Roxette’s new stage in progress

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The “damp” blog by Lucas Lindholm offers some interesting insight to the preparation of Roxette’s new stage equipment for the upcoming European leg of the Charm School World Tour. The more-or-less locally rented stages of the previous tour legs seem to get replaced by more dedicated touring equipment. Per hinted at stage upgrades in an interview early August:

The successes of the first half of the tour means that Roxette will be travelling with a larger stage and more equipment. We need to improve it a bit for the autumn tour.

The photo galleries so far picture the work on September 26, 27 and probably 28. So who’s able to describe the visible technical upgrades, any experts out there?

Source: damp

Coldplay single “Paradise” inspired by “Wish I Could Fly”?

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Belgian newspaper “Het Nieuwsblad” reports about a striking similarity between the backing tracks (not the vocal melody) of Coldplay’s new single “Paradise” and Roxette’s hit “Wish I Could Fly” from 1999. Coldplay have been in the focus of plagiarism claims before with previous singles, so the author asks if Chris Martin & Co. have asked Marie & Per in advance for this kind of “inspiration”. Judge for yourself:

Source: nieuwsblad.be

Unknown promotional “Charm school” photo

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Caroline Roosmark has done a photo session for Roxette back in January. Up till now 4 promotional pictures were available. Lately EMI Music Sweden has prepared Roxette “Charm school” postarcds with another, unknown shoot of the duo on the front and with Roxette and Charm school names in the back written with the well-known font from the latest album.

Thanks to San Dra for posting this on Per Gessle site.

“Speak to me” to be performed on “Die Ultimative Chart-show”

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On Friday, November 11 German TV channel RTL will broadcast “Die Ultimative Chart-show” with Roxette as the special guests. Roxette are said to perform “Speak to me” single.

“25 Jahre Kuschelrock – Die große Jubiläumsshow” is a special episode of the programme that will celebrate 25 years of the well-known CD compilation series called “Kuschelrock”.

Thomas Johansson: No one believed we would sell a million tickets

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Pollstar.com reports that Live Nation Sweden chief Thomas Johansson confirms that the current Roxette World Tour sale will reach 1 million tickets. He comments:

If I had said we would do a million tickets when we first started out, I’m not sure if people would have told me to go to the pub or to come out of it.