Program:
09:00
Registration
09:30
Welcome: Vigdis Moe Skarstein, National Librarian
09:40
Introduction by Richard Gjems (National Library of Norway)
09:45
Trond Valberg (National Library of Norway): The Song that changed everything: A phenomenological analysis of “Take On Me”
10:30
Stan Hawkins (University of Oslo): Third Time Very Lucky!: “Take On Me” made the video star
11:15
Coffee break
11:30
P. A. Stenersen: a-ha – from Bridges to Butterfly – cataloguing the Norwegian pop adventure tale
12:00
Andy Linehan (British Library Sound Archive): A-harcheology – looking for a-ha’s history in the UK
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Musical live act: Jørun Bøgeberg
13:45
Larissa Bendel (Universität Hamburg): Fame and fandom: Autobiographical notes and abstract musings on an intercultural experience in Germany
14:30
Jan Omdahl: Fandom in the Amazon: Some thoughts on a-ha’s Latin American success
15:00
The end
16:00
Opening of the exhibition Hunting High and Low: 25 years with a-ha
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a-ha`s PAUL WAAKTAAR SAVOY and MORTEN HARKETSi ringrazia a-ha Live per la segnalazione su Twitter
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Paul has the whole range of G# guitars and accessories, and he is so pleased with the G# products that he uses a G# guitar on all guitar tracks on a-ha`s soon to be released latest song!
Morten has one Natural Mahogany, and one Antique White G#.
We are very proud that Paul is using the G# guitar on three songs on stage during the ongoing a-ha ”Ending On a High Note” tour:”Summer Moved On”, ”Crying In The Rain” and ”Early Morning”
Listen to new RTL Radio interview with Paul here: http://www.rtlradio.lu/Aktuelles.43-3.html - Fonte
Paul about the German gigs: "We're gonna play songs from all the 9 albums and there might even be a new song that hasn't been released yet". - Fonte30.05.2010 - Aggiornamento
'Professional resellers' target fans market
By Greg Cochrane Newsbeat music reporter
14.05.2010
The three largest secondary ticket agents in the UK, otherwise known as fan-to-fan ticket exchanges, have told Newsbeat that they have "professional re-sellers" operating on their sites.
These sites, which were set up in order for users to securely buy and sell on tickets for live events, confirm there are professionals using their sites to make money.
Seatwave said they had users "professionally" making a "sideline income", whilst GetMeIn, owned by primary ticketing agent Ticketmaster, said their sales were "roughly split" between fans and professional re-sellers.
Viagogo, the UK's biggest secondary ticket website, said the "overall majority is fans selling tickets to other fans".
The secondary ticket market is estimated to be worth £800 million a year.
Buying a ticket to a live event and re-selling it online for more than its face value is not illegal - but it could leave some genuine fans paying inflated prices for high demand events as sellers set the prices.
'We don't think it's wrong' Speaking to Newsbeat, Seatwave's co-founder and CEO Joe Cohen said: "I don't know that you could define them as not being fans of music - they may be a fan but they may also be doing it professionally."
He added: "There's a whole bunch of different cases of people using our site to sell tickets.
"There's been quite a bit of propaganda, particularly coming from promoters in this industry, who would somehow like to make the argument that selling a concert ticket and making money off of it is wrong - we don't think it's wrong."
Andrew Blachman, general manager of GetMeIn
However, the secondary market is currently unregulated. Following a period of consultation the government chose not to legislate at the beginning of 2010.
"We don't do background checks for example on anyone who is trading on our site," said Cohen.
Speaking to Newsbeat a spokesperson for Seatwave explained that 60% of the people operating on their site are "consumer sellers", leaving 40% of transactions directly between one fan to another for a one-off event they cannot attend.
"We don't know what companies they have or not have. We collect information that's pertinent to their sale on the market place," said Cohen.
"We don't police the volumes people sell."
'Not deceiving fans' GetMeIn, bought by the world's biggest primary ticket agent Ticketmaster in 2008, confirmed there was "probably north of a couple of hundred thousand tickets" on the site at the moment.
Estimating the type of people using his site general manager Andrew Blachman said: "We think it's a roughly even split [between fans and professional resellers] for a lot of events.
"We have no way of really knowing what someone's intention is. We don't know, by virtue of you registering, how much you're going to sell.
"People we remove from our site are not because they're selling a lot of tickets - it's because they're providing a poor experience to the buyers on our site. "
All three sites say they provide a secure platform for fans to buy real tickets. They do this by holding the seller's money until the live event takes place.
"Some people like to complain about professional resellers when they see tickets out there being sold at high prices," added Blachman.
"On the flip-side we saw a lot of events this week where we saw professional resellers losing a ton of money and had to sell tickets way below face value - nobody really complains at that point.
"Some people would say they do a good service, they provide consumers with value - but at the end of the day they're out there."
When a customer buys a ticket from all three of the sites the seller's details are not disclosed to them - meaning they could unknowingly be buying from a commercial seller.
Blachman says his site is not deceiving any fans by doing this.
"I don't know if we've ever used that word the 'fan-to-fan' market place," he says. "But we are a market place that fans use to both buy and sell tickets."
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A new commissioned work by Magne titled 'umsteiger' is unveiled thursday 29th of April at Friedrichstrasse 149 in Berlin. It will be inaugerated by the Norwegian ambassador to Germany, his excellency Sven Erik Svedman.
The work, which will be on permanent display, consists of approx. 100 square-metres of transcluscent foil on architectural glass, with a motif of English anagrams based on the German word 'umsteiger', translating rougly to 'in transit'.
This commission is done in collaboration with Anders Hofgaard and the graphic designers node Oslo / Berlin, and employs the (as of yet) unpublished typographical font U8, created in 1920 especially for the Berlin U-bahn.
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