ABBA have responded to rumours that they’re planning to reunite for subsequent 12 months’s version of the Eurovision Track Contest of their native Sweden.
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After earlier victor Loreen received the competitors along with her music ‘Tattoo’ earlier this month, hearsay unfold on-line that it was all a part of a plan to have ABBA reform to mark 50 years of their very own Eurovision win as the competition returns to their residence nation because the 2024 host nation. Now, they’ve shot down the possibilities of it taking place – even only for one night.
“I don’t need to,” Benny Andersson advised the BBC, “and if I don’t need to, the others received’t. It’s the identical for all 4 of us – somebody says, ‘no’ – it’s a no.”
Bandmate Björn added: “We will have a good time 50 years of ABBA with out us being on stage.”
This comes as the primary anniversary approaches of ABBA’s formidable ‘Voyage’ digital live performance expertise in London – having lately welcomed their millionth customer, all with out the band having to bodily carry out in entrance of a dwell viewers.
The present sees CGI reincarnations (or ‘ABBA-tars’) primarily based on the actions and efficiency of the residing Swedish pop legends. These are then painstakingly introduced to seem like enjoying dwell with the looks of the band of their ’70s prime, backed by a full dwell band current within the room.
The final new music from band got here on the 2021 accompanying ‘Voyage’ album containing the two singles ‘I Nonetheless Have Religion In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’. Requested if there was a hope for extra new music from the band to return, Ulvaeus advised NME final month: “No, ‘Voyage’ the album was the final you’ll ever hear from us” – however he did stay open to the thought of the band returning for extra tasks just like the dwell present, profiting from new rising applied sciences.
“There will likely be new thrilling codecs sooner or later that we all know little or no about proper now,” he added. “AI, the metaverse, there are many fascinating and thrilling issues taking place creatively that ABBA is likely to be concerned in as properly.”
He additionally shot down the possibilities of the ABBA-tars showing at Glastonbury too, telling NME: “I don’t suppose that’s potential, but. It is likely to be sooner or later. As it’s, it’s too difficult as a result of the lighting, the sound, the visuals, all the things is built-in and it’s so difficult.”
The ABBA Voyage digital live performance collection is at present set to run in London into 2024, with plans reported for the expertise to be taken on a world tour.
Requested about what the way forward for the present includes, Ulvaeus replied: “We hope to remain on this venue for so long as we are able to. We hope they’ll have us for a few years, and we would construct different replicas of this elsewhere: Asia, Australia, North America. There are heaps and promoters and cities that we’re speaking to in the intervening time about that.
“Each would take at the least two years to construct, however there will likely be bulletins in direction of the top of this 12 months or the start of subsequent about the place we truly are going. That’s if we’re going someplace, which we’ll.”
