Some unknown, at least to me, pictures which were taken on the set of “Kix” and “I want you to know” videos back in 1997. If you have more pictures from the set, please feel free to share these photographies with us.
Source: Ulf Magnusson
February 4th, 2010:
The very first pictures and clips from Chris’ studio in Scania were presented.
February 3rd, 2010:
Grtgs fr ze studio. Day and nite #3! Just had a grt dinner by ze fire in Chris’s hse. His wife shd open a Michelin-rest! Back to work y’all!
This morning we could hardly find the studio. Serious amount of snow in the south of Sweden, folks. Are we human or are we dancer?
Had to take a 45 min walk w/ Clarence last nite, In 10 in of snow! At 3AM in the morning! I had a flashlight. Clare had a smile on his face.
February 2nd, 2010:
Just spent an hour listening to old demos. Hallelujah. So much rubbish, a few candybars…
Someone just sent me a link to Tapefly’s new single Sheela. Great stuff, wonderful guitar hook. We all love it in the studio
Greetings from The Studio. We’re making things happen here!!
January 26th, 2010:
Did some recordings at MP’s brand new Tits&Ass studio. Very cozy, great vocal-sound, nice coffee.
Per keeps his nice habits and provides us newsbits and even photo/video material from the studios where Roxette’s brandnew album is being recorded. The first RX/PG album recording we can follow so close!
3 very successful days in the studio are finito. Home vids & pics at www.roxette.se very soon.
Check out the fresh material on roxette.se!
Source: Per on twitter | Photo: www.roxette.se
NEW YORK – January 23, 2009 – SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that Per Gessle of the multi-platinum band Roxette and music journalist Sven Lindstrom will host a two-part special celebrating the 100th episode of Nordic Rox, SIRIUS XM’s exclusive Scandinavian music show. Nordic Rox airs weekly on Sunday nights at 8 pm on The Spectrum on SIRIUS channel 18 and XM channel 45.
“One hundred shows! Can’t believe it! We started out as rookies with this simple mission to bring Scandinavian pop and rock music to the U.S. It’s been a blast,” said Per Gessle. “We’ve had great response from listeners all over the country. The best thing, however, is to put these shows together. To dig out thatspecial track we just know is happening and demands a bigger audience than just the tiny local radio station in the north of Sweden. That, to me, is what it’s all about.”
“One of the original goals of creating Nordic Rox was to bring the most original and exciting English language music from the rich musical history of Scandinavia to SIRIUS XM subscribers,” said Scott Greenstein, SIRIUS XM Radio’s President and Chief Content Officer. “Per and his team have built the artistic bridge between the music of Scandinavia and the music fans of North America.”
The two-part special will spotlight the 50 best Swedish songs of all time. In addition, broadcast highlights will include Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist of The Hives and rising Swedish rock star Lisa Miskovsky as well as archival interviews featuring several of the recording artists from the list.
The first part of the Nordic Rox special will debut on Sunday, January 25 at 8 pm ET, with encore presentations on Wednesday, January 28 at 11 pm ET and Saturday, January 31 at 8 pm ET. Part two of theNordic Rox special will debut on Sunday, February 1 at 8 pm ET, with encore presentations on Wednesday, February 4 at 11 pm and Saturday, February 7 at 8 pm ET.
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Thanks to Majdy for recording the show and shirley for the press release.
The idea is very simple.
You write down your own TOP 3 of Roxette’s songs you would like to hear on the concert(s?) in 2010. No 1 gets 3 points, no 2 – 2 points, no 3 – 1 point. In the end of February we will summerize all the lists and make the final playlist. We do hope the Man will read it and… use it 
So, join the joyride everybody!
Edit: TOP 12 so far… /February 4th, 9.30 CET/
1. The sweet hello, the sad goodbye
2. Silver blue
3. Run to you
4. Keep me waiting
5. Fading like a flower
6. You don’t understand me
7-8. Watercolours in the rain / June Afternoon
9-12. Hotblooded / Jefferson / Crush on you / Breathe
According to Dagens Nyheter Per Gessle was watching Depeche Mode’s concert at Globen, Stockholm (January 31st) from the mixboard place together with Anton Corbijn. The well-known photographer was also called as the “third member of Roxette”. Did someone forget about Clarence?
Here’s what the Man said about this gig on his Twitter and Facebook:
Just back from Depeche@theGlobe. Much better than expected since I don’t know that many songs. FANTASTIC set design! And a beautiful crowd!! And Dave Gahan is great mix between Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger…
Re. Depeche Mode: And of course, Anton Corbijn did the stage production!
You are already planning your trip to Anderstorp in August and you want to know who else will be there? Join the “I’ll be there – Roxette in Anderstorp 08/14/10” group on Facebook. Let’s share our feelings, plans and hopes for this special night.
(UPDATED, 16.21 CET): According to biljettnu.se the audience will be allowed to enter the event area at 17.00 CET (which either means we’re talking about two different stages or a re-organization of the so far known schedule for this day):
So, we have two different kinds of tickets – concert-only tickets for 650 SEK which can be bought at biljettnu.se and 3-days-race-tickets including the concert for 850 SEK which can be purchased at theracelegends.com
Then we have a schedule with the stage program starting at noon. Until now many of us didn’t know and wondered how the entrance will be done since the owners of a 3-days-race-ticket can of course join the stage program starting at noon which is also included in the ticket. So as far as I know a lot of fans already bought the full package for 850 SEK just to be sure to stand the closest to the stage.
Thanks to Yana who sent a mail to the CEO we now know that everyone – no matter which ticket for the concert you have – has the same chances to reach the front row:
There will only be one type of ticket to the Roxette concert, regardless of if you have race ticket or a concert ticket.
The stage is located in the event area and there will only be standing tickets. No special tickets for close to the stage are available.
Both those who have a race ticket and those who have a concert ticket only will be forwarded in to the stage area at the same time.
So, the questions change from “how and when do we get in?” to “How does this work when there’s actually artists on stage performing before 17.00? Are there two stages, more entrances? And how do those with the 3-days-ticket get in to enjoy the stage program during the day?
To clear the confusion about tickets for Roxette’s concert at Anderstorp raceway, we received another piece of info from ‘The Race Legends’ CEO Urban Stamming:
UPDATE, Sunday 31st, 22.08 CET:
Roxette Concert tickets are released Monday February 1, at 09.00!
The Race Legends is happy to announce that Biljett Nu is the official agency for tickets to the evening concert with Roxette.
There will be a limited amount of tickets.
Only standing tickets for 650 SEK including booking fee are available.
Information from Saturday, 30th, 14:48 CET
Hi!
Real Roxette tickets can only be bought at www.theracelegends.com, and no where else!
Unless theracelegends.com says something else. To be sure, keep update on our webpage.
Today you can buy race tickets and the concert is include in the race ticket! In a couple of weeks we are going to release a very limited numbers of tickets to only the concert!
The capacity for the concert are 45 000 people!
Regardless seating at the race, you will have the same access to the Roxette concert. The concert stage is located in the event area and the audience will be standing. At this time there are no ”Golden Circle” tickets planned.
Information from Saturday, 30th, 11:00 CET
Dear Roxette fans !
All correct ticket information is available at www.theracelegends.com;.
At this time, there is NO!!! tickets available to concert only !!. To make sure to see Roxette, you have to buy a Race ticket !
We had some problems with credit cards from abroad today, due to the heavy traffic on the site. However, the only credit cards we except is Mastercard and Visa. Please try again !
Saschas comment is right, there will be space for everyone !
As soon as we release evening concert tickets, we will let you all know, through our official site, theracelegends.com.
Finally, if you buy tickets from any company that is not presented as official ticket organization at theracelegends.com, you might have problem come into the Arena !!! buy tickets through our webpage.
If you need help with accommodations, we have lots of reserved hotel rooms in the area. Please send questions or call our booking agency for information and prices! Hope to see you all for some fantastic days in August!
Sincerely yours, Urban Stamming CEO/The Race Legends Inc.
In the Gehrmans Musikförlag catalogue 2009-2010 the preliminary cover of “Best of Roxette” was published with the release date in the autumn/winter 2009. As you may remember, according to several Swedish websites, the book will be released on March 21st. English words on the cover may suggest that the whole book (with Per Gessle’s comments) will be written in this language. On the other hand, there was also informations that the songbook would be in Swedish.
Source: Gehrmans Musikförlag catalogue
According to Jonas Isacsson himself, he will not be the part of Roxette band that will play in Anderstorp. This time it will be The Party Crasher Band, which would mean that Christoffer Lundquist will play the leading guitar and Magnus Börjeson bass. Does it also mean that we can expect to see Helena Josefsson on stage? It is still unclear.
Per & Marie is doing the show with The Partycrasher Band. The Partycrasher Band is good and more rehearsed with the Rox-songs. More suitable for the occasion.
They played lot’s of Rox-songs on the Partychrasher tour. We only did 5 on NOTP. I’m sure Christoffer is going to get it right. He’s a great musician!
Magnus Börjeson confirmed on Facebook that he is going to play with Roxette in August.
Swedish Radio P4 Jönköping (the county where Roxette’s concert will take place) broadcasted the interview with The Race Legends’ CEO Urban Stamming on January 28th, where he confirmed that Roxette would play the whole concert and everyone who buys the three-days ticket will be able to attend the gig. He even said that Roxette started rehearsals for this concert in Halmstad! (We do not know if it is true or not – I can only assume it’s a rumour). Urban wasn’t also sure if there are going to be more concert with Roxette in Europe in 2010.
So if you have a chance to visit Anderstorp, don’t miss it!
Wasn’t this a great week? Of course – all of us knew that Roxette would come back this year. But who expected a nearly full length concert this summer? I didn’t and I know that many others didn’t either. It feels so great that Per and Marie still have the power to surprise us again and again. So after some deep breaths we felt the happiness take over – followed by excitement and certainly getting out our filofax, iPhone or Palm (whatever) to see if we can attend the show at all. Place: Something in the middle of nowhere which makes it perfect I think, time: Summer. What more do we need? Yes, tickets. Thinking of tickets the confusion began..
1.) Some people found out that Biljettnu.se seems to be selling tickets for what they call the Roxette concert from Monday on – when I visited the site for the first time they offered tickets for a “Golden Circle” for 950 SEK and “normal” standing tickets for 550 SEK. From what I heard the tickets aren’t fake but too expensive. Biljettnu.se is a ticket reseller, which means they buy tickets from the organizers and sell them for a higher price. So what they are going to do is most probably buying tickets for the race which allow you to join the concert as well. In the meantime – after Roxetteblog.com called the CEO of the event – the prices have disappeared from the Biljettnu.se website.
2.) The CEO made clear that a small number of concert tickets will be sold on their website theracelegends.com and ONLY there. We don’t know the price yet, we don’t know when the sale starts and we don’t know exactly how many tickets will be available, but it’s approx. 1,000-2,000 tickets.
3.) Capacity: The newspapers reported that 45,000 people attend the concert, which seems to be in contradiction to Per Gessle’s words on Facebook and Twitter, who said that the concert is only for about 8,000-10,000 people. According to information on The Race Legends, the concert is for 45,000 and everyone who has a ticket for the race can attend the concert as well.
So, to clarify it at least a bit, with info we have for now.
- If you want to buy tickets which include entrance to the Race the 3 days, head to theracelegends.com and buy one of the race tickets starting at 800 SEK. Concert is included.
- If you want to risk it, go ahead and buy tickets on biljettnu.se from Monday on, we however cannot tell you what kind of tickets they are reselling. Besides that, they seem to be more expensive. You will probably end up paying more than directly at The Race Legends. Again, it’s at your own risk.
- Tickets for the concert only will be on sale via TheRaceLegends.com in short, but we don’t know when the sale starts yet. According to The Daily Roxette, ticnet.se will also be involved in selling tickets.
(UPDATE, 30/01, 12.02 pm): biljettnu.se added a price again. Now they sell a concert-only-ticket for 605 SEK, sent as a pdf file.
Important information regarding the schedule of “The Race Legends” event. Roxette and supporting acts will start performances at 8.00 PM CET on August 14th. I suppose Roxette will start playing at 21.30.
Regarding tickets: we have talked and received an email from the CEO from The Race Legends with following information:
TO ALL ROXETTE FANS!
IMPORTANT TICKET INFORMATION
Roxette concert tickets are included in the race tickets, that can be purchased now at www.theracelegends.com from 800SEK.
A limited number of concert tickets will be released in a couple of weeks.
Official race and concert tickets can ONLY be purchased at www.theracelegends.com,
For further information please contact info@theracelegends.com
Welcome to a spectacular weekend!
According to Aftonbladet’s article Roxette is going to perform on a Anderstorp Raceway in Småland region, Sweden on August 14th during “The Race Legends” event. Over 10,000 people will be able to see Roxette’s performance, more than 45,000 will attend the whole event.
“Roxette hasn’t played Sweden since 2001, it feels great to be on stage in Sweden again. This will be much fun, I have been there several times and actually even raced there, too”, says Per Gessle.
According to TDR, the concert will last for about 90 minutes.
At the moment you can buy tickets only for the whole event. There will be few tickets especially dedicated for this concert, but it is unknown when they will be released.
Update: TDR added a short interview with Per. Yes, they aim to play a full show, running 60-70 minutes – but yes, there may be other artists as well. And there are more Roxette “things” to come beside this and the new album!
And Per likes to hear our wishes:
If you have nothing to do…. Pls write down your song suggestions for the Anderstorp show. Look forward to the hidden gems…
The gig is organized by Live Nation.
