ABBA Voyage is ramping up its celebration for the band’s history – but only for this week.
The exciting and technologically jaw-dropping live music experience is changing things up to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of ABBA’s Eurovision Song Contest win back in 1974.
Fans will no doubt recall the pop superstars won the competition in Brighton, England, 50 years ago, with their iconic track Waterloo.
This Saturday, April 6, 2024, marks the 50th anniversary of the incredible win, and ABBA Voyage is holding two extremely special shows to mark the occasion.
Tickets for the two gigs – the 15:00 matinee and the 19:30 evening show – are out right now, and they come with some extra gifts.
Every ticket to either of these shows will come complete with a free drink token, and “an exclusive ABBA Voyage x Waterloo commemorative gift” upon arrival. These will no doubt never see the light of day again, so if you’re keen to attend this historic set of shows, you should buy tickets very soon before they run out.
You can buy tickets to the matinee shows below, or scroll down for links to the full list of shows:
Buy ABBA Voyage tickets for Saturday, April 6, 2024 – 15:00 matinee.
Buy ABBA Voyage tickets for Saturday, April 6, 2024 – 19:30 evening.
ABBA Voyage was first unveiled in May, 2022, and stunned critics. The groundbreaking feat brings fans into a live concert through state-of-the-art technology whereby members of the Eurovision Song Contest-winning band wore motion-capture suits to create ABBAtars, virtual facsimiles of themselves to perform.
Using this jaw-dropping technology ABBA can perform like they are in their mid-20s again, playing some of the biggest songs they’ve ever written through exclusive CGI technology that has been utilised in Star Wars and Marvel films.
The virtual comeback of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad is a sensational display of their music’s immortality, shown through the wonders of technology.
It has been described as “maybe the greatest ABBA performance that the world has ever seen”.
The Daily Express’ chief theatre critic, Stefan Kyriazis, described the experience as “spectacular” and gave it an incredible four stars.
You can read the full ABBA Voyage review here
ABBA Voyage’s producers, Svana Gisla and Ludvig Andersson, exclusively told Express.co.uk that the innovative experience “only works” because it’s ABBA. They went on: “It’s their souls infused in every aspect. It was their desire, their ambition to do this. It moves me to watch it, you can feel what they feel, all the soul behind their eyes. If you go away thinking it was an impressive scientific feat, we will have failed. It has to feel real.”
Tickets for ABBA Voyage are available right now, and many of the dates are beginning to sell out. If you haven’t experienced ABBA Voyage just yet, you’ll want to act fast, as the show is only being held until May 2024 – that means there are fewer than eight months of shows left.
Here’s what you need to know about how to buy ABBA Voyage tickets now:
ABBA Voyage tickets are available right now through a few major ticket retailers, including Ticketmaster, London Theatre Direct and TodayTix.
This includes tickets to the upcoming 50th-anniversary show to commemorate Waterloo and ABBA’s Eurovision win. You can buy tickets to that here:
Buy ABBA Voyage tickets for Saturday, April 6, 2024 – 15:00 matinee.
Buy ABBA Voyage tickets for Saturday, April 6, 2024 – 19:30 evening.
If you’d rather buy tickets to other upcoming ABBA Voyage tickets, you can use these links to get tickets now:
LONDON THEATRE DIRECT – Buy ABBA Voyage tickets
VIAGOGO – Buy ABBA Voyage tickets
TICKETMASTER – Buy ABBA Voyage tickets
TODAYTIX – Buy ABBA Voyage tickets
Tickets begin at £60 depending on the date of the show, and go as high as £200 on certain days of the week.
ABBA Voyage runs once a day on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:45pm, except on weekends when a matinee show begins at 3pm on Saturdays and 1pm on Sundays.
ABBA Voyage takes place in a purpose-built venue called the ABBA Arena. Its location is in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
This venue can hold up to 3,000 people and was designed by Stufish Entertainment Architects from London.
Its hexagonal timber-clad form is entirely unique and somehow manages to blur the lines between the real world and the digital world.
The ABBA Arena’s address is: 1 Pudding Mill Ln, London E15 2RU.
ABBA Voyage’s run time is 1 hour 30 minutes without any kind of interval.
The ABBA Voyage experience is an immersive concert utilising real music and performers through advanced technological wonders.
As a result, the event is a similar length to that of a real gig.
ABBA Voyage is a celebration of the wondrous Swedish band, and as a result, the setlist is full of their biggest and best hits from over the past five decades.
On top of such legendary songs as The Winner Takes It All, Mamma Mia, Does Your Mother Know, SOS, and more, there are also some deep cuts that only die-hard fans would enjoy.
Here’s the full set list:
- The Visitors
- Hole in Your Soul
- SOS
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Chiquitita
- Fernando
- Mamma Mia
- Does Your Mother Know
- Eagle
- Lay All Your Love on Me
- Summer Night City
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
- Voulez-vous
- When All Is Said and Done
- Don’t Shut Me Down
- I Still Have Faith in You
- Waterloo
- Thank You for the Music
- Dancing Queen
- The Winner Takes It All
ABBA music is readily available on a number of streaming platforms, but one of the best options is through Amazon Music Unlimited.
The high-quality music streaming service is part of Amazon’s media service and has a huge amount of the Swedish band’s legendary music.
And the best part is, it’s totally free – without a subscription for the first 30 days with no contract. This means you can sign up for 29 days and then cancel your account without being charged.
Click here to listen to ABBA right now.
