On Thursday 4 September 2025, there will be another extra concert with Åge and Sambandet at Lerkendal.
The artist has already sold out two concerts at Rosenborg’s home ground.
Ticket sales for the concert on 4 September open on 6 February at 10 a.m.
Sold out in four minutes
Stein Vanebo in Trondheim Stage tells NRK that it is difficult to put into words what has just happened.
– It is completely impossible to describe. It is absolutely fantastic to sell out Lerkendal twice.
On Friday, Åge Aleksandersen announced that his last concert with Sambandet would take place at Lerkendal Stadium on 6 September 2025.
Since then, there has been great interest in getting hold of tickets.
The demand was so high that there were over 20,000 in the ticket system, after all the tickets had been sold out.
This prompted the artist and organizer Trondheim Stage to put on an extra concert. And now they’re doing it again.
The tickets were released at 2pm, and it only took four minutes for the concert to sell out.
Very happy for Åge
Stein Vanebo and Åge Aleksandersen have worked together since the 90s. Vanebo says there are mixed emotions that strike when an adventure is about to end.
– It’s sad, but I wish Åge all this here. This recognition that he gets to take hold of, it is only about one thing: the quality of what he has done from when he started as a young musician until he is now touring with the Association.
Stein Vanebo describes it as impossible that the extra concert was also sold out in a short time.
Photo: Marit Langseth / NRK
Vanebo and Trondheim Stage have several times chosen to hold large concerts in Granåsen Arena. An arena with space for close to 40,000.
When asked if Aleksandersen’s last concert should rather have been played there, Vanebo replies that Lerkendal is a place that is very close to Åge.
– We could have had the concert in Granåsen, but the concert had to be very spectacular. There have been a few concerts at Lerkendal, but no one has sold out twice. There is also something special about Åge and Lerkendal. He himself has a permanent place in the stadium, and has created the song that is played before every home game.
A third concert
In 2016, Vanebo and Trondheim Stage organized a concert with Bruce Springsteen at Granåsen Arena.
It then took 8 minutes before 37,000 tickets were snatched away.
Vanebo recognizes the same feeling of demand after selling out 50,000 tickets in just a few minutes.
– This is Åge, who we are all so happy about, who will now leave a big vacuum. Without saying anything bad about other artists – we only have one Åge. We don’t have someone who takes over that position overnight.
Not the first time
Lerkendal has also been used as a concert arena in the past. Here you can see some memories from a selection of these concerts:
“Wow!” shouted, sorry sang, Bjarne Brøndbo and the others in DDE when they held a concert in Lerkendal in 2005.
Photo: Arne Kristian Gansmo / NRK
Later that evening, it was Kaizer’s Orchestra who played the most beautiful notes and the most incomprehensible words from the Lerkendal stage.
Photo: Arne Kristian Gansmo / NRK
In 2007 there was the “Trondheim Rock Festival” in Lerkendal. Ozzy Osbourne was the headliner, but there are no pictures of this that we are allowed to use. Here is one of the audience a little earlier in the day. Probably under Immortal or Pagans Mind.
Photo: Jørn Gjersøe / NRK
Although it is not shown that this is in Lerkendal, we can confirm that Bruce Dickinson stands here on the same ground as, for example, Harald Martin Brattbakk and later Nicklas Bendtner have had as their playroom. Without comparison otherwise.
Photo: Jørn Gjersøe / NRK
It didn’t go as well for Kiss. The slow Trønder audience simply could not buy enough tickets to fill the mat. Gene Simmons and the rest of the guys were thus directed to the parking lot.
Photo: Roy Hilmar Svendsen / NRk
Fortunately, things went much better for Morten Harket and his friends. A-ha filled the lawn with the audience in 2010. Surely in one of their many reunion concerts.
Photo: Arne Kristian Gansmo / NRK