Is this a “T2:Tourism2” cover?

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Our reader Barry Mieny has removed the dark area in the bottom of the cover published by online Swedish shop CDON.com. If you look closer you may see that the album’s name includes colone instead of dash [T2:Tourism2[ and that there’ll probably be no spaces in between. This looks like a very tricky name!

We have no confirmation if this cover is real or not.

Update: The cover appeared in better quality at Ginza.se:

Thanks Honky Tonk!

Update 2 by J: Sven H has done some research and found the original plane picture and some information. The picture with the airplane was taken by Fredrik Olastuen who posted the following on his blog:

Speaking of photography, before the weekend I had a very pleasant surprise. Somebody had discovered one of my photos on Flickr and wanted to buy it, to use it album cover of a famous band in Sweden. I, of course, agreed to it, nice that my work is noticed and is appreciated. The picture otherwise also received many good comments earlier, quite funny actually, since the picture was taken almost by chance.

And I myself found this comment on Fredrik Olastuen page, left by Pär Wickholm at Minus on January 11. He basically writes that he works as a graphic designer and would like to buy a picture for an album cover for a “successful artist in Sweden”.

So it looks like the cover will at least have this plane on the cover. The idea is nice, also playing with the T2 = terminal 2, plane, travel, that the whole band is on the cover.. but let’s hope the bus and the band pictures get better!

Thanks Sven!

New Roxette album to be released on March 30

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Update January 24:

Here’s the intial cover for T2 – Tourism 2 release. CDON.com also changed Unviersal reference – the album will be out on EMI label.

Swedish base online shop CDON.com published intial date for the T2 – Tourism 2 album release. According to the website the new Roxette album goes out on March 30 and will cost around EUR 17.95. The name is still unknown.

The interesting fact is that it’s the first Roxette’s album to be released under Universal Music label.

Thanks to Daniel Kuhn for finding this and RoxetteCafe.com for informing about the cover.

Roxette to perform in Dublin, Ireland

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We’ll certainly be listening to our hearts come July when pop duo Roxette are coming to Dublin for a headline show. Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle who are Roxette have enjoyed an excellent world tour in 2011 and success with their new album ‘Charm School‘ and have played to over 800,000 fans at 79 concerts in 31 countries.

This world tour continues into 2012 with Roxette playing Australia, Asia, South America, South Africa, Europe which includes a date at The O2, Dublin on July 9th 2012.

Tickets for the show at The O2 cost €44.05 inclusive of booking fee and will be going on sale Friday 27th January at 9am

Thanks to Evgeny for informing about this news.