a-ha's UK record label have created a website and mailing list for UK fans. Subscribers are promised: "Sign up to the UK a-ha mailing list to receive exclusive messages from the band themselves, as well as the chance to win personalized signed artwork!" Read on for excerpts from two previous e-mails written by Magne for the mailing list.
If you ever doubted Magne's creative writing ability, the following random
samples from his e-mails should have you convinced:
"We have come to the end of the road, eh, for now, I guess - at least the last stop on this particular bus-route...time to go home and do a body count.
What exactly are the odds of anyone making a good first impression night after night? I wonder. And what do you do to take back the impressions once given? Who knows, and what on earth does this have to do with a mail-out to fans anyway?!
Bear with me, my mind always takes the long way around the moors on these self-conscious mail-outs."
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"Asked to relay any remotely interesting or funny event happening on tour invariably serves to remind me of how completely uninteresting and uneventful life on the road really is. What most people don't get is that touring is just all about those TWO small hours a night...everything else is just transit. Just one fucken Starbucks after another.
(We have an actual agreement in the band to buy Starbucks just to keep Kenny G busy and away from making music).
The real transport happens in your head within those two hours, the rest is just the body catching up to make a sequential real-time narrative of it."
A new missive from Magne has been sent to list members today, in it you can find a New Year's greeting in the form of a poem and a link to a special home video. Here's a short excerpt for those who missed it:
today you are the future
tomorrow you're the past
make it matter
it all goes by so fast
time is for spending
it was never meant to last
welcome 06
your number's up
To sign up for the mailing list, go to http://www.a-hamusic.co.uk/ .