Don’t miss this great interview! You’ll find it here. Per talks about NOTP, Roxette’s future and dreams, and much more. You might even find answers to your questions.
Interview
Cirkus concert on P4
Swedish radio P4 will broadcast Per Gessle’s Cirkus gig on October 24. It is still unknown from which day it will come, but as for now we were informed it would not be the whole concert. Before the broadcasting, the interview will be aired. It is connected with a release date of “Gessle over Europe” which is set to be out in Sweden on October 21.
Source: Gessle.com, TDR
Roxette on the radio – Portugal 1999.
It’s 10 years now that Roxette were in Portugal, both to promote “Have A Nice Day” and film the video for “Anyone”. On April 11, they performed on the “Globos de Ouro” gala (kind of the Portuguese domestic version of the “Golden Globes” awards), broadcast live on TV; on the 12, they did a press conference in Lisbon, plus also a radio interview for RFM (one of, if not the biggest national radio station here); and from 13-15, they made the video for “Anyone”.
Some days later, RFM had a Roxette special day (can’t quite recall it, whether it was the following Thursday that week, or Thursday the following week… it was on a Thursday for sure, though) during which they aired excerpts of the interview with Per and Marie.
Also some time later, sometime around May following the release of the single “Anyone”, Rádio Placard (by then one of the most popular regional radio stations from Porto, Portugal’s second city) aired excerpts of the press conference by Roxette in Lisbon.
Certainly this ain’t no new stuff, but anyways, as I just had a chance to transfer these few radio bits from my old cassette to the computer, so I thought I’d share it. I mean, quality ain’t even thaaat good (the radio on which I made these recordings then wasn’t either), but still. Enjoy!
Contents as follows:
Excerpts of the RFM interview on 12.04.1999 aired a few days later during Roxette special day.
Excerpts of the press conference in Lisbon on 12.04.1999 aired later in May by Rádio Placard during 3 days on their night program “Love Songs”.
Advertisement of “Have A Nice Day” made for RFM (aired on 13.04.1999).
ID made for the programme “Top Capital” on Rádio Capital (aired some Saturday in April 1999).
ID made for the programme “World Chart Show” which by then was broadcast in Portugal by RFM (aired somewhere in 1999).
Written by: sweepi @ R2R
Gessle: Madonna is fantastic
Per Gessle with his wife Åsa showed up on Madonna’s Sunday show on Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg on August 9. It was Gessle’s third Ullevi concert this summer.
– Madonna is fantastic. I expect a great show and a production that will look like very expensive, said Per just before her concert.
But he is not really very inspired by her music, though he likes some of her old hits.
– I saw both AC/DC and U2 this summer. They’ve inspired me a lot. Especially early AC/DC.
On his Twitter site, after the gig, Per wrote that Madonna last night was not really for him and he was really disappointed.
Source: GP.se
Thanks to linki @ R2R for AC/DC picture.
Marie likes U2. So does Per.
Marie Fredriksson was on U2 360° Tour concert in Gothenburg on August 1. Expressen published a little interview with her where she admitted that she liked U2 very much. On the other hand, Per Gessle posted on his Twitter, that U2 was great but not fantastic. I’ve seen them so much better many times before. Hilarious stage set though. Loved it.
If you want to download this interview, click here (thanks sweepi!).
Thanks to crashroxer & sarahdenrara @ R2R.