NOTP tour: Hamburg, November 28, #24

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Per Gessle’s comments:

Hamburg #2 was a treat! Thanx everyone, we had a blast. Berlin tomorrow!

Official videos:

Craziness staring here

Fans stories:

KIWEIN:

My first German show after five Dutch/Belgian shows. I missed Sharon den Adel. H17 is an “ok” substitute for OMD, Alan Parsons is great and the show seems “shorter” than it was in Belgium/Netherlands. I missed the effects (pyro) and the catwalk (especially the ppl who walk in at the beginning of the show).

Christina Stürmer is better than I expected, don’t know why she plays only 1 song after the break. Feels a bit like they didn’t know where to put it. They changed the classical parts (to the better if you ask me). WICF is still so-so. I don’t know what I miss about it on this tour but so far I liked it only once when Marie did it the all-bluesy way. John Miles is still great, miss Sharon on Stairway to heaven. If I could is still boring (yes, sorry for that..).

And one thing: I know the organizers decided to do more seated shows to please the people. Apparently ppl wanted more seated shows. But for me it spoils the atmosphere completely. I don’t like it at all and I was really thinking about selling my tickets for the seated shows. I am not 50 yet and I want to party..and I do believe more people want that. Everybody stood anyway and I think the pushing is not THAT bad on a NOTP show..! AND I think there’s much more party with people standing and it’s not so hard for the artists to perform, too.

About last night’s show: Screwed up WICF again, voice great, lyrics, eh, yes, well, no. The Look and LTYH rocked, Marie gave all she has at the end of LTYH, it was fabulous! Joyride was nice, too. And it’s funny to see the audience seems to be fond of IMHBL. Everybody sang along…

MAMAN:

It was absolutely fantastic! As Sasha already wrote concerning the first show in HH: No one got more applause. Everyone woke up, stood up when Marie rose like the sun onto the stage. As if she was the one, all had been waiting for. I bet, she was! And she did such a great job! So much strength, so much power!
There were some wrong words in WICF, but you wouldn´t have noticed it without knowing the lyrics by heart. So: no problems. She reached the high notes, she sung so powerful, I´m speechless. What a woman! She smiled and I´m sure that she enjoyed the show! What a power, what a strength on stage! THANK YOU, MARIE! ABSOULUTELY FANTASTIC!

YouTube clips:

It must have been love

Media reports/reviews:

Halterner Zeitung: Roxette is the highlight | Abendblatt: Roxette – Tears and goosebumps

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NOTP tour: Hamburg, November 27, #23

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Sascha’s snapshots | Der Westen | NDR2 | Morgenpost | Kölner Stadtanzeiger | RTN | Regioactive | Bildmaschine

Per Gessle’s comments:

Excellent Hamburg gig. We felt extremely welcome by the German crowd. Thank you. Danke, dears. Let’s kick ass tomorrow again.

Hamburg! What a crowd! What a response! Just did Wish I could fly. Marie’s in top shape! Alan Parsons just borrowed my black guitar. Swell.

Official videos:

Lots of fresh footage starting here

Fans stories:

SASCHA:

What a night! Already the knowing to really be at a Roxette event after those dark seven years felt incredible while I went into the arena. The show started of with some classical songs, the Katona twins, then Christina Stürmer, followed by Heaven 17. another classical track. Hey, what was that? A blue dress was glittering left of the stage… Marie?

Marie!!! The stage lift went down and I could see her head in the dark hole. Then the strings went into a familiar note: the intro of WICF. As she went up, smiling into the audience, Roxette got such a big welcome, so much louder than everything before! Marie started to sing and it sounded different to the past. But for sure not worse. Rather in the direction of hoarse, but full and touching. The beautiful performance was thanked with a thundering applause and they said good bye until the 2nd part.

After some classical part Alan Parsons entered the stage with Jonas on his side and they did a couple of beautiful songs. Jonas is such a master at the guitar, I wanna hear much of him on the new record! In the break I looked for the merchandise stand and got the new NOTP CD. They had ROX20 as well, but I didn’t find the shirts. 2nd part. The classical tracks were mixed with the twins doing a nice pop medley, than Christina again. John Miles did some good songs and Jonas was quite often jamming at the front of stage. Great solos! Jonas playing around… dand dang-dang… The Look!

As soon as Roxette entered the arena again everyone was on his feet. And they did simply great: Per jumping as usual, the whole band smiling all over and Marie walking the stage, fooling around with the band and orchestra. Thousands of lights at the ballads, thousands of voices at the up-tempos! Everyone was Na-na-na! Marie dared quite high notes at the end of LTYH and at one point her voice broke of. After a second she went on and sang even higher, with more power! They got such a huge response by the crowd, such a thunder of applause and encouraging screams, it was clear for everyone: Roxette was the absolute highlight of the night, they won them all. Like the reporters put it later: It seemed like everyone came for one reason: Roxette’s comeback.

Now watching my photos and videos it’s still hard to believe it really happened. But it is! Almost unreal. I did only a few video clips and snapshots cause I needed to enjoy as much as possible through my own eyes, unfiltered. It went so damn fast! The bad point of the night: I was too far away! Can’t wait to jump into the crowd in Dortmund. :)

NOTP FANPAGE: “Roxette – the absolute highlight”

YouTube clips:

Sascha’s video (in HD) | IMHBL | LTYH | IMHBL (clip)
By Tueffelberta: WICF | TL | IMHBL | J | LTYH

Media reports/reviews:

NDR2: “The most emotional NOTP”
Abendblatt: “Comeback of the year”
Der Westen: “Magnificent comeback of Roxette”

The voice of Marie Fredriksson has become more mature, in the heights no longer quite so at home, but all the more expressive.

Morgenpost: “Old heroes and hire youngsters”
Kölner Stadtanzeiger: “Roxette’s stage comeback”

TV reports: Leute heute | Brisant

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TV4 Nyhetsmorgon’s interview with Roxette

TV4 will broadcast 20 minutes long interview with Roxette tomorrow at 9.26 AM Swedish local time.

Update, November 28: You can watch the programme on the TV4 website and read an English summary at TDR!

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NOTP: Hamburg is getting ready for the show!

Don’t forget to visit German-language blog written by Karen, one of The Nokia Night of the Proms staff in Germany. She posted few photos from Color-Line Arena in Hamburg.

Update: Newspapers have some nice articles around the show and particularly Roxette. In German of course: Roxette united again | Back to the 80s

Google translate may help you reading… ;)

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New cover for “Night of the Proms” live-CD

New cover of NOTP live-CD

Source: NOTP
Thanks to Sascha for this info!

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Large Night Of The Proms photo gallery

Roxette in Antwerp, 06-11-2009Head over to the international NOTP fanpage to view an extensive photo gallery of the tourdates in Antwerp. Nice Roxette shots!

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Listen to the snippets of NOTP CD!

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From now on you can listen to the snippets from forthcoming “Night of the Proms 2009″ live CD on Amazon.de – two Roxette songs are included – “Listen to your heart” (5:14) & “The look” (5:27).

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Grand Pop Station – a new project from Staffan Öfwerman

Grand Pop Station.Grand Pop Station is a new Swedish band with Staffan Öfwerman on the lead vocals (who used to be in the Roxette band between 1988–1993, appearing on Look Sharp, Join the Joyride tour and also on several other recordings. He did his final live performance with Roxette on MTV Unplugged.

This is Staffan’s new band with 4 other great musicians from Sweden playing their own music. Most of the songs are written by Staffan and the music is pop that the band hope will be loved by the most people.

The band just released their debut single, Daddys little boy as a digital download on iTunes in November 2009. The track ended up on Top 30 over the best selling songs on iTunes Store on the first day.

The band is right now in the studio working on more songs, which will be released in 2010 if people like their first single. There is also a brand new web site on it’s way and the first part of it is now open, but a lot of things are happening behind the scenes. Take a look and register yourself to the club (it’s free). Then you will have access to the complete web site when it is launched.

And don’t forget to do like many others, get your own copy of “Daddy’s little boy” with Grand Pop Station on iTunes Store.

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“Night of the Proms” turns into “The Nokia Night of the Proms”

So here they move on German roads. “The Night of the Proms” tour turns its name into “The Nokia Night of the Proms” thanks to the main sponsor of this event in Germany. 20 more shows to go!

The Nokia Night of the Proms 2009.

Comment from Project_Z:

The tour has ended for Toots Thielemans, Sharon den Adel & OMD… Here come Alan Parsons (with singer PJ Olsen), Heaven17 & Christina Stürmer…

Will there be surprises on the part of Roxette? Will WICF stay in the first part of show? Will WICF stay in the show at all or will it be replaced with another song (as suggested of a NotP-forum)?
Which classical piece will be replaced by “Le Carnaval Romain”? as this piece is on the CD, but wasn’t played in Antwerp, Arnhem or Rotterdam. Will Swedish Rhapsody leave the playlist, taking WICF along (as suggested of a NotP-forum)?
Will a “new” Roxette-song enter the playlist? Church of your heart to replace WICF?

Questions, questions, questions… to be answered next Friday in Hamburg!

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NOTP tour: Rotterdam, November 24, #22

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Excellent finish at Ahoy in Rotterdam. 7 sold out nights in a row. Yeehaa!

Official videos:

10 videos from the last Rotterdam date, starting here.

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Roxette on Swedish TV

Swedish channel TV4 will broadcast an interview with Roxette next Saturday! It’s made by long time fan Lasse Bengtsson and will be shown during “Nyhetsmorgon”.

I think I saw the camera in one of the recent backstage videos… :)

Source: Roxette.se via The Daily Roxette

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NOTP tour: Rotterdam, November 23, #21

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Another splendid Ahoy-show. Thanx everyone for singing along and making us feel like we’ve had a hit or two….

Official videos:

Powder to Roxette

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YouTube clips:

It Must Have Been Love | Joyride | Listen To Your Heart

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[Rumours] Roxette in Poland on New Year’s Eve?

I have read about it in the Polish press almost a week ago, but I thought it was one of those stories which are not worth mentioning. But still – I have decided to post it here. After all only gods know what’s the truth.

The rumour has it that Roxette may perform as the main star on the New Year’s Eve public party organized by the authorities of Lodz, the third-largest city in Poland. The other propositions of so-called stars are: Ace of Bace or Sandra (!).

The whole concert will be broadcasted by TVP2, the second chanell of public television and watched, as always, by millions of Poles who stay at home on the New Year’s Eve. The budget for this even is about 700,000 euros.

Unfortunately, even if it’s true, I don’t think it will be live and we cannot expect more than 4-5 songs.

Sources: Polska Dziennik, Ekspres Ilustrowany

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NOTP tour: Rotterdam, November 22, #20

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Afternoon delight at the Ahoy. Nice. Great crowd. Thanx everyone. The evening’s off, any suggestions asks Pelle A?

Official videos:

Jammin’ Church of Your Heart | COTH 2

Fans stories:

YouTube clips:

The Look | Listen to your heart | The Look 2

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Recording of the new Roxette album in Rotterdam.

It’s happening, it’s happening!

Per tells on November 23:

Marie is doing guide vox on a couple of new songs in Chris’ room. Sounds fab. Everybody’s motivated/happy. Tonight it’s jolly Ahoy #6!!!

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