Interviews with heads behind the Proms orchestra

The NOTP fanpage features interviews with the conductor and the arranger of Night of the Proms. The interviews from this summer reveal some bits about their work with Roxette so far.

Roxette with Robert Groslot in May 2009
Roxette with Robert Groslot in May 2009
Robert Groslot, conductor, on Marie:
Did you meet Roxette before? Were there any rehearsals yet?
No, there were some preparations; When I’ve met Marie in May she was still fragile. I hope she’s much better now; it looks important to me that she’s protected and not has too many contacts.

Franck van der Heijden, arranger, on the orchestra arrangements:
For example, how long do you work at a number for Roxette for the fall editions? However, they are coming with their own band.
Well, Roxette exists from control freaks who like to work with their own arranger. From 2002 there are some things ready for them.
About Roxette we’ve already talked about, since the arrangements of 2002 still exists.
I’m going to rewrite the arrangement because I’m no longer happy with what their arrangers made of it then.

Read the whole interviews here: NOTP Fanpage

Editor’s note: It looks like the arranger interview (from July) was done before he got the new arrangements Per talked about at twitter…

Den standiga resan turné 1992.

DSR tour 1992.Live in Uppsala on December 16 or 17, 1992 at Universitetsaulan.
Part 1
Part 2

Live in Luleå on November 25, 1992 at Pontushallen.
or here track by track: MarieFredriksson.eu

Live in Stockholm on December 7 or 8, 1992 at Cirkus.
Part 1
Part 2

Tour-credits

Lighting and stage design by Pontus Lagerbielke.

Musicians:

# Marie Fredriksson (vocals and grand piano).
# Margareta Andersson (backing vocals).
# Mikael Bolyos (keyboards)
# Anders Herrlin (bass)
# Magnus Helgesson (bass)
# Jonas Isaksson (electric guitars)
# Christer Jansson (percussion)

Thanks to Leo.
Source: MarieFredriksson.eu

UPDATE, October 10th: I uploaded Luleå 1992 again – first two tracks don’t skip on this one.
Enjoy: Live in Luleå
Kiwein

Amazon.de added “Gessle over Europe”

Amazon.de added “Gessle over Europe” to its list of all releases with October 23rd as the premiere day. The album costs 12,99EUR and it is going to be an import item.

Suprisingly, “Gessle over Europe” is no 373 in Amazon.de album charts at the moment. After a while GOE went up till #357 and on October 7 till #213, #167. Oops, RB promotion seems to help 😉

UPDATE: Excerpts of every song from “Gessle over Europe” to be found in MP3 section on Amazon.de and on Amazon.co.uk.

UPDATE on October 7: “Gessle over Europe” is currently no 4 on “The biggest winners in the music sales in the last 24 hours” on Amazon.de with 357% growth.

UPDATE on October 10: “Gessle over Europe” LP was added on Amazon.de, costs 24,48 euro and the release date is October 28.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland release “Gessle over Europe” on November 6.

According to EMI Germany, EMI Austria and EMI Switzerland, Per Gessle’s latest live album “Gessle over Europe” will be released on November 6 in these territories.

Visit this websites to get to know where you can order the album.

As for now this is the official list of all the countries where “Gessle over Europe” will be released:

Sweden – October 23
Denmark – October 26
Norway – October 26
United Kingdom – October 26 [MP3]
Germany – November 6
Austria – November 6
Switzerland – November 6