The same band, complete with electricity, violas and harpsichords are playing over the summer. You haven’t lost your chance to see them though. It was a spectacular gig, but it was the last fully acoustic gig they’ll play. He kissed me on the cheek, before I returned to the throng again. I wished Pål well, and told him I hoped there would be more albums. We’re going to use the same band that we do this show with, so there’ll be some strings and stuff like that, even though it will be electric/ electronic.” And we’re playing over the summer for four months, and lots of those gigs are in the UK so that’s going to be fun. So, lots of different options, but I haven’t decided yet. I have an album that I’m almost finished with and I’m debating where to put it. I understood, and made my peace with them. So they take solace in side projects like Savoy, before returning for another hit of A-ha, to see if they can make it work this time.
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Hooked on their combined genius and our adulation, A-ha can’t tear themselves free from us or each other. Stuck in that bedsit, in an uneasy marriage between these three complicated men and away from his beloved Lauren, Pål wrote about the yearning joy and disappointment of love. And maybe, who knows, maybe we can make more albums if we get into that… slot.”Īs he spoke, I realised A-ha is about the highs and lows of dysfunctional relationships. Right now, the thing that makes it work best is the touring. It’s hard to be in the same band for that many years and make it work the same way that it did 20 years ago. “Yeah, it’s the same amount of work, but you know… with the first five albums, we were living in the bedsit or the same street. But with A-ha it’s like this complicated marriage with three people,” I replied. “So with Savoy, you’re writing with your wife, and it’s all beautiful. We can never agree on anything, and that’s just the way it is. And like a year later it was…’well, maybe we should do a little more.’ It’s always, yes, yes, no. You know, I didn’t want to quit when we quit.
“I think with us we never agree on the same thing. I explained all this to Pål, who sighed and nodded.
A fan scorned, I shunned the new albums and gigs, because having said goodbye, I was a bit taken aback when they kept saying hello. I went to the last UK concert of their farewell tour and cried as I waved them goodbye.
The faithful sang along to the rewritten old songs, stumbling over words we’d grown up with. Without the grunts and guitar riffs ‘The Sun Always Shines on TV’ became a beautiful warning about the dangers of comparing your inner world with everyone else’s external world. ‘Take on Me’ went from digital anthem to a sweet song about a boy who wants the girl he loves to notice him. Unshackled from the synths, they took on fresh meaning.
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They played the full back catalogue: songs you’d heard, songs you hadn’t, songs that should have remained hidden. Inspired, Pal wrote or co-wrote the songs which secured their legacy.ģ0 years on, A-ha transformed the O2 ampitheatre into a giant version of that London bedsit. They got the ferry to England, got a London bedsit, and found Morten’s cheekbones granted free access to the New Romantic movement. Morten heard them play a song called ‘Sox of the Fox’ and realised he wanted to join them. Before A-ha, Mags and Pal had been in a band called Bridges. That gig was half concert, half band history. I interviewed Pål Waaktar-Savoy before he played guitar for the A-ha MTV unplugged acoustic gig at the O2.
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