Posted By: Catherine 
Comments: (8)
Setlist:
Foot of the Mountain
Bandstand
Analogue
Forever Not Yours
Minor Earth Major Sky
Summer Moved On
Move to Memphis
The Blood That Moves The Body
Stay On These Roads
The Living Daylights
And You Tell Me
Early Morning
Scoundrel Days
The Swing Of Things
We’re Looking For the Whales
Manhattan Skyline
I’ve Been Losing You
Cry Wolf
The Sun Always Shines On TV
Hunting High and Low
Take On Me
Videos:
Media:
a-ha Uncut (radio interview, 45 minutes)
The a-ha moment to say goodbye
Norweigan pop act a-ha ending on a high note
Finally confident that life is OK
Ending On A High Note
A-ha Farewell Tour Ends on a High Note
Time: 13:31 pm 
This concert was one of the best nights of my life!!! Not only did I get to share it with my son, (he thinks “Take on Me” is the best song ever), but at the end of the concert Morten signed my magazine (with him on the cover) that I got for my 14th birthday, in 1986 (please don’t do the math). Thanks for all the memories!!
I want to post a comment for the Chicago show but when I try, it says that comments are closed only after 4 minutes of being posted. Help, I can guarantee that more people are experiencing what I am. Please open the comments for Chicago! By the way, had an AWESOME time and I’m still floating on cloud 9!
FoReVeR in my heart, even i didn`t going into every show of A-ha, I know your shows always are great, And you should know that many fans are happy when they receive autographs, they go to shows and take pictures. So congratulations you guys are awesome, and nobody beats you. love u!
For me, an event 25 years in the making… and for my 10 year-old boy, his first concert ever! Such a wonderful night. From the GORGEOUS orchestral montage that opened the show, through so many excellent performances of songs that I suspect many of my fellow Canadians might not have heard before, wrapping up with a very genuine rendition of their biggest hit (many groups tend to ‘sleepwalk’ through performing their signature songs, but not a-ha!)
Oh, I wish I’d known they were going to come out and sign some autographs after – I’d have loved to thank them, and hopefully introduce my son! Was Pal out there as well, or did he sneak away? I’d have especially liked to thank him for everything.
The concert was fabulous. I went with my sister. She took me in 1986 and this time I took her! Great memories. The guys seem so down to earth signing autographs (too bad we didn’t know the right spot to be in). We did see Pal drive off, opened his window to shake our hands. Classy guys!
I will never forget that night for as long as I live- I was able to share the experience with my 18 year old daughter who also thought it was the best night ever..(She thinks Morten is cute!)
For a band to be able to leave an impact on more than one generation is something to cherish. I’ve followed them for all 25 years and all I can say is they have never let me down as a fan. I loved the 25-year scrapbook at the end of the show too.(wow-some of those photos I had on my bedroom wall!!!!!) Thanks guys for the memories. You’ll always be in my heart.
so incredible…every moment I remembered about 86 at the same venue came back……still can’t believe they are calling it quits….one perk if any from the “modern age” that we have now vs back in the early 80′s…youtube and the many memories from all the fans….the sun always shines on tv…….
Dear Mags, Pal and Morten,
I know this advice is presumptuous, but I would like to offer some reasons why the members of a-ha should continue to make music together. Although I doubt that you will be monitoring this site at such a late date, I hope you will hear about and consider them.
Pal’s talent lies in his often unusual, poetic lyrics and in writing the music. Morten’s is his unparalleled, angelic voice. Magne is the one with the stage presence necessary for touring. (I was at the Toronto show in 2010 and was disappointed that Pal did not engage with the audience and Morten failed to acknowledge the balconies and, though dynamic, seemed rote in his physical delivery. Only Mags was spontaneous and humorous. I bet he came up with the double entendre in the concert’s title.)
I attended the Toronto concert back in 1986, when I was 11 years old and infatuated with the group whose music would dominate my tastes until university (largely because I was unaware that they were still recording together even then for a European market). Back then, my ticket was the second last row on the ground floor of Massey Hall, near a pillar. I was next to blind because I had a child’s belief that I looked better without glasses and that Morten somehow spy me in the crowd and fall in love.
Last year, at 35, I went to the concert to relive my youth and dance to the music that shaped my childhood. I was so excited about the show that even an argument with my sister, which left me with an unused ticket, couldn’t eclipse my joy.
Unfortunately, I was asked to sit down after dancing to two songs because the young couple behind me and an older woman behind them, could not see the stage while sitting.
I was enraged because
1) I took time off work to wait 4 hours outside the Rogers Centre to get the best tickets available (advice from a Ticketmaster agent). In all four hours, I was the only one waiting there. The ticket agent told me that he was fairly certain that he could get me the best seats available once the sale opened: I could be in the second row floor or first row balcony. I chose the balcony because I wanted an unimpeded view. (The advance tickets offered through the fan club were worse than the best tickets available with the general sale starting the next day.)
2) I had attended the 1986 concert, knew the words to the songs and fancied myself a loyal fan but was surrounded mainly by people who either got their (better) tickets for free as a promotional offer or simply wanted to sit and enjoy the show as one would enjoy chamber music.
3) I wanted to be free to enjoy the music, groove and dance, the way I had when I was a teen listening to a-ha.
4) The year before, I had written the old a-ha website asking you to please consider coming to Toronto again. (It is probably just coincidence that Toronto was later added to the Farewell Tour, but I prefer to think not.)
5) I would never have this opportunity again! (Although I later tried to get a flight to the Chicago concert, but on such short notice, could not find anything under $1000! I dreamed about attending a show in Europe, but by then, I was too pregnant to travel, and the cost was prohibitive.)
None of my reasons swayed the security guard. I had to sit. Shortly after I did, Mags joked about getting “a groove” being rare in Norway, and that people in the audience should dance if they felt like it. I wanted to shout that we weren’t allowed! (I did shout my thanks for your coming to Toronto, which incurred some laughs.)
Not being able to dance and feeling the hateful eyes of the people behind me as I bopped in my seat coloured the rest of my concert experience.
I was furious at the people of Toronto, most of whom would not move to music that was meant to be moved to, or at least be willing to stand if someone else wanted the chance.
Granted, some people on the ground floor were dancing, and everyone was standing of necessity to see the stage, but many of the people who had front row seats were staid, as people are when they have received good concert seats for a band that they haven’t followed.
I didn’t want the farewell to my hallmark band to be tinged with anger. I was still moved by Morten’s beautiful voice (which hasn’t aged), Mags’s antics, and the beautiful slideshow. I cried at the beauty of Stay on These Roads.
If I had known that you would stay and sign autographs, I would have liked to thank you for being the soundtrack to my childhood.
The end of a-ha is the end of era to which I still want to be connected. Selfishly, I also want the band to remain together so that my connection to the way I thought and felt as a young person persists.
I will miss you, a-ha. For me, you will always be more than your individual parts. You will be the promises, hopes, beliefs, beauty, sadness, romance, idealism and possible futures that your music inspires.
Thank you.