Saturday, November 12th, 2011
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9:07 pm - Royal Variety Performance (1988)
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swordznsorcery
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Just found this on YouTube, to my delight. Beneath the cut is a-ha's appearance on the 1988 Royal Variety Performance in the UK. I was annoyed with myself for not recording it at the time. Only took twenty-three years to find it again!
It's a mimed performance, as such things always seemed to be back then, but I don't think you'll mind that when you're watching it.
( Click for tuxedos and bouncing... )
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
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3:00 pm - West of the Moon 2011 a-ha fan calendar - Order now!
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
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6:41 pm - probably only interesting to me ;-)
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romanglass
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Some of you may already know about this, I'm working with some friends on an a-ha calendar for 2011 - and before you say it, yes it is late, and no it isn't ready yet ;-) Anyway, we started making these calendars back on the old official a-ha forum in 2006, and the first version was a weekly desk calendar. The date squares were large enough to include room for facts and information about the band and the guys' solo projects, and at that time we collected quite a lot of data about their career(s).
This year we're using the weekly desk calendar format again for the first time since then, and we decided not only to include the major historical facts, but also all live concert dates as well :-) Since so much data was collected last time around, we only had to update for the past few years, and add the concerts. Little did I realize beforehand that there were altogether 688+ concerts to add in...!
When all that data was put together in day-book form, it was kind of fun to see how certain dates seemed to be history-heavy. With a 25 year career, and only 365 days in a year, there were bound to be some interesting overlaps. For example the guys received awards at the Spellemanns on two different January 24ths - in 1987 and 2009, respectively. Also there are some dates where a-ha had two releases:
March 14 - 'Stay On These Roads' and 'Shapes That Go Together' (Magne also released 'Kryptonite' on this date)
March 24 - 'Train of Thought' and 'How Can I Sleep With Your Voice In My Head'
September 21 - 'The Sun Never Shone That Day' and 'Nothing Is Keeping You Here'
October 28 - 'Hunting High and Low' and 'Birthright'
Even more interesting is the live concert breakdown. a-ha's most-performed date is November 11. They played six concerts on that date over the years! Second most-performed date is November 25 with five a-ha concerts on that date.
If you add in solo shows, the most-played dates are September 15 and November 1 (Magne's birthday ;-)) with six concerts each. There are some dates with five concerts each also (a-ha and solo):
June 4
June 5
October 28
November 3
November 14
December 4
December 7
However overall the most interesting concert date IMO is February 1: not only did a-ha play two concerts on that date, but it is the only date on which all three guys have played full solo gigs as well. Morten, Savoy and Apparatjik have all had gigs on February 1. Very cool. (ok, yes, you could say the 'alone together' concerts count for that distinction, but I say they don't - they were one concert/event on each of those nights, not three separate full gigs on those nights, that's my story and I am sticking to it!)
Yeah, probably this stuff isn't interesting to anyone but me :-) Anyway, the calendar will be ready hopefully this week, and I'll post a link here in case anyone is interested!
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Monday, December 27th, 2010
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3:11 pm - Back to the 80s part 3
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swordznsorcery
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Last collection of Look-In features on a-ha, at least for now. They did run a weekly picture strip throughout 1986 devoted to "The Story So Far" for a number of pop groups, and a-ha were covered in that one week. I know I had it, so if it ever comes to light, I'll post it here! In the meantime, here are the last few interviews and posters. Clickable thumbnails, as before.
( The wayback machine... )
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Sunday, December 19th, 2010
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5:55 pm - Back to the 80s part 2
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
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4:44 pm - Back to the 80s
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swordznsorcery
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Perhaps inevitably, I've been a little nostalgic in the last week or so, and I wound up looking through my old scrapbooks. As a kid I was very much into Look-In magazine, which for those of you who are of the wrong age, or from outside of Europe, was a British magazine about pop music and TV. It specialised in interviews and posters, and I kept dozens of their centre spreads, some of which I've scanned to post here. At one time my bedroom wall was practically wallpapered in the things, so I apologise for the creases, tears and occasional blu-tac stains. I never imagined twenty-odd years ago that I'd be sharing them on the internet one day!
This isn't all of it. There was too much to do in one go, so I'll do some more another time. There's nothing deep and meaningful here, by the way - Look-In specialised in the "What's your favourite colour?" line of questioning. Still fun reading though, looking back.
( Travel back in time to the 80s... )
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
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9:49 am - Last hurrah
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
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5:19 pm - A-ha. Live in Minsk
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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7:40 pm - because it's the last time we'll ever see this :(
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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7:58 pm - a-ha // 36 icons
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
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7:46 pm - a-ha - Butterfly, Butterfly (the last hurrah)
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
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1:34 am - a-ha tumblelog
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
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11:24 am - Live pictures from NY and LA
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romanglass
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Hey everyone, it's gotten really quiet in this community, so when I saw the last post a couple of days ago I thought I'd jump in and post some concert pictures :-)
Posting them behind a cut so as not to clog up people's Friends page ( click for pictures )
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
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7:22 pm - a-ha icons
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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1:30 pm - Two A-ha songs live on French TV (and online)
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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6:03 pm - West of the Moon 2010 a-ha Fan Calendar
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
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9:54 pm - A-ha in Paris (France) + Morten and Tomine
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
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1:29 pm - new a-ha video-- thoughts, anyone?
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scoundreldays
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I'm not sure I really "get" the video, but I've decided that if I ever need a blood transfusion, I want to use Morten Harket as the source. The man is looking especially fit (and is aging in reverse).
current mood: artistic
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
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9:25 pm - A-ha promo for new album Foot of the Mountain
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hiyami
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1) A-ha at the Dome 50
A-ha was again in Germany lately, to perform at the Dome 50, a show set up by RTL2 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzUNRx7LJY8
Recorded on May 22, 2009 in the Olympiahalle in München. Aired on May 30, 2009 on RTL2.
2) MR and MRS... Harket
On May 30, 2009, Morten and his current mate Inez appeared on the UK show on ITV1 : “MR and MRS”.
They were asked to reply questions about each other, and the couple with the highest number of matching answers got the next show. They didn’t win (didn’t get too many matching answers… though sometimes they were really close to!), but they earned 5,000 £ to give to a charity of their choice.
They chose the Norwegian Refugee Council.
The video is hilarious :
http://video.yandex.ru/users/ilily/view/34/
3) release dates have been updated on the official site :
Single ‘Foot of the Mountain’
Confirmed release dates in alphabetical order.
Austria: May 22, 2009
Denmark: May 25, 2009
Germany: May 22, 2009
Norway:
- Single to radio: April 24, 2009
- Single release: May 4, 2009 (download only)
Switzerland: May 22, 2009
United Kingdom:
- Single radio premiere: April 29, 2009 (Radio 2)
- Single release: July 13, 2009
Album ‘Foot of the Mountain’
Confirmed release dates in alphabetical order.
Austria: June 19, 2009
Germany: June 12, 2009
Norway: June 22, 2009
Switzerland: June 19, 2009
United Kingdom: July 20, 2009
Also I made a multi-fandom blog to keep track of news on my fandoms. Most tend to go on hiatus for extended period of times and so couldn't feed a dedicated blog each...
It's mostly A-ha / River Phoenix / Tokio Hotel (I know, off mix).
http://aleka.org/wp/
current mood: cheerful
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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11:32 pm - last night, Brazil
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