Misc

Anton Corbijn photography exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm

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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.

Universal to acquire EMI Music

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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

World Wide Web with Roxette’s tune in the background

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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.