Head over to www.roxette.se to read a brand new interview with Per, talking about Roxette touring and recording again – and Marie & Per’s motivation behind it!
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Fresh interview with Per!
Apr 29
So here it comes. Afer one year of preparations and waiting we have finally managed to end up our works on yet another bootleg from “Party crasher tour” – to be honest – one of the funniest Roxette fan experiances in the 21st century.
After more or less professional recordings from Prague, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm (with Marie) as well as live tracks on amazing double album “Gessle over Europe”, it’s time for Warsaw. Per Gessle and his band came to Poland to play just one concert in Stodola rock club in Warsaw on April 22nd. In fact Poland was the only country on the tour list where Roxette/Gessle have never played live before. Some sources say that there were around 1,000 people in the audiance, but on the other hand I was informed about 700 tickets sold. Who’s right, who’s wrong? Who really cares?
Back to the topic. It’s a bootleg and it’s a compilation. So the quality differs from song to song constantly. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not so good, but that is how it works when you use five different recording sources. Give Slawek Sztul – he made it all possible (‘na na na’ on “The look” is his! 
and Blanka ‘Blunek’ Pentela – she has designed all the covers for “Gessle over Poland” included in the set – a big hand. I cannot forget about Ela ‘Blue_girl’ Krysinska – thank you for your help and contribution. It was amazing to work with you guys!
Here’s the set list:
Stodola, Warsaw, April 22nd 2009
01. Sound Of Music / Dressed for success
02. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her
03. Stupid
04. The party pleaser
05. Wish I could fly
06. She doesn’t live here anymore
07. 7twenty7
08. I have a party in my head (I hope it never ends)
09. Late, later on
10. Listen to your heart
11. Do you wanna be my baby
12. Opportunity nox
13. Doesn’t make sense
14. Church of your heart
15. Dangerous
16. Joyride
Encore 1:
17. C’mon
18. Are you an old hippie, Sir?
19. The look
20. It must have been love
Encore 2:
21. (I’m Nnot your) Steppin’ stone
22. Queen of rain
DOWNLOAD (bootleg + covers)
“Gessle over Poland” DVD bootleg will follow shortly. The audio stays the same, but you will get the footage to ALL SONGS. Prepare your Torrents!
As The Daily Roxette reports, the upcoming Roxette album got moved from end of this year to early 2011. The recordings go well, but they plan to have a summer break (where they’ll perform live around the Baltic sea) to resume recording until October. The actual plan is to record 16 songs with the first single to be released for Christmas 2010.
Comment: In my opinion that’s a good decision!
- The current EMI turmoil could lead to a quite insecure release/promotion situation this year. EMI was rumored to have postponed the next Coldplay album for example.
- The pre-christmas market is always very crowded with album releases. Nobody knows if Roxette’s name is still big enough to gather enough attention between such a huge competition. Roxette have a good history of winter/spring releases (all studio albums except (POP and LS).
- Judging from previous release interviews they always got fresh inspiration through a recording break.
I guess a first single already 2-3 months in advance of the album will keep us more excited than single/album released within 2 weeks… 
Per and Marie are in the studio together again. They spent a day at Stockholm studio Atlantis, where were recorded albums “Have A Nice Day” and “Room Service” back in 1998 and 2000. It takes 10 years to see them working there again. Marie joined Per in the studio for the first time since Night Of The Proms tour completion in December after almost two months long break. Per commented this on Twitter and Facebook and wrote that ‘Marie’s voice = splendido’. He also promissed new videos for soon.
Update: Four new videos arrived!
More videos on snowfish.com
Per keeps his nice habits and provides us newsbits and even photo/video material from the studios where Roxette’s brandnew album is being recorded. The first RX/PG album recording we can follow so close!
3 very successful days in the studio are finito. Home vids & pics at www.roxette.se very soon.
Check out the fresh material on roxette.se!
Source: Per on twitter | Photo: www.roxette.se
