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World Tour 2011: Tickets – UPDATED

Jan 16

Posted by Tomasz in Fans, Misc, Roxette, Tour | 10 Comments

As you may remember I did something similar back in 2009 with Party Crasher Tour’s tickets.

The idea is simple. We would like to collect all tickets from the 2011 tour. We would like to ask you to send us your tickets – at the moment we managed to collect almost all tickets from 2011 Roxette World Tour tour. As you see 3 more tickets are missing. Some pictures included belowe are low quality as well. So – if you want to send us something new or HQ, please do it at office@roxetteblog.com – thanks!

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“Run To Roxette” forums closing due to inactivity

Dec 26

Posted by Sascha in Fans, Misc | 13 Comments

After many years as one of the biggest Roxette fan communities “Run To Roxette” announced the closing of it’s forums today:

Hi there,
Due to the growth of social networks, we’ll close the R2R forum on january 1st, so please save the messages, contacts and pictures that you want. We can keep in contact thought the Facebook page.

Facebook fan page: facebook.com/RunToRoxette
Twitter: twitter.com/RunToRoxette

Regards,
The Run to Roxette Team.

forum.runtoroxette.com

The decrease of activity on the forums was clearly visible in the last months, when more and more Roxers concentrated their activity on social networks instead of the classical communities. After so many years it feels a bit sad though.

What do you think, can networks like Facebook replace the whole package of a dedicated fan community?

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E-Type covers Gessle co-penned song “Kärleken är evig”

Dec 19

Posted by Judith in Misc, Per Gessle, TV | No Comments

This may be interesting for collectors of songs written by Per Gessle. He once co-wrote “Kärleken är evig”, which was performed by Lena Philipsson at the Melodifestivalen 1986. The song finished second at the Melodifestivalen and reached number 3 in the Swedish single charts.

This song has now been covered by E-Type during the TV4 programme “Så mycket bättre – season 2″, a Swedish reality TV show where seven artists spend eight days together at a hotel in Gotland and each of them do their own versions of the other artists’ songs. The artists that participated in this season are Tomas Ledin, E-Type, Lena Philipsson, Laleh, Timbuktu, Mikael Wiehe and Eva Dahlgren.

You can watch the performance on TV4play.se, listen to the track on Spotify or buy it at iTunes. All of it if you are resident in Sweden.

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Anton Corbijn photography exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm

Nov 22

Posted by Judith in Misc | 1 Comment

Before you start wondering why this post, let me explain. I am a big Stockholm fan and a location which has become one of my favourite the last years is Fotografiska.

I have already seen three exhibitions there and I can simply recommend it. Not only for the photography itself, but also for the great cafeteria on the top floor, which gives you the chance to view the beautiful Stockholm islands from another point of view.

I just received the information that Anton Corbijn’s photography would be presented in an exhibition between January 14th and April 15th, 2012. Knowing that Per Gessle is a big fan of Corbijn’s work – he has the largest private owned collection of Corbijn’s photography in Sweden, which you can see in his hotel - and that Corbijn has taken pictures for Roxette and Per in the past, I quickly checked if there would be any of those pictures in the exhibition.

The answer is no. Also, no Gessle-owned photos are part of the exhibition. But still, having become a small photography fan thanks to Fotografiska (and to my sister, who takes great photos too), I recommend paying a visit to the Fotografiska and check Anton Corbijn’s latest project “Inwards and Onwards” if you have the chance.

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Universal to acquire EMI Music

Nov 12

Posted by Sascha in Misc, Recordings, Roxette | No Comments

After a lot of turmoil during the last couple of years, it seems like Roxette’s long-term record company EMI Music found a new home at Universal Music, the world’s biggest record company. Universal finally won the bidding game against Warner Music, but the deal still has to go through regulatory investigations because of its huge combined market share in recorded music. That process could take up to a year.

Meanwhile, current and past EMI artists seem to be quite happy with the deal. Dave Holmes, the manager of Coldplay, said that the deal “can only be a positive” for EMI. “I look forward to working with the Universal team,” he added. Mick Jagger said that he “particularly welcomed” the new owners. The Rolling Stones switched from EMI to Universal in mid 2008. “This is a very positive development and I particularly welcome the fact that EMI will once again be owned by people who really do have music in their blood,” he said.

Time will tell if this deal will bring any changes to Roxette’s future at the record company. EMI’s publishing arm is likely to be sold to Sony/ATV.

Read more: The Guardian 1, 2 | LA Times

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“The Look” suites in Hotel Tylösand

Sep 13

Posted by Tomasz in Misc, Per Gessle | 2 Comments

Hotel Tylösand, owned by Per Gessle and Björn Nordstrand, was going through major renovation and reconstruction in the previous months. On the Hotel’s Facebook page several photos from the newly opened “The Look” suite were posted. Yep, this room has definitely got the look!

Thanks to Monika Nowak for this information.

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World Wide Web with Roxette’s tune in the background

Sep 11

Posted by Tomasz in Misc | 2 Comments

Polish edition of the popular-science monthly magazine Focus has recently published very interesting article on the invension of the WWW. On Friday May 17th 1991 the meeting of several people took place in the CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. This time the meeting was devoted to communication system between different computers (yes, it was all about internet). The meeting was attended by e.g. Julian Brunon, David Williams, Timothy Berners-Lee and last but certainly not least Judy Richards, who according to the article was humming Roxette’s “Things will never be the same” from the newly released “Joyride” album during the entire conference. On this very meeting Timothy Berners-Lee, British physicits, showed effects of his 2-year work on something which he and his Belgian computer scientist colleague Robert Cailliau named as the World Wide Web. The first website built was at CERN and was first put online on August 6th 1991.

Thanks to Kamilla Lehman of roxette.pl Facebook page for this information.

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Swedish Hitz Goes Metal’s “The Look” on “Allsång på Skansen”

Aug 10

Posted by Tomasz in Misc | 2 Comments

Thanks to Niclas Eliasson for this information.

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New “She’s got nothing on (but the radio)” cover – watch it!

Aug 8

Posted by Tomasz in Misc, TV | 6 Comments

Have you heard the new orchestral cover of the latest Roxette hit single “She’s got nothing on (but the radio)”? If not, heads over to German ZDF website for more. Like it?

Roxette Official comment:

Oops…

Thanx for the link Dani. Life will never be the same.

Michael Saxell – a man behind Christoffer Lundquist’s album

Aug 3

Posted by Tomasz in Misc | No Comments

Michael Saxell is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He has recently worked with Christoffer Lundquist on Chris’ first solo album. Here are few interesting quotes from the recent interviews Michael gave.


On May 4th Christoffer’s debut album as soloartist “Through The Window” was released by Warner Music Sweden. All music by Christoffer and I’ve written the lyrics. Drummer extraordinaire Niklas Kilenstam and great singer Hanna Ekström add brilliance as well as string ensemble; Charlotta Bergström, Tomas Ebrelius, Johanna Skoglund and Charlotta Weber Sjöholm and horn players; Sven Andersson, Petter Lindgård and Jens Lindgård.

“Green” the first cut off Christoffer’s album is chosen as the theme song for an exciting new project, YMP(Young Masters Programme) involving United Nations, UNESCO and Lunds University etc.

I got an email from Christopher when he was in South Africa as part of the Roxette band. He told me that “Green” is the first track from his debut solo album and it has been chosen as the theme of a worldwide campaign called YMP, Youth Masters Program, developed for UNESCO.

It is a great pleasure to write together with Christoffer. It was like standing in a candy rain. That was the opposite of sitting and writting at the record company office in Nashvill as I have done several times before.

If you still have not purchased Chris’ album, just give a try and listen to this song!

Source: Michael Saxell’s page, Expressen, Wikipedia

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Athlete duo Look Sharp! to tour US

Aug 3

Posted by Tomasz in Fans, Misc | 1 Comment

We have found this interesting piece of news on the internet the other day…

The Swedish artist/athlete duo Look Sharp! – Peter Aberg and Viktor Gyllenberg – is touring the Midwest with a multi-faceted tribute to their homeland’s pop rock sensation, Roxette, which put out hits such as “The Look” and “Listen to Your Heart” in 1988.

Named after the Roxette’s classic album “Look Sharp!” Peter Aberg and Viktor Gyllenberg toss bowling pins, balls, rings and more while dancing and doing gymnastic moves. For one act they juggle with one hand each as they stand side by side. Think three-legged race. They also play guitar.

More at DailyTribune.com

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Biljettnu.se – issues with tickets again – this time for Tivoli concert on Friday

Jul 19

Posted by Tomasz in Misc | 2 Comments

Only few days ago a decision was made on the conflict between Live Nation and Biljettnu.se after the Roxette gig in Halmstad and here we have another matter to solve. Biljettnu.se has not got much of positive coverage in the Swedish and Danish media last days. They are selling tickets for the Roxette Copenhagen show that will take place at Tivioli on Friday, July 22nd five times more expensive (495 SEK instead of 95 SEK). Have a look at the latest headlines in both English and Swedish – they say (almost) all about the case.

The Daily Roxette – Bijlettnu.se back in action (English)
Sydsvenskan.se – Mats Pentmo: “I feel cheated by Bijlettnu.se” (Swedish)
Expressen – Cheated with super expensive tickets (Swedish)
Aftonbladet – This is more or less cheating (Swedish)
Expressen – Biljettnu.se: “This is how our company works” (Swedish)
Sydsvenskan.se – Biljett Nu in a new row with Roxette (Swedish; TT Spektra agency’s article was published on several websites)
Sydsvenskan.se – Tickets sites accused of false PR (Swedish)

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Clarification on the case Nojet / Live Nation vs. Biljett.nu

Jul 11

Posted by Judith in Misc | No Comments

We were asked to share this clarification with you.

Clarification

The Swedish Market Court decided not to open the case Nojet / Live Nation vs. Biljett.nu regarding the right to sell tickets to the Roxette Concert in Halmstad last summer. Their reason being that the event had already taken place and the Court saw no reason to make a ruling in the matter.

They did not however, state that biljett.nu had the right to sell tickets, they just decided to not make a statement at all. Given the headlines in some Swedish media we want to make this clarification; no case, no winner.

As it was Nojet/Live Nation who initiated this case it is common law that the initiator has to pay for the expenses of the other party.

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The Look goes metal

Jun 17

Posted by Judith in Misc, Releases | 9 Comments

Some months we wrote about the album “Swedish Hitz Goes Metal”, which was released in May 2011 and includes metal covers of the biggest hits written by ABBA, Roxette and Ace Of Base.

We received an email from Niclas Eliasson with the link to their newly released video to “The Look”.

You can read more about the band and the album in this Facebook page.

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Roxette Singbox mentioned by The Guardian

Apr 12

Posted by Tomasz in Misc, Roxette | No Comments

Roxette Singbox app get a little publicity on one of the biggest UK newspapers’ website Guardian.co.uk. Have a look!

Who knew Roxette would be the subject of an innovative music game in 2011? That said, who knew the Smurfs would be the subject of one of the most lucrative iPhone social games in 2010… Roxette Singbox brings the SingStar karaoke game model to iOS, using in-app purchases to download individual songs, with email and Facebook challenges for a social spin.

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