy-drummer Frode Unneland was interviewed on the radio earlier this month, saying that Paul is working on lots of new songs at the moment. And according to last year’s Down To The Tracks-book, Paul already has a solo double album just waiting to be released.
