Roxette’s world tour goes on in Autumn – first dates showed up

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Per Gessle already mentioned in various interviews in Germany last month that the tour would go on in Autumn with 25 more dates. Some dates have already started to pop up in the net. Here are some findings:

– According to KölnTicket: October 16, Mannheim, SAP Arena, Germany

– Eventim, official German ticket vendor, updated their website indicating that the tour in Germany goes on “from” 11-6-2011 (Berlin) until 25-10-2011 (unknown city).

– According to this article in Austrian newspaper, Roxette is supposed to play in Vienna in October.

– On the other side, Spanish radio Europa FM wrote today on their Facebook page that they are going to be the “official radio station of Roxette’s tour in Spain“.

Europa FM emisora oficial de la gira española de Roxette! Sleeping in my car, Dressed for success, It must have been love, How do you do, Spending my time… ¿Qué canción te marcó más del dúo sueco?

This probably means that more dates are going to be announced during the next days!

Update March 11: Eventim has changed the “until” date 25-10-2011 back to June, but anyway, Per already announced in various interviews that there are 25 more shows to come, so it’s just a matter of time.

Thanks Kirsten and Nicole.

Premiere of documentary film featuring Helena Josefsson

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Helena Josefsson (currently on tour with Roxette, backing vocals) is taking a break in the tour and won’t be in the next two concerts (Ukraine and Belarus). The reason for that is that she is attending the premiere of a documentary film about Dolly Parton she is in.

The documentary, directed by Jessica Nettelbladts, is called “Jag är min egen Dolly Parton”, which Helena co-starrs with Nina Persson, Cecilia Nordlund and Lotta Wenglén, as well as music producer Gudrun Hauksdottir. The film is about the friendship and dreams of these five women, about women being in the middle of a career and longing for cihldren. And, of course, about Dolly Parton as a role model.

The “VIP” film premiere took place yesterday in Stockholm. The official premiere is on March 11th in Folketsbio cinemas in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö and many other cities across Sweden.

Our reader Erik Johansson attended the premiere yesterday and comments “the film is in Swedish with no subtitles, so a lot of you will not understand that much, but there is really a lot of feelings going on.. and there were many times when tears came through”. He absolutely recommends the film.

SvD article

Jag är min egen Dolly Parton from Folkets Bio on Vimeo.

Update March 12th: The four ladies performed one of the songs from the documentary live at SVT’s Skavlan yesterday. You can see the performance here.

World Tour 2011: Kiev, Ukraine – March 10 #05

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We need your help. The whole Roxette World Tour 2011 will be covered with such topics. If you find something connected with this particular part of the tour, post it in the comment section and we will add it to the article. Thanks for your help and cooperation!

So far we have a lot of material for each concert so we will keep on adding an article per concert.

Kiev, Ukraine, March 10th

Setlist (not confirmed)

1. Dressed For Success
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. The Big L.
4. Wish I Could Fly
5. Only When I Dream
6. She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
7. Perfect Day
8. Things Will Never Be the Same
9. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7Twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous

Band presentation (performing a guitar solo version of Ukrainian song “Chervona ruta”, so Per didn’t lie about Christoffer’s last night’s experience in a pub! lol)

15. Joyride

First Encore

16. Watercolours in the Rain
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look

Second Encore

19. Way out
20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart

Photos and articles

Segodnya.nu reports about Roxette arriving in Kiev: photo gallery | article (Ukrainian)

24TV.ua article and video

Concert: Afisha Tochka.net | Rok Kiev (including video to IMHBL) | Music Open | Bagnet | Photopark | Absurdu| Inforotor

Videos

Roxette arriving in Kiev – news24 point of view | Per’s point of view 😉 | Inter report 1 | Inter report 2 | 1+1: 1video 1, video 2 | M1.TV

Concert:

By Kalmykov1982: Spending My Time | Listen To Your Heart

By Sashka78: Band presentation and Chervona ruta | IMHBL | Perfect Day

By Nasnaga: Wish I Could Fly | How Do You Do!/Dangerous | Listen To Your Heart | The End

By Mol4anov: Dressed for Success/Sleeping in My Car

By mnogovremia (poor quality): Things Will Never Be The Same | How Do You Do! | Joyride (part)

By zamutil (poor quality): It Must Have Been Love (Part)

By rocky20112011: She’s Got Nothing On (poor quality)

By Rec2Play: It Must Have Been Love (with funny part Marie realising she sings wrong :P)

By Infdima: Watercolours In The Rain

Misc

Malin Ekstrand replaced Helena in backing vocals in this concert.

Thanks to the various readers who sent the links!

“She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” climbs the charts!

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Week 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Austria 75 – – – 22 29 9 13 10 14 17 23 24 28
Germany 100 – – – 18 22 12 12 10 10 18 19 23 22 25
Switzerland 75 – – – – 67 26 24 21 19 31 30 35 31
Belgium (Fl.)* 94 86 84 –

Thanks to intensive promotion via “Wetten Dass…?” and TV spots “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” climbed up to #9 in Austria and #12 in Germany! We will collect the different chart positions of Roxette’s new single in this post…

Did the single enter the official chart of your country? Please tell us how it is doing!

Update March 8: As EMI Germany proudly announces, the single climbs to #10 this week! That makes “She’s Got Nothing On” Roxette’s 9th top 10 hit, the highest ranking single since “How Do You Do!” in 1992. Also in Austria the single jumps up to #10. What a magnificent comeback! This success shows how much potential Roxette still has – and compared to markets like Sweden, what a difference some promotion makes…

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