NOTP tour: Good news for the next shows

Night of the Proms logoThe international NOTP fanpage provides some fresh info regarding the past and next shows – obviously they spoke/mailed with producer Jan Vereecke:

In our review of the premiere on the 23th of October we concluded that overall the show was good but we complained about the problems regarding the sound. During the rehearsals, Jan reported the sound to be good, but since there is a difference between the sound in an empty and a full arena… The problem is solved now and the quality of the sound became much better. That is good news.

During the weekend, Marie of Roxette got an infection of her throat which caused her voice to be less on the show of last Saturday. Immediatly she was put on medication. On Sunday she sang a lot better and her voice will be back to full strenght from Wednesday on. Also good news.

The running order of the premiere is still applied; the proof that the show was well prepared and jugded by the organization so that no adaption had to be made. Again, good news.

Question of the release for a CD of the Antwerp and The Netherlands edition was not denied by Jan. He wrote:”PERHAPS…”. Wouldn’t that be good news?

Source: notpfan.eu

Update: Producer Jan Vereecke writes within a post about reactions to the first shows:

… And then Marie was so ill on Saturday that she could barely sing, and it nevertheless has disappointed some people (understandably). … The report of yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) is that her voice got much stronger, but she still suffers a bad cough. We cross fingers for this evening. I hope that we can do a smooth show when Marie’s voice completely returned. …

Source: Jan’s blog

NOTP tour: Meet and Greet

The tour started on friday and we want you to share your very special moment with Roxette. Did you meet Per Gessle after the show? Or even Marie? Or the other band members? What did they say? Did you take photos? Share your story and pics with us and send a mail to office@roxetteblog.com!! Every story and every picture will be published!

UPDATE (1.15 pm): First story and pictures are uploaded. Thanx Luis for sharing!

You find the Meet and Greet-subpage at the top of this page when you hover over “Night of the Proms” in the upper menu! Have fun reading and watching.

“Att vara Per Gessle” sale on AdLibris.se

AdLibris.se, the only shop which sells limited edition of Per Gessle’s biography “Att vara Per Gessle” written by Sven Lindström, is organizing a sale right now. The book is discounted to only 39 SEK. Unfortunately, as far as I know, AdLibris.se does not send books to any other country than Sweden.

Source: Twitter

“Gessle over Europe” reviews

Signed copy of "Gessle over Europe"Two reviews of “Gessle over Europe” CD+DVD set appeared in the Swedish press – the first one comes from Göteborgsposten and the author, Johan Lindqvist, gives the album 3 out of 5 and says that “Party crasher tour” got only press when Marie Fredriksson came in picture.

Another review was published in Upsala Nya Tidning and GOE got 4/5. Per Gessle was compared by the journalist, Ulf Gustavsson, to the cat with nine lives – his Swedish or English solo career, Gyllene Tider, Roxette or Son of a Plumber. Anyway – the review is really positive.

And tonight, the very first look at the DVD – stay tuned!

NOTP tour: no tickets for the last two Rotterdam shows

Just a short note to let you know: If you plan to go to the Rotterdam shows on November 23rd and 24th – this won’t be possible. Funnily both dates are mentioned on roxette.se but don’t show up on the official NOTP site or the ticket sites. I sent a short mail to Dirk Hohmeyer, the organizer of the German shows and he replied that on both days shows are held for employees of a big company, these shows are private so to speak. If you manage to get in tell us how it was – of course.

Update: As Project_Z tells us, the show on Sunday November 8th in Antwerp is also a “closed” concert.