Judith, Author at RoxetteBlog

Premiere of documentary film featuring Helena Josefsson

March 12, 2011March 9, 2011 by Judith

Helena Josefsson (currently on tour with Roxette, backing vocals) is taking a break in the tour and won’t be in the next two concerts (Ukraine and Belarus). The reason for that is that she is attending the premiere of a documentary film about Dolly Parton she is in.

The documentary, directed by Jessica Nettelbladts, is called “Jag är min egen Dolly Parton”, which Helena co-starrs with Nina Persson, Cecilia Nordlund and Lotta Wenglén, as well as music producer Gudrun Hauksdottir. The film is about the friendship and dreams of these five women, about women being in the middle of a career and longing for cihldren. And, of course, about Dolly Parton as a role model.

The “VIP” film premiere took place yesterday in Stockholm. The official premiere is on March 11th in Folketsbio cinemas in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö and many other cities across Sweden.

Our reader Erik Johansson attended the premiere yesterday and comments “the film is in Swedish with no subtitles, so a lot of you will not understand that much, but there is really a lot of feelings going on.. and there were many times when tears came through”. He absolutely recommends the film.

SvD article

Jag är min egen Dolly Parton from Folkets Bio on Vimeo.

Update March 12th: The four ladies performed one of the songs from the documentary live at SVT’s Skavlan yesterday. You can see the performance here.

World Tour 2011: Kiev, Ukraine – March 10 #05

April 15, 2011March 8, 2011 by Judith

We need your help. The whole Roxette World Tour 2011 will be covered with such topics. If you find something connected with this particular part of the tour, post it in the comment section and we will add it to the article. Thanks for your help and cooperation!

So far we have a lot of material for each concert so we will keep on adding an article per concert.

Kiev, Ukraine, March 10th

Setlist (not confirmed)

1. Dressed For Success
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. The Big L.
4. Wish I Could Fly
5. Only When I Dream
6. She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
7. Perfect Day
8. Things Will Never Be the Same
9. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7Twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous

Band presentation (performing a guitar solo version of Ukrainian song “Chervona ruta”, so Per didn’t lie about Christoffer’s last night’s experience in a pub! lol)

15. Joyride

First Encore

16. Watercolours in the Rain
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look

Second Encore

19. Way out
20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart

Photos and articles

Segodnya.nu reports about Roxette arriving in Kiev: photo gallery | article (Ukrainian)

24TV.ua article and video

Videos

Concert:

By Kalmykov1982: Spending My Time | Listen To Your Heart

By Sashka78: Band presentation and Chervona ruta | IMHBL | Perfect Day

By Nasnaga: Wish I Could Fly | How Do You Do!/Dangerous | Listen To Your Heart | The End

By Mol4anov: Dressed for Success/Sleeping in My Car

By mnogovremia (poor quality): Things Will Never Be The Same | How Do You Do! | Joyride (part)

By zamutil (poor quality): It Must Have Been Love (Part)

By rocky20112011: She’s Got Nothing On (poor quality)

By Rec2Play: It Must Have Been Love (with funny part Marie realising she sings wrong :P)

By Infdima: Watercolours In The Rain

Misc

Malin Ekstrand replaced Helena in backing vocals in this concert.

Thanks to the various readers who sent the links!

World Tour 2011: Novosibirsk, Russia – March 7 #04

April 15, 2011March 7, 2011 by Judith

So far we have a lot of material for each concert so we will keep on adding an article per concert.

Novosibirsk, Russia 07-03-2011

Setlist

Same as in Ekaterinburg but “Way Out” was replaced by “Watercolours In The Rain”. Still no “Silver Blue”.

Videos

By Boldyrefff: How Do You Do! | Joyride

By TheDmitriy1983: It Must Have Been Love

By Nevardaed: Wish I Could Fly | Joyride

By TheYesterdayDreams: Listen To Your Heart

By MsRadioCat – short videos for : Spending My Time | The Big L | Dangerous | Things Will Never Be The Same

By Frogskinnsk: Spending My Time (longer)

Misc

In one of the videos posted by Per Gessle we can see Christoffer Lundquist reading the lyrics of Stars. Will the song be played later on?

This song was already performed live during the Room Service tour in 2001 in a very nice and different version than the one in the album. Here taken from the showcase in Barcelona.