Digital Abbatars not holograms. I was a '70's teen ABBA fan and unfortunately missed them touring the USA in 1979, one of my life regrets. 40 years later the band reunites with a new album and concert like no other. First time watching and listening to new song I Still Have Faith In You I didn't make it half way and burst out in tears of joy, cried like a baby....this sudden outburst took me by surprise and since then have learned the same happened to fans all across the globe, simply amazing ! So I was bound and determined I was going to see the Voyage concert and last fall I made the trip to London for this purpose only. Attended the show 3 times and acquired much Voyage merchandise. All this has helped fulfill that void of regret. ABBA open the show with one of my fav songs The Visitors, which would have been my choice for an opening number, and it was breath taking, thrilling....loved it ! I will go see Voyage again when it comes to America.
I've been 9 times now. So privileged to see the opening night last May and also the 1st year anniversary show a few months back. I still get goosebumps, especially at the opening. The Visitors is a perfect song to open this Jaw-dropping, amazing show. Only ABBA could pull this off as their music is timeless, feelgood and appeals to all generations. They are the best pop group ever and probably forever ❤
Agree. It's amazing. I saw it just over a month ago, and my brain could hardly cope. It was like standing inside an IMAX 3D movie. I wore a knitted ABBA vest I'd asked my boss to buy for me when she went last year, and I got so many compliments for it. Apparently, it's sold out :O I need to see it again, so I can REALLY soak it all in, 'cause, as I said, my brain didn't really cope.
No wonder why people from different longdistanced countries got so affected first time seeing this that they are even motivated to travel back again to re-watch this fabulous jaw dropping gig.The 10 piece live band is also fab btw.
I'm 76, fell in love with ABBA a few years ago. I see they did a concert in Anaheim in '79. I wasn't into music at the time, wish I had known...Yeah, I can understand the tears bro.
ABBA has realised a truth about music shows. Very few people at a live show are close enough to tell that the people on stage are actually who they paid to see. It does not matter. People like to gather with others who like the same thing and share the experience. This explains to a certain extent why people watch football in pubs. But it is magnified by listening to MUSIC. It does not matter that a Tribute Band is not the original artists as long as the music sounds good. ABBA has built an Arena where their music can be heard and shared by like minded fans. The music is of course perfect. The Arena is ideal. The ABBAtars, while by no means perfect, are "good enough". The light show is spectacular. There is also a fantastic live backing group and singers. I am looking forward to my SIXTH visit in November. There is a misconception that the London show has to finish before it is moved. Not so. Multiple ABBA Arenas can be built around the world for a fraction of the original cost. The ABBAtars can be cloned. Any problems with the Arena build have been solved (and improved upon). Any city, seeing the tourist attraction, would almost beg to have one and it would bring employment for builders, staff and musicians.
Been there twice. Right you are … it was/is fantastic. I was to young at the time . To actually having had the chance now to come as close to the real thing was amazing. Will go again 🎉
Bjorn had said 'I want people to come here see this and cry".That would have been a proof that this multi expensive expirement worked.He wanted to have an emotional impact and people to connect..A new kind of music experience in entairtainement.And They made it.
I went the other week for my 50th birthday. This show is unbelievable. The stage part is truly lifelike, whatever tech they are using to do it. The big screens look CGI, but the whole package is outstanding. I was hit emotionally too and I can’t quite work out why. They could leave it in London forever and it would just keep printing money. They should replicate it in all major cities of the world, not move it.
I am 55 years old - I went a month ago. It was sooooooooo good I came outside after the show and I cried. It was beyond incredible. I've never seen anything like it - ever. Insane. We would fly from New Zealand to London to see it again. Incredible
There is no reason (apart from cost) that they cannot clone the Arena and show. Cheaper to build new than move the existing one. Theoretically there could be an ABBA Arena simultaneously in every country in the world. They would just need to recruit a new live band and singers.
@@chriss2452I’ll say “most” not all. But “most” holograms are, digitally created or recreated. These are digitally enhanced people. So ABBA the band spent two or more weeks in a studio with motion capture material and software on themselves. Basically, they performed every single song as themselves in front of a camera and the software that made them into the self proclaimed “ABBA-tars” projected their image today into their image in their prime. So every movement, facial expression, glance, twitch, step, click you name it! It’s actually them, recorded a couple of years back especially for this show. Which differs from a few holograms, for example Freddie Mercury at the 2012 Olympic Closing ceremony that was a video of him, re-rendered to high definition and the background taken out with a few visual effects added to create an atmosphere that he was there. Difference is this wasn’t a video from their prime cut and pasted into modern day, this is them a few years back pouring their souls into one last performance. I hope that clears things a little :))
When Simon Fuller, the Spice Girls manager, first approached ABBA with the initial idea, they quickly dismissed holograms and them appearing on a TV special. They'd seen previous hologram efforts with Tupac, Whitney, Elvis and Roy Orbison and none of them truly impressed. ABBA instead opted for a different technological approach and to do it in a live concert setting as well. There is a 10 piece live band playing alongside the ABBA figures. This is on a whole new level of illusion awesomeness. But as you say, why this show works so well is that you get emotionally effected by it instead of simply marvelling at how they pulled it off. I'd disagree on one point. ABBA have not simply sat back on this project. They've been fully invested from the start in creating the avatars themselves and don't forget, they recorded an entire new album alongside. When you go to this show, you can tell that they've really gone for it big time and not half hearted. They have also taken a gamble with much of financial backing for this project coming from themselves. The show in London wont even break even until the third year. ABBA were always quite innovative when it came to the production and sound quality side of things. It's incredible that these four septuagenarians still strove to create something so ground breaking.
I went to see it on the 4th December 2023 I'm not a abba fan then now I am after seeing this epic brilliant awesome amazing head blowing luved it goin back again 2024 🎉🎉🎉 awesome
A few corrections. #1 Not Not Not Halograms. Digital Motion Capture to be exact. Huge difference. #2 The Venue will not be moved around. Much to complicated to make this happen. They have a lease thru 2026 and are negotiating to become a permanent attraction in London. #3 The two new locations for a second and third Arena are Las Vegas and Melbourne. This is per Svana Gisle and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Glad you enjoyed the Show. 🇸🇪
The only city in North America under consideration to build another Voyage Arena is Las Vegas. Bjorn has stated this in many interviews at the beginning of this year. He also said there are Site negotiations going on and an announcement will be forthcoming before Christmas. Finally..Avatars or Abbatars are definitely not Holograms. Entirely different process in technology. You can research "Industrial Light and Magic " to learn how this was done. For one. Avatars require the person to be alive. To capture their entire body movement digitally with hundreds of cameras and tons of computer equipment . Holograms use old footage of deceased persons act and recreate that visual so it appears to be live. Like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and others that have past. See, you can't ask a dead celebrity to talk to you or sing a song they never performed live. . But you can with an Avatar. Thats is precisely what makes Abbas Avatars so convincing. 😊👍🇸🇪❤
It is funny to hear fans bothered by calling them holograms. It reminds me of the reactions you'd get from a wrestler when you call them fake. Forced perspective, syncopated lights, and 3-D animation. Looks cool. It would be great to have a tour or a new ABBA arena in Vegas.
The show is simply amazing; but there are not holograms, but digital avatars of themselves. They spent 5 weeks recording in costumes to capture their every movement. I have been 7 times and will go as many times before the show leaves London. There have been hints of the show going at Australia and North America.
I travelled from Australia to London and saw it 3 times in one week...but it's not holograms. It's brand new digital technology created by ILM, and it's truly amazing. I don't know where you heard Waco Texas, that's nonsense. It's going to open in Vegas first in the USA.
ABBA have a connection with London. Mamma Mia started there and Voyage was always going to be there. They've basically admitted that the London show is now permanent. It has a 99% attendance rate and pulls in $2 million a week from one venue. London is one of the easiest cities to visit on earth and Europeans can go there as an overnight trip or spend a few days visiting everything else. The show is a stroke of genius in the perfect city.
NOT a hologram it's a very high pixel screen with lighting effects that make it look so real. But i do agree, its the best thing - ive seen it 3 times already and still blown away by it
Hello. I have a question: was the concert audio currently recorded or is it using live audio from old performances? In the track list, are the songs on the "Voyage" album a live re-recording or the same audio from the studio CD? Thank you.
Not holograms. I saw the 'real' Abba in 1979 and have seen Voyage three times now. Going again next February. Tickets very reasonable if you get in early. I have not paid more than 40 sterling for any of my tickets.
Why do you think that there could not be multiple ABBA Arenas? It is cheaper to do something a second time. They already have cloneable ABBAtars. They would need to recruit and train new live musicians but that is easily done. Perhaps they do not want to involve investors. In which case the money from the first could fund a second, from the first 2 a 3rd and 4th, those fund another 4 etc. 5:54
Covid Vax? I would be running a mile. I did in fact, but then I chose to read the studies and statistics and did a benefit/risk assessment. Glad you enjoyed the show. I had tickets but my G/F couldn't make it sow e had to cancel, she isn't my GF anymore.
It's a pity they didn't pay more attention to the sound quality, it's awful at times during the more softer ballad songs so much distortion on the girls voices. And why play so many video's instead of watching the amazing Abbatars. Good show but could be incredible but wasn't.😅
Its fantastic i went in june ..going again ....been a fan since 74 i ❤❤ love ABBA
Digital Abbatars not holograms. I was a '70's teen ABBA fan and unfortunately missed them touring the USA in 1979, one of my life regrets. 40 years later the band reunites with a new album and concert like no other. First time watching and listening to new song I Still Have Faith In You I didn't make it half way and burst out in tears of joy, cried like a baby....this sudden outburst took me by surprise and since then have learned the same happened to fans all across the globe, simply amazing ! So I was bound and determined I was going to see the Voyage concert and last fall I made the trip to London for this purpose only. Attended the show 3 times and acquired much Voyage merchandise. All this has helped fulfill that void of regret. ABBA open the show with one of my fav songs The Visitors, which would have been my choice for an opening number, and it was breath taking, thrilling....loved it ! I will go see Voyage again when it comes to America.
Me too! My parents wouldn’t let me see the concert in USA in 79 so this fulfilled that!!!!
I’ve seen the Voyage show 4 times. and can’t wait to go back again.
The Greatest Show on Earth.
I've been 9 times now. So privileged to see the opening night last May and also the 1st year anniversary show a few months back. I still get goosebumps, especially at the opening. The Visitors is a perfect song to open this Jaw-dropping, amazing show. Only ABBA could pull this off as their music is timeless, feelgood and appeals to all generations. They are the best pop group ever and probably forever ❤
I have seen this show 4 times and it gets better each time.
Does the show alternate or always the same line up?
In what way is it getting better?
@@patevo68 I discover details that I haven’t seen before. I am also more able to focus the incredible live musicians in stage.
Abbaness is happiness. Abba makes you laugh and cry at the same time. Love them beyond any other band or music.
so true!!!
Agree. It's amazing. I saw it just over a month ago, and my brain could hardly cope. It was like standing inside an IMAX 3D movie. I wore a knitted ABBA vest I'd asked my boss to buy for me when she went last year, and I got so many compliments for it. Apparently, it's sold out :O
I need to see it again, so I can REALLY soak it all in, 'cause, as I said, my brain didn't really cope.
No wonder why people from different longdistanced countries got so affected first time seeing this that they are even motivated to travel back again to re-watch this fabulous jaw dropping gig.The 10 piece live band is also fab btw.
I'm 76, fell in love with ABBA a few years ago. I see they did a concert in Anaheim in '79. I wasn't into music at the time, wish I had known...Yeah, I can understand the tears bro.
ABBA has realised a truth about music shows. Very few people at a live show are close enough to tell that the people on stage are actually who they paid to see. It does not matter. People like to gather with others who like the same thing and share the experience. This explains to a certain extent why people watch football in pubs. But it is magnified by listening to MUSIC. It does not matter that a Tribute Band is not the original artists as long as the music sounds good. ABBA has built an Arena where their music can be heard and shared by like minded fans. The music is of course perfect. The Arena is ideal. The ABBAtars, while by no means perfect, are "good enough". The light show is spectacular. There is also a fantastic live backing group and singers.
I am looking forward to my SIXTH visit in November.
There is a misconception that the London show has to finish before it is moved. Not so. Multiple ABBA Arenas can be built around the world for a fraction of the original cost. The ABBAtars can be cloned. Any problems with the Arena build have been solved (and improved upon). Any city, seeing the tourist attraction, would almost beg to have one and it would bring employment for builders, staff and musicians.
Been there twice. Right you are … it was/is fantastic. I was to young at the time . To actually having had the chance now to come as close to the real thing was amazing. Will go again 🎉
I agree. I have seen it three times and plan another trip in April. Its the best show ever.
Bjorn had said 'I want people to come here see this and cry".That would have been a proof that this multi expensive expirement worked.He wanted to have an emotional impact and people to connect..A new kind of music experience in entairtainement.And They made it.
Mission accomplished. It was so good I cried
I went the other week
for my 50th birthday. This show is unbelievable. The stage part is truly lifelike, whatever tech they are using to do it. The big screens look CGI, but the whole package is outstanding. I was hit emotionally too and I can’t quite work out why. They could leave it in London forever and it would just keep printing money. They should replicate it in all major cities of the world, not move it.
Soon to print my dollars in due time..
It’s obviously the quality of their music that makes them stay alive!
I just saw it a few days ago, the marketing is true. It's a concert like no other, I was in disbelief when they came out. I have to see it again
It's an amazing, AMAZING concert!
I am 55 years old - I went a month ago. It was sooooooooo good I came outside after the show and I cried. It was beyond incredible. I've never seen anything like it - ever. Insane. We would fly from New Zealand to London to see it again. Incredible
You are right!
ABBA has a HUGE MARKETING BRAIN... always have it... especially Björn 😅
(and Stig Anderson at the old times)
Love ❤ ABBA
❤🇨🇱👍
Аnd Stig Andersson knew it. He saw Bjorn as his successor. And time has shown that Stig was right
I would cry too
It's not a hologram show. They are digital recreations...not the same. Having said that, glad you enjoyed it.
What's the difference? Isn't it recorded music and a digital performance? Like a movie? Or is it real people?
@@chriss2452holograms look 3D. These are flat. Think of a cartoon at the cinema where the characters look realistic.
There is no reason (apart from cost) that they cannot clone the Arena and show. Cheaper to build new than move the existing one. Theoretically there could be an ABBA Arena simultaneously in every country in the world. They would just need to recruit a new live band and singers.
@@chriss2452I’ll say “most” not all. But “most” holograms are, digitally created or recreated. These are digitally enhanced people. So ABBA the band spent two or more weeks in a studio with motion capture material and software on themselves. Basically, they performed every single song as themselves in front of a camera and the software that made them into the self proclaimed “ABBA-tars” projected their image today into their image in their prime. So every movement, facial expression, glance, twitch, step, click you name it! It’s actually them, recorded a couple of years back especially for this show. Which differs from a few holograms, for example Freddie Mercury at the 2012 Olympic Closing ceremony that was a video of him, re-rendered to high definition and the background taken out with a few visual effects added to create an atmosphere that he was there. Difference is this wasn’t a video from their prime cut and pasted into modern day, this is them a few years back pouring their souls into one last performance. I hope that clears things a little :))
@@chriss2452 Holograms are 3D.
I cried, for the first time before my son when we went there. It was great.
Nice to hear as I'm going there in november (from Sweden).
When Simon Fuller, the Spice Girls manager, first approached ABBA with the initial idea, they quickly dismissed holograms and them appearing on a TV special. They'd seen previous hologram efforts with Tupac, Whitney, Elvis and Roy Orbison and none of them truly impressed. ABBA instead opted for a different technological approach and to do it in a live concert setting as well. There is a 10 piece live band playing alongside the ABBA figures. This is on a whole new level of illusion awesomeness.
But as you say, why this show works so well is that you get emotionally effected by it instead of simply marvelling at how they pulled it off. I'd disagree on one point. ABBA have not simply sat back on this project. They've been fully invested from the start in creating the avatars themselves and don't forget, they recorded an entire new album alongside. When you go to this show, you can tell that they've really gone for it big time and not half hearted. They have also taken a gamble with much of financial backing for this project coming from themselves. The show in London wont even break even until the third year. ABBA were always quite innovative when it came to the production and sound quality side of things. It's incredible that these four septuagenarians still strove to create something so ground breaking.
I went to see it on the 4th December 2023 I'm not a abba fan then now I am after seeing this epic brilliant awesome amazing head blowing luved it goin back again 2024 🎉🎉🎉 awesome
abba are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must go. I know I’m going to cry. I cry just watching these reviews !!!
They should do it in Las Vegas. Permanently. Would be a huge money maker.
It is amazing. Saw it last year with wife and 2 daughters. They couldn’t believe they were not on stage
I have the first 67 mins of the concert on video Awesome! Saw the show last April!
There are no holograms, the illusion is far far simpler, but it is indeed the most amazing spectacle ever.
The really clever trick is having the light sources in the arena light up the computer generated parts of the stage just as the real parts.
Glad you enjoyed it and you had a "moment" - so many people have "moments" watching the show.
Seen it five times,always see something different
A few corrections. #1 Not Not Not Halograms. Digital Motion Capture to be exact. Huge difference. #2 The Venue will not be moved around. Much to complicated to make this happen. They have a lease thru 2026 and are negotiating to become a permanent attraction in London. #3 The two new locations for a second and third Arena are Las Vegas and Melbourne. This is per Svana Gisle and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Glad you enjoyed the Show. 🇸🇪
The only city in North America under consideration to build another Voyage Arena is Las Vegas. Bjorn has stated this in many interviews at the beginning of this year. He also said there are Site negotiations going on and an announcement will be forthcoming before Christmas. Finally..Avatars or Abbatars are definitely not Holograms. Entirely different process in technology. You can research "Industrial Light and Magic " to learn how this was done. For one. Avatars require the person to be alive. To capture their entire body movement digitally with hundreds of cameras and tons of computer equipment . Holograms use old footage of deceased persons act and recreate that visual so it appears to be live. Like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and others that have past. See, you can't ask a dead celebrity to talk to you or sing a song they never performed live. . But you can with an Avatar. Thats is precisely what makes Abbas Avatars so convincing. 😊👍🇸🇪❤
It is funny to hear fans bothered by calling them holograms. It reminds me of the reactions you'd get from a wrestler when you call them fake. Forced perspective, syncopated lights, and 3-D animation. Looks cool. It would be great to have a tour or a new ABBA arena in Vegas.
nails the total brain glitch that happens from the moment they "appear" ~ ABBA invented time travel!!
Show started with The Visitors. Unbelievable show. Indescribably great.
The show is simply amazing; but there are not holograms, but digital avatars of themselves. They spent 5 weeks recording in costumes to capture their every movement. I have been 7 times and will go as many times before the show leaves London. There have been hints of the show going at Australia and North America.
The audience singing along would spoil it for me.
I travelled from Australia to London and saw it 3 times in one week...but it's not holograms. It's brand new digital technology created by ILM, and it's truly amazing. I don't know where you heard Waco Texas, that's nonsense. It's going to open in Vegas first in the USA.
Agree 💯 I was the same for the whole concert
Its coming to Melbourne Australia
ABBA have a connection with London. Mamma Mia started there and Voyage was always going to be there. They've basically admitted that the London show is now permanent. It has a 99% attendance rate and pulls in $2 million a week from one venue. London is one of the easiest cities to visit on earth and Europeans can go there as an overnight trip or spend a few days visiting everything else. The show is a stroke of genius in the perfect city.
NOT a hologram it's a very high pixel screen with lighting effects that make it look so real. But i do agree, its the best thing - ive seen it 3 times already and still blown away by it
Do they alternate songs ? They're coming to Vegas !
6 times for me...And counting.
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Hello.
I have a question: was the concert audio currently recorded or is it using live audio from old performances?
In the track list, are the songs on the "Voyage" album a live re-recording or the same audio from the studio CD?
Thank you.
I was feeling down so the doctor told me to take two ABBA songs every day 🐈⬛🐈🫂❤️
Arba!
Oh God not wacco. I heard they might consider Vegas
Not holograms. I saw the 'real' Abba in 1979 and have seen Voyage three times now. Going again next February. Tickets very reasonable if you get in early. I have not paid more than 40 sterling for any of my tickets.
Why do you think that there could not be multiple ABBA Arenas? It is cheaper to do something a second time. They already have cloneable ABBAtars. They would need to recruit and train new live musicians but that is easily done. Perhaps they do not want to involve investors. In which case the money from the first could fund a second, from the first 2 a 3rd and 4th, those fund another 4 etc. 5:54
Abbatars are not ABBA live. This is totally different.
You laugh but I'm two hours from Waco...awesome news.
They're not fucking holograms, why do people keep saying that? They are 2D motion capture cgi animation processed to look 3D.
Who is Arbar?
For heavens sake it's not holograms
I'm surprised the story somehow didn't involve you having a bit part in the ABBA show but something going wrong and you not being in it after all.
Covid Vax?
I would be running a mile.
I did in fact, but then I chose to read the studies and statistics and did a benefit/risk assessment.
Glad you enjoyed the show.
I had tickets but my G/F couldn't make it sow e had to cancel, she isn't my GF anymore.
oh and its "ABBA" not "Arba" :-)
Avatars not holograms.😊
NOT HOLOGRAM.
Singapore is next 🇸🇬 🇸🇪
They don’t do all the hits, money money money, super trouper, take a chance on me omitted and they are three important hits
I hate to nitpick, but it's pronounced ABBA like rabbit, not like hobbit.
It's a pity they didn't pay more attention to the sound quality, it's awful at times during the more softer ballad songs so much distortion on the girls voices.
And why play so many video's instead of watching the amazing Abbatars.
Good show but could be incredible but wasn't.😅
Learn how to pronounce ABBA. It's not ah-ba.
You're mispronouncing ABBA.