A message from the Official International ABBA Fan Club:
Once you decide to take your ABBA fandom to the next level, The
Official International ABBA Fan Club is the place for you. Like the other 1,500
members, you will not only get our fabulous colour magazine four times a year,
be very welcome at the annual fun-filled ABBA Day, but you may also become one
of the many lucky members who regularly get to go to premieres and shows – very
often absolutely free!
How can we offer you such a great deal? We have
been liaising with the record and production
companies and ABBA's own spokesperson, Görel Hanser,
for more than 20 years. Last but not least, we have
also had great support from Agnetha, Björn, Benny
and Frida.
The Official International ABBA Fan Club publishes
its own magazine four times a year in English.
(Translations in Dutch, German, French, Spanish or
Japanese are available on request). The magazine
informs members about recent activities and CD
releases. It also features regular columns like The
Name Of The Game (contest), S.O.S.
(Scribbles-Opinions-Stories, readers’ contributions
to the magazine), The Singles (review of an old
single or album), I Got Something (readers’ ads for
records, penpals, etc.), song lyrics, a forum and a
large catalogue of merchandise available through the
ABBF Record Service.
The Official International ABBA Fan Club magazine is read by members from all
over the world. It contains 32 pages (size 14.8 x 21 cm), and each issue
includes a mini poster between its full color cover.
The International ABBA Day organised by the fan club takes place in
Roosendaal, The Netherlands, in April every year,
and with on average more than 600 guests it is the
biggest annual ABBA party in the world. There is a
huge record and memorabilia fair, an amazing
four-hour-long ABBA disco, a video show,
competitions and, of course, you can mingle with
your many old and new ABBA friends from all over the
world.
The day is regularly spiced up with performances by
cover bands and artists that used to work with ABBA,
but there are also very often special guests. Owe
Sandström, who designed ABBA's stage clothes, put
many of the costumes on show for the fans, including
the ones that the WWF banned ABBA from wearing and
that were, thus, never used. Benny's son Ludvig
performed with his band Ella Rouge, dressed up in
one of Benny's old stage outfits and later performed
a once-in-a-lifetime cover of Suzy-Hang-Around - the
song Benny had declared, out of all the ABBA songs,
he wanted most to forget.
While the ABBA Day is open to all, members of the
Fan Club get a discount on the entrance fee. Of
course, the programme for 2009 will be published
first on the fan club's site.
Have you always wanted to go to a premiere? Well, we
have had the pleasure of getting fans tickets to the
openings of shows, Mamma Mia!, both theatre and
film, premieres all over Europe, the US and
Australia. Most notable was the opening of the Mamma
Mia! stage show in Sweden where ABBA got together
for the first time in many, many years, and where
EVERY member who had asked for a ticket got one
ABSOLUTELY FREE thanks to our friends at Littlestar
and Mono Music. Who knows what the future may bring?
If there is one thing that we have learned over the
years, it is that not only do the fans love ABBA,
but ABBA love their fans, too. The many personal
greetings that we have been getting to print in the
magazine and the video messages for ABBA Days and
celebrations say a lot, and so do the gifts we have
been allowed to give away to our members, like
special CD singles that have become real collector’s
items.
If you want to be part of the world-wide ABBA
family, go ahead and join The Official International
ABBA Fan Club today!
Visit the
The Official International ABBA Fan Club website
to learn a whole lot more.
