Product Description
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DVD special Features
Documentary - 'The Seven Year Itch'
Backstage with A-HA featurette
After Party Vallhall featurette
Facts - History of the band
4 Promo Videos:
Summer Moved On
Minor Earth Major Sky
Velvet
I Wish I Cared
Additional Live Performances:
Early Morning (Grimstead Version)
Summer Moved On>
Screen Ratio: Concert - 16:9, Features - Various
Concert Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound & Dolby Digital
2.0 Stereo
Concert Running Time: 112 mins
DVD Special Features Running Time: 63 mins
Having completed a successful tour of Japan and Europe last
year, A-HA returned to their native Norway for two sell-out shows
at Oslo's new football arena; Vallhall. This DVD is a
of the sensational first night on the 24th March 2001.
Drawing on their six previous studio albums Homecoming features
A-HA's biggest and best loved hits from their number one smash
hit The Sun Always Shines On TV, Cry Wolf, James Bond theme The
Living Daylights and ending on their breakthrough Take on me. The
concert also brings us up to date with several more reflective
and personal tracks from their critically accled, highly
successful last album Minor Earth Major Sky
A-Ha - Homecoming - Live At Vallhall
Presented in stunning Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound on DVD,
Homecoming is packed special features including 'The Seven Year
Itch', an inful documentary looking at what Morten, Pal and
Magne were up to during the band's hiatus previous to their 2000
comeback. We learn of Morten's continued success as a solo artist
and his dedication to nature reserve and humanitarian causes,
Magne's worldwide success as an artist and film composer and
Pal's critically accled work in the band Savoy.
Also included are with the group, unreleased live footage, 4
striking promo videos from Minor Earth Major Sky, backstage and
after show party footage and a biography of the band. It's a
package that no self respecting A-HA fan should be without.
.co.uk Review
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Compared to the spectacular shows other performers put on these
days, the concert featured on Homecoming--A-Ha Live at Vallhall
is a very simple affair. There's no fancy lighting or special
effects, with the plain stage set looking like a remnant from the
1996 Eurovision Song Contest. In fact with the guys' looks and
music having changed little after nearly two decades in the
business, the concert has a distinct feel of 1985 about it. That
said, the track-listing contains an equal sprinkling of greatest
hits, and songs from the more recent Minor Earth Major Sky (
/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SYWZ/${0} ). The newer tracks sit
particularly well alongside the classics, and you can detect the
trio's joy of being able to perform the newer songs such as
"Little Black Heart" and "Summer Moved On" live. The home
audience, many who grew up listening to A-Ha, clearly adore the
guys just as much they did when they were teens. Sadly judging by
the s of the audience, the fans (predominantly 30-something
women) haven't aged as well as Harket and co.
On the DVD: Homecoming on disc has a great audio soundtrack
(Dolby Digital 5.1), but the concert visuals are grainy and poor.
This is more than compensated for by the vast a of bonus
material included. As well as three short documentaries on how
Pal, Magne and Morten spent their seven-year break from A-Ha,
there's a 20-minute interview with the band and behind-the-scenes
footage of the after show party presented by a rather annoying
Ian Wright. As well additional live performances of "Early
Morning" and "Summer Moved On" recorded at a benefit concert, the
videos for the four singles from Minor Earth Major Sky are
included. The comprehensive English subtitles are particularly
handy for understanding the Norwegian dialogue during the
concert. --John Galilee