Roxette’s latest album TRAVELLING was released in Russia last month. This edition is a bit of strange as it includes only 13 songs and both versions of “It’s possible” were removed for unknown reasons. Picture was taken by Alexander Funk.
We were informed by several different sources that Sven Lindström, author of Per Gessle’s Swedish language biography released in 2007 called “Att vara Per Gessle” (To be Per Gessle) and co-host of Nordic Rox show on Sirius XM, was seen during Roxette’s Argentinian tour in Neuquen. It seems like this is the news many international fans waited for a very long time – rumour has it that he is currently writting an English language Roxette book.
Let’s keep fingers crossed for this to happen!
Comment from Per Gessle:
Santiago! Oh Yea! Some of the jolly band members consider this show to be in the Top 3 of the whole tour!!!! Majestic! We had a lovely and a very sweaty evening with the most enthusiastic crowd you can ever imagine. Marie in top shape as well as the rest of the Roxers. Thanx everyone for making this a night to cherish!!!! We’ll be back!!!
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “Todos Juntos”)
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart
Comment from Per Gessle:
Cordoba! 2nd time! One year! Thanx for treating us so well. We had a blast tonight. Great great crowd + band eager to please! See y’all next time. Keep up those smiling faces! Cheerio, P&M&Co
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with ???)
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart
Videos:
Media:
Cadena3
La Voz
LA MAÑANA de Cordoba
Comment from Per Gessle
Rosario! Oh my Gosh! SuperGig, superBand, superMarie, superCrowd! We had a blast! Hope we can come back before long. You made us feel very special. Thanx for all the beautiful noise!!! Hope you can feel our appreciation!
Awopbopaloobop. P.
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with De Música Ligera)
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart
Videos
Media:
Comment from Per Gessle
Mar del Plata!!!!!! Big big thanx from all of us. We had a blast and appreciate your enthusiasm and very loud voices throughout the evening. Did you notice the cameras? We’re filming seven shows right now so keep that smile on your face and you might wind up on prime time TV! Marie in top shape tonight as well as the band. Can you ask for more? Love and happiness from P.
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with De Música Ligera)
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart
Videos:
Comment from Per Gessle
Neuquen! What can we say! A beautiful evening with a wonderful crowd helping us out with those complicated highly sophisticated lyrics!! You looked and sounded terrific!!! Thanx!!! Hope we can see y’all again! We loved that vibe!!!!! Cheers from P&M&Co. PS. Very proud to have had our 100th gig on this tour in your town!!!!!
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “De musica ligera”)
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart
Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy
Articles
Promotion in Chile
Apr 25
AlexisRox Chile informs us that Roxette’s May concert in Chile is promoted in underground stations and at the bus stops in the streets of Santiago.
Comment from Per Gessle
Oh my God….Lunatic Park. There are no words to describe the feelings we have and the welcome we receive every time we hit Buenos Aires. Tonight was the loudest crowd we’ve heard since we played here last April and it felt most fitting that the premiere of IT’S POSSIBLE live took place here. And hey, thanx for making this band really proud of our music but even more proud of having fans like you!!!!
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “De musica ligera”)
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart
Misc
Concert was a sold out event 24 hours before it took place. “Wish I could fly” wasn’t performed on the concert (the first time on the tour) and “Opportunity nox” was replaced with “It’s possible”. Here is short statistic how the concert looks like at the moment
0 songs off Pearls of passion (1986)
4 songs off Look sharp! (1988) 20%
7 songs off Joyride (1991) 35%
3 songs off Tourism (1992 – I counted IMHBL and SB in) 15%
2 songs off Crash!Boom!Bang! (1994) 10%
2 songs off Have a nice day (1999) 10%
0 songs off Room service (2001)
0 songs off TBH/TPH (2002/2003)
1 song off Charm school (2011) 5%
1 song off Travelling (2012) 5%
“Travelling” official charts
Apr 25
As we did for “Charm School”, we will collect the different official chart entries and positions of Roxette’s new album “Travelling” for some weeks in this post. How is the album doing in your country? Let us know! Please provide links to the sources to your numbers.
Per Gessle replied on Facebook regarding the DVD topic – thanks for taking the time to answer!
Personally I think this is a brilliant idea. You get a shorter version for TV + a longer version for the DVD market. The long one will have at least 60-70 min live stuff. It’s splendido to mix up live performances w/ funny stuff from backstage + studio + hotels + airports + private areas. Otherwise you’ll fall asleep. But that’s me.
Fall asleep? We thought it would be interesting to know how many would really fall asleep with a full live DVD 
We think the DVD could have the fun stuff as an extra bonus at the end or even mixed in between, but still, a full concert with all the songs which were played during the tour… pretty please…
Really, we just want to say that this Roxette live really deserves a live DVD. They are THAT good! This tour has been great, and what is still to come, a full live DVD would simply capture all this. All songs have something fun or deep or special. And there is nothing like a full concert live DVD to capture all this energy, happiness, positive feeling, power of this fantastic tour which started as a small-medium one and has grown and grown to an extent I think nobody expected. A live DVD would be a great testimony for this. If not now, when?
Thanks for reading.
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Would you fall asleep watching a live DVD of Roxette?
Note that if you are for the full live DVD, you should vote the option which starts with “no”
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