Would be interesting to know, if he’s involved more than just maintaining a page there. I’ve been speculating about a business relation as well. At least that would explain a lot.

I’m also a bit ‘suspicious’ about Per’s intentions behind him being interested in our opinions on the fish. Maybe he’s not considering to change back to youtube/his promotion tactics, but solely collecting ideas for future improvements on the site?

Might be way off though. Let’s wait in suspense… *g*

Promotion is good but it should work easy and properly for anybody, I think. Mmmh, to speak of promotion… isn’t Per involved in snowfish businesswise as well? Not sure about that but I think I’ve read it somewhere a while ago. If that’s the case he maybe just wants to promote snowfish a bit as well…

“shouldn’t it at least reach as much people as possible?” – Yeah, Snowfish is the right place for that! Top video with 200-300 views…

“I still think he needs a website( not 4)” – I still want a “Roxette” website, not just a filter on gessle.com!

I’d also prefer active Twitter and Facebook accounts for Roxette, though can accept him posting there rather un-official as one of the involved persons named PG.

On FB people suggest the page, share videos, news, make people visit Per’s profile because there IS something to read/see there. Your friends see you’ve commented on or liked his status updates. Might think of becoming a fan too. And on Twitter people read what you retweet.

Sure he can choose whatever medium for this, but when it’s about promotion, shouldn’t it at least reach as much people as possible?

I still think he needs a website( not 4), everything should be published on it, that he wants to filter what’s GT, PG, Rox? Well, one link on the top to filter the categories (thinking WP wise) would do. FB and Twitter are OK, but shouldn’t be the ONLY place to use. An own website is the way to go. One which features videos, let’s him add news/status updates easily and which is, if needed, connected to Twitter and FB. And one which uses as much of the monitor width as possible!

But no new videos on YouTube studio channel. You’re right. Now we need to check 17 pages to stay informed. No way to make it more complicated.

It may look like that by the lately introduced Gessle infos/videos we get though Youtube/Twitter/Snowfish, but I don’t think Marie is less involved than in the recording process of previous albums.

It’s just that Per grew into the additional role of a producer over time, while Marie stays a singer/performer = traditional pop artist.

Looks and feels like doing everything by halves instead of doing one thing right. By now, to me Roxette looks like a one man show with Marie as nice decoration.

I wonder, does Per know about RXB? Does he read the comments here? I hope he does…

“I still strongly disagree with the idea putting his solo websites and roxette.se “together”.. so you are on roxette.se and may click on “gessle.com”. For everyone just looking for information this is damn confusing. People think “where is Marie?”.”

“would have preferred him posting NOTP stuff using the TheRealRoxette account”

And the album material should be posted at http://www.snowfish.com/roxette and not /gessle simply because that is the “brand” people are looking for! On the other hand I’m just glad we get that behind-the-scenes material at all…

(BTW I still strongly disagree with the idea putting his solo websites and roxette.se “together”.. so you are on roxette.se and may click on “gessle.com”. For everyone just looking for information this is damn confusing. People think “where is Marie?”. Is this Roxette or Gessle? In this case I really don’t care if it’s HIS website, HE is paying for and HE is doing it all HIMSELF. Roxette is Roxette.. either they should get rid of the roxette.se page on gessle.com or they should a link to Marie’s official website, which is, btw, even worse than roxette.se)

I agree that it must be confusing for a lot of people when Per does all the promotion himself and you barely read, see or hear Marie around. I think I kind of got used to it during the Party Crasher tour but I agree about this looking strange. Concerning the new Roxette album it should at least look like she is still involved in Roxette.

Until last year there wasn’t much of choice where to look for news. It was either The Daily Roxette or roxette.se (which is the same actually, since the same person keeps it updated so there wasn’t much difference… news popped up at the same time). Then Per joined Twitter which felt just woohooo and was great during his solo tour and it was even better that he stayed with us during NOTP but I also would have preferred him posting NOTP stuff using the TheRealRoxette account. (that’s what I mean with “at least it should look like she’s still involved, same goes for the videos, of course)

So, I really don’t know where this Snowfish thing will lead us…still: I really appreciate that he does the things he does, this is a treat for a every fan! I I love it.

The official site roxette.se is just rubbish. It only takes a quick look at other artist’s websites to realize that. What a bad bad bad bad bad website! No functionality at all and the graphic design is just horrible. There are local bands in my area thay play pubs only and they have better websites than roxette which is an international act.

Also, the way all these updates like videos and pictures are presented to the fans is just… odd. This really looks like the recording of a Per-solo album, not a Roxette album. Yes, I know Marie will join them in Stockhölm later this year. But to the general public or the casual fan who might have just googled roxette this is confusing. It seems like a Britney Spears album where she does nothing and then her vocals are added to the finished work.

Mind you, this might well be the case due to Marie’s illness, but for so many years roxette themselves and EMI presented the band as a collaboration of 2 musicians, even so that every single release from roxette had the line “Roxette is Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson” printed on it. But then in the videos from the NOTP tour it was always Clarence, Per and his boyfriend Christoffer. What I’m seeing just doesn’t fit in the image I had constructed of roxette.

He seriously needs to hire someone from outside Sweden to handle their PR & Communications matters. Specially if he wants to have some moderate success with the new album.

I think it’s time for a big relaunch of roxette.se/gessle.com – which provides streaming of audio/video, photo galleries, concert history, a shop etc. And an easy way to update news and tweets for Per. There are good band homepage examples around.

I do really hope a new version of Roxette.se will come up shortly (or at least before the new album release) and will be the place for communication between P&M and us fans. Was there some talks on that issue on SOAP forum? There was going to be sthg new but nothinasg happened. I would even say it would have been better with daily updates and comments on the official website instead of all those twitters, facebooks, myspaces.

Having some many accounts allows to control the promotion thing by Per Gessle himself. Maybe it sounds quite unbelivable, but I think he wants to do it his own way as much as possible, without EMI or Sony help.

And maybe there’s something behind this snowfish.com idea? It’s nothing spectacular to be honest, but maybe Per is a shareholder/owner of this site, maybe Snowfish.com will promote his releases in some way and that’s why Per does the promo thing for snowfish.com. There are so many possibilities, but still I think Per does right to create all those accounts and promotions paths.

After all – if it makes the Man happy, we should be happy as well

I don’t see why Gessle feel like he needs to make another “social network” account though. There are too many to check now.

Although the good side is to prevent the imposter. Just like J.K Rowling sign in on Twitter, got verified but NEVER really use that.

Yes, I can stay in connection remote “friends” and have the option to comment directly on news/updates, but I don’t like when news from sites like RXB or TDR is commented there instead of the original sites. I prefer following/commenting Rox stuff on dedicated fan sites/forums. FB forces you to sign up (with full name) to get a view at all. Rox/PG content is always additional to other sources – useless. You can join endless “groups”, “friends” and “sites” – but what’s the use? Just to add numbers and kill time? You may provide personal content and updates – and easily forget any privacy…

MySpace = never been there, never missed it, so dead, yes
Twitter = Useless, because every tweet is on Facebook as well
Facebook = Best so far, chance to leave a comment and communicate directly on ONE of Per’s tweets/status updates with other fans.
Roxette.se = Until now necessary to see if there are any new pics up.
YouTube = Same here, change pics to vids.
Snowfish = Don’t see any sense in that at the moment besides that Per earns some money with it. If he decides to move all the content from the other sites to Snowfish it will be the first time I won’t follow him.