ABBA Voyage: The Concert Residency – CONTAINS MAJOR SET LIST SPOILERS

Prices seem to have increased though.

For the dates previously available, dancefloor are £70.50. The new ones are £77.
 
Yeah it’s getting harder and harder to get tickets for what they were a few months back, even for non-Saturday shows (I’m told).
 
Voyage #4 this Sunday. It's been booked since before Christmas, but I've been hesitant to acknowledge it in case the train strikes affected us, because I'm not doing the coach again.

The strikes were yesterday and tomorrow, right? Presumably it should all be sorted and trains in the right places by Sunday morning...
 
lolly said:
Voyage #4 this Sunday. It's been booked since before Christmas, but I've been hesitant to acknowledge it in case the train strikes affected us, because I'm not doing the coach again.

The strikes were yesterday and tomorrow, right? Presumably it should all be sorted and trains in the right places by Sunday morning...
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Yes everything should be fine by Saturday lunchtime.
 
lolly said:
Prices seem to have increased though.

For the dates previously available, dancefloor are £70.50. The new ones are £77.
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Oh for heaven's sake. I was hoping dancefloor ones would start going down after a while.
 
Bought some tickets for this this week as a present, so went for the little gift box. It arrived today and it's just so beautifully presented. £10 well spent :D
 
I'm also taking my family in the summer, so the speculation about the set list has gone a bit crazy in the group chat. The story that "one of Chrissy's favourites that was never a single opens the show" has sent the suggestions into a tailspin.
 
I was buying Skyr at my local Casino in Paris And Honey Honey in Swedish was playing
 
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From the one year anniversary performance this evening

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Incidentally Frida was walking on not one walking stick, but what looked like two of those hiking type sticks - but her movement actually appeared to be a lot better than the footage last year.
 
I am finally going to this in July, tickets have gone right up I remember friends going for about £40 or so now cheapest dance floor tickets are £77. Cannot wait though, and I can literally walk to the venue and back :disco:
 
Totally getting a pair for my mother after she has her hip replacement
 
The family outing to this was so good. The show was probably even better second time around for me, and it went down a complete storm with everyone else. It was over Pride weekend, so we got themed wristbands and badges. I wasn't sure what the crowd would be like at 1pm on a Sunday afternoon, but the atmosphere was fantastic both outside and in the place, and I quite liked that it was less sozzled on the dancefloor.

My mother wasn't convinced the whole thing was actual performers until she was reading the programme on the way home :disco:
 
Theatreboard is awash with a no-source rumour ("I really shouldn't give this away, BUT...") of an incoming revamp for the setlist, chiefly with Take A Chance On Me being added. Any word from the faithful @lolly?
 
The merch sales for the show must be stratospheric. My sisters were snapping up everything from water bottles to programmes to ponchos, all justified with the mantra that “of course it’s expensive, it’s ABBA“ :D
 
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There was one last year (minus Kylie) as well. It's just to get people buying Voyage tickets for Christmas, isn't it?

That new merch has been out several weeks already - some of it may be under this very roof awaiting being wrapped.
 
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Money, Money, Money! Abba effect brings £322million boost to London​

The Abba shows generated more than one million ticket sales - at up to £181.50 each - by the end of the 2022.

They may only be digital dancing queens - and kings - but the four glittery avatars performing every night in front of sell out audiences in east London are pumping serious Money, Money, Money into the capital’s economy.

That is the conclusion of a report into the “socio-economic impact” of the ground breaking Abba Voyage attraction in Stratford published on Thursday just a year and a half after it opened.

The analysis, carried out by strategists Sound Diplomacy and social value consultancy RealWorth, found that the series of concerts at the 3,000 seater Abba Arena contributed £322.6 million in spending, and £177.7 million in extra economic activity - known as GVA - in its first year.

Abba’s shows began in May 2022 at the £50 million purpose built venue in Pudding Mill Lane and generated more than one million ticket sales - at up to £181.50 each - by the end of the year. That made it the sixth most visited paid attraction in London in 2022.

The show feature digital “Abbatar” versions of the Swedish quartet - Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - performing a setlist of “bangers” such as Mamma Mia, Voulez-Vous and The Winner Takes it All over a 90 minute run time alongside a live 10 piece band.

They were created through motion capture technology from visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic and appear as their 1979 versions of themselves. The band members themselves are now all in their seventies.

The report - commissioned by the show’s producers - found that the show had siginficant benefits for the surrounding boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest with 42% of the total impact felt in these local authority areas worth a total of £73.7 million in GVA.

The bulk of the impact in the local area was from paying for accommodation, food and drink, transport and shopping with an average spend of £103 per attendee on top of the ticket price, rising to £135 across London as a whole.

The report claims ABBA Voyage has supported more than 5,000 jobs in London, including those directly employed at the venue and those in other sectors that rely on spending by visitors.

The report also highlights how Abba Voyage has drawn thousands of visitors from outside London with almost half the non-ticket spend from “out of towners” coming from elsewhere in the UK and more than 40% from foreign visitors.

Michael Bolingbroke, executive producer for ABBA Voyage, said: “The presence of ABBA Voyage is felt in a way that will be enduring. Knowing that in our first full year, the operations of ABBA Voyage has had an economic impact in London of £322 million is extraordinary, and our challenge will be to maintain and grow this number, and to ensure that its effects are long lasting.”

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “The fantastic success of ABBA Voyage shows once again how London is the music capital of the world and is roaring back from the impact of the pandemic. I am so proud that City Hall was able to help ABBA bring this pioneering show to east London, providing huge benefits to both the local area and London’s wider economy.”
Lyn Garner, Chief Executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation, said: “ABBA Voyage has been an amazing success for the area and a vibrant addition to the attractions on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.”
 
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