World Tour 2012: Birmingham, UK – July 6 #118

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Comment from Per Gessle

BIRMINGHAM!!! Thanx for a fab evening. Great great crowd! Super response, we loved every second of it! 18 years ago since played in this town!!!! Have to come back VERY SOON!!!! Cheers, P&M&Co

Marie in Birmingham

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 (introduced with “God Save The Queen”)

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

Articles

Ian St Peters: “Roxette are a brilliant band. They are a stadium band. And boy can they entertain.” (5/5 stars)
Express & Star: “If ever there was a singer who looked pleased to be on a stage it is Roxette’s Marie Fredriksson.”
ResonanceUK (review)

World Tour 2012: Manchester, UK – July 4 #117

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Comment from Per Gessle

THANK YOU MANCHESTER! What a fab evening we had! Super crowd (as expected) and a quite jolly band I must say! Have to come back before long! Thanx for sharing these two hours with us! 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 (introduced with “God Save The Queen”)

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

Thanks to Ally for help with song’s order.

Articles

Roxette inspired by Oasis (interview with Per)
CultureWitch (review)
rock-zone.co.uk (review)

World Tour 2012: Glasgow, UK – July 3 #116

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Comment from Per Gessle

Glasgow! Yey! What a crowd! Wonderful vibe, great response in spite of some technical problems. We played here almost exactly twenty years go! Amazing! See you next time. Thanx you lovely Scotsmen/Scotswomen!!!

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 (introduced with “Scotland the Brave”)

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

For the very first time in a very long time Opportunity Nox was performed on the concert as well as Silver Blue dropped from the setlist. Spending My Time – instead of being first song in the encore section was just after “The Big L.”.

Articles

The Herald Scotlad (Interview article published before the concert)
The Herald Scotland (review of the concert)
Isopix (gallery)
stv (review) “The super-Swedes returned to Scotland in an 80s whirlwind.”

Sweet Hello to be released on vinyl

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Per Gessle announced that “The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye” remake will be released as an EP. This will be a limited edition on blue vinyl and will feature 4 tracks:

Side 1:
The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (Bassflow main version)
The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (Bassflow radio edit)

Side 2
The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (original version)
The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (T&A demo March 1990)

Per writes “I want one!” – well guess what, me too! This is just awesome. I wonder if Per got inspired with our votings for the setlist for the 2011 tour, where “The Sweet Hello” got the first place 😉 Back then he said:  “I don’t know about this Internet vote, there always comes up weird song choices like “The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye” laughs Per. We played ‘Silver Blue’ since that song won. We did it in a new arrangement that was nice.”

We also have an interview with Mr. Bassflow in the pipeline, stay tuned!

World Tour 2012: Kaiserslautern, Germany – June 30 #115

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Comment from Per Gessle

Thank you Kaiserslautern for a magnificent evening! Lovely crowd, great vibe, splendid band! Who can ask for more? And found Tom P & The Heartbreakers in the bar at the hotel. What a night!

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. 7twenty7
11. Fading Like A Flower
12. Crash!Boom!Bang!
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous
Band Presentation
15. Joyride (introduced with “Ole, Ola”)

16. Spending My Time
17. The Look

18. Listen To Your Heart

Trivia

This was a double concert to celebrate 100 years of “Pfalzwerke” at the Betzenberg stadium. Sunrise Avenue and Roxette both played a 1:45 minutes set. Frontman Samu Haber presented himself as a Roxette fan who had bought “Look Sharp!” as his first music album. Check out his Rox memories here! Guitarist Riku Rajamaa implemented the “Sleeping In My Car” riff into a solo guitar performance.