If we succeeded remains to be seen, but we gave it one hell of a shot. He went on: “We were all reminded of what we were supposed to be doing – which was to capture that. There were moments when everyone just dropped what they were doing because some strange magic happened in the room. “You’re so focussed on the job that you sometimes forget that you’re looking at ABBA putting on a performance every day for five weeks. “It was a surreal experience to have these 75-year-old ABBA stars in these suits with nearly 200 people watching. “The foundation of this is the five weeks they spent in the motion capture studio where they performed each song over and over again, and we recorded every moment and all the tiny nuances,” he said. Ludwig Andersson explained how the show was captured with a mixture of painstaking techniques and the “magic” of the band themselves.
It chokes me up now, just talking about it.”ĪBBA are back with new album and “revolutionary” live experience, ‘ABBA: VOYAGE’ (Picture: Baillie Walsh / Press) ABBA are part of our DNA because we’ve grown up with them. When you hear them play any of their back catalogue, it brings back so many memories for people. He continued: “Most days the whole set was in tears, and there were a lot of people on that set. They soon got over the silliness of the suits, they performed, and as each day went by they got more relaxed, more into it and more ABBA.”
There’s a chemistry that happens between certain people that when they come together, something magical happens. “They looked quite absurd, but it was ABBA! The four of them walked onto that stage and it was extraordinarily emotional. “That was incredible – that moment when we filmed them in Stockholm and you had the four of them in their motion capture leotards,” Baillie Walsh told NME. Using 160 cameras, the band “performed every song to perfection over five weeks” with the technical team “capturing every mannerism, emotion and the soul of their beings” to create something that’s not “a version or a copy of ABBA, but actually them”. A press conference last week heard how the band will be presented as digital characters of “ABBA in their prime” from 1979, which have been created using performance capture techniques on ABBA in recent years to animate them and make them look “perfectly real”.
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