Diary of my Oslo Trip: December 4th 2010/Ending on a high note

The day of the days!
After quite a walk in minus 18 °Celcius, we passed the royal castle and went to the National Library of Norway to see an exhibition about all of a-ha´s glorious 25 years.

There was a long line of people waiting to get in. We decided to come back on Monday due to the fact that we wanted to be at the Spektrum concert hall way early today for tonights show.

With great dissapointment we heard that they had closed the gates for an early entry at 1pm ( we were there at 1.30pm) cause there was such a huge crowd ( some of them even slept outside in minus 18)
Anyway, we decided to go back to the hotel to some more free waffles( YUMMY) and harvest some extra energy for the big upcoming event.
We finally left the hotel to be in line for the show at 5pm. Boy, those were the coldest 1,5 hours of my life.

Waiting in the cold
Luckily we had a nice group of people from all over the world waiting with us. Talking to them made the time go bye a little faster.Once we got in, we realized it was not so bad that we did not make it in earlier this morning.We stood close to the stage and got to purchase our shirts.( the most expensive shirt of my life, but it came with a free book( which made me feel a little less guilty about paying 80$ for a piece of fabric ;) )


Since we did not want to hold the books for the entire time and since they were wrapped in plastic, this is how me made sure we would not loose them. Wie hat Rainer so treffend gesagt: Ich steh auf a-ha ;)
8.30, the concert began

Everyone was thrilled. Mortens voice was still amazingly strong even after a goodbye tour that lastet over a year and don´t even get me started on his looks.

He is still hot!

Old songs mixed with new songs, a lot of very personal and emotional words, beautiful arrangements made this show just magical.

Enjoying the concert
The crowd was just plain happy to be there. I even got to see the Princess of Norway ( Ich liebe royale Grossereignisse ;) )
Time just flew bye and before we knew it 20plus songs were played and it was time to say goodbye a-ha and Tusen Takk.

I thought I travelled far for this concert but not only me. I have seen people from Brazil, Argentina, Japan,Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria....
Everyone came to see them play one last time, it was amazing.

Famous!!!!!
The concert ended with their most known and popular song Take on me( of course!)

Happy and sad at the same time we left to go back to our hotel to admire all the pics and videos we had taken during the concert and stuck our noses deep into our free a-ha books til deep in the night.

Sitting by the warm fire place, reading about a-ha´s 25 glouious years was the perfect ending for a perfect night
Setlist

The Sun Always Shines on TV
Move to Memphis
The Blood That Moves The Body
Scoundrel Days
Swing of Things
Forever Not Yours
Stay On These Roads
Manhattan Skyline
Hunting High and Low
The Bandstand
We’re Looking For The Whales
Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)
Crying In The Rain
Minor Earth Major Sky
Summer Moved On
I’ve Been Losing You
Foot Of The Mountain

Cry Wolf
Analogue
The Living Daylights

Bowling Green
Take on Me