ABBA tribute present Björn Once more is heading to Hampton Courtroom Palace Pageant, introduced by heycar, on Saturday 15 June.
Bjorn Once more are heading to Hampton Courtroom Palace Pageant
The annual summer season live performance sequence on the royal landmark has confirmed its closing headliner for this yr, within the musical tribute act mimicking the Swedish pop icons, named after ABBA’s very personal Björn Ulvaeus.
Head to hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com for tickets.
This yr’s headliners additionally embody Nile Rodgers and CHIC, Paloma Religion, Sheryl Crow, Sir Tom Jones, Jessie J, Jack Savoretti, Deacon Blue, and Sam Ryder.
The competition takes place between June 11 to June 22.
Artists carry out in an intimate 3,000-seat auditorium in Base Courtroom, set in opposition to the backdrop of Henry VIII’s magnificent Tudor Palace and attendees can get pleasure from picnics, drinks and road meals within the Palace Gardens, with luxurious packages on supply.
For the very first time, the occasion may also current a stay podcast known as ‘The Relaxation Is Historical past’, with historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland internet hosting a present about Henry VIII and the Tudor interval.
In the meantime, ABBA followers will need to tune in for the BBC’s sequence of specials marking 50 years of the ‘Dancing Queen’ group, which can embody beforehand misplaced footage of the band.
An hour-long documentary, ‘When ABBA Got here to Britain’, will air as a part of a Saturday evening filled with ABBA specials on BBC Two this April.
One other particular is known as ‘Extra ABBA on the BBC’, and there will probably be additional programming throughout the BBC, together with BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.
The ‘Take a Likelihood on Me’ hitmakers – Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – made the UK their dwelling from 1974 to 1982, and the movie “examines their ground-breaking legacy”, from successful Eurovision with ‘Waterloo’ to ABBA Voyage, their record-breaking, first-of-its-kind avatar present in London.
A press launch continued: “It’s the story of a relationship that began with the band’s fascination with British music, together with The Beatles within the Sixties. After successful the Eurovision Tune Contest with Waterloo in 1974, the band would finally discover world stardom, however their relationship with the UK stays distinctive.”
There may also be “lengthy forgotten information footage, which all present how ABBAmania took maintain within the UK within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties.”
It’ll embody interviews with the likes of Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and indie pop group Blossoms, who cite ABBA as an affect.