Here it comes. The very first video of Staffan Öfwerman’s new band – Grand Pop Station called “Daddy’s little boy”.
Archive for February, 2010
New Roxette song video
Feb 24
First “Roxette in the studio” video including real recording can be found on Snowfish now. Clarence is playing organ sample, Christoffer is engineering from control room and Per comments it: “Hallelujah”
Video can be found here: http://snowfish.com/video/6738/c/7931/
Moscow, September 10th
Megasport Arena (formerly: Khodynka Arena or Ice Sport Palace on the Khodynka Field) – the arena has a maximum capacity of 14,500 people.
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St. Petersburg, September 12th
Ice Palace – it holds 12,300 people.
The song is called “Kyss mig” (Kiss me) and it’s quite unusual for Helena – she’s rapping there. The video was directed by Cecilia Nordlund (Cilihili) and you can spot Helena’s husband – Martin in one of the main roles.
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According to Helena herself, there will be more informations on the song (album?) and even English translation of the lyrics. In the meantime she also informed that Sandy Mouche will perform for the very first time in three years on Banco del Musica festival on Stortorget in Malmö on March 4th. They have been rehearsing since Christman and prepared a handful of new songs that they would like to perform. You can also become fan of official Sandy Mouche’s page on Facebook – join here.
D&D Management confirmed the dates for two Roxette concerts today. The shows are in Russia and these are the dates:
September 10 – Moscow Mega Sport Arena
September 12 – St. Petersburg New Arena
Per Gessle also sent a short message to The Daily Roxette confirming the dates and hinting at more shows to come:
It feels fab to start the new year announcing live concerts by Roxette. Both Moscow and St Petersburg should be great fun! And if we’re all lucky there’s even more to come. By the way, the new recordings are going great, we’ll continue sweatin’ it out for the next six months or so. You’ll find videos/pics from the recordings on Snowfish.
Cheers, P.
A Russian ticket site has already listed both Roxette shows.
Source: The Daily Roxette
No fishing in the snow..
Feb 18
The following text is a personal blog entry, done by me and me only. Since we’re a blog and not a news page, there’s some editorial going on from time to time. This text is not necessarily the opinion of my fellow Roxettebloggers. So if you want to bash us for getting a life, a new hobby or stop complaining and whining: address your comment to me, and me only, please.
MySpace is dead, long live MySpace. I never liked that platform very much. Much too messy, too many designs which make you close the site before you had a close look at the content, comments everywhere, images without further comments in all sizes and forms everywhere on the page and at the top of the page on the right a small box with audio or video files. This was the only reason to visit a MySpace page in my opinion: to get to know an artist by listening to his songs or watching his clips and afterwards to decide if it’s worth to buy a whole CD or just a song or nothing. The only problem for the artist was that he didn’t earn anything with having a MySpace site. All he got was the chance to provide his music and stuff and to find more fans – but still: no money.
Now we got a fish in the snow and this fish wants to change that. The concept is called “Snowfish” and comes from Sweden. It’s actually a bit like MySpace, artists, musicians and every fan can register a site, upload images, include a Twitter feed and offer videos to watch. This site isn’t as messy as MySpace, but still it’s everything you would file in “chaos”. There’s a beta version online already since last year’s summer and still there are so many bugs on this page, that you don’t feel a second like visiting this page. Ok, I must admit – the structure of this page is slightly better than it was on MySpace and yet there’s another reason this site is different to MySpace: the artists can earn money with it. The more traffic you have on your page the more money you earn. So it’s said on the Snowfish homepage:
At Snowfish, every single view, listen or read of your content earns you payment (50% of advertising income received from your traffic!). These payments may be small at first (pennies) but ultimately pennies add up!
So it’s obvious that it can’t be much the artists actually get, but for those, who are not famous, not rich or just too bad and need every Cent, Dollar or Euro it’s a concept which can be profitable as time goes by. The more traffic, the more money.
But now it really would be nice, if the creators of this page would work on it which means: make it less messy, make it more user-friendly. So far this is not the case. Best example for this is Per Gessle’s new Snowfish page. He’s uploading videos and pictures from the recording sessions of the new Roxette album these days. And when we take a close look at the front page of his site it looks like there’s 22 videos to watch so far:
It seems like the circus around the sale of Roxette’s tickets for show on Anderstorp Raceway will never end.
According to Swedish Radio Biljettnu.se’s CEO Hans Haraldsson was not very happy with The Race Legends’ decision to include Eventim.se and LiveNation.se as the new resellers of Roxette tickets. Now Biljett Nu wants to receive compensation for breaking the deal as they thought they bought exclusive rights for this particular concert.
The Race Legends did not want to comment on that issue and Urban Stamming said that he thinks it is an unnecessary discussion.
Per and Marie are in the studio together again. They spent a day at Stockholm studio Atlantis, where were recorded albums “Have A Nice Day” and “Room Service” back in 1998 and 2000. It takes 10 years to see them working there again. Marie joined Per in the studio for the first time since Night Of The Proms tour completion in December after almost two months long break. Per commented this on Twitter and Facebook and wrote that ‘Marie’s voice = splendido’. He also promissed new videos for soon.
Update: Four new videos arrived!
More videos on snowfish.com
If you use Last.fm service, it would cool if you show your presence (or at least your interest in) on Roxette concert on Anderstorp Raceway here. Don’t also forget to check Facebook page out!
The Last.fm website is filled with tons of information on artists, albums and tracks, more music similar to them, charts and other statistics and more, all built by the Last.fm users who’re keeping track of what they’re listening to with Last.fm.
You can read about artists you like, check out their most popular tracks, browse their album and find out what other artists are similar to them; learn about upcoming events, explore interesting genres, listen to music and watch videos.
According to TheRaceLegends.com, Eventim.se became a new reseller of Roxette concert tickets. The tickets will be released on Tuesday, February 16th at 10.00 AM and will be sold through Eventim.se, LiveNation.se, Eventim call center 0046 771 651 000 and all Eventim agents in Sweden.
The Daily Roxette also informs that there is no need to worry – Biljettnu.se tickets are still valid.
Gessle’s marriage settlement
Feb 12
According to Aftonbladet’s researches among Swedish celebrities’ marriages, most of them have signed marriage settlements. It refers also to Per Gessle and Åsa Nordin’s relationship. In their settlement it is written that in case of divorce, Mrs. Gessle would get half the value of the couple’s apartments, but the rights to Mr. Gessle’s songs would remain totally his.
Other Swedish couples that marriage settlements were analyzed are: Tommy & Ann-Charlotte Körberg, Magnus & Louise Uggla, Liza Marklund & Mikael Aspeborg, Christer & Birgitta Sjögren, Carl Bildt & Anna Maria Corazza, Henning Mankell & Eva Bergman, Björn & Pernilla Skifs, Eva Dahlgren & Efva Attling, Benny Andersson & Mona Nörklit, Stellan Skarsgård & Megan Everett.
Source: Aftonbladet
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Per Gessle goes Snowfish
Feb 10
Per Gessle himself announced today that he is officially using Snowfish from now on. You find his page by clicking here.
This is what the site looks like: 
Snowfish is a new community that allows everyone to share music, videos, pictures, make friends, and make money! On the Snowfish website it is said that:
It is our firm belief that great content will always find an audience and that media creators, publishers and owners should always be compensated for their work. That’s why Snowfish introduces a unique alternative to posting content on other popular video and media sharing sites by allowing its members to earn advertising revenue for the content that they contribute to the Snowfish!
At Snowfish, every single view, listen or read of your content earns you payment (50% of advertising income received from your traffic!). These payments may be small at first (pennies) but ultimately pennies add up!
Can anyone translate this advertisment into English?
Source: Svart666
Review from Sydsvenskan.se
Nothing could beat Helena Josefsson this evening. She sang “Beat It” with attacking vocal, completely shameless – the overwhelming cover. “Ain’t No Sunshine” was even much more than that: five minutes of longing, love, sorrow, blues, soul and heart. A cover? Naaah. This version was awfully great.
