Star Observer: Roxette still blooming like a flower

So it came as a surprise to many — even tour organisers themselves — when early ’90s hitmakers Roxette’s lone, toe-in-the-water Australian concert date sold out in half an hour earlier this year.

It’s surprising, but it’s been happening all over the world, so we’re on this neverending tour, Gessle told the Star Observer from his Stockholm home.

I’m so proud of the Roxette catalogue. We play to people of different ethnicities, different languages, different religions, in cities whose names I can’t even pronounce. And all of them are there because they love Listen To My Heart or Spending My Time or It Must Have Been Love. It’s just incredible, the power of music.

It’s the nature of the business that you have to die, commercially speaking, to let the next generation of artists come up. And of course the bigger you get, the harder the fall. We had almost four years where we always had a song in the hot 100 in the US.

More at starobserver.com.au

World Tour 2011: Zürich, Switzerland – October 31 #67

Comment from Per Gessle

Oh Yeah! Super Duper Gig tonight in Zurich. Outstanding crowd (13.000), great great band and Marie…. wow! Thanx for your support and coming to the show! We’ll be back!!!!


Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Soul deep (medley with SGNO)
08. Perfect Day
09. Things Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Opportunity Nox
12. 7twenty7
13. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
14. Crash! Boom! Bang!
15. How Do You Do!
16. Dangerous
Band presentation
17. Joyride (introduced with “Es Buurebüebli mag i nöd”)

18. Watercolours in the rain
19. Spending My Time
20. The Look

21. Listen To Your Heart
22. Church Of Your Heart


Articles and Photos:

Aargauer Zeitung
Blick
Musik Blogg (with video)
Usgang (gallery)
Students.ch (very bad reviews from visitors)
GMX.net

Contest: Meet Per and Marie in Malmö!

In cooperation with Roxette’s Management and Live Nation we are happy and proud to offer you the chance to meet Per and Marie backstage in Malmö on Friday 4th of November, 2011.

To participate in the contest simply write an email to judith @ roxetteblog . com including the following information:

– your name
– your nickname on Roxetteblog
– cell phone number

and answer to this question:

– In which city will Roxette give their last (known) concert in 2011?

The winners will be chosen randomly amongst all participants who answered the question correctly.

The contest will run until Wednesday 2nd of November 17:00 CET. Note that winners will be notified per SMS due to the short time and holidays.

Good luck!

Don’t forget to read the small letter…


Contest terms and conditions:
– you can only participate once
– we will randomly pick the winners among all valid emails (valid means: with name, nickname, cell phone number and correct answer).
– the winners will be notified per SMS on Wednesday 3rd of November and will be required to reply to the SMS confirming their attendance to the meet & greet
– further instructions where/when to meet will be also sent per SMS. If you are not at the meeting point at the agreed time, the prize will be given to somebody else!
– the winners will have to have a valid ticket for the concert and are responsible for their transport to and from the venue and any costs that might arise
– the prize is for one person only, so the winners won’t be able to take their friend(s) with them to the meet & greet
– Roxetteblog will not enter into any correspondence regarding the result of the contest
– in the event the meet & greet is cancelled, no other date or other prize will be offered as replacement
– of course, all submitted data will only be used for the purpose of the contest, to contact you for confirmation and instructions, and won’t be given to third parties
– last but not least, you can bring one item to have it signed by Marie and Per

World Tour 2011: Geneva, Switzerland – October 30 #66

Comment from Per Gessle

Oh sweet Geneva. Thanx for a fab evening. Great crowd + tidy but rockin’ band tonight. Chris is having the flu + Marie’s had a slight problem with one of her many legs. But we loved it! See ya next time, Geneva!

 

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Soul deep (medley with SGNO)
08. Perfect Day
09. Things Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Opportunity Nox
12. 7twenty7
13. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
14. Crash! Boom! Bang!
15. How Do You Do!
16. Dangerous
Band presentation
17. Joyride (no specific intro has been played)

18. Watercolours in the rain
19. Spending My Time
20. The Look

21. Listen To Your Heart
22. Church Of Your Heart

Articles and Photos:

 Tilllate.com (gallery)
TSR.ch (video, interview with Per and short clip from the concert)

World Tour 2011: Nürnberg, Germany – October 27 #65

Comment from Per Gessle

Last gig in Germany for a while! And what a night it was! Killer gig for us here in Nurnberg with a super crowd! Thanx everyone for joining the party!!!! See y’all soon!!!!

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Soul deep (medley with SGNO)
08. Perfect Day
09. Things Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Opportunity Nox
12. 7twenty7
13. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
14. Crash! Boom! Bang!
15. How Do You Do!
16. Dangerous
Band presentation
17. Joyride (introduced with “Hänschen klein”)

18. Spending My Time
19. The Look

20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart


Misc

Watercolours In The Rain was skipped.

Articles and photos

Heftig-magazin.de (article)
Heftig-magazin.de (gallery)
Nürnberger Nachrichten
NN Gallery
Nürnberger Zeitung

Videos

It must have been love | Perfect day