Conventions
ABBAMAIL was responsible for bringing fans together, both via the e-mail list and web site and via fan conventions held in Australia. The usual format of an ABBAMAIL convention was a welcome, followed by merchandise sales, rare or topical video presentations, a break for lunch, a guest speaker with question and answer sessions, followed by dinner and an ABBA disco.
The following conventions were held by ABBAMAIL in Sydney -
Australian Tour: 20 Year Celebration - March 1997. Special Guest - Annie Wright, who was an employee of RCA in the 1970s and accompanied the group on their Australian tour.
Women of ABBA - June 1997.
Summer Night City - November 1998.
The ABBA Generation - November 1999. Special Guest - Shelley Benson, who was Abba's promotional manager at RCA in the 1970s.
CMP Down Under - September 2001. Special Guest - ABBA historian and author, Carl Magnus Palm.
MAD 05 - September 2005.
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