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NOTP tour: Arnhem, November 14, #15

Nov 15

Posted by Kiwein in Fans, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 18 Comments

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Wonderful show. Arnhem #2. Had a blast. Thanx for singing along. And thanx for the mighty Roxopoly-game we got yesterday. Unbelievable.

Official videos:

Coffee Creamer | Thanks Arnhem | Fanmeeting 1 | Fanmeeting 2 | Fanmeeting 3 | Fanmeeting 4

Fans stories:

From cvanbroekhoven:

I was at the Gelredome saturday the 14th!! It was f*cking great!!! I loved it very much. Marie looked great but also still very fragile. For me that made her the star of the NOTP!! Fragile and strong at the same time!! Per was awesome as always!!! He’s the man!!! He is such a great performer and musician. Looking forward to the new album!!!

ps. didn’t make any photo’s or videos…i didn’t want to miss a thing!!!! ROXETTE 4-ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Skyrider:

I was there on saturday. The first time I’ve seen Roxette live.
Roxette’s performance was a big joyride and with no doubt the best show I’ve ever seen. Marie sang so unbelievable good and what a stage presence – wow!
Per came along at the catwalk, at the end almost the whole audience sang along.
Everyone in the Roxette Band was in top shape and seemed to enjoy it very much, Christopher kicked-ass at the end of LTYH.
The concert was filmed, it would be interessting to know if it was for TV, a DVD or something else

YouTube clips:

Wish I could Fly | The Look | It Must Have Been Love | Listen To Your Heart | IMHBL II | LTYH II | WICF II | Joyride II | IMHBL III
| The Look II | Wish I could fly III | It must have bee love IV | Joyride III | Listen to your heart III

Another round: The Look | IMHBL | Joyride

Roxette at the end of the show

Media reports/reviews:

Nu.nl (Dutch) | Gelderlander.nl (Dutch)

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NOTP tour: Arnhem, November 13, concert #14

Nov 13

Posted by Tomasz in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 19 Comments

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Arnhem! Yes! Great show tonight in this huge indoor stadium. Vids available tomorrow, dear you.

Official videos:

Backstage: Love Hurts | Syster Jane | Chairs | Sledgehammer | Deep Voices

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From Kiwein:

Great show with a sometimes lazy audience. Roxette rocked da house. The Look was great because Marie sang the Na na na nas at the end of the song to the melody of the na na na nas in Hey Jude. I loved that! The venue didn’t convince me at all.. don’t know why it was just ugly.

Marie seemed to be nervous again on WICF and lost the subways again but rocked the 2nd part of the show away. I truly believe that her voice was never better than now. I love Listen to your heart and if it was for me I could listen to this song five times in a row.

I was lucky since I had a seat right next to the stage entrance for the artists. When Marie had left the stage after the flower ceremony I shouted: “MARIE” and she looked up. Before a steward pushed me away I could shout “YOU WERE GREAT” and she smiled and replied: “THANK YOU”. That made worth the trip! And the splendid hilarious meeting with Clarence, Christoffer, Pelle and Per, presents, hugs and kisses afterwards, haha.

YouTube clips:

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

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NOTP tour: Bye bye Antwerp

Nov 12

Posted by Judith in Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour | 17 Comments

With a picture sent to roxette.se Roxette and the band say bye-bye to Antwerp and head to Arnhem to play two shows at the Gelredome.

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NOTP Germany: Drink and help!

Nov 12

Posted by Sascha in Misc, Night of the Proms, Tour | 3 Comments

NOTP fan cup for GermanyNOTP Germany presents the fan cup for the upcoming proms season. When you order a drink at the German tourdates (except Frankfurt) you get this cup against 2 € pledge. If you like to keep it as a souvenir the profit goes to the Nordoff Robbins music therapy foundation. In Frankfurt you can buy it at the merchandising shop.

Nordoff Robbins | Source: NOTP blog (in German)

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, November 11, concert #13

Nov 11

Posted by Tomasz in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 13 Comments

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Concert photos by Noel
Meet’n'greet photos by Noel

Per Gessle’s comments:

The very last gig in Antwerp tonight (13 x 17000 people!!!). Next stop: Holland!

Bye bye Antwerp. Great great finale last night. However, time to move on. And get a new hat for Chris.

Official videos:

Saying thank you | Per crashing the guitar | Backstage I | Backstage II | Backstage III

Fans stories:

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Noel joined a meet’n'greet with Marie, Per and the band!

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, November 10, concert #12

Nov 10

Posted by Sascha in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 7 Comments

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Great Antwerp #12 show last nite. The band decided to take a taxi and check out Yes (of all bands) during the intermission, crazy bastards.

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NOTP tour: Programme book for Antwerp, TV broadcast?

Nov 9

Posted by Sascha in Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, TV | 11 Comments

Night of the Proms logoAt the official Proms page it’s now possible to go through a virtual programm book for Antwerp. Roxette on page five!

Source: NOTP Antwerp

Update: There’s an ad for NOTP on Belgian TV channel EEN on December 27.

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, November 8, concert #11

Nov 9

Posted by Kiwein in Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour | 12 Comments

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Fab show this afternoon. We all love the matinees. Screwed up a bit on LTYH but hey.. it’s live and live only. Now a day off. Vids tomorrow.

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, November 7, concert #10

Nov 7

Posted by Kiwein in Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour | 15 Comments

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Absolutely stunning gig last night. What a crowd! And Marie’s out of this world at the moment. Is Pelle still in the bar?

Official videos:

Joyride, IMHBL 1, IMHBL2, LTYH

Fans stories:

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From Sandra:

At the 7th of November there was no big difference to the day before. If I have to compare them I would say the 6th was just a little bit better. Problem for me was, that at WICF Marie was sitting on the right side of the stage (one day earlier she was sitting on the left) and between her and me was the camera guy. That was really disturbing because I couldn’t see her at all. The rest was as great as the day before.

A lot of eyecontact with P & M, Per using the catwalk, Marie standing up from the barstool in the middle of IMHBL and LTYH but Chris without hat this time. At the end Per was looking where to throw the flowers and when he looked at me I was pointing at myself, screaming “C’mon, over here!” and… yes, he threw them into my direction and it was easy to catch them. Good shot, Mr G! Thanks!!

This time it was C&C coming out after the show. We asked them which show they think was best so far and they said probably the 6th of November. While we were talking to them the van with Marie, Per and the rest of the band was driving by. All of them having a big smile on their faces. We offered C&C a ride to the hotel but they refused it. To quote Per: “hey, can’t win ‘em all!” :-D

It was wonderful. For me it can’t get any better but still I’m looking forward to Rotterdam… Wooooohhhhhoooooo!!!

YouTube Clips:

Wish I Could Fly | The Look | It must have been love |
The Look| It must have been love | The Look

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, November 6, concert #9

Nov 6

Posted by Sascha in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 14 Comments

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Chris’ hat’s on fire! He left it on stage aft LTYH. Some firecracker messed it up real bad. Terrible smell. Must’ve been his Skånska sweat.

Chris’ hat on fire. Now on www.roxette.se

Yes Antwerp! Brutally good show last nite. MF in top shape, Jonas solo on LTYH was magnificent. I had a blast. Thanx. More to come tonite.

Official videos:

Chris’ hat on fire

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From Roxer:

THEY WERE AWESOME!!!! Marie was doing EXCELLENT and I mean EXCELLENT!!!!!
And most important of all it REALLY REALLY REALLY was NOT playback. [...] She was really in the best shape I have seen her since she was having her illness! And it WILL only get better, I bet you! When they entered the stage, they both had a strange and dangerous look in their eyes as if they were gonna conquer the world and let them know that’they still Rock! And boy, they did ROCK!!!
I am really happy to bring you the good news and for all of you, forget the first concerts and join in the next shows. I am sure the best is even yet to come! Roxette you ROCK!!!

From Sandra:

Okay, here is my little review from the 6th of November. I really coudn’t wait to come to Antwerp again. I have seen the first two shows and after two weeks reading discussions about Marie’s voice and playback stuff I just wanted to see the good things again. I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed and I was soooooo right! The best show that I have seen so far.

It was a totally different and especially Marie looked more comfortable and more relaxed than at the first two shows. Her voice was strong and smashing and it felt great to see them both performing. Per used the catwalk on Joyride as well and during IMHBL and LTYH Marie sat on the barstool at first but it didn’t hold her there and in the middle of the songs she stood up. Like Roxer allready said, they were in top shape! When Per and Marie left the stage at the end of LTYH Per picked up Chris’s hat from the stage and put it on Chris’s head again. He was shaking his head a bit until the hat fell down and there it stayed until the end of the show. We all forgot about the hat until the big final.

Then came some pyro-effects and it immidiately caught fire. In a second there came a guy running onto the stage extinguishing the hat or what was left of it. It really smelled terrible and Per was pointing at the hat telling Marie and Sharon den Adel what has just happened :)

After the show Per came out once again. We were 6 people waiting and one of us was a Sharon den Adel fan. I told Per that they are getting better with each show and he answered that this is because they are getting healthier each day. Makes sence to me :) I asked him to sign a photo for my best friend and besides that there was some chitchat. They are working on 11 songs and it will be pure studio songs (no Tourism-suitcase-drums and such stuff) He bought the hat for Chris in Antwerp a few days ago and now they have to see if they can get another one (seems there will be another TV-recording and then Chris needs a similar hat) We got some plecs from him as well… what a generous guy ;) Then we said goodbye until the next day. Whatelse can a fan want. It was a night to remember…

YouTube Clips:

The Look

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NOTP tour: A view behind the scenes

Nov 5

Posted by Sascha in Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | No Comments

‘Fine Fleur’ choir member Maurice shares a view into the backstage area with a video he posted to Youtube. It features a nice soundtrack! He’s also offering large photo galleries with pictures from the rehearsals incl. Roxette.

As you can read on his blog, the Roxette camp wasn’t the only target of the flu: Many members of the choir got so ill that they couldn’t perform. The leader had serious problems to get enough singers on stage for some days…

Maurice’s blog (French/Dutch) | photo gallery

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NOTP tour: CD release on November 27

Nov 5

Posted by Kiwein in Night of the Proms, Releases, Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

nopt_cdThe night the German Night of the Proms start in Hamburg, the official CD for Germany will be released. The question is: Will there be live versions on it or not? The CD features Christina Stürmer and Alan Parsons who have their first performance at the first show of the 27th.

Roxette, Katona twins, John Miles, classical pieces will be live versions. Last week Christina Stürmer and Heaven 17 had rehearsals in Antwerp, those were recorded. These recordings will be mixed with audience sounds (faked live versions).
Alan Parsons will probably be live recordings from NotP 2008  (Charleroi and/or Spain).

The CD can be ordered at Amazon.
Thanks to Project_Z.

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, November 4, concert #8

Nov 4

Posted by Sascha in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 12 Comments

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Absolutely stunning show last night. One of those rare moments where everything seems to fall into place. The band, the songs, the crowd.

No show today; working on new songs in Christoffer’s room. He needs a butler.

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PASCAL:

Marie’s voice was very strong, although you can clearly notice she can’t reach certain notes anymore, but it doesn’t bother at all. Per was in a good mood, as usual. He made use of the ‘catwalk’ to try to cheer up the audience and did some hip moves. I found the audience to be rather calm during their songs (except for the visitors standing right in front of the stage of course). Still they did give M&P a very nice applause after each song and when Rox was finally done they got the most overwhelming applause of the evening and lots of people even gave a standing ovation (which they didn’t do for the other guest artists). One little embarrassing moment: Marie forgot the lyrics of the second verse of IMHBL. She was struggling and turned to Per for help (which caused some rumour in the audience). Fortunately she kept her smile and she didn’t even seem to worry about it. All in all it was very pleasing to see Rox play live! Great evening.

YouTube Clips:

The Look | It must have been love

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, October 31, concert #7

Oct 31

Posted by Sascha in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 13 Comments

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Terrific show last nite. TV-recording as well. Great crowd, great band, Marie in top shape! Now, 3 days off.

Official videos:

The Look | It must have been love | Joyride I | Joyride II

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Wish I Could Fly | The Look | It Must Have Been Love | Joyride

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NOTP tour: Antwerp, October 30, concert #6

Oct 30

Posted by Kiwein in Fans, Media, Night of the Proms, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 11 Comments

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Great show last night. Best so far. I believe so, yes. Yes.

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The Look (first minute) | It must have been love | Roxette flowers

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