Night of the Proms

NOTP tour: Antwerp, October 29, concert #5

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Great show last nite. Where? Antwerp of course! Videos out soon on www.roxette.se

Official videos:

Wish I could fly 1 | Wish I could fly 2 | Wish I could fly 3 | The Look 1 | The Look 2 | The Look 3
It must have been love | Joyride | Joyride 2 | Listen to your heart 1 | Gabriel is fantastic
Per does the hoolabaloo | Skånsk Ouzo

Fans stories:

FIND YOURSELF ON THOSE PICTURES

ANTWERPEN:

I’ve seen Per and Marie playing live in 1992 and 1994 -quite a while ago- so I did not know what to expect. But I must say they were stunning!!!!Marie’s voice blew everyone away. She sung like a godess! She is not so much jumping as she used to do, but everyone could see the joy in her eyes. And her voice was incredibly pure. Together with 15000 people singing Listen to Your heart. Wowsers!

JB ON R2R:

I’m just back of NOTP….Roxette was amazing, don’t think that I have a voice tomorrow, I was screaming all the songs from the top of my lungs !!!! I was very close to the stage and I could notice that Marie needed help to take the stairs for going to the stage… the braintumor took her out of balance, that poor thing, but lot’s of respect 4 her !!! I don’t think that Roxette will go on tour in the future, I believe that Marie can’t handle a full concert, even when she is a very strong woman, and she is of course, but still……and she still can sing like a bird and all the lyrics were correct!!!! She just needed some practise and she was very nerveuse with the opening of NOTP…….I have enjoyed the other artist too, OMD was great, but only 2 songs ?? C’mon  I will go again next year !!!! And it was a great experience to see Roxette live !!!!!

YouTube Clips:

The Look | Wish I could fly | It must have been love | Joyride | Listen to your heart
The Look

Media reports/reviews:

NOTP tour: Antwerp, October 28, concert #4

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We need your help. Each and every concert will have a such topic. If you find something connected with this particular gig, post it in the comment section. Thanks for your help and cooperation!

Photos:

Per Gessle’s comments:

Those 2 days off were spent with the flu in a hotel bed in sunny Paris. Terrible. Now; 4 shows in a row.

Hooray! Everyone’s healthy again. Marie was out-of-this-world-good last nite and I’m feeling much better, thankyouverymuch.

Official videos:

Good time?

Per and Marie are little krasliga

Fans stories:

FIND YOURSELF ON THOSE PICTURES

BIANCHITTA:

It was a night to remember. But it was too short… Too short…. I wished I should have had several heads. The 1st one to look at Marie. The 2nd to look at Per. The 3rd for the band and the last one for the audience, atmosphere. etc. No laugh. I couldn’t get it all at the same time… I was so anxious for all these and I had so little time that I think I missed a lot of what was happening… I have only one head so excuse me all but I wanted to look at Marie most of all. So I didn’t really realize how the audience reacted on Roxette. But I guess It was nice and people knew the lyrics.

But guys I didn’t care about all these people. There were only Marie and Per for me. I had waited for that moment since 2001. And I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t. I love them with all my heart and I miss them badly. And I admire Marie the way as she is. So I don’t care if she forgets the lyrics or whatever. She was so touching, vulnerable, still a little bit nervous but she was gorgeous. She will always be gorgeous for me. She and Per are now a part of my family. I just happy they exist. And once again I realized I miss them like crazy. I do miss Roxette in my life. Solo stuff… yeah it’s great! But nothing can be compared for me with Marie and Per together!!

I’d also like to say that I think it’s at least impolite to discuss Marie. Excuse me all. I don’t want to hurt anyone. But don’t you think we are not allowed to? No one from us really knows what she has been going through. Can you really understand she could die????!?!?!?!? How can you discuss her coordination, confusing, differences, etc calling yourselves fans and saying you love her!!!.???? It must be a joke!! Do you think she needs such reviews? Yes, thank you very much for such support….. C’mon! Be wise…. She does her best and I do think She is inimitable.

YouTube Clips:

The Look | Joyride | Joyride & Listen to your heart | The Look & It must have been love

Media reports/reviews:

NOTP tour: Antwerp playlist

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Here is the playlist for Antwerp, and every probable, for Rotterdam and Arnhem shows as well.

1. Also sprach Zarathustra – Nox Argentea Il Novecento
2. Hongaarse n° 5 – Il Novecento
3. Scarlatti’s metamorphosis – Katona twins
4. Bluesette – Toots Thielemans
5. Film medley – Toots Thielemans
6. Bloemenwals – Il Novecento
7. Mother earth/Ice queen – Sharon den Adel
8. Stand my ground – Sharon den Adel
9. Midsommarvaka + Wish I could fly – Roxette
10. Ouverture dichter & boer – Il Novecento
11. Maid of Orleans – OMD
12. Souvenir en Locomotion – OMD
13. Enola Gay – OMD

BREAK

14. Suite to dance 2 – Il Novecento
15. Sweet bad black or white spirit – Katona twins
16. La gazza ladra 2009- Katona twins
17. Stairway to heaven – John Miles, Katona twins, Sharon den Adel
18. Advent rising suite – Il novecento
19. Wonderful world – Toots Thielemans
20. If I could – Toots en John Miles
21. Bolero – Il Novecento
22. The look – Roxette
23. It must have been love – Roxette
24. Joyride – Roxette
25. Listen to your heart – Roxette
26. Land of hope and glory – Il novecento en fig.
27. Music – John Miles
28. Music – Iedereen

Source: Het Nieuwsblad

Thanks to Project_Z!

NOTP tour: Good news for the next shows

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Night of the Proms logoThe international NOTP fanpage provides some fresh info regarding the past and next shows – obviously they spoke/mailed with producer Jan Vereecke:

In our review of the premiere on the 23th of October we concluded that overall the show was good but we complained about the problems regarding the sound. During the rehearsals, Jan reported the sound to be good, but since there is a difference between the sound in an empty and a full arena… The problem is solved now and the quality of the sound became much better. That is good news.

During the weekend, Marie of Roxette got an infection of her throat which caused her voice to be less on the show of last Saturday. Immediatly she was put on medication. On Sunday she sang a lot better and her voice will be back to full strenght from Wednesday on. Also good news.

The running order of the premiere is still applied; the proof that the show was well prepared and jugded by the organization so that no adaption had to be made. Again, good news.

Question of the release for a CD of the Antwerp and The Netherlands edition was not denied by Jan. He wrote:”PERHAPS…”. Wouldn’t that be good news?

Source: notpfan.eu

Update: Producer Jan Vereecke writes within a post about reactions to the first shows:

… And then Marie was so ill on Saturday that she could barely sing, and it nevertheless has disappointed some people (understandably). … The report of yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) is that her voice got much stronger, but she still suffers a bad cough. We cross fingers for this evening. I hope that we can do a smooth show when Marie’s voice completely returned. …

Source: Jan’s blog

NOTP tour: Meet and Greet

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The tour started on friday and we want you to share your very special moment with Roxette. Did you meet Per Gessle after the show? Or even Marie? Or the other band members? What did they say? Did you take photos? Share your story and pics with us and send a mail to office@roxetteblog.com!! Every story and every picture will be published!

UPDATE (1.15 pm): First story and pictures are uploaded. Thanx Luis for sharing!

You find the Meet and Greet-subpage at the top of this page when you hover over “Night of the Proms” in the upper menu! Have fun reading and watching.