World Tour 2012: Calgary, Canada – September 9 #136

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Comment from Per Gessle

I’ll try this dance tonight in Calgary! Looks like these ppl are having a good time, yea? (Starts at around 50 secs). Thanx Eva for showing us some real stuff.

Thank you Calgary for a wonderful Sunday evening! Great crowd, lots of love in the air, we had a blast. Hope to come back to this b-ful city soon! Cheers, P&M&Co

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Spending My Time
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. Opportunity Nox
11. 7Twenty7
12. Fading Like a Flower
13. Crash Boom Bang
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride

17. Listen To Your Heart
18. The Look
19. Church Of Your Heart

Articles and photos

The whole show on YouTube (recorded by Tyler MacDonald)

CalgarySun.com (review)

But considering what she has been through following a brain tumour in 2002 (years of recovery and therapy), as a human being she’s nothing short of an inspiration and a huge lesson in courage and perseverance. All of this makes Roxette’s current world tour and the recording of two albums in the past two years (Charm School and Travelling) a victory for the human spirit.

Stage is getting ready
Metro.co


Ruslicus’s Flickr gallery

Patrícia Peres contributed to the article

World Tour 2012: Winnipeg, Canada – September 7 #135

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Comment from Per Gessle

Winnipeg! Thanx for an outstanding evening. Super crowd and a nice reception indeed. We played here 20 years ago and would love to come back anytime. Next time I promise not to sing “My papa told to stay out of supper” in CBB! My life is a Dali painting. Cheers, P&M&Co

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Spending My Time
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. Opportunity Nox
11. 7Twenty7
12. Fading Like a Flower
13. Crash Boom Bang
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride

17. Listen To Your Heart
18. The Look
19. Church Of Your Heart

Articles and photos

Canadian sports autographs & Autograph boy Winnipeg (about Roxette arrival to Winnipeg)
WinnipegFreePress.com (review)
WinnipegSun.com (review)

Patrícia Peres contributed to the article

Gessle for FrontiersLA.com: I look through what I have and let my imagination run wild

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Per Gessle has been interviewed by FrontiersLA.com recently, just before Roxette’s very first gig in LA. Here’s the most interesting quote regarding the song recorded for “Travelling” album.

There’s a song on the new album called “Excuse Me, Sir, Do You Want Me To Check On Your Wife.” What’s that about?
You tell me. [Laughs] I wrote that song because it was something someone said to me in a London nightclub.

What was your response?
“No, she’s doing fine.” [Laughs] That’s always been the way I write. I pick up things people say and write it down. When the time comes to write songs, I look through what I have and let my imagination run wild. Writing songs is very much like putting a puzzle together. You use things that have happened to you and things that haven’t happened to you.

Per also did a phoner with 89.3 KPCC radio station – here‘s the brief summary of that talk.

Patrícia Peres contributed to the article

If you had one word… what would it be? US fans know the answer!

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Roxette Fans USA welcomed the Roxette’s Neverending Tour through a clip done by Jennifer Malcome. The task was to take a picture of yourself and pick up a word that could describe fans’ feelings toward Roxette’s return to the country. Here below is the audiovisual effect of this unusual survey.

And if you had one word to choose, what would it be?

Gessle for Aftonbladet: we must decide what to do with Roxette

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While Roxette was in New York, Per Gessle met Per Bjurman, journalist of Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet. Gessle hasn’t revealed anything new, but there are some facts that we should take into consideration thinking about Roxette and Gyllene Tider’s future. Those are the most interesting quotes from him.

The tour has been the world’s weirdest rehab, Marie’s in a top form again. What we’ll do in the future depends on how she reacts for not playing.

It is a bit special with the US. Knowing how much radio airplay we still get over here, we should’ve sold out Madison Square Garden, but like twenty years ago, we play in a theater. People here recognize the songs very well, but not us as artists. They are constantly singing at our gigs.

We’ve talked about it [Gyllene Tider’s reunion] every year since 2009 and yes, we are “on speaking terms”. We have been there all the time, we just think differently.

But nothing is set, so I cannot confirm it. First we must decide what to do with this band [Roxette]. Above all, it is all about Marie. This tour has been the world’s weirdest rehab she’s started and the question is how it affects her to take two years off. Maybe it’s better for her that we continue to play, I do not know. These are difficult questions.