a-ha have just had its world premiere on their latest and last singel on Norwegian radio. It’s called Butterfly, Butterfly (the last hurrah) and is written by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and produced by Martin Terefe.
My first impression is thas this is a good a-ha singel.
You can listen to aha – ‘Butterfly, Butterfly (the last hurrah)’HERE. The singel will be available as a digital download from July 5.
Thanks to warnerwall.no, you can now listen to a-ha’s ‘Butterfly, Butterfly (the last hurrah)’ in the clip under.
In the interval act on Eurovision Song Contest the Norwegian group Madcon played their Glow while all the audience and spectators around Europe dance to the song. Great flashmob!
You can download Madcon’s “Glow” from Amazon.co.uk at only £0.79.
Michael Jacksondied in June this year. It was the year for his great comeback with a lot of concerts on O2 Stadium in London. But he didn’t get that far.
Even though the This Is It concerts never happened, the single was released this fall which you can see in the video bellow made by Spike Jones. A movie, also called This Is It, was realesed in cinemas worldwide in the fall. Sadly, I didn’t managed to go and see it. Luckily, the movie This Is It hits DVD and Blu-ray in the begining of 2010. This will be a must buy for me.
Enjoy the music video of Michael Jacksons This Is It by Spike Lee.
I’ve been an a-hafan since I could read and in the late 80ies I had a mixtape for a-ha songs only. When I found out this summer that a-ha was having a concert in Oslo, Norway, I thought that I had to go.
The ticket for this concert was suddenly more valuable, since a-ha decided that this is it. And before I knew it I had also purchased tickets to the farewell concert 4 December next year. So I got tickets for two shows before I even had been on an a-ha concert.
a-ha hold two concerts in Oslo on, respectively on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 November. I was on the last of these two. This concert is part of Foot Of The Mountain – Tour 2009. Both concerts were sold out and the atmosphere was good already when donkey boy warmed up.
a-ha started with The Sun Always Shines On TV. And we heard both Stay on These Roads, Hunting High And Low and Velvet. With a little help from Dagbladet, a-ha sung 21 songs (I do not count songs when I’m on a concert). And finally, we heard Take On Me, the song that gave the a-ha their great breakthrough in 1985.
I think it was a cracking good gig. Paul Savoy, Magne Furuholmen and Morten Harket did well on stage. The audience was so completely present and sang a long. When Morten Harket announced the last song, Foot Of The Mountain, the audience in Spektrum rose and clapped and joyed through the whole song. This was not the last tune from a-ha guys though. And ofcourse, there was also the encore which was completed with Take On Me. It was a great concert, too bad that the time flew away so fast.
Below you’ll see a short video clip I’ve put together from the concert recored with my cellphone.
Fortunately, it is not quite the end of a-ha yet. Next year starts the farewell tour. This will probably give them a boost in both career, record sales and media coverage. It will be exciting to see how many years it takes a-ha to get back together after the last concert in Oslo 4 December next year. I’m lookinng forward to this concert.
The pictures I posted with the Creative Commons license, and are taken with mobile camera in the dark from a distance.
It’s getting closer to the next Xbox 360 Dashboard update. The new firmware will bring you four new services to the Xbox. It will let you use Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and Zune from the Xbox 360 Dashboard. According to Xbox UK the update will come on November 17. Also there will be a public beta end of this month. If you live in UK, you will also get the Sky Player sometime this fall, which will let you watch TV on the Xbox.
If you are a heavy user of Facebook and/or Twitter, now is the time to invest in Xbox 360 Messenger Kit for text typing. I’ve been using it close to a couple of years now and it’s way better to type text than useing the controller.
For an indepth preview of the new services, you can check out Joystiq.com or watch the video from Engadget.com below.
Here is the trailer for Michael Jackson’s This is it movie. The Official HD Trailer for “Michael Jackson’s This Is It”, aired on MTV Video Music Awards.
Today is also a big Beatles day. Not only is The Beatles: Rock Band released for Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But you can also buy The Beatles in to re-mastered editions, The Beatles In Stereo and The Beatles In Mono.
IGN.com’s review of The Beatles Rock Band
September 9th also marks the 10th anniversary for Sega Dreamcast in North-America. You can read a lenghty article at IGN.com or watch their YouTube-video of the history of Dreamcast.
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