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Photos: (c) Kirsten Ohlwein.
Follow this link to find many photos from Showbizzsite.be taken by (c) Edwin Houdevelt
http://twitpic.com/mmdq8 (Before the opening)
http://proms.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/show-roxette-2.jpg?w=420&h=248
http://www.kempenactueel.be/component/phocagallery/category/104-proms
TheTopOfMusic.be
Picasaweb by Ashton Reports
Per Gessle’s comments:
Cheers from Antwerp. Great gig tonite, wonderful crowd, we felt very welcome. Marie’s very happy despite bad throat (penicillin). I loved it
Chris still sick. He was a brave man, beautiful playing as always. My guitar was out of tune during The Look but.. hey… can’t win ’em all! 7 hours ago
Official videos:
Fans stories:
FIND YOURSELF ON THOSE PICTURES
KIRSTEN
You can follow her twitter reports from the concert here. Some excerpts:
Kirsten standing in the queue with some Brazillian and German friends: http://twitpic.com/mli1v
“WICF Marie in blue, wow. Problems with the text it seems. Great. OMFG. This voice.”
“She sang ‘halfway through the night’ three times in a row. But honestly: who cares? Per is rocking in a suit.”
“OMFG! The audience rocks with Rox. Fabulous. Get your tickets ppl. LTYH was more than a blast!”
“Pics and recording later tonight. At around 2.30 I think. Haha. Tried with the cell, didn’t work.”
“Chris got stomach flu. MF was nervous but she did great after WICF. LTYH was a blast!! And Per came out later.”
SIFO-DYAS (Source)
Tonight I saw the first of many “Night of the Proms”-concerts in which classic music and modern music is played in a random order. Tonight I saw John Miles with his fabulous song “Music” amongst a few others, Toots Thielemans: probably the most famous Belgian artist ever who worked with famous people such as Sting and Steven Spielberg and who became one of the best harmonica-players ever, OMD (some mediocre British band who only have one good song, I believe, which is Anola Gay), the female lead singer of the Dutch Gothic band called Within Temptation and one of the best of the evening was a Hungarian duo of identical twin brothers who’s name was the Katona twins. They were absolutely fantastic with playing their guitars.
But for me personally, the cherish on the cake was ….. the return of ROXETTE!! Ever since their lead female singer Marie Fredriksson became the unfortunate victim of a sudden case of cancer, it was to be believed that the band Roxette was gone forever. More disturbingly so was that Marie might not even be the same person anymore … IF recovery was an option at all …
To see Marie Fredriksson perform live again was so hauntingly beautiful that I immediately started crying with their first song (which incidently is the beautiful, violin-driven “Wish I could fly”). I have never cried like that for a person who’s basically a stranger (read: non related) and the last time that I did cry like that was when I lost both my grand-fathers.
Did anyone of you ever experience a moment where you start to cry for someone whom you’ve never really known, but because of your undying respect for this person, their sad moments make you all sappy …
I’m not ashamed to admit that Marie Fredriksson is truly my number one Female Artist éver! She’s awesome and touching with beautiful ballads and extremely cool in singing poprock-songs.
Per (the male lead) on the other hand writes most of the songs and the guy is God in writing catchy poprock-tunes, as far as the live aspect goes for Roxette, it’s definitely Marie who does that! LOL!
Thanks for reading all the way through and leaving me with your opinion; in case you’re interested.
YouTube Clips:
Entrance on the stage
Wish I could fly by Kiwein1
The Look
Joyride
It must have been love
Listen to your heart by Kempelactueel
Taken by Kirsten:
The Look | Joyride | Listen to your heart
Media reports/reviews:
NieuwsBlad.be (or:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6BBWlw4pI
The review of the very first concert was published on Aftonbladet. Translation was published on TDR.
Kempenactueel.be (photo + LTYH)
Skynet.be (“Listen to your heart” & “Joyride” excerpts)
Thanks Project_Z and RoxAna for the links!
Unfortunately I can’t be home tonight to catch the news asap. Hoping for great reports! 🙂
Kirsten is in Antwerp 😉 Unfrotunately, I won’t be at home till tomorrow’s noon, so I do hope that our reader will help us and bring some informations / pics / YouTube clips here in the comment section.
Back home, ready to follow! 🙂
🙂 I just talked with my Spanish friend (break now), she said Marie looked quite nervous with WICF. The other 4 songs to come in the 2nd half!
Well, it was the first song of the first show. I’m sure there’ll happen quite a few mistakes today for many of the involved people. Will take some nights to let it roll. Wasn’t it always the case? *Munich 2001* ;-p
Didn’t expect WICF before the break! There’ll be other acts before Roxette returns close to the end, I think…
It has really happened – Roxette is back! The joyride continues… 😀
The first video i found about NOTP. But i can´t see it now! :´(
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Video/Videoplayer.aspx?VideoId=470627
Here it is on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6BBWlw4pI
from the German Promsblog :
http://proms.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/show-roxette-2.jpg?w=420&h=248
The last photo seems to be from rehearsals, when I look at the clothes…
I made only these two videos (some problems with my camera… sorry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSYWFMp5gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnrz58MpOw4
Take a look how Roxette made the entrance at the First Concert!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSYWFMp5gc
Enjoy it!
Another one! The Look!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnrz58MpOw4
yES!
http://www.marie-fredriksson.com/MOV01302.MPG
http://www.marie-fredriksson.com/MOV01303.MPG
WARNING: first file is 109 MB, 2nd file is 218 MB.
Uploaded three pictures! You can see what a shit seat I had..
Thanks so much for all of your efforts to get videos and pics up here as quickly as possible. It is most appreciated!
I’ve found website with over 150 pictures of Roxette 😀 Thank you so much, Showbizzsite.be!!
where are the pictures on this site coming from?!
You mean what? Who taken this pics or from where did they get it? I suppose it’s theirs photography who published them. The same thing was with NOTP press conference – on the same website was over 50 pic of Roxette 😉 Just enjoy!
Wow, this is all so fantastic! Thanks for all the reports and media! 😀
yes, you had a great idea Tomasz!! 🙂
OMG!!!! I finally managed to open the videos! Vielen, vielen Dank dafür Kiwein!!!!! 🙂
Belgian NOTP fansite has a review of the first show: “A BEAUTIFUL CHILD, BUT NOT YET ACCOMPLISHED”. They write about some general start problems for the sound that should be cured with the next shows. And about Rox: “And then, Roxette followed with the super hits; oh yeah, then we knew why their music is important for a lot of people; a lot of them sung along and the atmosphere as right.”
Read here: http://notpfan.eu/homepage/night-of-the-proms-in-2009/notp2009_premiere?lang=en
Video report from skynet.be: http://www.skynet.be/nieuws-sport/nieuws/videos_toots-meets-roxette-night-the-proms?id=582812
Another videoreport from VRT : http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/mediatheek/nieuws/2.3796/1.621661
Listen to your heart is on YT also here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNckEa3_EQI
IMHBL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGE1OqfTz_I
Thanks.
I added a report from NOTP.com – the one with Roxette.
another video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuhZhVaTQI
PS: Tomasz: i have some newspapers scans but i dunno how to post them 🙁
Send to me at wysocki(at)interia.pl or at RB.com – office(AT)roxetteblog.com . Thanks!