The Race Legends event with Roxette gig cancelled!

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According to an jnytt.se article, the upcoming The Race Legends event at Anderstorp raceway got cancelled due to financial problems of the organizers. It was meant to be the biggest event for the site since the 70s. As the article states, Roxette’s gig at the raceway doesn’t survive the failure. An official press release by organizer Urban Stamming about this issue is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday.

The Race Legends organisation was marked with confusion and failures from the beginning. There was a public dispute about the accepted ticket resellers.

Almost 25,000 tickets sold!

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Smukfest Festival announced today that almost all tickets, over 25,000, are sold for this year edition of the second largest festival in Denmark. According to some sources, only less than 500 tickets are left.

Roxette will play there on Sunday, August 8th at 10 PM.

Update, July 8: As Ekstra Bladet reported yesterday, the 4-day-passes are now sold out. You can still get 1-day-tickets for Thursday and Sunday, when Roxette will perform.

Recommendation: How a fan remembers Roxette

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Bored? Go over to this blog and read the memories of a longterm Roxette fan from the USA. It’s quite a nice read!

If I can’t figure out what I want to listen to – Roxette.  If I’m feeling a particular, emotional high or low that I think only one band can understand – Roxette.  They are the band that has gotten me through most of my entire life.

Special Gessle song for Victoria & Daniel! More to come!

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From June 18:
According to Aftonbladet, Per surprised Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling with a performance of a brandnew song at yesterday’s party. Aftonbladet describes it as a romantic ballad specially written for the couple. But that’s not all, there’s another song to be revealed at the actual wedding party – where Roxette will perform on Saturday! We don’t know yet if any of these songs are to be released by Roxette or who will sing the song on Saturday. Stay tuned! 😀

Thanks abysmo for the newstip!

Update, June 28: As tevensso reports at TDR, “Per says he did not perform a song for the couple on Thursday.”

So either the “special song” story was totally made up or the song was presented without a live performance. Also the rumours about Roxette performing a new song at the wedding party on Saturday were not true.