Oslo is a pretty excellent city (town? It's not that big, really) to have not much important to do. I'm one of those people who is an "experience collector" in some ways, so this actually sounds like a dream to fly to Oslo for a show that you no longer have to do anything about! (I was there two months before you that year, by the way, on tour with Sparklehorse, we were playing with Neutral Milk Hotel.)
I won't disparage A-ha like I savaged Abba (in some ways, a progenitor) but I will point out the poor understanding of English mistake that possibly prompted "don't laugh at us.":
Oslo is a pretty excellent city (town? It's not that big, really) to have not much important to do. I'm one of those people who is an "experience collector" in some ways, so this actually sounds like a dream to fly to Oslo for a show that you no longer have to do anything about! (I was there two months before you that year, by the way, on tour with Sparklehorse, we were playing with Neutral Milk Hotel.)
I won't disparage A-ha like I savaged Abba (in some ways, a progenitor) but I will point out the poor understanding of English mistake that possibly prompted "don't laugh at us.":
"Take on me" obviously means nothing in English. However, what it is is a *literal* translation of the Norwegian phrase that means "Touch me." Ta på meg. They looked up the words individually. https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=no&text=touch%20me&op=translate
Ha, that's hilarious! PS I loved Sparklehorse.
Hubris in spades! Glad you went.
"...all written by David Fricke." Yes. To this entire piece!