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Charm School 24th best selling album of 2011 in Sweden

Jan 28

Posted by abysmo in Roxette

Roxette´s comeback album “Charm School” became 24th best selling album of 2011 in Sweden according to Sverige Topplistan. Let’s remind the previous years in Rox album history.

Year 2001: Roxette – Room Service #9 (platinum), Marie Fredriksson – Äntligen – Marie Fredriksson bästa #65 (3x platinum).
Year 2002: Roxette – The Ballad Hits #33 (gold)
Year 2003: Per Gessle – Mazarin #1 (4x platinum)
Year 2004: Gyllene Tider – Finn 5 fel! #1 (3x platinum), Gyllene Tider – GT25 – Samtliga Hits! #12 (platinum), Per Gessle – Mazarin #13 (5x platinum), Marie Fredriksson – The Change #18 (gold), Gyllene Tider – Ljudet av ett annat hjärta #48
Year 2005: Son Of A Plumber #3 (platinum)
Year 2006: Son Of A Plumber #75 (platinum), Roxette – A Collection Of Roxette Hits #85
Year 2007: Per Gessle – En händig man #7 (3x platinum)
Year 2008: Per Gessle – Party Crasher #24 (platinum)

Sverige Topplistan

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Fredrik Olastuen – the man behind plane’s photo

Jan 27

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette

As you know – the plane picture used on not the final cover of the Roxette’s forthcoming “T2 – Tourism 2″ album was taken by Norwegian photographer Fredrik Olastuen. Who is he – you may ask.

Here’s the little piece of information he publishes on his Flickr page.

26 years old, living in Jessheim, Akershus, Norway.

Work in the videoconferencing industry, certified on Tandberg equipment. When not on work, I spend most of my time as a hobby-/freelance-photographer.

I do mostly sports and concert foto, but experiencing with all kind of genres.

I have always been interested in photo, but it really startet to evolve when I bought my first DSLR. Now I’m almost only shooting with my Canon Powershot G10, but it’s still a lot of fun and I like to experience with motives and techniques.

My main goal is to have fun and take nice pictures of my life and surroundings, and experience while having fun. If you like my photos, that’s a nice bonus :)

If you want to follow my updates, you can add me as a contact here on Flickr or on Twitter where I will post every time I publish new photos.

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Is this a “T2:Tourism2″ cover?

Jan 26

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette

Our reader Barry Mieny has removed the dark area in the bottom of the cover published by online Swedish shop CDON.com. If you look closer you may see that the album’s name includes colone instead of dash [T2:Tourism2[ and that there’ll probably be no spaces in between. This looks like a very tricky name!

We have no confirmation if this cover is real or not.

Update: The cover appeared in better quality at Ginza.se:

Thanks Honky Tonk!

Update 2 by J: Sven H has done some research and found the original plane picture and some information. The picture with the airplane was taken by Fredrik Olastuen who posted the following on his blog:

Speaking of photography, before the weekend I had a very pleasant surprise. Somebody had discovered one of my photos on Flickr and wanted to buy it, to use it album cover of a famous band in Sweden. I, of course, agreed to it, nice that my work is noticed and is appreciated. The picture otherwise also received many good comments earlier, quite funny actually, since the picture was taken almost by chance.

And I myself found this comment on Fredrik Olastuen page, left by Pär Wickholm at Minus on January 11. He basically writes that he works as a graphic designer and would like to buy a picture for an album cover for a “successful artist in Sweden”.

So it looks like the cover will at least have this plane on the cover. The idea is nice, also playing with the T2 = terminal 2, plane, travel, that the whole band is on the cover.. but let’s hope the bus and the band pictures get better!

Thanks Sven!

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Colombian gig cancelled

Jan 25

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour

Per Gessle has just answered fan’s questions on the Roxette’s Facebook page if the Colombian gig is cancelled . Unfortunately, he confirmed that.

Looks like the Col gig won’t happen this year. Some LiveNation issue I guess.

It is very likely that Chilean date will be included in the tour schedule between Quito and Lima concerts.

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World Tour 2012: Tickets

Jan 24

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour

Here are the World Tour 2012 tickets – if you have any other version of ticket you would like to share (without bare codes of course!), please do at office@roxetteblog.com

Here are the 27 concerts that we still haven’t got any ticket pictures for:

20.02 Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia
22.02 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia
24.02 Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia
28.02 Challenge Stadium, Perth, Australia | (moved from Feb 23)
29.02 Challenge Stadium, Perth, Australia | (moved from Feb 24)

08.03 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Hall 5BC), China
12.03 MasterCard Center, Beijing, China
14.03 Shanghai Grand Stage, Shanghai, China

17.04 Coliseo Ruminahui, Quito, Ecuador
21.04 Explanada Estadio Monumental, Lima, Peru
25.04 Luna Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina
26.04 Ruca Che, Neuquen, Argentina

05.05 Asuncion, Yacht Club, Paraguay
08.05 Curitiba, Teatro Positivo, Brazil
10.05 Sao Paulo, Credicard Hall, Brazil
12.05 Rio de Janeiro, Citibank Hall, Brazil
15.05 Brasilia, Nilson Nelson, Brazil
18.05 Recife, Chevrolet Hall, Brazil

30.06 Kaiserlautern, Germany

03.07 Glasgow SECC, United Kingdom
04.07 Manchester Evening News Arena, United Kingdom
06.07 LG Arena Birmingham, United Kingdom
09.07 The O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland
13.07 Odderøya Live Festival, Kristiansand, Norway
14.07 Fredriksten Festning, Halden, Norway
27.07 Kotka Martime Days, Finalnd

18.08 Color Line Stadium, Jugendfest festival, Ålesund, Norway

Thanks to Daniel Rezmann, Petra Osifova, Fernando Leonel Kuz, Yu, Arnaldo Mariano Suarez, Roxette En Rosario Facebook page, Fabio Deluca, Celestte, Alexis Schettler (Lexy), Heidi Janse van Rensburg, Youdidz NugroHo, RoxetteCafe.com.

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New Roxette album to be released on March 30

Jan 23

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette

Update January 24:

Here’s the intial cover for T2 – Tourism 2 release. CDON.com also changed Unviersal reference – the album will be out on EMI label.

Swedish base online shop CDON.com published intial date for the T2 – Tourism 2 album release. According to the website the new Roxette album goes out on March 30 and will cost around EUR 17.95. The name is still unknown.

The interesting fact is that it’s the first Roxette’s album to be released under Universal Music label.

Thanks to Daniel Kuhn for finding this and RoxetteCafe.com for informing about the cover.

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Roxette to perform in Dublin, Ireland

Jan 23

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour

We’ll certainly be listening to our hearts come July when pop duo Roxette are coming to Dublin for a headline show. Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle who are Roxette have enjoyed an excellent world tour in 2011 and success with their new album ‘Charm School‘ and have played to over 800,000 fans at 79 concerts in 31 countries.

This world tour continues into 2012 with Roxette playing Australia, Asia, South America, South Africa, Europe which includes a date at The O2, Dublin on July 9th 2012.

Tickets for the show at The O2 cost €44.05 inclusive of booking fee and will be going on sale Friday 27th January at 9am

Thanks to Evgeny for informing about this news.

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Weird 2001 multiple choice test done by Marie Fredriksson

Jan 23

Posted by Tomasz in Marie Fredriksson

Does anyone have idea who run this test in 2001? And why Marie said yes? :-)

Thanks to Lena Silbermond and Evgeny Perekopskiy for sending this.

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Jakarta tickets on sale and the new venue

Jan 23

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour

Big Daddy, Indonesian tour promoter for Jakarta Roxette concert on March 3, has just informed that the venue for the concert has changed from Indoor Tennis Stadium into Mata Elang International Stadium International Stadium that takes around 15,000 people.

My Ticket Indonesia has also started sale of tickets for the concert.

Thanks to Leonardo Furtado for letting us know.

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“Sleeping In My Car” in The Voice of Flanders music show

Jan 23

Posted by Tomasz in YouTube

Project_Z contributed to the article.

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Marie Fredriksson for Aftonbladet: I would love to do something with my art abroad

Jan 22

Posted by Tomasz in Interview, Marie Fredriksson

In the series of interviews, Swedish stars talk about what turns their creativity. Who are their idols? Which albums, books, movies or events are the most important in their lives? What song has made them cry? Few days after the Tel-Aviv concert, one of the leading Swedish daily papers Aftonbladet‘s journalist Jens Peterson interviewed one and only Roxette’s singer – Marie Fredriksson. It’s a very rare occasion in the last years to see any interview with Marie – so we strongly recommend you to read it through.

How do you relax?

Sleeping. Sleep is absolutely essential. It is also important to do nothing. Take it easy. Eat well. Spend time with the closest ones. I’m so happy when Micke visits me during the tour. Not to mention when my children are with me. It means a lot. Now and then they travel along and then everything becomes more fun. This gives me strength.

Do you listen to music?

Now and then, but mostly I like when it’s quiet. Once you go on stage, it is such damn loud. It is such intense that when I leave the stage – I just want all to be quiet. For a long time. The whole next day. This is how I relax.

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Aftonbladet: Roxette to conquer the world again

Jan 21

Posted by Tomasz in Interview, Marie Fredriksson, Per Gessle, Roxette, Tour

In the Friday’s paper and online editions of Aftonbladet – the great feature about Roxette’s forthcoming tour and album was published by Jens Peterson. He was Roxette’s guest during several concerts in 2011 – in Poland and Sweden – and last week he also visited Roxette in the Stockholm Atlantis Studio, where the last recording session for T2 album took place. Here are the most interesting quotes from Marie, Per and pieces of information they revealed.

Big thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for all his help.

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Join Dea Norberg’s Facebook page

Jan 21

Posted by Tomasz in Band Members, Tour

Dea Norberg, new Roxette’s backing singer that will replace Helena Josefsson on the World Tour 2012, has opened her official Facebook like page. Join the page!

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Second concert in Buenos Aires confirmed (in a way)

Jan 21

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour

BandsInTown application with 2012 World Tour dates on the official Roxette Facebook page includes the second Buenos Aires show – planned for April 25, day after the first show. As some other concerts are missing – it is not really the best source of information, but a signal to all Argentinian fans that there will be at least one more show in the homeland.

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Brazilian tickets soon on sale

Jan 21

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour

As Bianca Martins Cappelletti of RoxetteBrasil.net informs that tickets for São Paulo [May 10], Rio de Janeiro [May 12] and Curitiba [May 8] will go on sale on Monday, January 30. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro tickets will be available only for those consumers who use Credicard, Citibank or Diners. Curitiba is the only concert without this limitations. General sale for those three gigs is set to begin on February 6.

There is no official information regarding tickets to Brasilia and Recife.

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