About ABBA The Concerts
This fan site tries to collect what is known about ABBA’s live performances: basic facts, trivia, press articles or fan reviews. An important aspect are relevant statements by the ABBA members, also information about recordings and published material. However, although one goal is to provide an overview about the fan recordings, please note that you cannot download any recordings here, this site is for information only.
Only information about collaborations of the four ABBA members as a group is included, i.e. activities as solo artists or members of other formations aren’t a topic here.
The work is constantly in progress and new content will be added all the time. Several sources still need to be checked for interesting material and will be included when time allows.
Information regarding individual concerts is listed on the page for the particular venue. More general material which covers a wider part or even the complete tour is listed on the main page of a tour.
As you may notice while reading through this site some fans thankfully were very kind to support me with their memories or newspaper snippets. I appreciate this help very much because such information can’t be found online. So if you can support this project in any way, don’t hesitate to contact me.
- Changelog
Changelog – Recent site updates
2021
September
- new venue for 1973: Kongsvingar
- new venue for 1974-75: Vejle (Denmark)
August
- update to the BAB set list 1971
- added Storön Sveg to the 1973 venues
- added a link to the Amsterdam entry 1977
February
- A list of instruments used on tour was added for 1977, 1979 and 1980.
2020
October
- On air – added a link to a 1970 performance
- 1970-71 – added the link also here
June
- 1970-71 – Recent short comment by Björn added to Gothenburg
May
The online Swedish Royal Library was open for everyone during April and I could download lots of articles regarding the ABBA concerts. It will take much time though to check them and to include new information from all these pages, but for the beginning:
- 1970-71 – Many new venues added
thanks also to Jan Sundström for his support
March
- On air – several additions and updates
February
- 1979 – update for the Landskrona surprise gig and for the Zürich concert
- Categories – all performed songs listed alphabetically with links to the respective pages on this site
- Questions & tasks
Questions & tasks
Unfinished business and missing information
General tasks
- information from some books and documentaries still needs to be included
Have you been to an ABBA concert and want to share your experience?
I would like to add some fan reports to this site. So if you have been to a concert and like the idea of sharing your memories here, please send them. Don’t forget to report anout any special incidents like changes to the usual set list, if there were any. If you also took any concert pictures which you would like to share with other fans, please send them as well.
Just to make sure, please remember:
- this site is not about concerts with ABBA cover or tribute bands
- only send photos which you took yourself
Questions regarding tours and performances
Every piece of further information on the following or any other venues is much appreciated, regarding these topics for example:
- Åre 1970/71
- concert reviews from newspapers
- performances 1970-1971 in general
- July 3, 1973:
According to a picture of a poster at Raffem ABBA had a concert at a “Tivoli Diskotek”. Which town was that?
- Sites used for information
Sites used for information (in random order)
Specific information is linked directly on the respective sub-pages of this site. Additional information and pictures (tickets for example) were picked up at numerous fan sites, forums, online auctions or other sites over the years long before this site was even considered to be created. Not all origins can be remembered or traced anymore and the original source for things often cannot be identified anyway. Please excuse, if some sources aren’t mentioned here.
Some main sites which were used for information:
Other sources are books and TV documentaries. However, much specific information for individual venues can only be found through extensive web research. You will find these sources on the page for the related venue. I try to check or even update the links from time to time, but I cannot garantuee their availability.
The pictures and links used on this site are included just for basic illustration of each venue. This is a non-commercial fan site and pictures and anything else is purely used for illustration, documentation and information.
