Per Gessle was interviewed for Hallandsposten by Jan-Owe Wikström (co-author of “Roxette – The book”) just before NOTP’s Stuttgart gig.
The article reveals some interesting details about Roxette’s first studio album after nine years and their further present and future. I tried to translate some bits:
– I have already written 14 new songs. Two more and we have an album.
– It feels great, admits Per. Studio time is booked in the spring at Atlantis and Polar Studios in Stockholm and with Christoffer Lundquist down in Österlen. Marie wanted to record her vocals in Stockholm, so we decided to have more than one studio this time.
– We test ourselves with different arrangements and so put Marie on vocals. It’s fun to see Marie really passionate for it.
– He describes the upcoming album with the working title “Roxette 2010” like a modern version of Roxette’s 21-year-old breakthrough album “Look Sharp!”.
– Perhaps not the tracks. The production with a lot of machines, but with all the instruments, everything is clearly audible, “idiot-audible” as Clarence says.
About touring:
– There has been a tremendous response, both by audience and media, it’s a very emotional journey, as we have encountered old Roxette fans from around the world and simultaneously a new audience.
– It’s been a long road, but now … it shows really how Marie enjoys every moment, describes Per. Therefore, they are beginning to consider a Roxette tour on their own again.
– The next step would possibly be a 45-minute gig. But full concerts lasting nearly two hours still feel too long.
At the same time they believe to have discovered a greater interest in Roxette again.
– I received an email from Anders Herrlin, who was in New Zealand. He said that Roxette was played several times a day over there and he couldn’t simply understand that, Per laughs.
Source: Hallandsposten
That sounds sooo promising! 😀
Added few more things. Anyway – very interesting interview over the phone. 45-minutes gig? I’m for! But there should be some kind of concept behind it. And yest, it’s good idea to record in Stockholm this time.
I do also hope Marie will provide at least one song on the new album… So one year left, ladies and gentlemen!
good news! I think the future of Roxette will be rich so many beautiful things!
I think the new album will be ready before summer!
Of course it will be ready before summer, but don’t forget about the post-recording process (production, photo sessions, video recordings etc.) So I assume the middle of October 2010 seems to be perfect.
Thanks for your additions! I wasn’t sure to get some of the meanings right via Google translate, so left them out. 😉
Still don’t get the “idiot-audible” comment though…
Yes, very interesting article. What a great feeling to know that new abum is currently in the progress. It was long 7 years of waiting, but finally this kind of waiting is completely different and so exciting. Agree with tomos, Oct or Nov is the most possible term.
BTW am I the only one who thinks it’s f***ing good photograph? 🙂
It symbolises Per’s view into the future very good – while certainly not making him look younger. 😉
@abysmo – agreed!
I think Per gets better looking with age :-p
Photo taken by Roger Larsson.
I also like this kind of picture compositions.
http://roxroom.wz.cz/pct/news/rox_ant_int.jpg
I think this kind of photograps could fits very well in the forthcoming album booklet.
so this with the look sharp thing must be true, he said the same at the Spaniards M&G 🙂 Looking forward to it!
If you ask me, best Roxette songs were recorded in 1990. Arrangies, melodies, production, sound. So many good songs… Joyride, The Sweet Hallo The Sad Goodbye, Things Will Never Be The Same, Comeback, Queen Of Rain, Spending My Time. So I’ m voting for “Roxette 2010” – modern version of Joyride. 😀
abysmo, you can delete your double posts at the WP dashboard. Did it for you. 😉
The pictures are very nice, but for the booklet I’d wish something more “arty”, with a special theme and expression, not so “casual”.
Thank you Sascha. I was trying it for some 30 mins, but didn’t find way how to do it. No way. Impossible.
I’m member of admins for this Blog, but my comments were marked as a spam (admin’s !!!comments – IDIOTIC), then after two hours they were published with no way how to remove them.
You can write how exactly did you do it, just cause I’m really curious :-D, but since now I’ m completely ******* with such a shitty system as WP is and probably will not try continue work with it.
Sorry for being so angry, but during these two hours I could write completely new web using any text editor, not only one comment.
Thanks for your help once again. 🙂
Haha, you sound really fed up! 😛
Just click EDIT in the header of your comment. You get to the dashboard and can edit or click the red DELETE at the right side of the page. Finished!
Btw, I have to re-login every 2nd click in the dashboard… Is it the same for all editors?
Yes, Sascha! I have the same problem and thought it’s my browser. But it obviously isn’t!!
No EDIT button. Only REPLY and QUOTE. 😀
http://roxroom.wz.cz/adoc/others/comment.jpg
No EDIT button, only REPLY and QUOTE. And btw, my previous post was marked as a spma again. Check the Spam comments section.
Third try to leave the comment, right now not directly from my OS but now from virtual machine. Sascha, please check the Spam Comment section. All my comments are directly resended there.
Hmm, maybe we should continue about the technical issues at the Google site. Started a discussion over there. 😉
the site is set up that posts with more than 2 links should be marked as spam. A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.
I still think WP is a great system, not everybody can program 😉
And the login thing: yes, one has to login twice sometimes in admin, not sure why, trying to find out about it, I use WP with 3 more sites and this doesn’t happen there :S