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KAZAN, RUSSIA 28-2-2011
Setlist
01 -Dressed For Success
02 – Sleeping In My Car
03 – Opportunity Nox
04 – The Big L.
05 – Wish I Could Fly
06 – Only When I Dream
07 – She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
08 – Perfect Day
09 – Things Will Never Be The Same
10 – It Must Have Been Love
11 – 7Twenty7
12 – Fading Like A Flower
13 – Silver Blue
14 – How Do You Do!
15 – Dangerous
Band presentation (with Kalinka Malinka)
16 – Joyride
First Encore (first extras)
17 – Watercolours In The Rain
18 – Spending My Time
19 – The Look
Second Encore (more extras)
20 – Way Out
21 – Listen To Your Heart
22 – Church Of Your Heart
Photos
Tatar Inform | Kazan KP | InKazan
Concert videos
IMHBL (bit) | Bits of the first 3 songs | The Look | Listen To Your Heart | It Must Have Been Love (full)
YouTube user olga2709k has uploaded parts of the concert on her account. So far: Part 1 (Dressed for Success, Sleeping In My Car, Opportunity Nox) |Part 2 (The Big L, WICF, Only When I Dream) | Part 3 (She’s Got Nothing On, Perfect Day, Things Will Never Be The Same) | Part 4 (It Must Have Been Love, 727) | Part 5 (Fading Like A Flower, Silver Blue) | Part 6 (How Do You Do!, Dangerous, Joyride) | Part 7 (The Look). Thank you!
You can find videos about Roxette’s arrival in Kazan in our previous article.
Articles
Kazan KP | Expressen about tour start
Expressen backstage: Marie saying she was really nervous that is why she forgot the lyrics for LTYH and Per saying that Roxette wants to play in North America and Australia.
Aftonbladet: “It’s a tour without an end” + “We want to go to Australia, we really want to play in Canada or in USA or in any other places. There are some plans.” + “We will add one song to the setlist on each continent” + “It’s the world’s best rehab for Marie”
SVT Interview with Per: Roxette rehearsed around 40 songs and will play 23, 24 each evening. They want to differ the playlist as they know that some songs are much more popular in specific countries.
Reviews
Expressen 3/5: “Here starts Roxette’s success tour”
Aftonbladet 3/5: “Marie Fredriksson sings better and better. It is a return of no one thought was possible, and she takes advantage of the slow songs, as an excellent ‘Spending My Time’.”
Misc
Marie wore the official T-shirt of Kazan hockey club Ak Bars in the second encore.
The background picture was changed from Joyride one to Charm school artwork.
Does anyone know when it happens on the concert?
7,000 people attended the show.
Helena Josefsson (backing vocals) tried to save a squirrel who is captured in a small cage in the hotel reception. You can follow her comments and actions on her Facebook page.
Per Gessle reveals in the interview for Expressen that Roxette want to travel tour in North America and in Australia. At the moment this tour has no specific finish point 🙂
http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.2349111/marie-fredriksson-tappade-lattexten-jag-var-nervos
Spending My Time http://vkontakte.ru/video3128605_159311960
holy crap! I posted SMT before I even listened to it – this version is awesome! can’t wait to hear what it will sound like after a few more shows…
“It’s a tour without the end”
“We want to go to Australia, we really want to play in Canada or in USA or in any other places. There are some plans.”
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“We will add one song to the setlist on each continent” 😀
“It’s the world’s best rehab for Marie” 😀
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/rockbjornen2011/article8640468.ab
Interview with Per for SVT – it seems like Roxette rehearsed around 40 songs and they will play 23,24 each evening. They want to differ the playlist as they know that some songs are much more popular in specific countries
http://svt.se/2.27170/1.2343269/gessle_kul_att_komma_igang&from=rss?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Svtse-Kulturnyheterna+%28svt.se+-+Kulturnyheterna%29&utm_content=Google+International
yeah i love it when the band sets in during SMT, but Marie… again… it’s a bit sad
what so sad? that she forgot a part of the lyrics? c’mon… i can name things that are sad, but not this one!
Just stay positive, she’ll get better in upcoming shows, she had proven it before.
How Do You Do!/Dangerous http://vkontakte.ru/video26593049_160038243
I think Helena is doing a great job too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAPWzKfQLhg (DFS,SIMC & ON from user olga2709k)
well, well, i think we can hear the whole concert for this girl 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0RJIiZ9a4 (The Big L, WICF & OWID from user olga2709k)
Okay, so you can delete my comment, which is still awaiting moderation :-/
Floppy, the links get blocked sometimes… Now you posted it first. 😉
@Sascha: Yeah, it’s a tiny bit disturbing. You wanna spread the news and find yourself in the waiting line.
I thought this would only happen with more than one link/comment but it also happens with just one link. Well, anyway, most important thing is, that it got posted, no matter how! 🙂
Updated with the articles. Nice to see the Swedish tabloids getting into good mood. 🙂
Part 3 . SGnO, Perfect Day and TWNBTS, again thanks to Olga2709k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJOp3wWV92M
thank you! This is great stuff!!!! Can’t wait to see them in June :O
http://vkontakte.ru/video5833191_159399073 Joyride (part of it)
And part 4 from Olga 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjMr0162O3Q
Yes, if Marie gets stuck on a lyric, we’ll be there singing it for her. If she were just sitting in a chair on the stage and not singing at all, I’d still be happy just to see her there. Marie’s best will always be good enough for me.
The simple stage setup is quite tasteful…but no screens makes it sad for those sitting way in the back who can’t see. That’s a problem when you have tens of thousands of fans, many of whom have traveled internationally and perhaps have never seen Roxette live before. I would like to know why they aren’t part of the tour.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who’s posted video…it’s to me the appetizer before the entree!
we need a “Like” button here 😛
Hey does anybody know why they don’t whistle during “Joyride” anymore?
Maybe they think it’s cheesy nowadays.
Have they ever stopped to be cheesy? 😉
I can’t watch the Spending My Time video – keep getting an error 🙁
I just watched Olga’s second part (The big L, Wish I could fly and Only when I dream) and I can only say one thing: Thanx Olga and I’m currently pressing the LIKE button, a lot! Sounds great. They could’ve extended the final part of Only when I dream like Silver Blue and it would’ve been even greater.
Does the show have some kind of intro?
What about merchandise?
In 2010 they used video screens on the open air gigs, but not in Russia. So I think they’ll have it again on other dates.
That’s encouraging!
fading like a flower http://vkontakte.ru/video2159710_159439546
Just watchin’ the videos. What a joy to hear them play. Marie is GREAT, much better than last year both in singing and moving. And Helena is doing a great job too, they just leave rest of the band into the shadows. 😉 I hope Marie’s voice will hold the whole tour.
And I just love these days of Internet, all the extra stuff with Per’s videos etc. A great thank to you blog admins too. 🙂
Per has posted some videos before and after the event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/video/?oid=124117970984196
“Radio” sounds fantastic, amazing, impressive live… what an outro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems that some people don’t know why Rox are touring!
Having fun and celebrate Marie’s health! No commerce at all.
And it’s great to see them all back again ( Joined the crasher tour in cologne and the handig man tour in helsingborg) I’m really looking forward to Frankfurt and Cologne in June to see the worlds greatest band ever!
Rox the WORLD!
Added more videos by Olga! 😀
It’s a pleasure to be able to follow the swedish news too. At first I didn’t like the way Roxette is mentioned to be “Sveriges största musikexporten”, as if it had only to do with economic success. But then I realised that one reason for their big sales that they go to places many other don’t bother. That shows they’re real professionals on the field and have a down to earth attitude on what they do. I wonder if it has also something to do with the fact that both Per and Marie are from Swedish countryside…