Tag: a-ha

PLAYLIST: April 2016

An hour – give or take – of what Team Gigslutz love this month: Baauer, M.I.A, G-Dragon – ‘Temple’  Taken from the highly anticipated debut from Baauer, ‘Temple’ ia a high energy banger with Eastern influences and dance-inducing bass, featuring…

LIVE: a-ha – The o2, London 26.03.16

There’s something of a cult status to Scandi-synth pop legends a-ha. Mention them to anyone and they’ll be aware of ‘Take On Me’, perhaps the Bond theme and at a push the former’s follow-up, ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV’….

ALBUM: a-ha ‘Time And Again: The Ultimate’

Rating: According to Wikipedia a-ha have recorded ten studio albums and released ten compilations. For a band already in some fans’ bad books for reuniting following 2010’s “final” Ending On A High Note tour, they’re already walking thin ice. In…

THE REST OF: a-ha

When a-ha bowed out in 2010, with their wittily titled Ending On A High Note Tour, the decision was commendable for a number of reasons. Primarily, because there was truth in the title; having recently celebrated their highest charting album…

ALBUM: a-ha ‘Cast In Steel’

Rating: Thirty years on from their memorable introduction to the pop-sphere with the Hunting High And Low LP (featuring the still astounding song and video for ‘Take On Me’), Norwegian trio a-ha subsequently blitzkrieged the charts with a run of…

FOR THE RECORD: a-ha – Analogue (2005)

To the untrained ear a-ha’s Analogue does not sound like an a-ha album. In fact, there’s more in common with previous poster pin-ups The Beatles than the trio of Norwegians gracing the cover of their 1986 debut, Hunting High And…