Mar 11
Over 8,000 tickets were sold in just 6 days for Roxette concert which will take place on Viste beach on August 21st, Norwegian media reports. According to Bygdebladet.no there is still an opportunity for those who have not bought a ticket. Tickets that were not picked up in three days will return for the open sale.
On the other hand Billettservice.no still sells Roxette tickets. Maybe organizators decided to enlarge the concert a little bit?
Mar 11
This is what you should call an amazing Roxette ticket.
Thanks to Evgeny!
The last concert this year will be held in St. Petersburg. It will be organized by Live Nation with help of PMI (Petersburg Musical Industry) and radio station Maximum 102.8 FM.
Source: AllRoxette.ru
This is what we found on Roxette Attack website:
According to Thomas Johansson from Live Nation, there are no plans to include South America on Roxette concert schedule. Marie Dimberg from D&D Management claims there will not be any Roxette tour in 2010, only 5 concerts arranged on some Summer Festivals in Scandinavia and Russia.
Source: RoxetteAttack
Two days ago we posted a huge poster of Norwegian Roxette gig. Now we have a pleasure to show you Russian poster from Moscow – the gig that is organised by SAV Entertaiment agency, one of the biggest and most experianced on Russian market.
If you find any kind of posters, press advertisments, radio/TV ads of Roxette gigs, please feel free and share it with us. You can do it in comment section, at our Twitter, Facebook or just by e-mail: office@roxetteblog.com.
According to an article on Rogalands Avis, tickets for Roxette concert in Norway, which takes place on August 21st, sell like hot cakes on the very first day. In just 30 minutes over 3,000 tickets were sold and up-till-now over 6,000 tickets were bought by Norwegians. 1,000 VIP tickets are also gone. According to various sources, there are 8,000 – 10,000 tickets altogether available.
Roxette will play on Smukfest (also know as Skanderborg Music Festival). The festival will take place between August 4th and 8th in a beech forest in the vicinity of Skanderborg. It has given it the name “Denmark’s Most Beautiful Festival” (Danmarks Smukkeste Festival). Roxette is the second international artist that was revealed today – British Placebo also will be there.
According to Smufest’s press release there will be two gigs in Sweden. I do not know if it’s a mistake or a typo.
In 2009, Skanderborg Festival was held for the 30th time and is today the second largest festival in Denmark after Roskilde. The festival gatheres more than 45,000 people for the concerts, including 8,500 workers, most of them volunteers.
Source: Smukfest, Ekstra Bladet, Wikipedia
Update: According to TDR Roxette will play on August 8.
Roxette will perform in Randaberg, Norway on Vistestranden on the big Norwegian summer festival on August 21st (Saturday), which will be held for the fourth time this year. According to Bygdebladet’s article this will be the one and only Roxette concert in Norway and – according to the same journalist – it’s a part of the world tour. The stage will be exactly the same as this which will be build in Anderstorp, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
The ticket sale will start on March 5th (Friday) on www.billettservice.no and there will be around 8,000 – 10,000 tickets available. The ticket will cost 550 NOK (+ additional fee – the gate will be opened at 19.00), VIP ticket – 850 NOK (+ additional fee – the gate will be opened at 17.30). Concert will start at 20.00 and there will be 18-years-old.
The support artist will be Norwegian hip-hop duo – Paperboys.
Sources: NRK, Bygdebladet, Rogalandavis, Radio 3 Norge, Aftenbladet
Feb 24
First “Roxette in the studio” video including real recording can be found on Snowfish now. Clarence is playing organ sample, Christoffer is engineering from control room and Per comments it: “Hallelujah”
Video can be found here: http://snowfish.com/video/6738/c/7931/
Moscow, September 10th
Megasport Arena (formerly: Khodynka Arena or Ice Sport Palace on the Khodynka Field) – the arena has a maximum capacity of 14,500 people.
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St. Petersburg, September 12th
Ice Palace – it holds 12,300 people.
D&D Management confirmed the dates for two Roxette concerts today. The shows are in Russia and these are the dates:
September 10 – Moscow Mega Sport Arena
September 12 – St. Petersburg New Arena
Per Gessle also sent a short message to The Daily Roxette confirming the dates and hinting at more shows to come:
It feels fab to start the new year announcing live concerts by Roxette. Both Moscow and St Petersburg should be great fun! And if we’re all lucky there’s even more to come. By the way, the new recordings are going great, we’ll continue sweatin’ it out for the next six months or so. You’ll find videos/pics from the recordings on Snowfish.
Cheers, P.
A Russian ticket site has already listed both Roxette shows.
Source: The Daily Roxette
Feb 18
The following text is a personal blog entry, done by me and me only. Since we’re a blog and not a news page, there’s some editorial going on from time to time. This text is not necessarily the opinion of my fellow Roxettebloggers. So if you want to bash us for getting a life, a new hobby or stop complaining and whining: address your comment to me, and me only, please.
MySpace is dead, long live MySpace. I never liked that platform very much. Much too messy, too many designs which make you close the site before you had a close look at the content, comments everywhere, images without further comments in all sizes and forms everywhere on the page and at the top of the page on the right a small box with audio or video files. This was the only reason to visit a MySpace page in my opinion: to get to know an artist by listening to his songs or watching his clips and afterwards to decide if it’s worth to buy a whole CD or just a song or nothing. The only problem for the artist was that he didn’t earn anything with having a MySpace site. All he got was the chance to provide his music and stuff and to find more fans – but still: no money.
Now we got a fish in the snow and this fish wants to change that. The concept is called “Snowfish” and comes from Sweden. It’s actually a bit like MySpace, artists, musicians and every fan can register a site, upload images, include a Twitter feed and offer videos to watch. This site isn’t as messy as MySpace, but still it’s everything you would file in “chaos”. There’s a beta version online already since last year’s summer and still there are so many bugs on this page, that you don’t feel a second like visiting this page. Ok, I must admit – the structure of this page is slightly better than it was on MySpace and yet there’s another reason this site is different to MySpace: the artists can earn money with it. The more traffic you have on your page the more money you earn. So it’s said on the Snowfish homepage:
At Snowfish, every single view, listen or read of your content earns you payment (50% of advertising income received from your traffic!). These payments may be small at first (pennies) but ultimately pennies add up!
So it’s obvious that it can’t be much the artists actually get, but for those, who are not famous, not rich or just too bad and need every Cent, Dollar or Euro it’s a concept which can be profitable as time goes by. The more traffic, the more money.
But now it really would be nice, if the creators of this page would work on it which means: make it less messy, make it more user-friendly. So far this is not the case. Best example for this is Per Gessle’s new Snowfish page. He’s uploading videos and pictures from the recording sessions of the new Roxette album these days. And when we take a close look at the front page of his site it looks like there’s 22 videos to watch so far:
It seems like the circus around the sale of Roxette’s tickets for show on Anderstorp Raceway will never end.
According to Swedish Radio Biljettnu.se’s CEO Hans Haraldsson was not very happy with The Race Legends’ decision to include Eventim.se and LiveNation.se as the new resellers of Roxette tickets. Now Biljett Nu wants to receive compensation for breaking the deal as they thought they bought exclusive rights for this particular concert.
The Race Legends did not want to comment on that issue and Urban Stamming said that he thinks it is an unnecessary discussion.
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
If you use Last.fm service, it would cool if you show your presence (or at least your interest in) on Roxette concert on Anderstorp Raceway here. Don’t also forget to check Facebook page out!
The Last.fm website is filled with tons of information on artists, albums and tracks, more music similar to them, charts and other statistics and more, all built by the Last.fm users who’re keeping track of what they’re listening to with Last.fm.
You can read about artists you like, check out their most popular tracks, browse their album and find out what other artists are similar to them; learn about upcoming events, explore interesting genres, listen to music and watch videos.
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