ABBA tribute present Björn Again is heading to Hampton Court Palace Festival, offered by heycar, on Saturday 15 June.
The annual summer season live performance collection on the royal landmark has confirmed its closing headliner for this 12 months, within the musical tribute act mimicking the Swedish pop icons, named after ABBA’s very personal Björn Ulvaeus.
Head to hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com for tickets.
This 12 months’s headliners additionally embody Nile Rodgers and CHIC, Paloma Faith, Sheryl Crow, Sir Tom Jones, Jessie J, Jack Savoretti, Deacon Blue, and Sam Ryder.
The competition takes place between June 11 to June 22.
Artists carry out in an intimate 3,000-seat auditorium in Base Court, set in opposition to the backdrop of Henry VIII’s magnificent Tudor Palace and attendees can get pleasure from picnics, drinks and road meals within the Palace Gardens, with luxurious packages on provide.
For the very first time, the occasion will even current a dwell podcast referred to as ‘The Rest Is History’, with historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland internet hosting a present about Henry VIII and the Tudor interval.
Meanwhile, ABBA followers will wish to tune in for the BBC’s collection of specials marking 50 years of the ‘Dancing Queen’ group, which is able to embody beforehand misplaced footage of the band.
An hour-long documentary, ‘When ABBA Came to Britain’, will air as a part of a Saturday night time stuffed with ABBA specials on BBC Two this April.
Another particular is known as ‘More ABBA on the BBC’, and there will likely be additional programming throughout the BBC, together with BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.
The ‘Take a Chance on Me’ hitmakers – Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – made the UK their residence from 1974 to 1982, and the movie “examines their ground-breaking legacy”, from winning Eurovision with ‘Waterloo’ to ABBA Voyage, their record-breaking, first-of-its-kind avatar show in London.
A press release continued: “It’s the story of a relationship that began with the band’s fascination with British music, together with The Beatles within the Nineteen Sixties. After successful the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo in 1974, the band would ultimately discover world stardom, however their relationship with the UK stays distinctive.”
There will even be “lengthy forgotten news footage, which all present how ABBAmania took maintain within the UK within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties.”
It will embody interviews with the likes of Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and indie pop group Blossoms, who cite ABBA as an affect.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
