The Final Concert
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przedWell, I'm back from...
and seeing a-ha one last time. This time at Wembley Arena, with a sold out crowd of fellow fans.
Here's what a sold-out Wembley show looks like:
It was kinda nice to be in the company of a whole lot of people who get the a-ha love, and who are as sad to see it all end as me.
Here's the poster I saw as I approached the arena:
Which was about the best shot I could get of the band the whole evening. I had pretty good seats, for an arena gig. I was dead centre, but 20 rows back, which isn't fab if you're short. Which I am. But it was still cool to be there. The energy was bigger than it would have been on the sides, where there was far less dancing and screaming going on. (Though I have to say, there was less of both than there was at either the New York or Toronto shows. Not having had the chance to see the band in 25 years will do that. Whereas I get the impression that even in the face of their final concert in Britain, the London crowd sort of takes them for granted.
Anyway, here's the one sort of decent shot I got during the whole concert, courtesy of the nice, tall bloke standing behind me who took pity one my futile attempts to snap a picture during the opening song. (The opener was, for the record, The Sun Always Shines on TV, always one of my favourites.)
And here's the freaky animated logo that filled the screens as they left the stage, having performed Take on Me for the last time in England:
I'm so glad I went over. Glad I finally saw them at Wembley. Glad I heard them do their final single, Butterfly, Butterfly. And I'm very sad that the a-ha ride is over at last.
If the jetlag doesn't take me down tomorrow night, I hope I'll get up reviews of the theatre I saw. Including Martin Shaw in The Country Girl. Which was...interesting.
and seeing a-ha one last time. This time at Wembley Arena, with a sold out crowd of fellow fans.
Here's what a sold-out Wembley show looks like:
It was kinda nice to be in the company of a whole lot of people who get the a-ha love, and who are as sad to see it all end as me.
Here's the poster I saw as I approached the arena:
Which was about the best shot I could get of the band the whole evening. I had pretty good seats, for an arena gig. I was dead centre, but 20 rows back, which isn't fab if you're short. Which I am. But it was still cool to be there. The energy was bigger than it would have been on the sides, where there was far less dancing and screaming going on. (Though I have to say, there was less of both than there was at either the New York or Toronto shows. Not having had the chance to see the band in 25 years will do that. Whereas I get the impression that even in the face of their final concert in Britain, the London crowd sort of takes them for granted.
Anyway, here's the one sort of decent shot I got during the whole concert, courtesy of the nice, tall bloke standing behind me who took pity one my futile attempts to snap a picture during the opening song. (The opener was, for the record, The Sun Always Shines on TV, always one of my favourites.)
And here's the freaky animated logo that filled the screens as they left the stage, having performed Take on Me for the last time in England:
I'm so glad I went over. Glad I finally saw them at Wembley. Glad I heard them do their final single, Butterfly, Butterfly. And I'm very sad that the a-ha ride is over at last.
If the jetlag doesn't take me down tomorrow night, I hope I'll get up reviews of the theatre I saw. Including Martin Shaw in The Country Girl. Which was...interesting.
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Date: 2010-11-30 05:55 pm (UTC)Hah hah. You tall(-ish) people can mock. ;-)
I may get the MS review up this afternoon. (Ros and I are both home sick. Boo.) I saw him a few years back doing A Man for All Seasons, and that was a brilliant production all round. This time, it was a rather more mixed bag, though he's still a lovely actor.