Tom Dunne: Scoff if you want, but I'm still enjoying my own Abba voyage

A recent trip to the Abba hologram show in London renewed my enthusiasm for Sweden's fab four

(Left to right) Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson in their ABBA heyday. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns

Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 - 11:48

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

In its three-and-a-half-year run at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London, ABBA Voyage has done some serious business. It's taken about £250m (€284m), played to 3.5 million people and had been worth about £2bn (€2.27bn) to the local economy. On December 8, I became its latest stat.

Twenty-two songs, costumes changes, a 10-piece live band and proof positive that to men of a certain age the debate over “who is your favourite?” has carried on into the digital/hologram age. And it's Agneta obviously, no wait, Frida! No wait! Agneta! No! Frida!