ACHE Danish Rock Band Historical Picture Gallery 2019 to 2022
Featuring ACHE musicians from 2019 to 2022, presented backwards in time.
Picture Galleries 1964-1976, 1975-1981, 1981-2019 and 2023 till the present are also available - see links at page bottom.
ACHE Gallery first publicized in Summer, 2022. Narratives, scannings, photo editing & HTML coding by Torsten Olafsson.
LINKS: ACHE's Official Website - ACHE Danish Rock Band at FaceBook - ACHE at Olafssongs Music Publishers
Finn Olafsson's Website - Torsten Olafsson's Website
ACHE Rock Band 2022 after the concert at Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 21, 2022
Photo: Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band as of May, 2022 - Photo by Klaus Rudbæk
Band members from top left:
Anne Sabina Holse, vocals & extra rhythm
Torsten Olafsson, bass & vocals
Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen, sound control
Jacob Smedegaard, drums & vocals
Finn Olafsson, guitars & vocals
August Ussing, lead vocal & assisting keyboards
Peter Mellin, keyboards & vocals
ACHE Rock Band Green Man Logo, 1971, from the cover of the 1971 album "Green Man"
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21
Thanks to the absolutely fantastic audience
and to Mikkel Scharff for this great photo of his
ACHE Rock Band May 2022 - Photo by Klaus Rudbæk
ACHE 2022 Live in CONCERT at AMAGER BIO on May 21, 2022
ACHE Rock Band logo 1976 - Designed by Peder Bundgaard
"The Skewed Dreams", in Danish: "De skæve drømme".
Harmonica part played by Steen Toft Andersen.
Stage lights design by Jacob Sorensen. Historical ACHE slide show by Torsten Olafsson.
Thanks to Bjarne Kell Andersen for the photo
Slide show screen picture: ACHE rehearsing the ACHE Rock Theatre show, early 1971
Live photo by Bjarne Kell Andersen
"Psychedelic" light design by Frank Hindsberg ass. by Mikkel Scharff & René Gjerløv
Thanks to Hanne Sonja Sørensen for the photo
Live photo by Mette Østerbro
Slide show picture: Glenn, Peter, Torsten, Finn, 1970
Live photo by Mette Østerbro
Slide show picture: Gert, Finn, Steen, Peter, Stig, Johnnie, 1976
Live photo by Mette Østerbro
Slide show picture: Glenn, Torsten, 1968
Live photo by Mette Østerbro
Slide show picture: Torsten Olafsson, early 1981. Photo by Jan Persson.
Live photo by Mette Østerbro
Stage lights by Jacob Sorensen at Amager Bio.
ACHE 2022 band photo on the screen by Klaus Rudbæk. Live photo by Mette Østerbro
Thanks to René Gjerløv for the photo
PA/Public address sound by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen ass. by Marc Joey Leth Eskildsen & Kim Khan.
Thanks to Søren Lindberg for the photo
Finn Olafsson & Torsten Olafsson. Photos by Bjarne Kell Andersen
Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen, live sound master
Photos by Mikkel Scharff & Klaus Rudbæk (detail of band photo)
Here follow some really nice live photos taken by Mikkel Scharff, Finn Olafsson's close school class mate since 1st grade,
who also "shot" the very first band photo of Finn and brother Torsten's earliest music group named VOCES, in 1964:
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio, May 21. Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21. Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Anne Sabina & August
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21. Photo by Mikkel Scharff
Background screen photo: ACHE, mid-1976 - Top, from the left: Johnnie Gellett, Per Wium,
Below, from the left: Steen Toft Andersen, Gert Smedegaard, Finn Olafsson
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Psychedelic lights by Frank Híndsberg.
Photoby Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Finn, Jacob & Torsten
Slide show photo: Finn & Torsten, 1970. Photo by Lone Madsen
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Anne Sabina & August
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Psychedelic lights by Frank Híndsberg.
Photoby Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Finn & Jacob
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Finn, Jacob, Torsten
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Jacob Smedegaard
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Psychedelic lights by Frank Híndsberg.
Photoby Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21, performing "Shadow of a Gipsy"
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21, left: August Ussing & Peter Mellin, ACHE 2022's keyboard players
Right: Peter Mellin during the rehearsal, composer/songwriter of many ACHE music works in 1968-71, 1975-76 & 2003
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21: Finn, Jacob, Torsten, Anne Sabina, August & Peter
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
THE CONCERT IS OVER:
Photo by Bjarne Kell Andersen
Photo by Bjarne Kell Andersen
ACHE Rock Band 2022, Amager Bio May 21
Thanks to the absolutely fantastic, enthusiastic and friendly audience
and to Mikkel Scharff for this charming photo of his
Warm Thanks to all the Amager Bio Crew & Staff, including:
Kim Khan: PA sound equipment supervision
Jacob Sorensen: Stage lights design
Emil & Co.: Venue logistics
Per Abildtrup: Management & administration
Concert hall PA sound managed by sound master Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen ass. by Kim Khan and Marc Joey Leth Eskildsen
ACHE Music audio-recorded by Peter Brander and his assistant at Media Sound, 2300 Copenhagen S
"Psychedelic" light designed by Frank Hindsberg ass. by Mikkel Scharff & René Gjerløv
Psychedelic Lights creators/operators with ACHE at Amager Bio on May 21, 2022:
Frank Hindsberg, Mikkel Scharff, René Gjerløv
Concert video-filmed by Kim Ingemann Erichsen and his daughters Nicoline and Isabella, Peak Production, 4760 Vordingborg
Jens Schaumburg assisted Finn Olafsson as guitar technician and consultant
ACHE 2022 at AMAGER BIO May 21: PREPARING for the CONCERT
Left: Frank Hindsberg, psychedelic lights artist and engineer
Right: Peter Brander, Media Sound, and Finn Olafsson
Photos: Torsten Olafsson
Left: Peter Brander and Finn Olafssob
Right: Finn Olafsson & Jens Schaumburg, guitar technician
Photos: Torsten Olafsson
ACHE 2022 at the KUN for FORRYKTE ("Only for the Crazy") Festival on June 4, 2022
Kun for Forrykte Festival. Photo by Torsten Olafsson
Kun for Forrykte/Only for the Crazy Festival:
From the left: Finn, Anne Sabina, August, Jacob, Torsten & Peter.
Thanks to Mikkel Scharff for the photo.
Click in the photo and link to a ACHE Spring 2022 June 4th Live Festival Music Video on YouTube,
recorded by LydAndLostRecords, Denmark.
PICTURES by RONNIE BILLE:
Kun for Forrykte Festival - Anne Sabina Holse & Peter Mellin
Thanks to Ronnie Bille for the photos
Kun for Forrykte Festival - Finn Olafsson & Torsten Olafsson
Photos by Ronnie Bille
PICTURES by JØRGEN NIELSEN:
Kun for Forrykte Festival - Anne Sabina Holse & August Ussing
Thanks to Jørgen Nielsen for the photos
Kun for Forrykte Festival - Jacob Smedegaard & Torsten Olafsson
Photos by Jørgen Nielsen
Kun for Forrykte Festival - Finn Olafsson, Anne Sabina Holse, August Ussing & Peter Mellin
Photos by Jørgen Nielsen
Kun for Forrykte Festival - August Ussing & Finn Olafsson
Photos by Jørgen Nielsen
Kun for Forrykte Festival - August Ussing, Torsten Olafsson, Finn Olafsson & Anne Sabina Holse
Photos by Jørgen Nielsen
PICTURES by MIKKEL SCHARFF:
Kun for Forrykte Festival - ACHE live on stage
Thanks to Mikkel Scharff for all his fine photos
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Kun for Forrykte Festival - Finn Olafsson & Anne Sabina Holse & ACHE
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
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Kun for Forrykte Festival - Finn & Anne Sabina, Peter, Torsten
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
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Kun for Forrykte Festival - Jacob, Finn, Jacob & Anne Sabina, Jacob
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
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Kun for Forrykte Festival - Anne Sabina & August, Finn, Anne Sabina & August, Finn
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
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Kun for Forrykte Festival - Anne Sabina & August, August & Peter, Anne Sabina & August
Photos by Mikkel Scharff
Kun for Forrykte Festival - ACHE live on stage
Thanks to Mikkel Scharff for the photo
PICTURES by TORSTEN OLAFSSON:
Kun for Forrykte Festival - to the right: Anne Sabina Holse, 1st backing vocals & extra rhythm
Photos by Torsten Olafsson
Kun for Forrykte Festival - After the ACHE concert, from the left: Peter Mellin, Jacob Smedegaard, August Ussing, Finn Olafsson, Torsten Olafsson, August Jakobsen, Anne Sabina Holse & Finn Olafsson.
Photos by Torsten Olafsson
ACHE Rock Band in Stubbekøbing on June 4, 2022
Left: Sound engineer Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen & his son, assistent road manager Marc Joey Eskildsen
Right: Torsten Olafsson, Finn Olafsson and longtime nationally renowned music event maker Karsten Højen
Both photos by Ronnie Bille
ACHE Rock Band May 2022 - Photo by Klaus Rudbæk
ACHE 2022 in CONCERT at HARDERS in SVENDBORG on May 7, 2022
ACHE at HARDERS, Svendborg, May 7, 2022. Thanks to Claus Rzenno for the photo
ACHE at HARDERS, Svendborg, May 7, 2022. Photo by Claus Rzenno
ACHE at HARDERS, Svendborg, May 7, 2022. Photo by Claus Rzenno
ACHE at HARDERS, Svendborg, May 7, 2022. Photos by Claus Rzenno
ACHE in the REHEARSAL STUDIO, EARLY SPRING 2022
ACHE rehearsing Spring, 2022. Photo by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen
ACHE rehearsing Spring 2022. Anne Sabina & Peter
Photos by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen
ACHE rehearsing Spring, 2022. Jacob, August & Eskild
Photos by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen & Torsten Olafsson
ACHE Rock Band Spring, 2022 - Design by Jacob Smedegaard
ACHE rehearsing Spring 2022. Finn & Torsten
Photos by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen
ACHE EARLY 2022
ACHE Rock Band April 2022 - Photo by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen
From the left: Torsten, Finn, Anne Sabina, August, Peter, Jacob
ACHE early 2022. Group selfie by Jacob Smedegaard
ACHE Late 2020: ESOTERIC RECORDINGS, UK, RELEASE DK ROCK ANTHOLOGY "LIVING on the HILL"
In this English Cherry Red/Esoteric Recordings 2020 Danish rock music anthology, ACHE are represented with
their three 1969-70 classics "De Homine Urbano", "Equatorial Rain", and "Shadow of a Gipsy".
Already in 2012, Cherry Red/Esoteric Recordings in England, re-issued ACHE's first two albums
"De Homine Urbano" and "Green Man" on CD. Again, in 2020, the company sent out
a fascinating collection of Danish underground music dating from 1967 through 1974,
selected from previously re-issued Danish underground music CDs by the company.
In the accompanying booklet, Mark Powell presented ACHE in the words that you can here appreciate, above.
Cherry Red editor and historian Mark Powell's explanatory introduction to the company's remarkable CD anthology "Living on the Hill".
ACHE EARLY 2020: "DE HOMINE URBANO" and "GREEN MAN" RELEASED on CDs in JAPAN
On March 25, 2020, Japanese record company Marquee Records released "De Homine Urbano" and "Green Man" on their Belle Antique Label.
For the booklet information both Finn Olafsson and Torsten Olafsson were interviewed and contributed to the impressive cover art work.
At the same time, Japanese music magazine EURO ROCK featured a lengthy interview with Finn Olafsson and Torsten Olafsson.
ACHE 2019 to EARLY 2020:
ACHE early 2020. Group selfie by Bjarne "Eskild" Eskildsen
On November 30, 2019, GERT SMEDEGAARD is HONOURED by his ACHE MUSICIAN FRIENDS
ACHE November 30, 2019: Bartof Station, Copenhagen. Photo by Mikkel Scharff
From the left: Finn, Torsten, Jacob, Per
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At that memorial concert, on November 30, 2019, marking the anniversary of drummer Gert Smedegaard's death the year before,
Olafssongs publicized the re-release on CD of Finn Olafsson's 3rd solo album, "Elements", dedicating it to - in honour of -
the drummer who masterly played the drums on the album, way back in 1981.
The musicians that contributed to that album were all notable "ACHE personalities", namely: Finn Olafsson, Torsten Olafsson, Steen Toft Andersen, Per Wium & Peter Mellin. |
ACHE November 30, 2019 - from the left: Finn, Torsten, Jacob, Per - Finn & Torsten
Photos by Steen Møller Rasmussen (?) & Sven Lewandovsky
ACHE November 30, 2019: Bartof Station, Copenhagen. From the left: Finn, Torsten, Jacob, Per
Photo by Mikkel Scharff
ACHE 2019: "BØLGERNE ved BELLEVUE" / "The WAVES at BELLEVUE"
A SONG of REMEMBRANCE to GERT SMEDEGAARD, 1951-2018
Left: Jacob Teilmann Smedegaard Andreasen. Center: "Bølgerne ved Bellevue", CD single. Right: Signe Trylle Smedegaard
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After the tragic death of Gert Smedegaard on November 30, 2018, his daughter Signe Trylle and son Jacob wrote the lyrics and music for a song
titled "Bølgerne ved Bellevue", "The Waves at Bellevue", in honour and respect for their father.
Bellevue is the name of a beautiful, popular NE. Copenhagen beach area, close to Gert Smedegaard's former home, where he often went to enjoy leisure time together with his three kids: Signe Trylle, Christian and Jacob. During the recordings of their tribute song, Jacob and Signe were accompanied by many of Gert's friends, music colleagues and family members. Among them were also ACHE musicians Steen Toft Andersen, Per Wium, Finn Olafsson and Torsten Olafsson. Jacob Smedegaard engineered, mixed and mastered the studio recording, while Gert's younger son Christian Smedegaard created the CD single cover artwork. |
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ACHE PICTURE GALLERIES 1964 to 2022 - LINKS
ACHE HISTORICAL PICTURE GALLERY 1964 to 1976:
ACHE HISTORICAL PICTURE GALLERY 1975 to 1981:
ACHE HISTORICAL PICTURE GALLERY 1981 to 2019:
ACHE HISTORICAL PICTURE GALLERY 2019 to 2022:
ACHE HISTORICAL PICTURE GALLERY 2023 and on ...:
