RXB Exclusive: third chapter of the coming Roxette book

If you managed to read first two chapters of new Roxette book or you are heading for Gothenburg Book Fair to meet Gessle & Lindström themselves, we have an exclusive opportunity for you. We are proud to offer you access to the third chapter of “Roxette – Den osannolika resan tur och retur”. It’s in Swedish, but hey, we love challenges! Big thanks to Sven for sharing yet another chapter and yes, we’re going to have a chat with him next week. All rights reseverd to Sven and his publisher.

Get the third chapter here.

Update Aug 29: The book is already available and the pre-view over.

 

Contest: win a copy of “Roxette – Den osannolika resan tur och retur”!

In cooperation with Norstedts, the publishing house of “Roxette – Den osannolika resan tur och retur”, we are giving away 2 copies of the book, which will be out next week.

In order to participate in the contest, simply answer this question:

Author Sven Lindström followed Roxette during their 2011-2012 tour to write his book – in which city did the Roxette tour end?

Write an email with your name, home address (so we can send the book) and the answer to the question to judith@roxetteblog.com until August 28st. The 2 lucky winners will be announced later that week.

Good luck!

Update August 31st: The winners are Elisa Boccara (France) and Oscar Mercado Chavez (Mexico). Congratulations!


And here is the small letter, contest terms and conditions
– In order to participate, you have to send an email to judith@roxetteblog.com with name, address and answer to the question. We will consider all emails we receive until the 28st of August 2013, 23:59 CET time.
– 2 winners will be picked up randomly among those who have participated and sent the correct answer.
– As it is usual, you can only participate once, any attempt to participate twice will lead to your disqualification.
– Prizes won’t be paid out in cash. Prizes will be sent by standard mail only once (so basically, if the envelope gets lost.. we won’t be able to send a replacement) by the publisher.
– Winners will be announced on this website and will also be notified per email. You’ll be required to answer to the email confirming your address.
– Roxetteblog.com will not enter into any correspondence regarding the result of the contest and is not liable for any damages, loss or expenses that may result in connection to the prize
– All submitted data will only be used for the purpose of the contest and, in case you are one of the lucky winners, to send you the prize.

Per Gessle and Sven Lindström at Göteborg Book Fair

One month after Sven Lindström’s ”Roxette – Den osannolika resan tur och retur” is published (30th August), Per and Sven will have a seminar at Göteborg Book Fair on 29th September. Seminar starts at 12:00 and lasts until 12:45.

Ticket you can buy at the entrance and it is valid for the seminar as well. Regular prices for adults: 160 SEK per day; for children / youth from 7 to 19 years: 50 SEK. Free entrance for children up to 6 years. Happy Hour between 9:00 and 10:00 on Sunday (the day the seminar is): ticket for adults: 110 SEK, for children: 40 SEK.

So, is it a perfect excuse to travel to Sweden again? 😉

 

Gyllene Tider is still on fire!

You might remember an old article of ours where we asked you to vote for a Gyllene Tider-medley and then let you know later in May that the result of all our voting power was that GT won. Thanks to that, the audience of the choreographed fireworks in Norrköping could listen to a medley of 5 GT hits.

Fireworks started at 10 pm on 16th August and the 5 songs played were (in this order):

 

  1. När vi två blir en (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  2. Flickorna på TV2 (1)
  3. Gå & fiska! (1, 2)
  4. Sommartider (1, 2, 3)
  5. Tylö sun (1)

 

Click on the numbers next to the songs for some short Instagram videos and check how the “show” was. 😉

Update #1: now a full video is available on YoutTube. 6m 30s. Click here to watch it!

Update #2 (1st September): a more enjoyable video is uploaded by Göteborgs FyrverkeriFabrik. Click here to watch it!

 

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© Patrícia Peres

 

Roxette – Den osannolika resan tur och retur

Bokus made available the 2 first chapters of Sven Lindström’s new book about Roxette’s unlikely return on their website. Click here to read them. The book also includes stories of 6 well-known Roxers and is published on 30th August, 2013.

 

Contents:

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You can read some more about the book in our earlier article here.

 

A little help for those who can’t speak Swedish: Claudia Bastian and Celestte Williams translated the 1st chapter. We want to emphasize that we don’t want to  break any copyright laws, but appr. 80-90% (if not more) of Roxette fans can’t speak Swedish. So we do hope the English version of the book is out soon after it’s been published in Swedish. 😉

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