Per Gessle was interviewed by ZDF yesterday and this is one of his quotes:
If we’re lucky I think the tour will go on next year as well. Because it’s a big world and there seem to be a lot of opportunities for Roxette. People seem to have missed us, which is fantastic.”
P.S. Roxette was a trending topic on Twitter yesterday!
Live Nation Sweden has sent a press release earlier this morning which states that there is another concert in South America – this time in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo. No other details were given.
Source: Live Nation Sweden
Per Gessle has revealed in today’s inteview for Swedish radio station Mix Megapol that Roxette would probably perform 25 songs on the new tour – they rehearsed 5 songs from the new album as well. In the new German interview for Frankfurter Rundschau he also reveals that they will play their biggest hit mostly
That’s simply because I’m a fan myself. If I go to see U2, the Stones or AC/DC, I want to hear their greatest hits. I remember going to a concert of The Police’s Reunion Tour once and they only played three of their hits – and then all this other shit they had been doing. I hated it and left. If David Bowie ever goes on tour again, I’ll want to hear the hits that have meant so much to me. Not the ones he happens to be desperate to play. If I pay – play for me!
Listen to the interview (5 mintues in to the clip)
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Thanks to Daniel and Mr Jefferson for those pieces of information.
Update February 10: Roxette.ro features an English translation of the whole interview. Thanks Mixella!
After selling out four concerts in Cape Town and Sun City three months before the date the fifth one was added yesterday to the 2011 Roxette World Tour. The new date is The Superbowl in Sun City on Friday, May 13th. It means that not only Brazilian fans get to see Roxette five times this year 🙂
Update:
Due to a phenomenal response to ticket sales, there are now two extra concert dates released in SA on the 8th May at the Grand Arena, GrandWest Cape Town and 13th May at Superbowl, Sun City
Update no 2:
The first Argentinian date – Buenos Aires on April 4th – is (almost) sold out. Over 8,400 tickets were sold. The second BA show on April 5th went on sale in the last few days.
Tickets are available on Computicket.com
Thanks to Daniel Alvedahl for this information.
Aftenbladet.no informs that Roxette is going to perform in Norway for the third time this year, after the sold-out show in Bergen (June 6th) and the one on Stavern Festival (July 7th). This time they choose Radhusplassen in Haugesund on Friday July 29th.
5,500 tickets will go on sale soon.