Play With ABBA, Live at ABBA World!
January 28th, 2010 admin
Have you loved ABBA since you existed? Want to meet one of them? You can, if not them in flesh and for real, in virtual reality for sure. Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, belonging to the one of the most successful music groups of all time, attended the opening night of ABBA World — a new interactive museum at London’…
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ABBAWORLD - Grand Opening Official...Video of the Grand Opening of ABBAWORLD from the official site of the exhibition. Shows inside the big touring exhibition, the guests, Bjorn and Frida and many fans outside. One of the fans at 0:10 the girl in the middle is an ABBAfan from Argentina :D haha! Enjoy!
Abba - Crazy World - Abba World Pre...ABBAWORLD made its stunning, sequin spangled, world debut in London at Earls Court on January 27 2010. It runs until March 28 2010 before going on tour. The hugely interactive experience takes visitors on a mind-blowing journey through ABBAWORLD's 25 rooms bursting with exclusive music, footage, images and never-before-displayed memorabilia from the personal collections of the world's most cherished pop icons Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Frida. An engaging introductory movie by critically acclaimed film director Jonas Åkerlund will start the experience. A free audio guide will move visitors through the magical space at their own pace. The phenomenon of ABBA will be brought to life with interactive highlights including: 'Perform with ABBA' which will allow fans to get up on stage with their idols as part of a stunning 3D holographic illusion, 'Tretow MIX Challenge' - a chance to mix things up and re-create the ABBA sound and the 'ABBA Quiz' which will test fans knowledge. There is also the opportunity to Sing-A-Long and dance with ABBA, plus a chance for fans to see themselves as part of an ABBA video. Visitors can see recreations of Polar Studios where Abba recorded and the Viggso island cabin where Bjorn and Benny wrote their hits. All interaction is recorded via the ticket barcode so people can choose to access it later online at www.abbaworld.com, allowing their experience to live on and on just like the music. On entry to ABBAWORLD guests will have their photograph taken <b>...</b>
First Night Inside ABBAWORLD Earls...(The Independent Review) ABBAWorld opened last night in a flurry of spangled jumpsuits and cacophonous harmonies. The basement of Earls Court's cavernous exhibition centre was transformed into a 25-room shrine to everything that was bouncy, shiny and optimistic in the 1970s, when a Swedish quartet called Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with a song about Waterloo and went on, Napoleonically, to conquer the world. The exhibition, curated by Touring Exhibitions, features interactive holograms, karaoke booths, gold discs and video installations. It's open to the public from today, and will go on to tour across Europe. The evening kicked off with champagne in the Brompton Room, temporarily transformed by black drapes and twinkling lights into a kind of cosmic cocktail bar. Large shouty European entertainment moguls with shaven heads greeted each other with theatrical slaps. Boy George, in an outsize yellow hat, talked earnestly to a chap with his hair arrayed in Satanically crimson horns. In the crowd, a long way from their native Brisbane, were Jacinta Wagner, a clinical psychologist (and a dead ringer for Agnetha Faltskog) and her husband Mike, a Qantas airline pilot, who had bid €1200 in a charity auction to win a ticket to tonight's event. Jacinta has a huge fan for years. "There's no more outstanding musical compositions than Abba songs," she breathed. "They completely changed pop culture." Had she ever seen them live? "Her parents were too poor to take her to see <b>...</b>
ABBA WORLD: Jonas Åkerlund Film (T...Touring Exhibitions brings in highly acclaimed film director Jonas Åkerlund to create the introductory movie greeting the visitors of the upcoming ABBAWORLD exhibition. Jonas Åkerlund, one of the world's most distinguished contemporary music video makers and perhaps most well known for his collaborations with Madonna, has also worked with other renowned artists such as Rolling Stones, U2, Paul McCartney, Metallica and Roxette. Åkerlund has received several Grammy Awards and MTV Awards for his works. "I will be using a lot of the old footage and working with these masterpiece videos now, in 2009, makes me realize that ABBA's music has stood the test of time,'' says Åkerlund. Their music is as relevant and strong today as ever and that is what I want to communicate with the montage for the exhibition.'' Jonas Åkerlund follows in the footsteps of fellow Swede, the famous film director Lasse Hallström, one of the pioneers in music video making. Hallström made ABBA - The Movie in 1977 and also shot and directed 25 of ABBA's music videos, long before music videos became a phenomenon through MTV. Magnus Danielsson, President of Touring Exhibitions, the company behind ABBAWORLD, is enthusiastic. "Jonas Åkerlund's merits speak for themselves and we are also very proud of the fact that we can continue to work in a Swedish tradition,'' says Danielsson. We met earlier this year and it was immediately apparent that we had the basis of a great working relationship. We are absolutely <b>...</b>
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