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from the tear-a-corner-off-your-DREAD-card dept.
Digital Music News has a brief mention about ABBA's new digital costumes, made by Industrial Light and Magic, which will be used at the concert tour accompanying their album release. It sounds like a similar method as was used to make Andy Serkis look like Gollum, but this time making people look younger and fresher. It's unclear whether the avatars will be mapped on the fly to real movement happening along with the concert or just running through pre-precorded routines.
Creative Director Ben Morris says his company has recreated ABBA in its prime, from 1979. "We are creating them as digital characters, then use performance capture techniques to animate them and make them look perfectly real," Morris says.
Klaxons' James Righton and Little Boots will both appear as part of the live band. The reunion will be the first in four decades with "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down" celebrating the announcement.
The new ABBA album Voyage will contain ten new tracks, with at least one Christmas song. Will the group dethrone Mariah Carey's Christmas tradition of taking the top of the Christmas charts? I guess we'll see later this year.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday September 09 2021, @01:51PM (1 child)
I've seen Hawkwind, UFO, Budgie, the Black Star Riders... They put on great shows.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 09 2021, @05:59PM
I saw (4/5ths of) Deep Purple (plus Steve Morse) before they were all crinkly or dead - one amazing gig, one pretty damn good one.
The times I saw Wishbone Ash they'd rotated most of their line-up, so maybe it's not a fair comparison - but they're always mindblowing - Phoenix - woh!
Also seen Tasavallan Presidentti and Wigwam (and Jukka Tolonen and others' spin-offs) many times - always good.
John Fogerty was fun, but he was doing mostly poppier stuff that's not my main thang
All were in their 5th decade of performing, assuming they started in the 60s, apart from one DP in their 6th.
And talking about 6th decades, I think Neil Young was that when I saw him. But he played nothing good at all. His oeuvre's too large, and my tastes are too narrow :(
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