As China.org.cn informs, Swedish pop music duo Roxette will play in Beijing on March 12, 2012. The show is scheduled at Beijing’s MasterCard Center. It’s the fifth Roxette’s concert in Southeast Asia afer Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei concerts and glory return to this part of the world after long 17 years of waiting.
On March 14th, Roxette will play at Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai.
Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for sending this news.
Swedish Radio played the duet of Robert Pettersson (Takida) and Helena Josefsson and you can listen to it here. Get ready to rock!
If clicking on “play” doesn’t work, just click on the timeline somewhere in the beginning and click play. It should work then. If not, go here.
As we reported yesterday, Helena Josefsson is featured in a duet called “My Own Worst Enemy” which was recorded for the Swedish film “Hamilton – in the interest of the nation”. Helena has told us a bit more about the song.
How come you are singing a duet for the film “Hamilton in the interest of t he nation”?
I was singing my music at an internal EMI party and there someone discovered my voice. They were about to record this Hamilton-song, and asked me to try the female vocals. I went to their studio and it worked out great!
My part in the song, as I think of it, is to illustrate Hamilton’s late girlfriend, singing to him from heaven.
And how was it with Robert Petersson, lead singer of Takida?
Then they tried a number of male singers and they fell for Robert’s voice. I really think his voice is perfect for the song!
We also read that a video was done for the song?
The video was shot a month ago and will be released on the 13/1. I’m excited to see it! The same day I was recording backing vox for the new Roxette-album. It was a very exciting day!
Will you be at the VIP premiere of the film?
Yes, me and Martinique will go to Stockholm for the premiere and there we will perform the song.
It’s almost one month since we started our last survey Top Rox 2011 on Roxroom, so it’s time to summarize all results in all ten categories where you can vote for your favourite Roxette album, single, tour, album sleeve, album booklet, best Per’s and Marie’s haircut, best Per’s and Marie’s album and also best and worst Roxette video. So here we have last 7 days to vote in this survey. So far about 200 fans voted, but the more fans will participate, the more precise results we will get about which Rox item fans like the most.
The results – I do believe interesting results – will be published day or two after.
Vote here till January 15th and thanks for your participation.
Helena Josefsson has recorded a duet “My Own Worst Enemy” together with Robert Petersson, lead singer of the Swedish rock group Takida, which will be part of the soundtrack of the Swedish film “Hamilton – in the interest of the nation”.
The film will have its VIP-premiere in the Stockholm on January 10th and will be in the cinemas on January 13th, according to Svensk Filmindustri. The thriller is based on a book with the same title written by Jan Guillou in 1988. Guillou has written 11 novels featuring Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish military spy and hero. Several characters in the books are based on actual people. For example, Jan Guillou is the basis of a character called Erik Ponti.
The song is written by Måns Tristan Sohlman aka Tristan. “I got the request from my management to perform this song and I thought it was a great song when I first heard it,” tells Robert Pettersson to Dagbladet,”it has a very typical film sound already in the intro, and part of it could be called rock”.
A video to the song has been recorded as well, which will have its premiere on Monday. A trailer of the film can be found on Youtube:
httpv://youtu.be/xsO_6l7xdLc
The film has even a website and an account in Twitter and Facebook.
David contributed to this article.