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World Tour 2012: Melbourne #1 Video Bootleg

Mar 7

Posted by Tomasz in Recordings, Roxette | 5 Comments

Here it comes – the very first video booleg from World Tour 2012 recorded by Aussie Fan who wants to stay anonymous – anyway we say big thank you for doing this and sharing your recordings.

If you don’t know what has happened during the first night in Melbourne, check here. Below you’ll find 13-part concert – download each part and then try to unzip it into one folder. Files were zipped by 7zip programme.

Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.001
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.002
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.003
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.004
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.005
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.006
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.007
Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.008
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Roxette.Melbourne.Australia.2012.02.18.DVD.zip.010
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World Tour 2011: Moscow Video Bootleg

Dec 6

Posted by Tomasz in Recordings, Roxette, Tour, YouTube | 3 Comments

You can always count on Russian fans! After last year’s bootleg recordings of Moscow and St. Peteresburg, here are another two videos covering almost whole Moscow concert that took place on December 1, 2011.

Part 1

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Has Per recorded soundtrack for Jonas Åkerlund movie “Small Apartments”?

Nov 30

Posted by abysmo in Exclusive, Per Gessle, Recordings | 4 Comments

Per revealed that he has written and recorded a soundtrack album for a movie during this year. Could it be a new 2012 Jonas Åkerlund film called “Small Apartments” starring Dolph Lundgren, Billy Crystal or Peter Stormare? IMDB Small Apartments 2012.

We are only guessing, you know :-)

Update, December 2: Per Gessle’s comment seems to deny this rumour.

Wow, what a line-up! Wish it was true!

And Matt Lucas is in there! Hallelujah! And Jimmy Knoxville! And Billy Crystal! And james Caan! Jeezus, Jonas – how did you manage this?

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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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Jonas Isacsson responds to Roxette fans

Oct 13

Posted by Sascha in Band Members, Recordings | 7 Comments

Since Roxette’s longterm guitar player Jonas Isacsson didn’t participate on the latest album “Charm School” and the current World Tour, many fans wondered why they stopped to work together and wished him to reappear on new projects like the “Tourism 2″ (working title) album. Jonas now responded to fans on Facebook in sort of an open letter:

Dear friends!
I’m honored and happy that you enjoy my
guitarplaying so much.
But let Roxette do their new stuff as they want.
It took some time for me to get rid of the ghost and
… grasp that I don’t work with them anymore.
I was sad but now I’m getting over it.
The old records are still there for all to hear and I’m
proud of my work. But that was then!
This is now and Rox are doing fine without me.
And I’m doing fine without them.
Let us carry on just like that.

Take care!
Jonas Isacsson

His last appearance with Roxette was the “Night Of The Proms” tour 2009 and the performance for Princess Victoria’s wedding in June 2010.

Good luck with your new projects, Jonas!

Thanks to Roland for the Info!

Update: Roxette comment this article via Facebook:

We all love Jonas dearly + are sure we’ll work together again.

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“Charm School” deluxe edition tracklist revealed – updated with locations

Jan 16

Posted by Judith in Recordings, Releases, Roxette | 15 Comments

First published December 17th. Updated January 16th

The tracklist of the additional CD which will be included in the deluxe edition of Roxette’s upcoming album “Charm School” has been revealed by The Daily Roxette:

01 – Dressed for Success (Live in St Petersburg 2010)
02 – Sleeping in my Car (Live in Stavanger 2010)
03 – Wish I Could Fly (Live St Petersburg 2010)
04 – 7Twenty7 (Live in Halmstad 2010)
05 – Perfect Day (Live in St Petersburg 2010)
06 – Things Will Never be the Same (Live in St Petersburg 2010)
07 – How do You do!/Dangerous (Live in Stavanger 2010)
08 – Silver Blue (Live in St Petersburg 2010)
09 – Joyride (Live in St Petersburg 2010)
10 – Listen to Your Heart (Live in St Petersburg 2010)
11 – The Look (Live in Halmstad 2010)
12 – Church of Your Heart (Live in St Petersburg 2010)

The songs were recorded in the concerts in Halmstad (14-8-2010), Stavanger (21-8-2010) and St. Petersburg (12-09-2010). Which songs were recorded where is still unknown.

In addition, The Daily Roxette informs that “It Must Have Been Love” (live) will be an extra bonus track of the iTunes edition of “Charm School”.

Update January 16th: Daniel found the tracklist of the Deluxe version including the locations where the live songs were recorded on CDON.se

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Mats Udd to direct the new Roxette video

Dec 23

Posted by Tomasz in Recordings, Roxette | 19 Comments

26-year-old Mats Udd from Falun is working on the new Roxette video for “She’s got nothing on (but the radio)” single. The world premiere is scheduled for January 7th.

EMI Svenska liked Mats Udd’s videos which he did for e.g. Swedish musician Familjen and he was appointed to record the new Roxette video in the end of November.

- I gave them four proposals and one of them was chosen. Just over a week ago I was told that “we are doing this”. On Monday I filmed Per and Marie and on Tuesday we did a story part.

The video will be put together in New York as Mats Udd is planing to spend Christmas holidays there.

He has made many other clips before for such artists like Timo Räisänen, First Aid Kit and Those Dancing Days. With Roxette for the very first time he has got the chance to work with a much larger productions.

WATCH SOME OF MATS UDD’S VIDEOS

Source: Dt.se

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The making of “Roxette 2011″ – the story so far

Nov 15

Posted by abysmo in Editorial, Recordings, Releases, Roxette | 6 Comments

It all started around 18 months ago. It was almost like a little miracle. First the big comeback news, then a tour with an orchestra, a summer tour and now a world tour starting in a few months. But probably the most interesting thing is the brand new album, the first one since “Room Service” in 2001. Now the waiting is almost over. So here are some highlights from this 18 months long journey of making the (yet unnamed) new “Roxette 2011″ album.

2009-05-05 Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson announce on a press conference in Antwerp that Roxette is back for real and will participate on the Night Of The Proms tour this autumn.

2009-05-28 Per says that they plan to go back to the studio this summer and want to release a new song until Christmas.

2009-07-17 Per writes on Twitter that he just recorded the first two new demos at the Aerosol Grey Machine studio in Vallarum.

2009-08-07 Per is back at the Tits’n'Ass studio in Halmstad with Mats MP Persson, working on new demos.

2009-09-23 Per says in an interview that some new demos are finished. Only acoustic versions, no arrangements, no intros, no solos, no backing vocals. The start of recording a brand new album.

2009-10-23 The plan is to continue with recording during Night Of The Proms. A hotel room will be used as a mobile recording studio. Marie is eager to record a whole new album.

2009-10-26 Per says in an interview that an additional room is booked for Antwerp and Rotterdam.

2009-11-15 Per says that he has around 13 songs written and now 2 of them are almost finished. The plan is to continue with recordings in professional studios after the Night Of The Proms tour finishes.

2009-11-28 Roxette have some 14 demos ready for full recording. Marie says that they sound fantastic and when she heard Per’s demos for the first time, she was really enthusiastic. Now it sounds very roxettish, but the plan is to update the sound a little bit.

2009-12-06 Per says that Roxette booked Atlantis studio for recording session in the spring. But recordings will start in January at Christoffer’s Aerosol Grey Machine in Vallarum. Marie will try to sing several vocals to each song to pick up the best one. The new songs sound like a modern version of their “Look Sharp!” so far.

2009-12-10 Antwerp, Rotterdam and now also Munich are places where Roxette are recording for the new album.

2009-12-15 And Bremen.

2009-12-17 And also Hannover.

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“Broken angel” featuring Helena Josefsson

Oct 27

Posted by Tomasz in Band Members, Misc, Recordings, Releases, YouTube | 5 Comments

A brand new Arash song featuring Helena Josefsson on the backing vocals.

Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for this information.

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2010 tour bootleg: Halmstad, audio x 2

Oct 15

Posted by Tomasz in Recordings, Roxette, Tour | 5 Comments

Time flies – 10 long, windy days passed since I had posted the last bootleg here on RXB. So now it’s a high time to present you two “new” audio recordings from one and only concert. Sweden’s Liverpool, Roxette’s hometown, småstad or whatever expression you would like to use – it’s all about rainy and cold Halmstad which got a little bit warmer on August 14th.

These two recordings have different quality, but I do hope you will appreciate hard and very exhausting work of two groups – Czech fans and so-called superduo Justyna & Kai :-)

The first bootleg (let’s call it Czech) includes all songs – the last ones from Gyllene Tider are ripped from the well-known YouTube videos. The second one (it could be Polish-German one) has a nice cover plus all the songs except “It must have been love”, “Joyride” and two GT’s classics like “Sommartider” and “När alla vännerna gått hem”. So it’s up to you to choose which one is the bigger, the better.

Czech bootleg ||||||| Polish-German bootleg

To quote the Man:

Thanx for yesterday. A truly magic night that we’ll never forget. Rox were great, GT were great, the crowd was awesome!!!! Cheers, P.

P.S.
St. Petersburg in audio is still waiting in the line.
Do you have any other recordings?
Maybe you ripped any of these video bootlegs I posted.
If yes, please share with us with your recordings – here in the comment section, on Fb or Twitter. You can use our e-mail address: office@roxetteblog.com

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2010 tour bootleg: Moscow, video

Sep 21

Posted by Tomasz in Recordings, Roxette, Tour | 11 Comments

So it’s another day and another bootleg. It will be hard to beat yesterday’s live album with any other audio recording that I have, so today I chose a video bootleg for a change. It was recorded in – suprise, suprise – Moscow! So Russians did it again. Not only recorded the concert in a very good quality, but someone (was he/she Russian?) recoreded this nice, sometimes a little bit shaky and too-many-heads-on-the-screen video. Not everything is there (Kalinka-Malina is missing for instance), but well, you cannot have everything, can you?

What can I say? It’s just worth watching. And if you know the person who did this, please let us know – we would like to write it was You, Dear Fan (though no money for copyrights, sorry :-)

If you have any creative idea how to call it or what kind of cover it should have, please feel free and drop a line in the comment section!

See the screenshots from the recording

DOWNLOAD

You will download 2 torrent files. There are two versions of this video bootleg. One is over 4 GB and it is divided into separate songs, the second one is smaller, about 1.5 GB and everything is in one part. Enjoy!

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2010 tour bootleg: “From Russia with love” (Moscow, audio)

Sep 20

Posted by Tomasz in Recordings, Releases, Roxette, Tour | 16 Comments

I was a little bit anxious to post bootlegs from 2010 tour, but since we got an official ok from The Man through Twitter, so it became just question of time with which bootleg to start with? As for now there are at least 3 bootlegs circulating over the internet and at least 2 more I know that will be available soon. I have decided to choose the one with the best quality. The recordings come from the concert which took place in Moscow on September 10th, 2010. It was recorded and mixed by Jacob “Rocktrades”.

Equipment: AT943 cardioid –> CA-9100 (no bass roll-off) –> Edirol R-09 (Line-in 24bit/44.1kHz)
Lineage: USB transfer to PC -> Adobe Audition v.3.0 (slight EQ applied, normalised, dithering to 16/44) -> CDWave for track splits -> Flac Frontend (level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)

DISC 1 (48:53):
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. Opportunity Nox
04. The Big L.
05. Wish I Could Fly
06. She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
07. 7Twenty7
08. Perfect Day
09. Thing Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Silver Blue

DISC 2 (43:04):
01. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
02. How Do You Do!
03. Dangerous
04. Band introduction
05. Joyride
- Encore 1 -
06. Listen To Your Heart
07. The Look
08. Church Of Your Heart
- Encore 2 -
09. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone

The artwork of the bootleg was designed by Arnaldo Mariano Suarez.

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Fresh interview with Per!

Apr 29

Posted by Sascha in Interview, Recordings, Roxette, Tour | 2 Comments

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!

“Gessle over Poland” audio bootleg

Apr 25

Posted by Tomasz in Fans, Per Gessle, Recordings, Tour | 5 Comments

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!

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New Roxette album postponed to 2011

Apr 18

Posted by Sascha in Recordings, Releases, Roxette | 7 Comments

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… :D

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