A third concert in New York has now been announced. a-ha.com has the details about the show, which takes place on 8 May at the Nokia Theatre.
This also means that the total number of concerts on the farewell tour has now reached 40.
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Swiss festival / Extra L.A. date / 1986 concert rediscovered
Posted by Jakob S on February 5th, 2010
The Live at Sunset festival stage in Zurich
a-ha will be playing a concert in Zurich, Switzerland on 17 July, as part of the Live at Sunset festival. This according to the festival’s website.
The concert will be held at the Dolder Eisbahn – a large outdoor ice-rink. a-ha last visited Zurich in 2002, on the Lifelines tour.
The regular ticket sale for the New York and Los Angeles concerts started on Ticketmaster today, and due to “extremely high demand” a second date in L.A. has now been added on 16 May, a-ha.com announced. Pre-sale on a-ha.com now, with Ticketmaster following tomorrow.
I was searching through the Google News Archive the other day when I found a concert that isn’t listed anywhere online:
29 September 1986: Masonic Auditorium, Toledo, USA
There is a review of the concert from the Toledo Blade newspaper here, so it definitely happened. I have now updated the 1986-87 tour page with this “new” date.
The clothing designers in Moods of Norway have posted a picture on their blog of themselves and Hugo Opdal with Apparatjik in Berlin on February 1st. Apparently they will be launching a special Apparatjik clothing collection in Norway in April. Their spelling could use some improvement, though…
And singer Elisabeth Andreassen has posted a picture on her blog of herself and Morten with British/Norwegian group A1 at the concert for Haiti on January 24th.
a-ha concerts in New York and Los Angeles
Posted by Jakob S on January 30th, 2010
a-ha.com has announced three a-ha concerts in New York and Los Angeles in May:
6 May: Nokia Theatre, New York, USA
7 May: Nokia Theatre, New York, USA
15 May: Club Nokia, Los Angeles, USA
An a-ha.com ticket presale starts on 2 February.
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Comments Off on a-ha concerts in New York and Los AngelesAmerican tour dates coming next week
Posted by Jakob S on January 27th, 2010
According to a-ha.com the 2010 American tour dates will be announced next week.
Apart from the one-off show at New York’s Irving Plaza in 2005, these will be the first a-ha concerts in the U.S. since 1986.
Platinum awards / Echo nomination / Apparatjik album release
Posted by Jakob S on January 26th, 2010
a-ha receiving platinum awards in Munich, January 15th
While in Munich to perform at the Bavarian Movie Awards on January 15th, a-ha were presented with platinum awards for selling more than 200 000 copies of Foot Of The Mountain in Germany, trade publication MusikWoche reports.
Considering the fact that “no one” buys CDs anymore, this is an impressive number. The album is still in the Top 100 German album chart after 31 weeks, currently at number 65.
More news from Germany: a-ha have been nominated in the “Best international group”-category for this year’s Echo Awards, which will take place in Berlin on March 4th.
The other nominees are U2, Depeche Mode, Black Eyed Peas and Razorlight. a-ha will not be able to attend the award show, as they are opening their farewell tour in Buenos Aires on that day.
In Norway the nominations for this year’s Spellemann Awards were announced yesterday, but a-ha did not get any nominations for their final album.
Producer and Apparatjik member Martin Terefe has posted a news update on his official website which says that the long-awaited Apparatjik album will be released on the same day as the band’s debut concert in Berlin next Monday, February 1st.
Since there has been no info about a CD release, it’s fair to assume that the album will be available only as a digital download.
Some info about last week’s Pupparatjik workshop in Trondheim can now be found here. One of the students who participated has shared some of his thoughts on the Apparatchick forum and he has also posted a set of pictures on Flickr.
And of course you can see the results of the workshop at apparatjik.com/pupparatjik.
Posted in a-ha, Apparatjik, Magne Tags: a-ha, apparatjik, munich Comments Off on Platinum awards / Echo nomination / Apparatjik album releaseConcert news for Spain and Australia
Posted by Jakob S on January 18th, 2010
Some good news for fans in Spain; according to the website of a Spanish booking company (rocknrock.com), a-ha will be playing in Madrid on 14 October and in Barcelona on 15 October. No info about the venues and ticket details available yet.
Update (Jan. 19): The dates have now been confirmed by a-ha.com and the venues are Palacio Vista Alegre in Madrid and St. Jordi Club in Barcelona. Tickets go on sale this Friday through Ticketmaster.
And some bad news for fans in Australia; although a-ha had hoped to visit the country on their farewell tour, unfortunately there won’t be any concerts in Australia this year.
Movie awards / Brussels concert / Edinburgh opening
Posted by Jakob S on January 16th, 2010
a-ha on stage inside the Prinzregententheater in Munich yesterday evening
a-ha made their first appearance this year when they did a playback performance of “Nothing Is Keeping You Here” at the Bavarian movie awards in Munich last night.
Even though it was only playback, they were joined by Karl and Erik on drums and bass. The performance can be seen on YouTube here.
The official site has now confirmed a concert in Brussels, Belgium on 11 October. The four remaining concerts in Brazil were also finally confirmed. Visit a-ha.com for ticket details.
Magne’s “Alpha Beta” exhibition is opening at the Edinburgh Printmakers gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland today.
According to the gallery’s website, Magne will be present for an “artist talk” between 4.30-5.30pm, where he will discuss his artworks with Paul Stolper. And between 6-8pm people can “join Magne F for an exclusive reception to celebrate his exhibition”.
Update (Jan. 20): Although the exhibition opened on January 16th, the “artist talk” and “exclusive reception” with Magne won’t happen before February 17th. A PDF flyer for this event can be seen here.
Tonight is the second semi-final of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix (Eurovision Song Contest), where Morten’s daughter Tomine will perform the song “Be Good To Me”.
Because of a-ha’s trip to Germany, Morten won’t be able to be part of the audience in Bodø, where the show is held. And that is one of the reasons why Tomine wants to make it to the final. “I have to make it to the next round so my father gets a chance to see me on stage“, Tomine told VG a few days ago.
“Tomine can be proud of the beautiful song she will be performing. And Grand Prix is a great arena in which to present it“, Morten says in today’s VG.
The show can be seen live on NRK’s web-TV here, starting at 19.55. “Be Good To Me” can already be heard here.
Update: Tomine did a good performance, but did not get enough votes to go to the final.
Posted in a-ha, Art projects, Magne Tags: a-ha, edinburgh, magne furuholmen, tomine harket Comments Off on Movie awards / Brussels concert / Edinburgh openingPossible concert in Kristiansand
Posted by Jakob S on January 13th, 2010
There is a good chance that a-ha may do a concert in Kristiansand, Norway this summer, the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen reports today.
Sør Arena in Kristiansand
“I can confirm that this is being worked on and that we really want to make it happen. a-ha want to do a concert in Kristiansand, but the band has a rather tight tour schedule and so the concert date and some other issues are yet to be decided“, a-ha manager Harald Wiik tells Fædrelandsvennen.
Wiik doesn’t want to say where the concert would be held, but the football club Start’s home stadium called Sør Arena would be a good candidate. The stadium has a capacity of around 20 000 people for concerts.
Cathrine Aanensen at Start’s event company Start Event confirms that they are currently in a dialogue with a-ha’s management.
a-ha have only done one concert in Kristiansand before, when they played for 4400 people at Gimlehallen on 30 January 1987.
Two more confirmed dates
Posted by Jakob S on January 12th, 2010
The official site has now confirmed the October 10th concert in Amsterdam – again…
Tickets will go on sale this Saturday, January 16th at LiveNation.nl.
The March 14th concert in Belo Horizonte has also finally been confirmed. Ticket sales for this show started, uh… last year. But a-ha.com claims there are still tickets available.
However, still no official word on the four remaining Brazilian dates in Bauru, Brasilia, Recife and Fortaleza.
Norwegian concerts in late summer
Posted by Jakob S on January 12th, 2010
As previously reported, concert organizers in Bodø, Norway have been in contact with a-ha Network about getting a possible date on the Farewell Tour.
The concert would have been held as part of the Aspmyra Live mini-festival, but it seems that the plans didn’t work out.
“As it stands now this won’t happen, unfortunately“, a-ha manager Harald Wiik tells local newspaper Avisa Nordland today.
According to the newspaper, a-ha will be doing concerts in Norway between August 20th and September 12th.
“There was a weekend during that period when we could have arranged Aspmyra Live, but that wasn’t a good time for the band. Aspmyra Live is usually held in June, but it wasn’t possible for a-ha to come here [that month]“, Gøran Aamodt of the event company Tag Productions tells Avisa Nordland.
As for which Norwegian cities that will get a visit from a-ha in late summer, there have been rumours about both Stavanger and Bergen.
