by Terje Eidsvag (translated by cindy kandolf) Original ArticleOSLO: So they're together again. Next week a-ha will make their comeback at the Nobel concert. Next year there will be a new album and a world tour. "It's like having sex with your wife after being separated for ten years. It isn't easy to make it exciting, but it doesn't have to end in divorce," says Magne Furuholmen. It was an extraordinary meeting that took place at Frognerseteren yesterday afternoon. a-ha was going to meet the press again. 13 years after topping the pop charts, 12 years after Magne Furuholmen's mother signed a-ha albums at record stores in Trondheim, and six years after their last, and not particularly popular, album, "Memorial Beach", was released, they were back. A couple of TV companies and a crowd of photographers wait tensely outside the seter near Holmenkollen. Finally the pop stars arrive - in a blue minibuss. "Are you as under-impressed as we are?" jokes Magne, before they pose for the popping flashbulbs for a few minutes. Morten Harket is wearing a black leather jacket, which he tosses aside as soon as he gets indoors, and he stares sophisticatedly into the lenses dressed in a tight black T-shirt. Paul Waaktaar Savoy still looks like he's nervously going up to his confirmation - although he's a bit mature to be confirmed now, to be sure. While Magne Furuholmen appears to be taking it all in stride. These three are supposed to "mingle", as it's called, among the invited members of the press. "What are you most looking forward to, now that you're together again," TV2s representative asks. "Is there any food around here...?" Morten Harket asks with a smile. "You've still got 'the look'?" she tries to continue. "I never had it. I've had a sideways glance," he smiles maningfully, no easier a person to interview after all these years. [He made an untranslatable pun on "blikk"/"sideblikk".] We pounce on Paul Waaktaar Savoy, who as we suspected was the one who wrote the new song that will be presented to millions of TV viewers in Oslo Spektrum next weekend. "Suddenly there came the perfect song," he says about "Summer Moved On". He describes it as a big song, a showcase for Morten's voice. They will also perform one old hit, apparently "The Sun Always Shines On TV". When he responds to a question about the format of the announced world tour next year, Waaktaar Savoy is clear: "a-ha is a big band. We should make hit records. The bigger, the better. That's what we do best," he says, but says they are not going to try for an 80s revival. POTENCY IS BACK All three claim that the personal conflicts are cleared out of the way. All are also set for active collaboration as songwriters on the new album that has been announced for release next summer. Magne Furuholmen keeps comparing a-ha to marriage and a sex life. "Last summer you said that talking about a-ha was as much fun as a premature ejaculation. Where are you in this process now?" "Heh heh. I'd say we're super potent." "Have you taken Viagra?" a journalist asks. "We have a Viagra pill in the band. His name is Brian Lane," he says of their new manager, who also works with Espen Lind, Unni Wilhelmsen and Tuesdays. "What have you missed most about your time with a-ha?" "Working together with Paul. I don't think we would have amanaged to work together again, without getting a-ha back together," says Furuholmen, who has shown his talents as a movie composer with "Hotel Oslo" and "Ti kniver i hjertet". Soon he'll be releasing the music to Karin Julsruds film "1732 Hotten". THAT BUSINESS ABOUT AGE Then it's time to mingle with Morten. "I don't get off on my ego trips by standing in the middle of a stage," Morten declares. "Then how?" we ask. "Here, for example. Not the fact that the things I say will be printed, just the fact that you're sitting there asking me things." "You're 39 years old - you don't think you all are getting too old?" "Ridiculous! That's a 'Se og Hor' question." [Glossy weekly gossip magazine] "In a way, you grew away from your audience last time, didn't you?" "Young people today are just different people. Less naive. There's a very different spirit on the streets today," says Harket. Unwillingly, he confirms that he's been in the studio with a Swedish techno-influenced band, Boolabass. He'd rather talk about a-ha. "Will the world tour focus on your old hits?" "There's no point in a world tour if we don't flesh it out with new material as the driving force," he says. "I think we can make our best album. Then we'll have a justification for our existence in 1999 as well," says Magne Furuholmen.