CONCERT "-ha"
Music event in Hannover
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In 1991, listening to a collection of hits " A-Ha - Headlines & Deadlines " on a vinyl record, it was absolutely clear to me that NEVER IN LIFE I could not see this group "live", because "Soviet Union", and because they are from "decaying" capitalist Norway. Then I was sure that I had no chance of getting to their concert, since no one, except Yuri Alexandrovich Senkevich , the host of the "Film Travel Club" , can go abroad. Therefore, when in 2006 "A-ha" came to Kiev, at the concert I had a feeling of the incredibility of what was happening - after all, my childhood memories assured that Morten Harket on stage and I in the auditorium were incompatible things ;-)
Twelve years have passed since then, and on the news I saw that MTV offered the group "A-ha" to record the concert "unplugged". The most famous music channel in the world tends to record "unplugged" with musicians when they are at their highest peak. All music lovers are familiar with such concerts of Nirvana, Kiss and Oasis. It's nice to know that now my favorite "A-ha" has appeared in this line. In support of this recording, several concerts of the group were organized in Europe, mainly in Germany, England and Norway. Knowing the routes of low-cost airlines from Ukraine, we found a city where it is inexpensive to fly and where the concert will take place on the weekend. This city turned out to be German Hannover. Buying tickets for the concert on the Internet was not difficult. The only thing that surprised me was the work of the TNT delivery workers - they did not call back to clarify "where to bring you?", "When will you be at home?", "What is the password for the intercom?" and did not ask many other questions that are "tortured" by the delivery service in our country. They just brought the envelope with tickets to the right place while I was at home and did not ask for any passwords. There was something incredible and even a little frightening in this: maybe they control the whole world? !!! ;-) Here, see how the ticket looks like.
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The date of the concert has come and we are walking imposingly in the center of the capital of Lower Saxony. For those who did not understand: the capital of Lower Saxony is Hannover ;-)
The fastest way to get to the concert hall was by metro. See what the metro looks like in Germany. The German train with "accordions" makes it possible to distribute passengers more conveniently than if the cars were separate, but the station itself in beauty and convenience is clearly inferior to any of the Kiev ones.
Coming out of the metro, we easily determined the direction of the path: everyone who came here walked in one direction - to the TUI-Arena, where the event will be held.
I've heard a lot about German entrepreneurship and I can confirm that this is absolutely true. Before entering we met a man who was selling hot dogs and beer. A charcoal grill with sausages hung on his belt in front (!!!), a barrel of beer was located on his back (!!!), and an umbrella with prices for the offered goods was also attached on top. With all this "equipment" he easily moved among the concert visitors, simultaneously serving them. This is called professionalism!
Inside the concert complex, we were waiting for: a merchandising store and several cafes with beer and snacks. Cool idea - beer glasses featuring musicians. Almost all the visitors to the concert took such a souvenir home. We are no exception ;-)
It was possible to walk for a long time in cafes and bars, but we ended up here for the sake of music, so we took our places in the hall much earlier than many. We were surprised by the number of sound engineers who were behind us. Usually at mass concerts we see a "sound engineer 's cabin", where there are 2-4 people, and here there was a huge block in the orchestra, where 10-12 people worked.
We thought it was "because unplugged" ...
And the music started playing! Two people appeared on the stage: a guitarist and a soloist, who warmed up the audience quite well. It turned out that the microphone had a very popular German singer, Alexander Knappé.
I liked one of his songs so much that I found it on the Internet and post it for you. This is an indicator that his participation in the "warm-up" for "A-ha" was not useless.
And then these three appeared, and with them seven more musicians and the magic began ...
Immediately I add a little video to the report so that you can also appreciate the level of quality that the musicians gave out on the evening stage in Hannover. Check out both the audio and video of the concert.
A separate string group of violin, viola and double bass (pictured on the left) created a full sense of "symphonic sound".
When I heard the sounds of the song "Memorial beach", I remembered that this hit was the title hit in the band's album of the same name, which Sergey Korotkov (the most respected music critic of those whom I listened to) spoke of as the best album of world music of 1993 of the year. I recommend that you listen to this album, and if you don't have enough time, then at least watch this video, shot by me in Germany.
The following pieces of music are placed not so much for readers as for myself. When I miss good music, I will go to this report and listen to the songs:
1. Hunting high and low - video for which won first place on MTV in 1985.
2. The living daylights - the soundtrack to one of the James Bond films.
3. Summer moved on - a world record in pop music, where the vocalist holds one note for 20.2 seconds.
The concert ended with the most famous song of the group: "Take on me". This time it was performed very lyrically. The guys played it three together, without the invited musicians, and the audience sang along with them. See how exciting it was.
The concert ended and we, with a little merchandising, left the "TUI-arena". On the way, we took part in a drawing of an iPad, which was advertised by "girls-sandwiches" from some radio station NDR. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to win, and there was no understanding of how we would have taken our winnings in a couple of weeks in a German studio ;-)
We walked to the metro through the Hannover-Messe complex, where the largest exhibitions of all kinds of world achievements are held. But that evening, the stands and exhibition halls were empty and only bright lighting indicated that this is a very advanced place.
The Hannover Messe / Ost (EXPO-Plaza) metro station at night looks like the next photo. There are no turnstiles at the entrance and we, who have paid tickets, were not at all upset by this, because this is exactly how EUROPE should look like: everyone paid for everything and at the same time no one checks anyone ;-)
Tomorrow the streets of old Hannover awaited us, but that's a completely different story ...
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