Marie and Mikael to perform on Citytunnel opening

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Marie Fredriksson will perform together with her husband Micke Bolyos at the inauguration ceremony of Citytunneln, a 17-kilometer rail link between Malmö Central Station and the Öresund Bridge. As the grand finale, HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden will officially open the tunnel for traffic. The ceremony will be held next to the Malmö Central Station on December 4 and is free to the public.

Other artists performing at the ceremony include Nisse Hellberg, Timbuktu, and Ola Salo.

Source: Citytunneln.com
Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for this information.

Get ready for big Roxette news on November 2!

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If you haven’t heard it yet – Roxette are teasing us on their official Twitter with the following text:

Looks like there will be some kind of Rox announcement on Nov 2! Stay tuned!

So if you had one wish, what would it be? Roxette recently finished recordings of their brand new studio album… and seem quite open to touring the globe in 2011… The announcements not so hard to guess! Get ready to celebrate!

Sources: Roxette on Twitter | Per Gessle on Facebook

Side note: Germany’s big concert ticket vendor Eventim features Roxette on their “Ticketalarm” section since a couple of days. They should have their sources…

Update: Same at oeticket.com. And there’s a brand new pic at livenation.es!

2010 tour bootleg: Halmstad, audio x 2

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Time flies – 10 long, windy days passed since I had posted the last bootleg here on RXB. So now it’s a high time to present you two “new” audio recordings from one and only concert. Sweden’s Liverpool, Roxette’s hometown, småstad or whatever expression you would like to use – it’s all about rainy and cold Halmstad which got a little bit warmer on August 14th.

These two recordings have different quality, but I do hope you will appreciate hard and very exhausting work of two groups – Czech fans and so-called superduo Justyna & Kai 🙂

The first bootleg (let’s call it Czech) includes all songs – the last ones from Gyllene Tider are ripped from the well-known YouTube videos. The second one (it could be Polish-German one) has a nice cover plus all the songs except “It must have been love”, “Joyride” and two GT’s classics like “Sommartider” and “När alla vännerna gått hem”. So it’s up to you to choose which one is the bigger, the better.

Czech bootleg ||||||| Polish-German bootleg

To quote the Man:

Thanx for yesterday. A truly magic night that we’ll never forget. Rox were great, GT were great, the crowd was awesome!!!! Cheers, P.

P.S.
St. Petersburg in audio is still waiting in the line.
Do you have any other recordings?
Maybe you ripped any of these video bootlegs I posted.
If yes, please share with us with your recordings – here in the comment section, on Fb or Twitter. You can use our e-mail address: office@roxetteblog.com

Roxette to support Queen Silvia’s “World Childhood” radio campaign

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Roxette are lending their voices to a radio campaign in support of Childhood’s global commitment to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. The 30-second spots are airing across numerous SIRIUS XM radio channels. The campaign will be launched today in New York City by Queen Silvia of Sweden.

Among the participants: Music icons Frida and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA, and Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson from Roxette; award-winning director Lasse Hallstrom; internationally acclaimed actresses Lena Olin and Isabella Rossellini; Henrik Lundqvist, All-Star goalie for the NHL’s New York Rangers; world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, chef/owner of New York City’s forthcoming Red Rooster Harlem and winner of Top Chef Masters and professional golfer Jesper Parnevik.

“World Childhood Foundation” is dedicated to serving the most vulnerable children worldwide, especially those who are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation. Special attention is given to girls and young mothers. Since its inception, Childhood has granted almost 50 million US dollars to more than 500 projects worldwide, and currently supports over 115 programs in 16 countries including Belarus, Brazil, Estonia, Cambodia, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, Thailand, Germany, Ukraine and the United States.

Read more: WCF homepage | Press release

Update, October 28: Listen to Roxette’s spot as MP3!

Thanks to AbominableSnowman for the link.

2010 tour bootleg: Stavanger, video

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It was a windy and cold night in Norwegian Stavanger on August 21st when Roxette performed in front of over 8,000 people. In fact it was unforgettable evening even for nature as the beach where the gig took place was so destroyed during the concert that it is very probable that there will be no Summer Festival out there next year.

To quote Per G.

Truely magnificent gig in Stavanger. Thanx everyone for making life sweet!!!!

Marie was great. Her hi-lites were Halmstad, Stavanger and St. Peter.

Spanish fan team decided to record everything on tape (high quality one! :), but there was some minor problems and that is the reason why the first two songs – “Dressed for success” and “Sleeping in my car” are missing. Anyway – sweet sixteen from Stavanger only for you on RXB.

81:12 – 6.96GB

1. Opp?rtunity nox
2. The Big L.
3. Wish I could fly
4. She doesn’t live here anymore
5. 7twenty7
6. Perfect Day
7. Things will never be the same
8. It must have been love
9. Silver blue
10. Fading like a flower
11. How do you do!
12. Dangerous
13. Joyride

Encore:
14. Listen to your heart
15. The look
16. Church of your heart

HDCam
AVC
MPEG2
AC3
MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280×720 50.00fps [Video]
Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo [Audio]

To avoid problems with torrents, Spaniards uploaded all the clips on megaupload service. It’s almost 7 GB!
PART 1, PART 2, PART 3
PART 4, PART 5, PART 6

“Fading like a flower” stright from this video bootleg: