Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for the picture.
Archive for July, 2010
According to the latest information published on PER GESSLE OFFICIAL Helena Josefsson was replaced by Malin Ekstrand on 2010 Roxette tour.
Helena isn’t with us on these upcoming gigs. New face/voice for you all: MALIN EKSTRAND. An excellent choice, sir.
More about this new backing singer can be found on her website.
Thanks to Sandra Knospe for the information. And here is the official comment from Per Gessle:
Howdy, yes these were made for the upcoming shows. However, I didn’t like the colour so I gave them to blue Christoffer. Naturally, he loved them! So he uses them, not me! Mine looks the same but are a/white with black logo b/black with white logo.
Source: Tradera.com, Facebook
Halmstad Festival poster
Jul 29
When not even Roxette’s own company Live Nation in the beginning of this year dared to believe that a concert of Roxette would sell enough, Biljett Nu went in into this business and financed the show. Our investment in Roxette was an absolutely right decision. See you in Halmstad!
Because of a dispute with Live Nation, there is a risk that you may be refused to enter the concert with these tickets. They argue that these tickets are not valid. We hope that this dispute will be resolved until August 14th.
We would like to also remind you that according to Live Nation and Per Gessle himself, tickets bought on Biljettnu.se after July 9th are not valid. Buy your tickets on www.ticnet.se
Source: BiljettNu.se
Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for this information.
Americans bought the rights for Swedish “Låt den rätte komma in” film in which Per Gessle’s song “Kvar i min bil” was used as one of the main themes. Now you can watch the American trailer on YouTube. If you are nostalgic and find Swedish version as better one (even though American version did not have its premiere), see this clip.
We got an interesting message from Andreas Kämpf regarding The Race Legends tickets
I got a phone call from Caroline Jepson from TRL last Thursday. She asked me if I want to change my racetickets to Roxette-tickets or if I want to give the tickets back and cancel my hotelbooking. Since I have new tickets for Halmstad I canceled the whole Anderstorp package. She sent me an e-mail and I replied with my bank account details. Now she will transfer the money I payed back into my German bank-account. I expect the money in the next days and will keep you informed.
As we know Roxette’s comeback gig was moved from Anderstorp till Halmstad. Suprisingly, not only the oragnizer and the place were changed but also the ticket’s price – it became cheaper. But Röke Buss’s company which bought 200 tickets is not happy about this fact.
NorraSkåne.se informs about Lars Erlingsson, Röke Buss owner, who bought 200 tickets and paid 125,000 SEK in total for them. However, since the concert was later moved to Halmstad and the price for one standing ticket was reduced by 100 SEK, which means that Lars Erlingsson paid in the end 20,000 SEK more for the tickets. “We have tried to make contact with the dealer, but we cannot find them. Neither via email or telephone,” he tells the newspaper.
The newspaper also tried to get in touch with Biljettnu.se but they only got the answering machine informing that the Biljettnu.se are valid, whatever all articles published during the past days.
Source: NSK.se
The King of Swedish Pop Per Gessle met with the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf just before Prince Carl Philip’s race in the Porsche Carrera Cup in Falkenberg on the hot and balmy afteroon July 10th. “It is a little bit of freezing… Naaah, I’m just kidding. I’ve read that there was 50 degrees in Bangkok and it was probably the same here in Falkenberg,” says Per to Expressen.
It was not long before he and his familly found the shelter from the sun. He chose the same tent where the King of Sweden Carl Gustaf followed Carl Philip’s race on the track. Just before the race began Gessle had time to say thanks for the royal reception at the castle after Victoria and Daniel’s wedding. “I thanked him for lately. The wedding was fantastic,” adds Per in Expressen’s article.
Prince Carl Philip finished the race in the eighth position.
Source: Expressen.se
Hallandsposten has an interview with Linnea Olsson from Paintbox about the concert as support act of Roxette, you can read it here: Hallandposten.se
More information about the Paintbox can be found here.
Åsa Gessle – In love
Jul 23
Åsa Gessle has created a collection of lamps called “In Love” with a clear message of peace. On the lamp can be found a sign stating “Make love, not war” with a small peace symbol. The designer has been inspired by the fact that this year is 50 years since peace symbol began its triumphal journey around the world.
Source: Monicaskreative
The Roxette classic was covered again, this time by the Italian rock band ‘Ocean Drive’. Watch the video here:
The band’s website: Ocean Drive
Thanks Fabio Z. for the news tip!
Hello / Hej / Hallo / Hola / Ahoj fellow Roxette friends! I’m Alison, or Alison-Marie as I was christened by my parents 33 years ago but I’m also known as Ally or in the Roxette world, most commonly known as Roxerally! I’ve been asked kindly by my fellow friends of the Roxette Blog to join the team to help out, a job I could hardly say no to. So I felt I would post a little introduction here about myself for those who don’t know me.
I live in the UK and I am currently a mature student enjoying my summer holidays, as in September this year I’ll be starting University to study my Mental Health Nursing Degree which will be three years of training and I’m so excited about what the future holds. I’ve been a Roxette fan for 19 years which equals more than half my life *yikes* and I’ve stalked Per at more concerts than I care to remember. I’ll be in Sundsvall and Halmstad in August sporting my UK T-shirt designed by Dany so if you see me say Hej! I have a voluntary job at my local hospital helping out on the mental health wards and in my spare time I love to read, write and listen to music (particularly Swedish for some weird reason!). I also love to travel and the go to the theatre! I’m really looking forward to being part of the Roxette Blog Team since writing is a big passion of mine! I also have a very cool Roxette tattoo on my right wrist 
Vicunja, a band from Halmstad, was founded in 2006 and consists of Alex Hansson (vocals), Johan Israelsson (guitar), Joakim Persson (bass) and Martin Larsson (drums). After appearances in Nalen in Stockholm and at the Peace & Love festival in Borlänge Vicunja released a video for the song “Some People“.
Theirs music has been described as a cross between ABBA and Nirvana.
More music at MySpace or YouTube. Vikunka also have their own website which you can check out here!
Source: Kulturbloggen.com
