Roxette to record the Barcelona show for a live DVD

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Per Gessle announced yesterday that Roxette’s concert in Barcelona on November 19th will be recorded for a live DVD. Here is what Per wrote on Roxette Official Facebook page:
It was just decided that the Barcelona show will be recorded for a glorious DVD-release down the road. Bring your banners!!!
The concert was sold-out by end of August and last week it was announced that the concert had been moved to a bigger venue, Palau Sant Jordi.

Additional tickets are on sale on these websites: Ticketmaster.es  | Servicaixa.com | Livenation.es and El Corte Ingles.

The Spanish Fanclub is also organising a party after the concert.
Palau Sant Jordi, DVD, party.. no excuse to miss this concert! It’s going to be a night to remember!

Roxette to play in South America and Stockholm 2012

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Yesterday Per Gessle was interviewed on the Nordic Rox programme and he mentioned about the new album possibly out spring 2012. He mentioned places where Roxette have done recordings: Dubai, South Africa, Argentina, Russia etc. He also said they were planning to go back to South America next year. So our little rumour is getting closer to be confirmed. It seems like this tour gets bigger and bigger with everyday. Few weeks ago we were informed about 120 shows in total – now the number increased with over 30 concerts!

It looks like it’s going be about 150 – 160 shows. And we’ve done 53. 100 is left.

Additionally, at the Russian Oriflame company internal meeting, it was revealed that Roxette will play in Stockholm next August. The concert will take place in the Globen as part of Oriflame’s Gold Conference 2012 event. It seems like it will be a full-length concert. You can watch an insider presentation from Russia here.

Thanks to Miedy Bishop and RoxetteCafe for these pieces of information.

World Wide Web with Roxette’s tune in the background

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Polish edition of the popular-science monthly magazine Focus has recently published very interesting article on the invension of the WWW. On Friday May 17th 1991 the meeting of several people took place in the CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. This time the meeting was devoted to communication system between different computers (yes, it was all about internet). The meeting was attended by e.g. Julian Brunon, David Williams, Timothy Berners-Lee and last but certainly not least Judy Richards, who according to the article was humming Roxette’s “Things will never be the same” from the newly released “Joyride” album during the entire conference. On this very meeting Timothy Berners-Lee, British physicits, showed effects of his 2-year work on something which he and his Belgian computer scientist colleague Robert Cailliau named as the World Wide Web. The first website built was at CERN and was first put online on August 6th 1991.

Thanks to Kamilla Lehman of roxette.pl Facebook page for this information.

Party after the concert in Madrid and Barcelona? We need your help!

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Roxspain, the Spanish Fanclub, is working to organise an after-concert party in Madrid and Barcelona to celebrate the return of Roxette to our country. The party in Madrid would probably be the day before the concert. The one in Barcelona right after the concert.

We would like to know how many of you would assist to these parties so that we have an idea what kind of pub or disco we should book for that.

Please  go to the events we created on Facebook and click on “YES, I will attend”:

Madrid event

Barcelona event

or answer this poll.  Thank you!

 

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“Charm School” success in Argentina

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Fabio Deluca from Argentina has just informed us that after a very long delay, the Argentinian charts for February, March and April were finally published by CAPIF. It seems like “Charm school” was not only the number 1 in Germany, Switzerland and Czech Republic, but also in Argentina!

Have a look at monthly and weekly charts from there:

Monthly Chart
* February: Charm School #1
* March: Charm School #11; A Collection of Roxette Hits #18

Weekly Chart
Week / Date / Position (Album)
7 / Feb.13 / #1 (CS)
8 / Feb.20 / #12 (CS)
9 / Feb.27 / #8 (CS)
10 / Mar.06 / #14 (CH)
11 / Mar.13 / #7 (CS) – #9 (CH) – #17 (BE)
12 / Mar.20 / #12 (CS)
17 / Apr.24 / #17 (CS)
(CS) Charm School / (CH) A Collection of Roxette Hits / (BE) Baladas en Español

As you can see, on week 11 there were 3 Roxette albums in the Top 20!