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ABBA's digital concert took place Thursday (May 26) at ABBA Arena in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford — view details here.

My jaw hit the floor the moment it began and it’s still down there. “In case you were wondering, ABBA ‘Voyage’ is the greatest show on earth,” actor Matt Lucas said. “I don’t wish to swear, but ABBA looking f*cking STUNNING!!” another attendee said. “But the Abba Voyage show blew me away. Many attendees took to social media to react to the lifelike concert event. “Really looking forward to seeing the show again.

Agnetha, Frida, Benny and Bjorn reunited for the opening night of the concert, which features digital versions of the band. Frida watched the show with a wide ...

"Being able to be on stage and perform for an hour or two, while being home walking the dog or making a carbonara? "And the absolute highlight was that they came on stage at the end." The show, which takes place in a purpose-built arena in east London, is currently due to run until December 2022. with The Name Of The Game, Super Trouper and Ring Ring among the songs consigned to the dustbin of history. We were intrigued by that," Benny Andersson tells the BBC. - The Visitors It seems likely, however, that the band recorded more songs than currently appear in the setlist, to encourage repeat visits,. "I cried four times. "So if you come out of here and feel like you've seen a visual spectacle, we will have failed. "I just look very good for my age." "I don't think any hologram shows have been successful," producer Baillie Walsh told Dazed magazine last year. I didn't know I was going to feel like that."

Tonight (May 26) saw the launch of ABBA Voyage in London, the special concert that features virtual 'ABBAtars' alongside a live band and orchestra. To open the ...

ABBA Voyage feature ABBA as virtual avatars, showing the group as they appeared in 1979. In 2016, the four members of ABBA reunited on stage for an impromptu performance of 'Me and I' at a private gala in Sweden. But this was the first time they were seen in public together. It was an incredible moment for ABBA fans, as the foursome finally reunited in public for the first time in decades.

Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Bjorn Ulvaeus told NME what's next for the band after 'Voyage'

Fältskog told NME she was feeling tense but very excited to see the concert, saying “I’ve seen bits of it but you don’t believe it. When asked if the concert was a parting gift from the band, Ulvaeus said, “I think this is it. “It feels fantastic,” Lyngstad told NME when asked what it was like to be at the premiere.

The group appeared in high spirits as they reunited for the band's first virtual concert at their purpose-built arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Faltskog, 72, and Lyngstad, 76, were visions in white as they beamed alongside their ABBA co-stars ahead of the show. “I’ve dreamed of this for years,” Lyngstad added, when asked by reporters what had made her decide to be with ABBA again. For the time fans are in the arena, they believe we are real and are on stage. In the images of the troupe from the red carpet, the stars appeared in high spirits as they posed in front of the press. BBA stepped out for their first public appearance together in six years ahead of the first Abba Voyage concert. The group appeared in high spirits as they reunited for the band’s first virtual concert at their purpose-built arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

40 years on from their split, ABBA are finally back performing live. Almost.

ABBA Voyage feature ABBA as virtual avatars, showing the group as they appeared in 1979. The Smooth Sanctuary at 7 with Gary Vincent 7pm - 10pm The Smooth Sanctuary at 7 with Gary Vincent 7pm - 10pm

ABBA's Benny Anderson talks about the group's live 'Voyage' show, its production and ticket sales. Also: will the band make more music?

The plan is for the city to build housing in this place, so we have about four years, four and a half or whatever, but if I were the mayor of London, I’d keep this arena because it’s beautiful. The only way to explain it is you have to go and see it. Well, we are on a screen but you can’t see that and I don’t know how they’ve done it because it’s so beautiful. You do the best that you can and you hope for the best. You have your previews and you have all your rehearsals and all that and you can say, “This is as good as we can do it,” and you don’t know if it’s a hit or if it’s a flop until the audience comes in. They can do the work if we wanted to swap a couple of songs in a year’s time or so and work on it and it’ll be exactly the same. What did the success of the album mean to you? I talked to Björn. I said, if we would have been doing this for real, going out on the stage, we would have added a couple of new songs to perform. There is a playlist on Spotify called “Abba A to Z” with every song you have recorded in alphabetical order. So we did that and I thought with the first two songs, it went so well and they could still sing and we could still produce music in the studio so we said maybe we’ll do a couple of others while we’re at it, and we ended up doing a whole album. We need to go through with it and it has to happen.” Everything, from ILM’s work to the lighting to the sound is amazingly beautiful. To see the audience, yes.

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, and Agnetha Faltskog have appeared together as ABBA for the first time in decades.

“For the time fans are in the arena, they believe we are real and are on stage. Local residents were invited to watch the dry run. Agnetha and Anni-Frid were going for similar colours in cream-coloured outfits. “It was unbelievable,” Bjorn added. Songs were pre-recorded, the band was live and the audience at the ABBA arena in Stratford, east London, lapped it up. The four members of ABBA have reunited for the first time in 14 years as they appeared on the red carpet at the new ABBA Arena in London’s Olympic Park.

Abba finally reunited in full for the first time in 40 years on the Abba Voyage red carpet in London on Thursday night.

Abba was catapulted to worldwide success after winning the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo when the event was held in Brighton in 1974. The Swedish pop superstars were last together in the capital for an appearance on The Late Late Breakfast show hosted with Noel Edmonds in 1982. Abba finally reunited in London in full for the first time in 40 years for the Abba Voyage red carpet on Thursday night.

ABBA VOYAGE officially opens in London tomorrow and half a million new tickets have been released. Here's how to book.

(See floor plan below). However, the top price seat are situated in section H, directly opposite the stage. You’re in an arena with 3,000 other people, human beings, flesh and blood. We have everything you need to know about booking tickets and where to sit (or stand and boogie) below. ABBA Voyage tickets will be available on Ticketmaster here. Anticipation and demand are both sky-high, but another five months of tickets have just been released, making sure nobody will miss out. Now the dreams of millions of fans are coming true as the new ABBA Voyage show opens to the public in East London tomorrow night, after a spectacular premiere tonight.

The whole thing is set to take part at the purpose-built ABBA Arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Seating 3,000, the concert takes the form of a hologram ...

In terms of pricing, you can get a space in the Auditorium from £21, and on the Dance Floor from £53.95. However, we all know what the audience want, and it’s to be transported back to a bygone era, where Dancing Queen, The Winner Takes It All and all the other classics reigned supreme on the dancefloor. The whole thing is set to take part at the purpose-built ABBA Arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Seating 3,000, the concert takes the form of a hologram show, with audiences watching avatars of the band strut their stuff around the stage. Given that ABBA’s reunion was accompanied by a whole new album – their first in forty years, no less – we can expect to see some of their newest hits, most likely Don’t Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith In You, which were written specifically for the show. The band’s new virtual show, ABBA Voyage, is set to premiere on Friday May 27 and it’s already proving popular: in fact, the attraction has sold more than 380,000 tickets. The Abba Voyage concert has arrived in London: Tickets, dates and all you need to know

The Swedish pop superstars were last together in the capital for an appearance on The Late Late Breakfast show hosted with Noel Edmonds.

In a nod to the venue’s east London location, Andersson’s “Abba-tar” kicked off a rendition of their song SOS by playing the EastEnders theme at the piano. The “Abba-tars” were created through months of motion-capture and performance techniques with the four band members and an 850-strong team from Industrial Light and Magic, the company founded by George Lucas, in its first foray into music. Speaking about why she had enjoyed the project so much, Lyngstad said: “I think the most exciting thing about this project was to come together as a group again after so many years not doing anything as a band together.”

By Kristian Brunse and Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Performing their much-loved hits like "Mamma Mia!" and "Dancing Queen", Swedish supergroup ABBA ...

It goes right into your heart.”ABBA worked with an 850-strong team from Industrial Light & Magic, founded by “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, for the project. “It is so nice to see all the faces and all the expectations and everything. Their last performance together was some 40 years ago.

The Swedish band's live avatar show in London is the latest way of reviving a timeless catalogue.

Members of ABBA, from left, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson arrive for the ABBA Voyage concert at the ABBA Arena in ...

Producers bill the show as “revolutionary.” Time will tell. “That’s the fantastic thing.” "But now we are taking revenge.” They were in the audience, though. It's a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. LONDON (AP) — “ABBA Voyage” is certainly a trip.

The last time Agnetha Falkstog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad played a live show in London, it was 1979. For decades it did not seem ...

It is pure “grab your friends, sing into their faces, shimmy in the aisles” joy and for three minutes it feels like everything in the world is going right. The best three minutes of my own life come towards the end of the show when that familiar glissando signals the beginning of “Dancing Queen”, a song that I have never not known. It is a relief when the avatars themselves acknowledge the strangeness of their existence. Like the mosquito preserved in amber, the “Abbatars” both are and are not of this time; four people captured in a lost youth and transposed to a new millennium. Some of the avatars’ shortfalls are made up for, too, by the lightshow – this is a spectacle that would be worth experiencing even without the band there. There’s no denying that it is absolutely brilliant to be in a room full of people with Abba songs on very loud.

The virtual concert launched in London on Thursday with a star-studded event attended by the Swedish pop superstars, as well as Kylie Minogue and the king and ...

However, he added: “But for the most part this was captivating, and celebratory in a rather innocent fashion. Inside the purpose-built 3,000-capacity arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, they were backed by a live band of 10 musicians and a complex light show. The virtual concert launched in London on Thursday with a star-studded event attended by the Swedish pop superstars, as well as Kylie Minogue and the king and queen of Sweden.

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You can get in touch by filling in the form below. How do you feel about the return of the band? “By the time the show hits its finale with Thank You for the Music followed by Dancing Queen, any lingering sense that you’re not actually in the presence of Abba has dissolved.”

LONDON (AP) — “ABBA Voyage” is certainly a trip. Four decades after the Swedish pop supergroup last performed live, audiences can once again see ABBA ...

Producers bill the show as “revolutionary.” Time will tell. “That’s the fantastic thing.” "But now we are taking revenge.” They were in the audience, though. It's a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. LONDON (AP) — “ABBA Voyage” is certainly a trip.

Lifelike 'Abbatars' take showbiz illusionism to new heights with virtual concert in London.

Abba Voyage has been praised as a “jaw-dropping” and “awe-inspiring” experience by critics who attended its opening night. The virtual concert launched in ...

However, he added: “But for the most part this was captivating, and celebratory in a rather innocent fashion. Inside the purpose-built 3,000-capacity arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, they were backed by a live band of 10 musicians and a complex light show. The virtual concert launched in London on Thursday with a star-studded event attended by the Swedish pop superstars, as well as Kylie Minogue and the king and queen of Sweden.