ABBA - Voyage

WoW73

WoW73

I had never seen this before.... 4 iconic singers!

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discoteca

discoteca

Went to see Voyage last week and it is incredible. It only really kicked off from Knowing Me, Knowing You as the crowd probably didn't know the opening songs that well.

I already knew the setlist but was still shocked when it finished and they hadn't sung Super Trouper or Take a Chance On Me.
 
Dan Molloy

Dan Molloy

Is there a general ABBA Thread or is this it?

Anyway - Ring Ring is officially 50!!
You can now watch the official video in “4K”


And of course there’s a whole host of brand new products to spend your money money money on
https://shop.abbasite.com/?utm_campaign=ABBARingRing20230315&utm_medium=original&utm_source=Original&utm_linkurl=abba.lnk.to/RingRingDeluxe&utm_board=usmumgi&utm_country=GB&utm_referrer=direct

But there’s also now a UK phone number where you can call ABBA and leave a voicemail? You can call it from anywhere in the world if you pay the charges. But it doesn’t really explain what it is? Is there any chance at all of them hearing your message? Is it a competition??

I haven’t called yet as I have crippling phone anxiety and will have to write down what I want to say even on a voicemail
 
Dan Molloy

Dan Molloy

RidesOnTheBreeze said:
According to Ludvig, on this Swedish podcast, there are “five or six” more songs recorded that are not in the show, including Take A Chance On Me and Money Money Money. He said that planning is underway at the moment for how the show might change.

https://podcast24.co.uk/episodes/hitfabriken/72-abba-voyage-ludvig-andersson-MNVRBOAce
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Hope it doesn’t change before I finally go in July.

After that go ahead haha. I should be going again in September so do the change in between
 
SecretsOfFatima

SecretsOfFatima

RidesOnTheBreeze said:
According to Ludvig, on this Swedish podcast, there are “five or six” more songs recorded that are not in the show, including Take A Chance On Me and Money Money Money. He said that planning is underway at the moment for how the show might change.

https://podcast24.co.uk/episodes/hitfabriken/72-abba-voyage-ludvig-andersson-MNVRBOAce
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Love that he directly contradicts his father, after Benny named Money, Money, Money as a song that definitely wasn't recorded ddd...never change!
 
RidesOnTheBreeze

RidesOnTheBreeze

P'NutButter said:
'Super Trouper' has to be one of the six surely?
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“The biggest ABBA has done”

Ludvig Andersson was interviewed by Swedish television host, producer and reporter Fredrik Ralstrand for his podcast series ‘Hitfabriken’ (‘The Hit Factory’) in May.

The two men talked about for more than an hour about Ludvig’s work on the ABBA Voyage show, “the world’s most expensive music stage production with a budget of $175m”. Many interesting details were discussed, including how Voyage came about seven years ago, how Svana, Baillie and he had worked together with the four ABBA members to put the show together, etc.

The setlist was debated at length and starting the show with ‘The Visitors’ and ‘Hole In Your Soul’ was something everyone had been in agreement on from day one, despite the fact that they are lesser known. In that context, Ludvig shared that from his perspective, ‘Lovers Live A Little Longer’ and ‘My Mama Said’ could have been great additions too.

On the question “were there any other tracks recorded”, Ludvig answered that “there were five or six more songs filmed”, and he confirmed ‘Money, Money, Money’ and ‘Take A Chance On Me’ to be among them; ‘Super Trouper’ he “couldn’t remember”.

He also shared that plans were being made at the moment to add/swap songs. He added that on top of that, possibilities to record even more songs are being considered, perhaps without the need for Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid to be locked into the room at ‘Filmhuset’ for another six weeks, using new technical solutions instead.

Ludvig agreed with Fredrik that Voyage is “the biggest ABBA has ever done- especially when just looking at the price tag; it’s the biggest anyone has done”. “But we never counted on the enormous response we received. We were on the front page of newspapers all around the world and the BBC postponed their evening news for the first time since WWII to announce ABBA Voyage”, he added.

Ludvig said that ABBA Voyage is set to expand to two additional locations around the world, including one in North America (Las Vegas) and one location in Southeast Asia (possibly Singapore, Australia, or other) and the question came up how far the ABBA phenomenon could potentially be stretched even further? “Well, I think this may be enough when it comes to the exploitation of ABBA”, Ludvig added, “but a new album could very well possible, as this wouldn’t be to exploit, but to artistically create and as all four of them have enjoyed the recording of Voyage so much, I don’t think they would have anything against it”. He then rushed to say that with this statement, he didn’t want to start all sorts of speculations and that he hadn’t heard anyone saying that a new album was being considered in any shape or form, but “he’d pass on the suggestion to his dad”.

The full (Swedish language) podcast can be found on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
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Hudvar

Hudvar

Seems like they never replicated the studio top-end (Agnetha's, I guess) vocals for Money Money Money live, so it always sounds like it's being sung too low. Same with the version in Mamma Mia!
 
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