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Archive for April, 2010
Sundsvall ticket
Apr 30
Fresh interview with Per!
Apr 29
Head over to www.roxette.se to read a brand new interview with Per, talking about Roxette touring and recording again – and Marie & Per’s motivation behind it!
According to Dagbladet article, Sundsvall municipality will pay over 200,000 SEK for promotion of forthcoming summer festival on which Roxette will perform. Maria Åslin from Norrporten Arena says that this festival is perfect promotion of town and region. Money will be spent on advertisments in press, TV- and radiostations as well as on posters and billboards. Anders “Tjacka” Söderberg, one of the organizers, promises that it will be profitable event for Sundsvall municipality as the town and region will get a lot of publicity around Sweden and even around the world.
Additionally, local football team GIF Sundsvall has to reschedule its match from August 7th to August 9th, because of Roxette concert.
According to the German Night of the Proms fan website, Jonas Isacsson won’t be part of the Night of the Proms this year.
A Dutch guitarist called Rob Winter will take Jonas’ place in the Electric Band in 2010. Jonas, who didn’t hesitate to say he’d do the tour again this year, says:
He played with NOTP in Charleroi last weekend. Checked out what he did with Kim Wilde, sounded good.
Additionally, NOTP organizers revealed the first artist for this year’s tour two days ago: Boy George.
Source: NOTP-fanpage.de
Media are really interested in summer Roxette concert that will take place in Sundsvall on August 7th. It will be the first full Roxette gig since 2001. According to the press release it will be the first European Roxette concert. It can mean there is no chance for any other show before August 7th.
After several articles in local press, over 9,000 tickets sold, Norrporten Arena’s website got the new look – only dedicated to forthcoming summer festival. You can read the most important information regarding the festival: find media partners and sponsors, buy tickets for the show, bus, train or book a room at one of Sundsvall hotels and hostels.
There is also a chance to win tickets for the festival as long as you can decribe your most exciting Roxette experiance in Swedish – before May 1st. The winners will be announced on Monday May 3rd. No informations is given if only Swedish citizens can participate in this contest.
In “Örongodis” section you can listen to two radio advertisments of the concert (the longer and the shorter one).
Source: Norrporten Arena
Norrporten Arena – sectors
Apr 28
Source: Entre Sundsvall
Moscow certificates
Apr 28
Buying standing tickets for Moscow show is not as easy and simple as you may expected. Firstly you have to receive a certifacte which could be exchanged for a real ticket between September 8th and 10th. Here is the whole information:
Certificates for tickets in the dance stalls are subject to mandatory exchange (not valid as tickets!).
Exchanged of certificates for tickets will be made from 8.09.2010 to 10.09.2010 at the following address: Moscow, Leningradskiy Prospekt, 37, 9, office “KASSIR.RU” from 9 AM to 9 PM on weekdays and from 10 AM to 8 PM on weekends and holidays. Tel. (495) 730 730 0
Certificates and tickets with corrected (sealed) price are not accepted to exchange and refund. KASSIR.RU is not responsible for tickets purchased from unofficial distributors!
Here are the prices:
RED Ramp Sector 3: 3000.00 RUR – 4000.00 RUR
RED Ramp Section 1: 5000.00 RUR- 6000.00 RUR
RED Ramp Section C 21: 2200.00 RUR – 2500.00 RUR
RED Ramp Section C 22: 2500.00 RUR – 3500.00 RUR
RED Ramp Section C 23: 2500.00 RUR – 3500.00 RUR
BLUE ramp Sector A 0: 10000.00 RUR
BLUE ramp Sector A 2: 7000.00 RUR – 8000.00 RUR
BLUE ramp Sector A 3: 7000.00 RUR – 9000.00 RUR
BLUE ramp Sector A 4: 5000.00 RUR – 6000.00 RUR
BLUE ramp Sector A 24: 2200.00 RUR – 2500.00 RUR
BLUE ramp Sector B 1: 3000.00 RUR – 4000.00 RUR
BLUE ramp in Sector 22: 2200.00 RUR
RED ramp Sector C 0: 10000.00 RUR
Evgeny Perekopskiy from Moscow send us how the certifactes look like and a small leaflet which promotes the concert.
13 out 20 the most expensive houses in Sweden are located in Djurholm area in Stockholm. Number 5 on the list is Per Gessle with his 520 m2 villa in Halmstad. The house is worth over 24,000,000 SEK now. He bought this property in 1993 for 950,000 SEK, but he and his wife have done a lot of extensive and expensive renovations since then. Per Gessle is also the one of those who gain the most thanks to Property tax refrom from 2008. Swedish government reduced the property tax till only 0,75% of property’s value (not more than 6,000 SEK per year). Due to this fact Gessle does not have to pay over 123,000 SEK of property tax per year anymore.
Source: E24.se
9,000 out of 25,000 available tickets for Roxette show in Sundsvall were sold in just 3 days. Unfortunately, it seems that Anders “Tjacka” Söderberg did not ask about any kind of permission from local police to organize this concert in advance. He claims that he could not discuss the issue with the local representatives, because he did not want to have any leak to the press about the event.
Tomas Åslund, local police chef, says he hopes the right decision will be made shorty to secure audiance safety.
Source: St.nu
Ingrid Olivelöf was the first person who managed to purchase tickets for Roxette show on Norrporten Arena in Sundsvall on August 7th. She waited over an hour with more than 50 people in queue in front of Entré Sundsvall on Friday morning, April 23rd. Mattias Aamisepp from Radio Guld, local radiostation, played Roxette songs to improve people’s moods. Ingrid chose “Dressed for succes” as the best Roxette song in the talk with journalist. She bought three tickets in the second row in B-section.
Source: St.nu
So here it comes. Afer one year of preparations and waiting we have finally managed to end up our works on yet another bootleg from “Party crasher tour” – to be honest – one of the funniest Roxette fan experiances in the 21st century.
After more or less professional recordings from Prague, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm (with Marie) as well as live tracks on amazing double album “Gessle over Europe”, it’s time for Warsaw. Per Gessle and his band came to Poland to play just one concert in Stodola rock club in Warsaw on April 22nd. In fact Poland was the only country on the tour list where Roxette/Gessle have never played live before. Some sources say that there were around 1,000 people in the audiance, but on the other hand I was informed about 700 tickets sold. Who’s right, who’s wrong? Who really cares?
Back to the topic. It’s a bootleg and it’s a compilation. So the quality differs from song to song constantly. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not so good, but that is how it works when you use five different recording sources. Give Slawek Sztul – he made it all possible (‘na na na’ on “The look” is his! 
and Blanka ‘Blunek’ Pentela – she has designed all the covers for “Gessle over Poland” included in the set – a big hand. I cannot forget about Ela ‘Blue_girl’ Krysinska – thank you for your help and contribution. It was amazing to work with you guys!
Here’s the set list:
Stodola, Warsaw, April 22nd 2009
01. Sound Of Music / Dressed for success
02. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her
03. Stupid
04. The party pleaser
05. Wish I could fly
06. She doesn’t live here anymore
07. 7twenty7
08. I have a party in my head (I hope it never ends)
09. Late, later on
10. Listen to your heart
11. Do you wanna be my baby
12. Opportunity nox
13. Doesn’t make sense
14. Church of your heart
15. Dangerous
16. Joyride
Encore 1:
17. C’mon
18. Are you an old hippie, Sir?
19. The look
20. It must have been love
Encore 2:
21. (I’m Nnot your) Steppin’ stone
22. Queen of rain
DOWNLOAD (bootleg + covers)
“Gessle over Poland” DVD bootleg will follow shortly. The audio stays the same, but you will get the footage to ALL SONGS. Prepare your Torrents!
According to Musikindustrin‘s journalist Lars Nylin Roxette will play in Germany in December. In the article about Sundsvall concert he mentions Russia and Germany as the exemples of forthcoming Roxette shows. Time will tell if it is true.
From The Daily Roxette:
Per says that he doesn’t know anything about any German gigs.
The sale will start today at 11.00 AM Swedish local time via Ticnet.se or through Webbiljett.se (the site is recommended by the organizers).
The tickets prices:
- Läktare (Sections) 810 SEK [B, C, L, M] / 710 SEK [D, K, J] / 610 SEK [G, I, H]
- Ståplats (Standing place) 510 SEK
- Rullstol (Tickets for people on wheelchairs) 510 SEK
There is no information regarding what is the differance between these prices.
According to Swedish media, and confirmed to Roxette’s manager Marie Dimberg, Roxette will play in Norrporten Arena, Sundsvall (Sweden) on August 7. The organizators exepect around 20,000 in public. This will be, if no more shows are added to the tour, the real first Roxette concert since 2001.
Tickets will be on sale on April 23 via Ticnet. The support band will be German The Baseballs, known from their Elvis-covers of Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and… Roxette’s “The look”.
It seems like the information in Norwegian and Danish press about two gigs in Sweden are finally confirmed.
Aftonbladet, SVT, ST, Dagbladet
Watch 2-minutes report about the concert
Chrissi Schäfer and Eloy Mathesan contributed to the article.
As The Daily Roxette reports, the upcoming Roxette album got moved from end of this year to early 2011. The recordings go well, but they plan to have a summer break (where they’ll perform live around the Baltic sea) to resume recording until October. The actual plan is to record 16 songs with the first single to be released for Christmas 2010.
Comment: In my opinion that’s a good decision!
- The current EMI turmoil could lead to a quite insecure release/promotion situation this year. EMI was rumored to have postponed the next Coldplay album for example.
- The pre-christmas market is always very crowded with album releases. Nobody knows if Roxette’s name is still big enough to gather enough attention between such a huge competition. Roxette have a good history of winter/spring releases (all studio albums except (POP and LS).
- Judging from previous release interviews they always got fresh inspiration through a recording break.
I guess a first single already 2-3 months in advance of the album will keep us more excited than single/album released within 2 weeks… 
