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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!

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2010 tour: Sundsvall, August 7, tour premiere

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Setlist

Fan stories

Swedish media reports about fans that made the long way to Sundsvall/Sweden:
- Danyela Etchard from Brasil, who shared her flight with Roxette
- Brenda Donatti and Lionel Zaragocin from Argentinia, who celebrate Marie’s comeback on 4 concerts

Alison’s report for RXB

Videos

By austlich: Dressed for success | Listen to your heart | Church of your heart | Fading like a flower | It must have been love | Joyride
By bodenina:  Fading like a flower | Sleeping in my car
By zvullo: Joyride | It must have been love | Fading like a flower
By odfah: Dangerous (not full, bad quality) | Steppin Stone
By Paularoxer: Perfect day | 7twenty7

Other: It Must Have Been Love (by JessieKay1978)| It Must Have Been Love (by holmas1) |  | The look (by torbjornl) |  It must have been love (by MrsTwisted)

Photos
Rockfoto.nu

Roxette’s comments

Per: “Marie was fantastic. What a girl! It is a pity that I’m married.” (laughter)

Marie a few song into the gig: “Fantastic! Finally!”

Official videos

Media reports

video: interviews before the concert | Expressens’s concert review | song by song | post-concert interview | blog entry | ST.nu review | allehanda | Aftonbladet | SVD | Dagbladet Sundsvall (5/5!)

Gessle: “Publice in Sunsdvall was fantastic” (ST.nu)

Trivia

16,000 visitors in the arena!

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Let’s make August 7 Roxette day on last.fm!

Posted July 31: Some Roxette fans plan to mark August 7 as ‘Roxette Day’ on last.fm, to celebrate the return of Roxette to the concert stage. It is simple to take part, you only have to listen songs of Roxette during the day via last.fm. In best case that should carry Roxette to the top of the service’s playlists. Everyone is invited to take part!

This call was brought to us by bonamaison

Update August 7: Today’s the day! Let’s play!

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2010 tour: Halmstad, August 4, dress rehearsal

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Setlist

1. Dressed for success (Look sharp!)
2. Sleeping in my car (Crash! Boom! Bang!)
3. Opportunity nox (The Pop Hits)
4. The big L. (Joyride)
5. Wish I could fly (Have a nice day)
6. She doesn’t live here (Don’t bore us…)
7. 7twenty7 (Have a nice day)
8. Perfect day (Joyride)
9. Things will never be the same (Joyride)
10. It must have been love (Pretty woman)
11. Stupid (Marie left the stage on this song)
12. Do you wanna be my baby (Marie left the stage on this song)
13. Silver blue (Per said they sing this one because it was #1 in the song requests/ fans wanted to hear, yep, it was your choice, dear RoxetteBlog.com readers) (Tourism)
14. Fading like a flower (Joyride)
15. How do you do! (Tourism)
16. Dangerous (Look sharp!)
17. Joyride (Joyride)

Encore:
18. Listen to your heart (Look sharp!)
19. The look (Look sharp!)
20. (I’m not your) Steppin’ stone
21. Church of your heart (Joyride)

Fan stories

Judith’s report for RXB

Videos

Intro | Listen To Your Heart | Joyride (part) | Silver Blue | Wish I Could Fly | LTYH 2 (better audio)

By Sarah: Silver Blue | Perfect Day | Church of Your Heart

By Alex Usero, go to his YouTube profile, you’ll find It Must Have Been Love, Perfect Day, Things Will Never Be The Same, Wish I could Fly, Silver Blue.

By Judith (parts of How Do You Do!, Opportunity Nox, Steppin’ Stone and Silver Blue full).

By Txiqui (Perfect day, Fading like a flower, Things will never be the same, Silver blue)

Photos

Photos can be found here in the photoshow at GP.se.

Great photo gallery by Txiqui/Roxspain

Roxette’s comments

Great dress rehearsal last nite. Marie in top form. The band kicked ass (after 4 songs..). The crowd was awesome. Hallelujah everyone.

Official videos

Media reports

Announcing the gig: Hallandsposten | Aftonbladet | Expressen | HD | GP | Aftonbladet
GP reports live from the concert
Concert reports: The Daily Roxette | Hallandsposten | Skanskan.se

Trivia

The 600 tickets sold out within 2 hours, despite only available at Hotel Tylösand. Plus 400 invited guests.

Pearls of passion – 0
Look sharp! – 4
Pretty woman soundtrack – 1
Joyride – 6
Tourism – 2
Crash! Boom! Bang! – 1
Don’t bore us… – 1
Have a nice day – 2
Room service – 0
The ballad hits – 0
The pop hits – 1
Per’s solo – 2
Cover – 1

Please excuse the rough translations!

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The Race Legends event with Roxette gig cancelled!

According to an jnytt.se article, the upcoming The Race Legends event at Anderstorp raceway got cancelled due to financial problems of the organizers. It was meant to be the biggest event for the site since the 70s. As the article states, Roxette’s gig at the raceway doesn’t survive the failure. An official press release by organizer Urban Stamming about this issue is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday.

The Race Legends organisation was marked with confusion and failures from the beginning. There was a public dispute about the accepted ticket resellers.

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Per Gessle at the royal ball – June 17th

Tonight at Drottnigsholm Palace the big pre-wedding dinner takes place for 200 closests friends and relatives. Per Gessle is one of the guest and came to the castle at 7.15 PM local time with his wife Åsa. For pictures visit Expressen, Aftonbladet, SvD, SVT, Italehi, iltasanomat.fi

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Roxette billboards in Moscow and St. Petersburg

Evgeny Perekopskiy from Moscow took few photos of Roxette billboards that advertise their gigs which will take place on September 10th and 12th, 2010.

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Gessle: “Crown Princess has an extremely good taste”

Per Gessle has officially confirmed that Roxette will play on Victoria’s pre-wedding party on Friday, June 18th, Expressen reports. “Crown Princess has an extremely good taste, Per Gessle comments to Expressen.

He took part in the official banns of marriage ceremony, where Victoria and Daniel received gifts and presents from invited guests e.g. Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. The ceremony took place on Sunday afternoon, May 30th. Gessle came to the castle with a large silver package. When Aftonbladet’s reporter asked what’s inside, Gessle just laughed and answered “It’s a puppy“. Per Gessle was very happy when he came out of the castle afterwards and told Expressen that the dainty sandwitches were very good. He did not want to reveal any other details around the performance, since it would be no fun.

Sources: Expressen.se, Svenskdam.se, Aftonbladet.se

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Mystery of new music books

As we previously informed, “Best of Roxette” will be published by Swedish publishing company Gehrmans Musikförlag. The premiere was postponed two times – first time from March 22nd till June 1st and now the official release date is September 1st 2010 according to Adlibris.se and Cdon.se.

Suprisingly, on both sites mentioned above two more Gessle/Roxette music books are in stock – both released on May 31st by Books, LLC. The books are said to be in English. There is no cover pictures or any informations except the very long title where few songs’ titles are included (e.g. It must have been love, Listen to your heart, The look, Joyride, How do you do, The centre of the heart).

Amazon.co.uk gives more details – they claim that Gessle-book has 324 pages (!) and its dimensions are 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm while Roxette’s book has 126 pages and it dimensions are 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm.

Is it meant to be the international version of Swedish “Best of Roxette”?
Does anyone know more about these publication?
Or better: is there someone out there who purchased them?

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Gessle, Ulvaeus and Ledin behind “Next Big Thing” contest

According to DagensIndustri, pop legends Björn Ulvaeus, Tomas Ledin and Per Gessle are behind a new project which they hope will become Sweden’s biggest music competition – a kind of “Idol” on the web. It drew my attention that artists and songwriters can make money online, says Per Gessle to Dagens Industri.

Behind the contest called “Next Big Thing” is Snowfish.com – the company owned by famous Swedish stars. Anyone who does not already have a record deal can participate in this competition and the idea is that the audience will be a jury and will vote for the winner. It is still unclear if only Swedish citizen will be able to participate in it.

With 100,000 opened accounts, we estimate that around 25,000 are going to be the artists and the rest will be a jury, says Niklas Holmstén, Snowfish CEO. Advertisment revenue is estimated at about 10,000,000 SEK and compensation for the artists will be calculated basing on the number of listeners.

The idea is supported by e.g. Telia Sonera, Spotify, Sony Ericsson and Musikbörsen.

Source: DI.se

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Billboard.com article on Roxette’s new album

Billboard.com published an article about Roxette’s new album. You can read it here: Billboard.com

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Join the Joyride – Porto Alegre concert

She did it again. Danyela Etchart, Brazilian fan, created an amazing documentary about Roxette “Join the Joyride!” tour concert in Porto Alegre, Brazil on May 6th, 1992. It was 18 years ago. More on that concert you can read on Dany’s fan blog.

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Watch Åsa Gessle’s interview on TV4

Here you have a chance to watch 8-minutes-long interview with Åsa Gessle in Swedish on TV4.

Thanks to Dany and Rosina for informations.

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Unknown picture from “Hitlåtens historia”

Unknown picture from making of “Hitlåtens historia” was published today on NRK.no. Clarence “the third member of Roxette” Öfwerman joined Marie and Per in this photography.

Source: NRK

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Norwegian NRK1 showed “Hitlåtens historie”

Norwegian TV station NRK1 showed “Hitlåtens historie” also known in Swedish as “Hitlåtens historia” – documentary on the story of “The look” hit single. There is no additional footage or any changes. Subtitles and the reader’s voice are in Norwegian.

Source: NRK

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