The career of the Norwegian synth group A-ha has been a long success story, although the band did not do much in the Netherlands after the eighties. However, the stream of albums the band released in the new millennium continued to sell well in Germany, Poland and the Baltic States. And of course you could live to your heart's content on old successes such as The Living Daylights and The Sun Always
… Shines On TV. With a nice collection of hits in their pocket, the Norwegians also filled the Dutch Heineken Music Hall in 2010. The group nevertheless decided to stop at the end of that year. The curtain fell with a concert in hometown Oslo and this DVD offers a nice memory of this. The original trio, supplemented by two pedigree musicians, play like a bunch of young dogs. The high note in the steady closing track Take On Me was almost impossible to sing in 1985 and it is very clever that Morten Harket in his fifties still has little trouble with it. "It could take two years, but it turned twenty-five years," says keyboardist Magne Furuholmen. It could have gone on like this for a few more years. (JE)more
