Still at the top

Still at the top

Original Article

By Birgitte Fahlvik Hoff - (Translation by Sabine Clement)

British festival-goers want to see a-ha

Fifteen weeks before the Glastonbury Festival  in Somerset, southwest England,
a-ha top the festival-goers' wish list. No less than 791 (3/10/00) people gave their vote
to a-ha on the festival's official home page. It are the voters themselves who put a-ha on
the list. The organizing committee inform us that they follow the voting closely, so that
they can try to fulfill the audience's wishes.

Norway's most successful band ever released a comeback single in February. Dagbladet's
reviewer then wrote:


"A-ha's first new song in seven years will probably be loved by fans and Scandinavians,
but it is hard to understand how it is supposed to bring our old pop heroes back to the
top of the charts. It is a little lighter in tone, a little lighter in expression and has
received some cosmetical help in the form of a discrete dance groove. But overall, a-ha's
comeback song in February 2000 is the same one as 'Summer Moved On', a-ha's comeback song
in December 1998. In itself, that isn't problematic. 'Summer Moved On' shows a-ha from
their very best side. We're talking grand, epic pop music which is performed with genuine
gravity and autumnly soreness."


The Glastonbury Festival was organized for the first time on September 19, 1970.