ABBA blog

Update 22 November 2021: I've added a bunch of other media appearances that took place after mid-September, up to and including the November launch of ABBA's Voyage album.

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Thursday 2 and Friday 3 September will go down in history as two of the most insane days I have ever experienced. TV, radio and press interviews from morning to night, new requests coming in all the time - so many that I had to turn some of them down, simply because I couldn't fit them all in. A friend of mine joked that I should get a media representative to handle all the requests, and in fact, for those two days I would have needed one.

It was exhausting, but above all a lot of fun, as I tried my best to speculate on what we would be getting on the night of 2 September, when ABBA would unveil some big news. Afterwards, I scrambled to convey my first impressions of the two new songs - I Still Have Faith In You and Don't Shut Me Down - and the revelation that we would get an entire studio album. Plus, of course, the digital avatar concert experience.

Here's a list of my 40 ABBA Voyage-related media appearances in roughly chronological order - the ones I'm aware of and that can be accessed online, that is! At the time of writing, all items should be accessible for everyone (except where otherwise noted).

A few items are not directly related to ABBA Voyage, but their publication happened as a result of the renewed interest in ABBA in the Voyage announcement time-frame.

Are the stories from online newspapers etc. not in your language? Then please use Google Translate.

27 AUGUST

• QX.se [Sweden]
• BBC Radio Ulster [Northern Ireland; segment starts at circa 00:52:45]

The ABC Evening Show with Sarah Macdonald [Australia]

2 SEPTEMBER

UK BBC Radio, local radio stations - clips made available thanks to the efforts of Trevor Barker:

• Tees
• Cumbria
• Wiltshire
• Jersey
• Devon
• Hereford & Worcester
• Berkshire
• Lincolnshire
• Solent
• Shropshire
• Lancashire
• Cambridgeshire
• Kent
• Newcastle
• Derby
  
  
• P1 Morgon [Sweden]
• MIC Izvestia [Russia; scroll down a bit]
• Ekot [Sweden]
• Folkbladet [Sweden; TT news agency story]
• Tagesthemen [Germany]
• Yahoo News [AFP news agency story]

3 SEPTEMBER

• TV4 Nyhetsmorgon [Sweden]
• Nyheterna TV4 [Sweden; requires registration and may be geoblocked; item starts when there is 01:21:00 remaining of the video]
• Kulturnytt i P1 [Sweden]
• CBS This Morning [United States]
• BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire [UK; clip supplied by Trevor Barker]
• Franceinfo [France]
• Brisant [Germany]
  

4 SEPTEMBER

• Daily Mirror [UK]

6 SEPTEMBER

• Fortune [US; behind paywall]

7 SEPTEMBER

• ABC Radio Hobart [Australia]

9 SEPTEMBER

• Radio Sweden Weekly [Sweden, but English-language]
• Skärgårdsradion [Sweden, mainly on The Hep Stars; segment starts at 10:00]
• ABBAtalk livestream chat [UK/Sweden; unfortunately many sound problems]

10 SEPTEMBER

• Expressen [Sweden, behind paywall; not actually about ABBA Voyage]

11 SEPTEMBER

• Daily Express [UK; part one of Bright Lights Dark Shadows serialisation, not actually about ABBA Voyage]

13 SEPTEMBER

• Daily Express [UK; part two of Bright Lights Dark Shadows serialisation, not actually about ABBA Voyage]
  

1 OCTOBER

• Hidden Track podcast [Canada; about ABBA's career and history]
  

3 OCTOBER

• Expressen [Sweden; the harsh criticism levelled against ABBA in 1970s Sweden; behind a paywall]
  

21 OCTOBER

• Eurovision Legends podcast [Sweden but English-language], part 1 and part 2 (ABBA's Eurovision connections)

27 OCTOBER

• QX, the Swedish gay mag ranks the ABBA songs with the aid of a 39-strong jury
  

2 NOVEMBER

• QX, an interview with me, commenting on the ABBA song ranking (see above) and more

4 NOVEMBER

• Ouest-France [France]

5 NOVEMBER

UK BBC Radio, local radio stations - clips made available thanks to the efforts of Trevor Barker:

• Oxford
• Somerset
• Jersey
• Lancashire
• Wiltshire
• Berkshire
• York
• Hereford & Worcester
• Cumbria
• Solent
  
  
• SVT Nyheter [Sweden; ABBA as a TikTok phenomenon]
• The Voyage of ABBA - 5 Songs That Led to Waterloo, And Beyond [UK]
• Christian Science Monitor [US]
• Efter fem [Sweden; I appear at circa 00:24:00]
• Reforma [Mexico]

17 NOVEMBER

• You're Not On The List [UK podcast; includes discussion of the Voyage album]
• The Euro Trip [UK podcast; Eurovision-themed, but we discuss Voyage]

23 NOVEMBER

• Musikindustrin.se [Sweden]
  
  

4 DECEMBER

Retropopic Radio, part 1 [UK]

9 DECEMBER

Retropopic Radio, part 2 [UK]