Jonas Åkerlund’s “Small Apartments” film had its official premiere on the SXWS festival in Texas last week. As for long-awaited soundtracked composed by Per Gessle – there is still not stiff release date. According to Gessle himself:
Nobody knows [when it'll be out]. Chris is putting together the last missing bits as I write this. Mastering next. Release: ? – Cheers, P.
We will keep you posted once we know any details (or rumours).
Roxette’s new album “Travelling” is out today in many countries and it has already entered some iTunes Store Album Top 10 charts today:
Sweden #3 (down to #6 as per March 26, back to #4 – March 28)
Finland #6
Germany #9
Czech Republic #5
Switzerland #8 (down to #10 as per March 26))
Spain #8
Keep on buying! 
If you look at the iTunes Store Top 10 POP Albums:
Germany #4
Austria #8
Denmark #8
Norway #9
Spain #4
Sweden #3
Switzerland #7
Thanks Fabio (ettexor) for the hint!
Here is a collection of some videos we found on YouTube with the new songs from Travelling.
The purpose of adding the links here is to spread the word about this brilliant new album, don’t forget to buy a copy on iTunes or Amazon or your store next door! You can also listen to the album in some countries on Spotify.
The videos might be gone soon, so just use your imagination to look for other options.
01. Me & You & Terry & Julie
02. Lover Lover Lover
03. Turn Of The Tide
04. Touched By The Hand Of God
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Here are the very first look at Roxette’s TRAVELLING album. Have you purchased/ordered your copy yet?
Marie Fredriksson gave a touching interview for programme about cancer done for a Russian NTV channel. Here are the quotes from Marie translated by Evgeny Perekopskiy and proofread by Celestte. This exclusive interview was shot during one-hour session at Marie’s house in Stockholm in December 2011.
WATCH THE WHOLE PROGRAMME (Marie’s part starts at 39:48)
Narrator:
A slim woman singing about changes in the microphone can actually grab the audience in venues with the capacity of 100 000 people. But when she tries to say the word “cancer”, she still feels insecure.
Marie Fredriksson
I couldn’t learn how to talk about it without worrying. I just sang the song “The Change”. Few people know that this song is about cancer. For some unknown reason I needed this meeting with cancer. It changed me totally. I started to listen to my inner voice, talk to my body. And the main thing is that I started to draw. (Marie laughs)
All that I feel and experience is in these drawings. By the way, this is Madonna (Marie points at her drawing). Not the singer, no. This is the Madonna that I imagine for myself. Who saved me from illness. Who rescued me.
The first drawings I created because of fear. I just wanted to understand what was happening to me. What the cancer was all about.
Narrator:
Looking like an alien, drawing alien subjects, for a while wonderfully Marie Fredriksson created her personal, alien theory of the origin of cancer.
Marie Fredriksson:
I started to think that cancer is somehow a new form of life inside of us. That people having those cells that then will become cancerous are born and live and then those cells wake up. And perhaps in the future people will be able to live with those cells.
Narrator:
In spite of the incredible story, from the scientific point of view, the singer of Roxette is right in many things. To transform cancer in chronic illness that won’t break off life is one of the directions of the modern scientific thought
Arnaldo Mariano Suarez informed us that Roxette is to play in Santiago de Chile for the second time during this amazing World Tour. Their gig is scheduled for Saturday, May 5 at Espacio Riesco and tickets should go on sale tomorrow, March 22. Previously it was said that Roxette might play a concert a day before Buenos Aires date on April 23, but it was officialy denied by Roxette management.
The concert in Asunción, Paraguay, was scheduled for the same date, May 5th and Live Nation has confirmed that the concert has been cancelled. They have never cancelled any date on the current tour being on sale before – except Auckland because Per fell ill. Here is the official statment from Paraguayan organizators:
The promoters T4F & Escenario are affraid to communicate the cancellation of the concert “Roxette Charm School” which was scheduled on May 5th 2012.
The cancellation is due to the fact that Roxette will perform a concert on a date too close, in the city of Santiago de Chile, which creates logistical problems such as lack of time and flight links that makes their concert not possible in our country.
The Producers also report that the return of the tickets for the concert “Roxette Charm School” will be held from Wednesday, March 28 until Wednesday, April 4 2012, from 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:30 to 17:30.
Here is the scan from one of Chilean papers sent us by Claudio Méndez Rojas. Thanks!
So close to the Travelling album release, media reviews appear here and there. We’ll collect them in this article. While Roxette have never been the critics favourites, the reaction to their “different” sound this time could get interesting!
Mar 20
If you have a great opportunity to listen TRAVELLING album in a legal way at tape.tv (service available for people living in Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
Don’t forget to order your copy of TRAVELLING!
And here come the lyrics of the new songs.
01. Me & You & Terry & Julie
Terry is an old teacher
He’s reading the paper in the church
Julie used to be famous
Portraying the bright-eyed Mother Earth
But how about you?
Do you want a love that lasts forever?
But how about you?
Do you want to spend the night together?
With someone so blue
That she doesn’t know what to do
Loves a big hole in her shoe
That’s the truth
How about you?
Terry’s folding the paper
And yawns at a Headline ???cocking crew???
Julie thinks he’s a charmer
Cause hes got the proper attitude
But how about you?
Do you want a love that lasts forever?
But how about you?
Do you want to spend the night together
With someone so blue?
That she doesn’t know what to do
Loves a big stone in her shoe that’s the truth
How about you
Whooo yeah
Whooo yeah
But how about you?
Dont you want a love that lasts forever?
Do you want to spend the night together
With someone so blue?
That she doesn’t know what to do
Loves a big thorn in her shoe that’s the truth
How about you?
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The German video portal tape.tv offers the exclusive opportunity to listen the complete Travelling songs!!! All songs are marked as “prelistening version”. The service only works in Germany, Austria and Switzerland – or with tricks… Read the comments!
Two online shops (German and Dutch) included new and different snippets from TRAVELLING album comparing to Amazon’s ones.
Thanks to Benke, Mattijs Baijens and Daniel Kuhn for letting us know.
Here’s the brand new mini documentary/advertisement video for “Travelling”!
Roxette — Travelling (EPK) – MyVideo
Alternative link: Travelling EPK
Mar 16
Have a look on the new album’s backside! The new stairway photo combined with Gessle drawings and what looks like an airport pictogram. Don’t overlook the Crash! Boom! Bang! style reference on the track names!
Thanks to RoxetteCafe.com for sharing this picture.