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Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to have built it on waste land next to a major travel hub such as Kings Cross or...?
dg writes: They have built it on waste land outside a huge station one stop from a major travel hub.
Milo | 03.09.21 - 7:16 a.m. | #
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Can you hear the drums, Diamondo, we'll find out next May.
Ken | 03.09.21 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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I like Abba's music. (Who doesn't?). But they won't be performing live. Essentially it's a cinema - high tech notwithstanding.
Still, good luck to everyone involved in creating an event which will bring enjoyment and fun to many people.
Malcolm of Kent | 03.09.21 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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That major travel hub being on the same line as Waterloo.
Running_Correspondent | 03.09.21 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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Thank you for the blogging, the posts I'm reading
DavidC | 03.09.21 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Loving the end of each paragraph, but am now trying to work out what the Vicar of Dibley tie in will be.
Al | 03.09.21 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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As soon as I saw the news and the destination last night I knew you’d be all over it! Thanks for the detailed write up :)
Sam | 03.09.21 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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Failed to spot it while walking down Pudding Mill Lane in July but there is a bit of that triangular scaffolding in one of my photos.
davews | 03.09.21 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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Totally cynical about this venture, and scratch my head as to why thousands will no doubt pay through the nose and travel to a backwater location to watch a virtual recreation of a pop group from way back.
Then again, if the technology can recreate Agnetha c.1977 then I'm in! Virtual Debbie Harry next?
Frank F | 03.09.21 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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So how many songs exactly did you manage to shoehorn into today's piece?
Dan | 03.09.21 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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When All is Said and Done, opening in May, it will be a Summer Night City.
scrumpy | 03.09.21 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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DavidC - Nicely done.
Stuart R | 03.09.21 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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According to companies house, one of the directors of 'International Producers' Aniara is Benny's son, another is the former head of their Swedish record label, and they have been since 2019. The clues were all there online and no-one spotted it which is quite remarkable.
lockedintheattic | 03.09.21 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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You could've got at least three or four more songs in there. Honestly.
Scott | Homepage | 03.09.21 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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All about the money, money, money if you ask me... ;-)
Benny | 03.09.21 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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Here we go again.
Greg S | 03.09.21 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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Is this likely to cause the closure of the Greenway link from Stratford High Street, under the railway bridge and alongside the View Tube?
dg writes: No.
mungo | 03.09.21 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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Can’t wait for their Arrival
Kim | 03.09.21 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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If Abba's fellow 1970s pop group Boney M reform, is there another suitable local outdoor venue nearby where they can perform to small audiences of, say, around ten people at a time?
Boris | 03.09.21 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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It would seem that they had started construction the day before you came.
Bob S | 03.09.21 - 5:58 p.m. | #
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For all their success, ABBA's music was stone cold, sterile and clinical 40 years ago, so will it have gained sufficient human emotion in the passing years to be convincing enough when delivered by CGI versions of the group? If any act could be CGI'd very successfully, it's either them or Gary Numan.
I sure their many fans will be candescent with excitement, and good for them, but I find that my diary is fully booked for the entire run of the show, as I must re-arrange my bus timetable collection.
Arlu | 03.09.21 - 6:59 p.m. | #
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Now we’re old and grey… if I had to do the same again, I would my friend, Fernando.
Rich G | Homepage | 03.09.21 - 10:22 p.m. | #
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Oddly, Aniara would have rung a bell with me, since it’s an opera by the Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl, based on the poem you mention. As far as I’m aware, it’s the only opera entirely set on a spacecraft. But even if I’d been aware of the company name, whether I’d have thought of some other, more famous, Swedish musicians is doubtful…
Baldassaro | 03.09.21 - 10:53 p.m. | #
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Idly googling after reading this, I notice an "External Lighting Statement" dated 15 November 2019, which mentions PML Temporary Theatre on page 1, then (accidentally?) calls it ABBA Theatre on page 2, which isn't so much a clue as an almost literal spotlight...
Quizzical Eyebrow | Homepage | 04.09.21 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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dg writes: never risk a surely.
anonymous | 04.09.21 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Never mind the ABBA® Cinema, how much longer must we wait for the Brotherhood of Man Coliseum?
Rich G | Homepage | 04.09.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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I've just had an email from the QEOP marketing department claiming that this the arena is "at" (and "on") Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. That's a stretch, isn't it? There's certainly not a lot park-like about it.
not bert | 10.09.21 - 7:04 p.m. | #
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If you check the park map on the QEOP website then the arena falls just outside the boundary (but it's within one of the five future QEOP residential neighbourhoods).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.09.21 - 7:33 p.m. | #
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