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Dennis
Our seats were located on the left side of the stage, as the classical swedish stuff was played I could see Marie with her blue glitter-clothing entering the area under the stage, a little later she appeared in the ’stage-hole,’ which was really funny because she waited there by ducking her head 😉 Finally she started singing WICF and was lifted up, the crowd went crazy for the first time this evening and nearly everybody stood up, it was a really touching moment filled with goose bumps and a lot of happiness. Her vocal/textual performence was nearly perfect, some word was missing here and there and one or the other ‘word-change’, but no big deal & nothing in comparison with some early belgian notp-performances (BTW didn’t pay attention what happend to the ’subways’). After the song she raised up her hands and had such a deep smile on her face that you had to fall in love with her, if that hasn’t already happenend in the past 🙂
After the break Roxette came back for the remaining four songs, the crowd was clapping all the time and for me these minutes were like a dream and I enjoyed it in a trance-similar status, overwhelmed by everything I saw: Marie rocked the stage, 9.000 viewers sang along IMHBL & Co and of course Per was also there 😉 Marie aswell did a great vocal job regarding this four tracks (no double-verse or sth. like that), at least it was much better than the recording on the notp-cd, she really gets better and better during this tour if you have a look at all the youtube-clips.
By the way at Joyride we had four (yes, incredible four!) balloons, but at least it was great to have some. To my shame I have to admit that I hadn’t brought some either, I really wanted to, but I forgot – but perhaps it would have been a little weird not to throw them from the interior space.
Of course it was over way too fast, but we gave them a long applause and then again as they came back for the ‘flower-ceremony’. At the end (as everybody threw their bouquets) another very sweet moment took place, the seats were so far away from the stage, that Marie hadn’t the chance to throw it that far, Marie walked to the front of the stage, a fan(?) in the first row was aware of the mentioned fact and went to her, then she gave it directly to him 🙂
All in all it was great evening, Alan Parsons was the highlight after Roxette, Christina was also very good and she seems to be a very nice person (but she should overthink her eyebrows), actually I had to say every artist had a really good live-voice. The Katona Twins were a litlle lame at first, but I liked her performance of modern songs. The host Uwe Bahn reminds me of watching “Bingo Lotto” and I don’t like his artificial looking dyed hair *g*
I also did some videoclips with my mobile, but I don’t think they’re worth to be uploaded, I’ll check it out when I transferred them to my pc.
Chrissie
It was already my 3rd show. Me and my friend Yvonne had seats unfortunately very far away in the 24th and 25th row in the indoor area but wanted to go to the front of the stage when Roxette second part came up.
I already knew the show so I began to watch the audience and this was for me the show with the most waltz dancing people so far. First I thought the audience was a bit lame but I was wrong. Unfortunately we didn’t get any lights at the entrance and I forgot mine from the Hamburg-show but for some strange reasons there were a lot of other people having lights and so there was this special atmosphere again. Christina Stürmer got big applause and also the Katona Twins. Of course me and Yvonne got nervous when the Swedish Midsommarvaka started and when it finally turned into “Wish I could fly” nobody could keep us on our seats. The audience needed some more seconds but as Marie appeared the Tui Arena was exploding suddenly!!! And she did a great job of course. If I remember it right she sang the part with the rooftops twice but who cares. I don’t! Her voice was beautiful. We stood there with shaking knees and enjoyed every second.
And even if I already saw 2 shows before…don’t ask me what comes after “Wish I could fly”. I have no idea. My Mind was blown away sort of. Wasn’t it Alan Parson who suddenly sounded like Roxette because of OUR great Jonas???? Yeah, Jonas did a fantastic job this evening too of course. We are very proud of him!
When Heaven 17 came up on stage later I noticed a little boy who wanted to go to the front but the security girl didn’t let him. She was right sitting next to our row and I noticed later too that she stopped everybody who wanted to go to the stage. I thought: WHAT??? In the beginning the host Uwe Bahn said that everyone was allowed to walk around and go and dance wherever they wanted……What was that??? I got nervous about our plan to leave our seats for the second Rox-Part. But who can fool Roxette-fans??? We had two possibilities. Push this small woman away not caring about her instructions or be more clever than she was…we decided to do it the polite way and just went to the toilet during the Bolero (it was damned necessary anyway) and just returned into the hall thru another entrance in the front. J And as the Band and Per and Marie finally entered the stage we walked down these big stairs I still remembered from the Roomservice Tour and finally stood really near to the stage. Of course the security people stopped us from coming too close but that was nicer than staying back in the 25th row! And then we roxed! It was great. Everyone was singing along and yes I also noticed the 4 balloons during Joyride. Thank you , I forgot mine and also have a little phobia to blow up balloons..so that’s not my fave job…brrrrrr. The 4 songs went over too fast of course but Marie succeeded again with bringing some tears into my eyes with her voice. Per was great too of course and cheered up the crowd. The security people in front of us got really stressed as they noticed some of us filming. They tried to stop us. I have never experienced this before. Stupid!!! Well I prefer pictures anyway. After Roxettes great performance and the big noise of the audience we went back to our seats….and I couldn’t resist to give a grin to the security girl next to our row. J Behind and next to us some people had already left and didn’t return. That was strange. Well, I still don’t know for what my seat-neighbors came at all. They stayed on their seats during the whole show an didn’t look like they enjoyed anything at all. Drinking beer was their most important activity.
After the show we got a hint from Alex (THANKS GUY!!!!!!) about the possible hotel Per and Marie are staying in that night and so we went there. In front of the hotel there were (unfortunately) already some non-fans but autograph hunters and I really don’ t like these sort of guys. Of course they tried to appear as friendly people first but as finally the car with Per and Marie arrived they suddenly transformed into screaming, pushing stupid beings and surrounded Marie immediately. One of them was not even able to pronounce her name the right way. These people told us before that they have had trouble with the bodyguards already in the afternoon and now I could understand why. Per disappeared immediately inside the hotel (maybe he recognized the mob???) but Marie stayed outside for a short while. She hugged two of us 5 or 6 real fans waiting cause she recognized them and I guess she always wrote one or two autographs. The security guy tried his best to shelter her from the pushing non-fans and at the same time tried to let the fans thru. Strange situation. I didn’t like that at all but suddenly succeeded to reach her as she was hugging the other Chrissie from near Kassel because it was her birthday yesterday. ( Sorry girl…I forgot again the name of your hometown) Marie is soooo warmhearted and sweet. First she wanted to hug me too I guess but ended up in caressing my left cheek instead. But then she also wanted to get inside the warm hotel and disappeared.
What followed was a loud embarrassing stupid discussion from the autograph hunters with the bodyguards cause they didn’t get the autographs they wanted. I think I heard the bodyguard shout something like: “You just want to sell autographs at ebay…be honest…..” I’m so pissed about such people. They arrived there with a file full of things and treated Marie like an animal in a zoo. I already met such kind of people before and they seem to be the same all together.
I was satisfied anyway…of course I just could talk rubbish to Marie and let her know that I will have seats in the first row tomorrow (today!!) but well…I have to work on that.
It was a grrreeeeat evening and now I’m already in a hurry to get dressed for Roxette again.
YouTube clips:
Christina Stürmer posted a video on YouTube on the 16th, I am not sure where the video is from though. There is a little bit of Roxette on it.
Media reports/reviews:
WLZ/FZ: Roxette comeback: People are amazed, touched and stunned
According to the NOTP Fanpage the Hannover show is filmed for German TV. We don’t know if Wednesday, Thursday or both.
Update 20 Dec.: Added Christina Stürmer’s video link.
Will write something down later!
It was a great show again last night and we had to be at bit creative to fool the security inside the hall to get to the front of the stage….did they have such a great shock from Frankfurt I’m wondering? 🙂
Today I will have my seat in the first row! We will see!!!
I also attended the show yesterday, it was my first show and it was fantastic! 🙂
Our seats were located on the left side of the stage, as the classical swedish stuff was played I could see Marie with her blue glitter-clothing entering the area under the stage, a little later she appeared in the ‘stage-hole,’ which was really funny because she waited there by ducking her head 😉 Finally she started singing WICF and was lifted up, the crowd went crazy for the first time this evening and nearly everybody stood up, it was a really touching moment filled with goose bumps and a lot of happiness. Her vocal/textual performence was nearly perfect, some word was missing here and there and one or the other ‘word-change’, but no big deal & nothing in comparison with some early belgian notp-performances (BTW didn’t pay attention what happend to the ‘subways’). After the song she raised up her hands and had such a deep smile on her face that you had to fall in love with her, if that hasn’t already happenend in the past 🙂
After the break Roxette came back for the remaining four songs, the crowd was clapping all the time and for me these minutes were like a dream and I enjoyed it in a trance-similar status, overwhelmed by everything I saw: Marie rocked the stage, 9.000 viewers sang along IMHBL & Co and of course Per was also there 😉 Marie aswell did a great vocal job regarding this four tracks (no double-verse or sth. like that), at least it was much better than the recording on the notp-cd, she really gets better and better during this tour if you have a look at all the youtube-clips.
By the way at Joyride we had four (yes, incredible four!) balloons, but at least it was great to have some. To my shame I have to admit that I hadn’t brought some either, I really wanted to, but I forgot – but perhaps it would have been a little weird not to throw them from the interior space.
Of course it was over way too fast, but we gave them a long applause and then again as they came back for the ‘flower-ceremony’. At the end (as everybody threw their bouquets) another very sweet moment took place, the seats were so far away from the stage, that Marie hadn’t the chance to throw it that far, Marie walked to the front of the stage, a fan(?) in the first row was aware of the mentioned fact and went to her, then she gave it directly to him 🙂
All in all it was great evening, Alan Parsons was the highlight after Roxette, Christina was also very good and she seems to be a very nice person (but she should overthink her eyebrows), actually I had to say every artist had a really good live-voice. The Katona Twins were a litlle lame at first, but I liked her performance of modern songs. The host Uwe Bahn reminds me of watching “Bingo Lotto” and I don’t like his artificial looking dyed hair *g*
I also did some videoclips with my mobile, but I don’t think they’re worth to be uploaded, I’ll check it out when I transferred them to my pc.
Ah, cool report! Incl. funny but true remarks about eyebrows and hair… 😀
Nice report, thanks! Did you see Marie sing the “aiaiaiaiaiai”-part of WICF?
You’re welcome 😀
I forgot something, during “The look” Marie switched again to the Hey Jude nananas, Per & Christopher followed her and she switched back after short while. Don’t know how often she did that regarding the last shows, can only remember the first time Kiwein told us about that.
@Kiwein: I saw her, but only the back of her head, she was still ducked down as this part began, so I couldn’t see her face/lips, I was also wondering if she sang that part live.
I listened to the Munich recording again and again and it sounds everything but live. Then I remembered that I saw her coming up one night where the part already had started but she had the mic still on her legs.. but I don’t want to rehash the thing again and again. I was just curious..
The “Hey Jude” thing seems to be a regular thing now. But normally Per and Chris sing the usual “na na na”‘s, so this is something new. 😉
Thanks Chrissie! I believe the “aiaiaiaiai” (lol, by the way) is sung by one of the backup singers because Marie can’t sing it due to the ducking/rising. One could check if it’s exactly the same every day but who cares..?
Exactly. I was just curious. Sounds like Marie, though. But let’s drop it..
Don’t laugh at me, but I uploaded my crappy mobile-clips, I thought better than nothing as I didn’t discover any from Hannover on youtube yet.
Wish I could fly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7D6oPELz5s
It must have been love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4A5ISHBzY
Joyride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNgQohn–VU
Listen to your heart (2 parts):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbHWT5IjeI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJ6p_OqizY
I kept them short like Per does it too 😉
At least they give a little insight to that specific show, I think the audio is acceptable.
that is definetely Marie, and I actually thought it’s live as it sounded different every time..
and I must say I agree with the security people stopping masses coming to the front when Roxette appear 😉
I understand fans want to support them, but if it’s a seated show, then so be it. There are tonz of other standing shows.
In Frankfurt in the 2nd part on the Sunday, they did it quite fine: they stopped the masses coming from behind for a couple of seconds, giving people sitting in the first row time to stand up and find their places two big steps from their seats 😉
But that was because during the break I saw a lot of people going to the security people complain about what had happened with WIFC, quite embarrasing if you ask me.
Or at least, if you want to be at the front, people should behave 😉
Eyebrows? Didn’t notice that..?
Christina’s Edding eyebrows. 😉
On a few videos I saw Marie definitely not singing the intro. And in that high tone voices sound rather similar.
I can understand people complaining about the running fan crowd. If I payed for the first row I’d expect to be at the front for all the acts. Not buried behind a fan crowd at the top act!
Hm, I still think it’s Marie but not live. 😉
About the running fans: On some shows we weren’t allowed to stand in front of the first row people but had to stand in the hallway between the seats. That was totally fine, too. Ok – people sitting behind us were forced to stand up… 😉 I think this was the best way to do it. But in Frankfurt there were too many fans running to the front, the securities couldn’t hold them back. But I think it’s like that every year and it helps to keep the atmosphere high. So I actually would also appreciate it if I sat in the front row. But the German audience is quite different anyway… old, boring people, not even clapping or moving – sometimes I wondered why they attended the show at all. They didn’t seem to have much fun. I really preferred the Dutch/Belgian shows when it comes to that.
Seated show or not.. the host said in the beginning that everyone is allowed to dance and go where they want. And than it wasn’t true? But it’s always the same…the ones who can behave have to suffer from the ones who can’t. Of course I ‘d never get the idea to put myself in front of the people seated in the first row…helloooo….my brain is still working even when I see Per and Marie in front of me! Hannover has big corridors between the seats and you don’t disturb anyone by standing there.
Yesterday the security was paranoid again…Marie wanted to give the flowers to my friend and the security wanted to stop him going to reach the flowers…..Did they really think, he wanted to jump on the stage?????? He never made any try or behaved like that. Paranoia!!!
Here’s the playlist for my set of high quality mobile-clips *lol*
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D272BA5463D0B44D
@Kiwein: At least it seems like they followed her, perhaps they didn’t, but Marie’s singing was dominat in this case anyway and I haven’t heard any other nananas 🙂
PS: How can I change my user picture?
Well, the brain of some people doesn’t seem to work that well 😉
It felt actually quite weird because people around me complained about “these Roxette fans” and I am actually one of them. One explained they have never seen such pushing and fighting before, which is quite “peinlich”.. specially if then you see them complaining to the security guys.
I found it fine as they did it for Christina, they stood at the corridor.. but WIFC was a horror that pissed me off a lot.
I’m not charging against Germans only, I know Spaniards did the same in Hamburg, I am not sure if they were in front of the seated people, though. They asked me to join but I stayed in my place, didn’t feel right.
What was worse I think was the screaming of some people, that definetely felt insane. I did shout too, of course 😉 But that was.. freaky.
And not to mention the fact of holding the hands the whole time upwards with a camera in hand, trying to film (what? the screaming?). Had to laugh not to cry. I personally cannot imagine THAT is enjoying a concert. Sorry 🙂
On the 2nd half it was perfect, the pushing and fighting for a place (or flowers!!!!!! how stupid can this be?) was far from me.
sorry, had to get this out in public 😛
User pic: Good question. I think Sascha knows, I don’t.. sorry.
Judith: I disagree, but you won’t wonder about it. It has been like that on every show so you didn’t experience anything special. And it was like that the years before, too. Talked to Dirk about it. So I don’t find it bad, or whatever.. 😉 Though – I really hate pushing. But when it comes to support them I keep screaming, too. Can’t help..
Kiwein, how did you get your picture in? 😛 You talked to Dirk Hohmeyer?
Dennis, RoxetteBlog.com uses the the Gravatar service, which provides web wide avatar pictures. Set your picture there and it will pop up on RXB! http://en.gravatar.com/
PS. I’ll copy this to “about us” for future use.
I have a WordPress account and blog. When I change my avatar there, the same pic appears here. If you don’t have an account – I don’t know. 😉
Yes, I talked to him quite often. Very very nice guy, very nice, really!!
Now you know! 😉
Nice thing about Dirk is that he moderates the official forum himself, good to get straight answers. NOTP people (Dirk, Jan…) must be nice, since they never gave up on Roxette! 🙂
He does it ALL by himself. I wonder how he does it. He must be online the whole day (but I know he isn’t so I wonder how he does it..). He’s just a great guy! I still think about a present for him. 😉 Just to say thank you for all the support for Planet Roxette.
@Judith: everyone has a different way to party and to show happiness..I think there is NOTHING wrong with screaming. I also experienced the opposite…next the me there where people sitting who looked like they had fallen asleep. It was like they never ever tried to show emotions..oh no..I cannot stand up and clap …that might get embarrasing…I feel sorry for them. They seem not to have fun in life at all because they are busy the whole time to control themselves.
Of course I’ve seen “weird behaving” fans too but that is their business and not mine anymore. I just don’t care and if other people are putting us all together in one sack (can one say that in english too??? 😉 ) than it’s ALSO their problem and not mine.
I didn’t say screaming is bad, I also shouted and sang along, of course! And stood up even though the people next to me remained seated 🙂
It is hard to explain, it was the feeling at the moment, looking at it from afar/outside, it looked more like a competition than having fun, and that is what struck me.
I also heard about people pushing one another, trying to steal places in first row.. this is for me the weirdest. Anyway, my opinion. And I’m talking about 4-5 people (not you, Kirsten ;)) who are known by many fans as “difficult” since the MF tour, which isn’t most of the fans anyway 😛
@Sascha: Thank you, works fine with Gravatar, not only in this blog/forum 😉 I also wondered how to change it there.