Tour 2010: Smukfest Skanderborg, August 8

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Setlist

* Dressed For Success
* Sleeping In My Car
* The Big L
* Wish I Could Fly
* She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
* 7Twenty7
* It Must Have Been Love
* Silver Blue
* Fading Like A Flower
* How Do You Do
* Dangerous
* Joyride Joyride
Extra:
* Listen To Your Heart
* The Look
* Church Of Your Heart

Fan stories

Gabba77: May the devil take Google Translate – and all of you guys would not had read these horrible reviews…
But I was there and I must say that I was really surprised about the big interest for the concert. I had thought that there would probably be 10-15 hardcore fans who would insist on being in the front row and then a lot of curious people who would like just to be there to see this famous duo Roxette.
But 2 hours before the concert I realized I was wrong. There were a lot of fans. People from Germany, Sweden, England, Argentina, Peru and Denmark of course. But not only the fans – everybody wanted a place up front.
It also really surprised me that people seemed to know all the lyrics. I stood among some people with an age of about 20 years – (They were not what we call fans.) They had hardly learned to speak as Joyride was released. But they sang along on all the songs – not only Joyride, LTYH, The Look & IMHBL that you hear on the radio from time to time. But they also knew the lyrics of songs like Fading Like A Flower & Dangerous which you never hear on the radio here.
I had never dreamt that so many people with a Roxette passion were hiding here in Denmark. What a nice surprice!
The reviwer from Gaffa.dk writes that he has been writing several hundreds of music reviews during the last ten years and he has never before experienced such an enthusiastic audience as met Roxette at Smukfest.
It is a big shame that it seems that nobody recorded the moment that Roxette entered the stage and started playing Dressed For Success – it simply does not get any bigger!
What a thrill, what blessing what a big moment – Hallelujah!

Videos

HD clips by MusicDKMan (Joyride, 7Twenty7, The Look, Fading like a flower, How do you do!) | Listen to your heart (by Momse1, has Fading as well) | It must have been love (by AiCStrange2508) | Church of your heart (by stinasveske) | The Look (by pnordentoft) | It must have been love (by metalmickeydk) | How do you do! (by metalmickeydk) | Silver Blue (by 1977browneyedgirl) | The Look part I (by Lurirox, has The Look II + Church as well) | Dressed for success (by MacGyverBurger)

Photos

Smukfest gallery

Roxette’s comments

Thanx for a great weekend!!! Sundsvall was pretty shaky just like a PREMIERE should be!!! The Smuk festival last nite was really really awesome. I’m so proud to be part of this!!!! /Per

it looks like it’s gonna be around 20.000 on Saturday. And almost 30.000 last night. There is a God. / Per

And over 16.000 two days ago… hmmm… forgot that…. Getting spoiled I guess / Per

Official videos

Smukfest report

Media reports

Ugly reviews: Ibyen.dk | Ekstra Bladet | Horsens Folkeblad | TV2 VIP
Fairly nice review: Gaffa | So-so review: Nordjyske.dk

Trivia

Close to 30,000 people in front of Roxette’s stage!

63 thoughts on “Tour 2010: Smukfest Skanderborg, August 8”

  10. thanks for the links (i think)…what horrendous and brutal reviews…cruel even. I hope that P+M will not read them, or that they will not care 🙁

  11. I don’t understand everything, but I get some of it. I cannot understand the bad reviews either. Wonder if they went there with the “we have to trash them” mode, just because. Per got fantastic reviews last year and the show is more or less the same, with even better songs, and Marie. Sure she forgets some lyrics, but hello? She always did! 😉
    And we are fans, of course, but we still can tell when something is BAD, and that wasn’t on Wednesday!! I found NOTP “bad” or “weak” against this show. It pisses me off, I can take negative critic when it’s well written and is that, feedback. This is like somebody would be insulting another one, and it’s even published as an article.
    Do they really write Marie sang out of tune the whole time? And critisize that she doesn’t move on stage?
    And where they really in the show, in the middle of the audience? Or they did the report out of a youtube video? 😉

  12. Uah, don’t know if I wanna read that! Just saw at Gaffa.dk that Roxette got 4/6 from one site’s readers, only Kent got 5/6, Faithless 3/6.

  13. I just pasted the “reviews” into google translate which is not perfect, but good enough to understand what is being said. I’d rather not repeat some of it here.

  14. Well, I read then. It’s obvious that some of the reviewers were absolutely not aware of Marie’s recovery. Some updated that info to the articles later! The Gaffa review is quite fair and mentions the huge, enthusiastic response Roxette got throughout the concert. Also most of the reader comments (e.g. VIP TV2) are very positive!

  16. yeah, people’s reaction is actually better than the articles, some also ask if they were really at the concert 😉
    For me Wednesday was the best Rox concert I’ve ever been to, it even topped the Showcase in Barcelona 2001. It was fun, it was rocky, it was Roxette at their best. Never seen them have so much fun on stage before. And that is what counts to me, nobody is perfect and I don’t even like it when everything runs according to the script. Little mistakes and how they react to them is what makes them great artists.
    Ah well, I think they are too long on this business to care about some resentful reporters 🙂 Music is their life and they will go on with it whatever a couple of people write.

  17. So then it’ s OK if fans are satisfied.
    Maybe it’ s because fans know about all these bad years and they wanna have fun and enjoy that Marie is back. And to face the truth, Roxette was never favourite group for media.
    For me the most important thing is new album. This is what I was waiting for for a decade. I’m waiting for new songs, cos I’ m bored with playing same old song again and again on shows. (But yes, this tour setlist – ON, 727, She Doesn’t…, Silver Blue – is much more fresh.) 🙂

  18. Right. Just if the majority of the mainstream fans (not followers like us) thought/reacted like the reviewers, Marie & Per should maybe think about doing only smaller, exclusive fan concerts. But they have to tell from feedback at the concerts, not from reading the papers. 🙂

  20. Hm, although I’m a hardcore Roxette-fan as you guys, I must say that the Roxette-revival is quite sad. But I don’t think its mainly because of Marie’s shortcomings.

    I think that the new “sound” of Roxette, based on Lundqvist’s guitar-style and Clarence mostly playing the hammond-organ, is not good for the songs. This is a sound that first appeared 2005 on Gessle’s Son of a Plumber, and has been there ever since. Just listen to the Smukfest video of The Look.

    My opinion is that Roxette would get benefits from going back the old, classical sound. This implies:
    1) Jonas Isacsson on guitar. Christoffer Lundqvist is too much of a Brainpool slacker guy. Both his guitar playing style as well as his sound is not optimal for Roxette.
    2) Clarence playing more 80’s sounds, i.e. synthesizer-pads and arpeggios. E.g. the sounds that appears in the studioversion of Dangerous.
    3) A percussion guy. Rox has had Staffan Öfwerman & Mats Persson on this position. The songs sort of “demands” a percussion section, at least in my opinion.

    Do you agree? Note that I really love Per and Marie, and more than anything would like to see them triumph.

    If you want to feel free visiting the homepage of Sweden’s finest Gyllene Tider Tribute band (that I play keyboards in 😉
    http://www.billy.se

    Anders

  25. I guess you’ve got to put Marie’s shortcomings into context after all she is a women who survived a life threatening brain tumor! So of course she is gonna have some problems (lyrics being one) but from what i can tell her voice is definitely stronger than it was at NOTP! & she definitely has more energy on stage!! The reviewers can go f%#k themselves & leave our girl alone!! I only hope she doesn’t get discouraged by them.

    BTW: Liking the new backing vocalist! She has a good energy on stage : )

  27. I posted my comment on our FB site, don’t want to repeat myself. By watching the clips from Denmark that have been uploaded recently I can tell you – the journalist are wrong and it’s typical when a band makes a comeback after so long time, there is always a group of people who say that they shouldn’t do that because it’s pathetic. And I think Roxette is in this kind of situation at the moment. They have to do their job as good as they can, make their shows better and better and this not-so-fair journalist will see that it’s not about money or being pathetic.

    On the other hand the bad reviews can be a good (or bad) reason for sponsors, organizers or media that will not want to promote Roxette again. It’s very complicated situation if we (or they) consider a world tour.

    I keep my fingers crossed and hope for better press this week 🙂 Even though it does not matter for us – being fans – but it matters for all those people who organize the concert and promote it. So, keep on roxing!

    But after all – to quote Per G. – “Det spelar ingen roll vad som skrivs, bara bilden är bra” (It doesn’t matter what is written as long as the picture is good) :))))))))))))

    @Anders

    you have right to have your opinion, but I have to disagree with you. I have never seen a concert with “healthy” and “energetic” Marie. It’s THE PAST picture of the duo we all know. At the moment we are in the 21st century and we have to accept Roxette as they are now – 20 years after Joyride era. They have fun on stage together, though mistakes do happen, lyrics get lost, the voice is not as smooth as it was 20 years ago. But who gives a s*(t, really? And it’s not about the bloody cancer all the time. I don’t want to make Marie’s illness as a lame excuse – not for me, neither for journalist or Roxette themselves. I don’t want to see 10/10 after every concert just because Marie was ill. No, I just want to read a fair review which not only tell how many mistake were made, but also if the people enjoyed the show. A good journalist should TALK with specators after the show. Was there anyone who really did this?

    P.S. We do forget about – which I call – “the first row perspective”. You experiance the show in a different way when you stand 300 m from the stage and when you are in front of the stage – just 5 m from your favourite artists. I suppose this kind of effect did happen in Sundsvall and Skandeborg.

  28. @Tomos85 and others:

    I totally agree with you. Don’t know how well you read my post. One can and should never compare 2010 version of Roxette to the one of 1990-95. It’s so good just to see Marie onstage again.

    But the “musical sound” coming from the backing-band is definetely something that is in the hands of Roxette to influence. I think it’s a pity that they make “Son of a plumber versions” of the songs. They should stick to the original format instead 🙂

  29. I can’t really judge the sound as long as I haven’t heard it live. From the videos I like it, it’s more rough/rocky than the RS shows. In 2001 they sometimes sounded forced by the video-synchro and had tacky instruments for some of the ballads (human vox on IMHBL). I read a few comments about the drummer (Pelle) being a very weak part (here and for NOTP). Does anyone think so? I can’t make it out, just noticed the plastic wall for the first time.

    As for the stage action/lack of past Marie power moves, I think it helped of they had a detailed light- and videoshow, to have “more” for the eyes. That would be a plus with a proper tour – and of course that the whole band gets better with every gig! No dancers wanted though! 😛

  30. billygyllenetider :

    @Tomos85 and others:
    I totally agree with you. Don’t know how well you read my post. One can and should never compare 2010 version of Roxette to the one of 1990-95. It’s so good just to see Marie onstage again.
    But the “musical sound” coming from the backing-band is definetely something that is in the hands of Roxette to influence. I think it’s a pity that they make “Son of a plumber versions” of the songs. They should stick to the original format instead

    This is a very interesting discussion …

    I think this kind of debate happens to every band with LONGEVITY–fans will latch onto their favorite “era” of a band’s sound. Personally, I think this is a GOOD thing. It shows the band has evolved and still finds ways to keep the old standards fresh–for themselves as well as the fans. I think Roxette should be applauded for evolving their sound over the years, ESPECIALLY since they always have been a greatest hits band live. If “Dangerous” still sounded like it did in 1988, I’d be very, VERY bored with it, and I imagine Per & Marie would be, too!

    That said, I personally agree the current band lineup is better suited for Per’s solo work–PERFECT for Party Crasher–than it is for Roxette. I agree Christopher’s “garageband” style of lead guitar just doesn’t have the same smoothness as Jonas’s, which, for me, is a huge part of the Roxette “sound.” To me, Per’s solo work has always been about chance-taking, raw, spontaneous moments and Roxette has always been more about well-crafted and perfected production. None of this is a criticism, just my own personal preference.

    In the end, I totally support the current evolution of Roxette–any Rox is better than none. It’s still a great lineup with great musicians performing great songs. And I think the “Party Crasher” takes on the songs are just fine. But, personally, it’s not my favorite era of Roxette, either. Ultimately, when so few bands have any longevity whatsoever, it’s just great Roxette has been around long enough to even have these kinds of differing opinions!

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