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Jonas Isacsson responds to Roxette fans

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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.

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

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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

Mats Udd to direct the new Roxette video

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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

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

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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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