[Concert] Nov 17, 09 - Lodz, Poland - Arena Lodz

[Jakob]

A new date has been confirmed:

17 November: Arena Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Link

This will be only the second a-ha concert ever in Poland (they played in Warsaw on the Lifelines tour in 2002).


(Thanks to "zbig1" and Jenn on the German forum)

[Caterina]

Congrats Poland!

[Letter from Egypt]

Takk Jakob. That's very exciting news. Hopefully they'll add more new shows revisiting/visiting new places on the tourthis and next year. Gosia will be very pleased with the news

[Catherine]

Wonderful news for Polish fans!

gosia, we expect a full report from you

[gosia]

Great news! Really. I am so happy. 5 a-ha gigs for me in one year only And one of them in Poland to end my personal tour

I wonder is this news official? I didn't find it on a-ha.com.

Lodz is strange choice IMO but anyway I will be there for sure and let you know about everything.

edited:
It's officialy confirmed on a-ha.com :-)
http://www.a-ha.com/tour/

[csnape]

What is the fan base like in Poland, are singles released over there, and if so how do they do in the charts?

Glad to see a-ha are spreading their wings and giving other fans the opportunity to see them

Colleen

[gosia]

Hi,

The fan base in Poland isn't very big I have to say. Mostly people who were teenagers in 80's. But a-ha gained quite big crowd of new fans in 2000. The singles aren't released nowadays at all. As far as I know there were some singles releases from first 4 albums after re-union of the band but I saw and bought them only in our capital. And I don't know nothing about sale of them. There are few guys here who have been following the charts so maybe I have to ask them. The best selling a-ha album here was Lifelines. Thanks to a-ha's gig here on 2002. And they did some promo here as well so maybe that's the case. For the concert in 2002 came about 4000 people so it was not a big score. But we got to know about it only just a month before and it hadn't been promoted too much. I felt it was like the filler between gigs in Germany and East Europe. There wasn't the lights and screens as seen on others gigs and even Annelli Drecker didn't come along.

This year the venue is much bigger (above 10 000) and I think that will be a big promo to sell the gig. I hope so. The FOTM got started to be promoted on the radio stations properly recently, too. And FOTM is high on the radio charts since June.

That would be more or less all I know about nowadays situation.

Gosia

PS In 80's a-ha were huge in Poland. But in those days there wasn't free market here at all (of anything not only music, I have to say) due to communistic system. So there is nothing to say about selling charts then. Singles were very high on the only radio chart (made with people votes) and stayed there for many weeks. I think I saw those charts in the book The Swing Of Things

[Caterina]

Well.. my guess is that a-ha usually plans concert mainly in countries where radio/tv promotion is strong and/or the album does well. So with some extra promo for the concert no doubt it will be a success. Anyway touring to promote the album is what I hope for 2010

[gosia]

So we have a support in Lodz. This is a Polish band called Afromental. I am not a big fan of them but they are quite often played on our radio.

Here is the info:

http://cgm.pl/aktualnosci.php?news_ID=4490

And here thier myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/afromentalz

[Caterina]

Thanks for the info gosia

[gosia]

Lodz has been arleady waiting :-)



(photo from forum about building investments - hala is freshly open, and beside one music - techno - festival - a-ha's gig will be the very first big concert in this venue )

[Catherine]

Oh that's exciting but also a bit scary - being the first in a venue means you get to discover how good the sound and acoustics are etc. I am sure it will go well though!

[Magnet]

Have a great night, everyone! Give us a report/photos please!

[gosia]

There is just now an interview with a-ha on Polish radio. Nothing interesting and new so far.
But (oh noooooo) Mags again was talking about his colonoscopy in Warsaw back in 2002.
I hope this tour will erase his memory and he will have something more to tell about my country

The interview is dived into several parts so I have to listen to radio until 3 p.m.
Still nothing new ... Oh, only Morten said he does not remember anything from the gigs afterwards ) but he remember many things that happened before or after gigs (I assume contact with the people organising things around).

Oh, and the radio stuff must have read my e-mail about the last gig on 4 December is on 2010 not this year (they said only 4 December so many people would think this is 2009). Afterwards they told the date again but this time with the full right date.

[Caterina]

Gosia, not much left to wait for you Polish fans, how excited are you about the concert?