A-ha Farewell Tour 2010 - Ending on a High note / Hardcover Band Album / Worldwide concert tour by Norway synthpop/rock band

Hardcover 2011

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Ending on a High Note Tour was a worldwide concert tour by Norway synthpop/rock band A-ha in support of the group's ninth studio album, Foot of the Mountain, which was released in June 2009  as well as the compilation 25 which was released in July 2010. It was also a farewell tour, as the band announced, in 2009, their decision to split after a worldwide concert tour in 2010.

The tour began on March 4 at the Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina and ended on 4 December in Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, having visited many cities in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and several European countries. The sold out A-ha show in Santiago, Chile, originally scheduled for 6 March, was rescheduled for 23 March following a major earthquake.

Due to demand, the A-ha concert on March 16 in Centro de Convenções (Brasília, Brazil) was moved to a larger venue, Ginásio Nilson Nelson. Also the capacity for the concerts in Oslo and Bergen in August in Norway had to expand its capacity with 9000 additional tickets to a total of 25 000 tickets for each show.

In 2010, a-ha made a (at the time) final world tour to celebrate their long career and to end their collaboration on a high note. The tour included South- and North-America, Europe, Russia and Japan. The venues were a mix of huge football stadiums, large indoor arenas and smaller concert halls. The final a-ha concert was held at Oslo Spektrum, Norway on 4 December.

The backing musicians were the same as on the previous year’s Foot Of The Mountain Tour; Karl Oluf Wennerberg (drums) and Erik Ljunggren (keyboards, bass).

A total of 29 songs were performed during the tour: The Bandstand, Foot Of The Mountain, Analogue, Forever Not Yours, Summer Moved On, Move To Memphis, Crying In The Rain, Stay On These Roads, The Blood That Moves The Body, The Living Daylights, Early Morning, And You Tell Me, Scoundrel Days, Cry Wolf, We’re Looking For The Whales, Manhattan Skyline, I’ve Been Losing You, Living A Boys Adventure Tale, Hunting High And Low, Train Of Thought, The Sun Always Shines On TV, Take On Me, Touchy, Minor Earth Major Sky, The Swing Of Things, You Are The One, Butterfly Butterfly (The Last Hurrah), (Seemingly) Nonstop July, Bowling Green.

Also, these additional 8 songs were performed as part of the special Hunting High and Low/Scoundrel Days concerts in Oslo Konserthus and Royal Albert Hall in October: The Blue Sky, Love is Reason, I Dream Myself Alive, Here I Stand and Face the Rain, October, The Weight of the Wind, Maybe Maybe, Soft Rains of April.

A-ha (usually stylised as a-ha; Norwegian pronunciation: [ɑˈhɑː]) is a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. Founded by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (guitars), Magne Furuholmen (keyboards, guitars), and Morten Harket (vocals), the band rose to fame during the mid-1980s.

A-ha achieved their biggest success with their debut album Hunting High and Low in 1985. That album peaked at number one in their native country Norway, number 2 in the UK, and number 15 on the US Billboard album chart; yielded two international number-one singles: "Take On Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on T.V."; and earned the band a Grammy Award nomination as Best New Artist. In the UK, Hunting High and Low continued its chart success into the following year, becoming one of the best-selling albums of 1986.^[2][3] The band released studio albums in 1986, 1988, and 1990, with single hits including "Hunting High and Low", "The Living Daylights", "Stay on These Roads", and "Crying in the Rain". In 1994, after their fifth studio album, Memorial Beach (1993), failed to achieve the commercial success of their previous albums, the band went on hiatus.