For those who couldn’t attend Roxette’s London concert, here’s a clip of “Truely madly deeply” by Darren Hayes ended with two lines of Roxette’s “Listen to your heart”.
Thanks to Miedy Bishop for sending this through.
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The Joyride stops off at Wembley!
by Alison Lowther
It was the moment fans of Roxette around the UK had been waiting for, November 1994 was the last time the super Swedes played a UK venue of this size and finally they were back to rock the 12,000 people who turned up to Wembley Arena. Meanwhile 49,000 people packed into Wembley Stadium next door to watch the England vs Sweden friendly football match!
For me not counting the places around Europe I had been to over the years I was just 17 years old when I last saw Roxette in the UK. It was Sheffield Arena November 14th 1994, prior to that July 17th 1992 (yes I have a good memory!), the difference between then and now is this time I did not need to have my parents accompanying me or driving me there and back!
There was talk about how many people were put off buying tickets especially those from other countries because of the fact the arena was all seated, and I admit given a choice I prefer the option to stand, be slightly crushed, and queue all day for that perfect front row spot. However seated at Wembley had its bonuses, it meant for some we did not have to get there early to start queuing and more importantly several hours could be spent catching up with other Roxette fans and drinking in a hotel bar around the corner!
Those on the front row had barriers before them; you see a barrier at a concert you automatically want to lean on it, however the security at Wembley had other ideas. Three songs in and half way through ‘The Big L’ a security guy in his florescent orange vest walked along asking us all to move back we were not allowed to lean on the barrier for ‘health and safety’ issues – everything is about health and safety in this country, sneeze on someone and you might get sued! Typically, British, so stiff I particularly wanted to wrap a Joyride balloon around the neck of one of them!
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Comment from Per Gessle
Superb London gig tonite! Best London-show ever for The Roxers. Had a blast. Have to come back!!! Thanx everyone for joining the party!
Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
13. Crash! Boom! Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “God save the Queen”)
17. Watercolours in the rain
18. Spending My Time
19. The Look
20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart
Miscs
That was a sold-out concert with 12,000 people in the audience. “Soul Deep” was dropped from the setlist and there were warning signs at the entrance that the show iwas being recorded.
Articles
The Daily Roxette (interview)
Entertainment Focus (review, 5/5!)
Mirror.co.uk (gallery)
Getty Images (gallery)
Pop duo Roxette returned to the UK for the first time in 17 years to play a very special live show at London’s Wembley Arena in 2011. After the tremendous response to this show the band have now announced 3 further shows for July 2012.
Glasgow SECC
Tuesday, 3rd July 2012 at 19:00
Manchester Evening News Arena
Wednesday, 4th July 2012
LG Arena Birmingham
Friday, 6th July 2012
Tickets onsale Friday 18th November at 9am
Source: Real Radio Northwest, GetToTheFront.co.uk
Thanks to Evgeny Perekopsiky for finding this out.
News from UK
Apr 11
There has been some dissappointment among fans in the UK about the release and lack of promotion with ’Charm School’ in the UK. Whilst it was good to see it make ’Album of the Week’ on Radio 2 the album only charted in the album charts at #122. Some feel this is because of a major confusion in the release dates, some stores reported not selling it until the 4th April whilst others had it’s official release date down as the 28th, although this error was reported for a month previously among fans via the likes of Facebook / Twitter and other Social Networking sites and it seems no one choose to sit up and take notice!
Of course the poor chart entry could have also had something to do with the fact the album was not available to buy as a physical release in shops (this fan point blank refused to buy a 4th copy unless she could walk into a store and buy it!).
”Of all the shops I checked out across Bolton, Manchester, Liverpool and Huddersfield not one major retailer had a copy of ’Charm School’ on display in the new release section or even in the Roxette section in the official release week or this week.”
It can however be purchased online quite freely. Of course I guess poor sales have not been helped by the fact many people have been able to illegally download the album thus bypassing official sales for months and ’true fans’ have imported official copies from the likes of Sweden and Germany when it was released which has no doubt helped with album sales in other countries, I guess this is what happens when you stagger release dates!
It seems though that ticketsales for Roxette’s date at Wembley are going well and all on offer now are ’Upper Tier’ seats, although HMV Ticketsales are offering floorseats in BLOCK B4 (for those who still want them). The Roxette concert made the top 10 on Ticketmaster’s top tickets sales which is pretty good going by all standards given the amount of tickets Ticketmaster promote in the UK alone. Whether this will eventually lead to another much wanted UK date, who knows?
In the mean time anyone coming to Wembley there is a Facebook Community that has been set up at here!
www.facebook.com/roxetteuktour2011
Alison Lowther & David Carmon contributed to this article.
April 1st
Here is what Alison Lowther, UK Roxette fan, received from Live Nation UK on her mailbox yesterday
Hi Alison,
Unfortunately we are unable to issue you with sales figures however we can say that this pre sale has proved one of our most popular ones this year! We fully support you in trying to secure another UK date and would love to host another one here!
Keep fingers crossed for another UK date!
April 6th
Roxette’s London gig in top 10 of the most popular gigs in United Kingdom. Yeah!
Roxette to play in London
Mar 28
Live Nation’s website informs that Roxette is to play in London at Wembley Arena on November 15th. The venue’s capacity is around 12,000 people.
The price of a ticket is 35 GBP (subject to booking fee).
Tickets will go on presale on March 31st at 10:00 AM, the general sale will start on April 1st, the same time.
Source: Live Nation
Thanks to Mariana Gumuzio for this information.
Have you ever thought about visiting the London shop in which Per Gessle and Anton Corbijn were in 2005 to take some photographs for the Man’s second solo album in English called “Son Of A Plumber”? If yes, remember “On the beat” name. Danyela Etchart was there in May 2009 while European “Party crasher tour” and wanted to share with us her story enriched with a clip and pics from that place.
Join The Joyride! 1991-1992
Jul 25
Live in Kiel, Germany on October 11, 1991 at Ostseehalle (8,000 spectators)
Live in London , United Kingdom on November 19 or 20, 1991 at Wembley Arena (11,000 spectators)
Source: “A Night To Remember” bootleg
Live in Santiago, Chile on April 25, 1992 at San Carlos Apoqindo
+ two additional files from this concert: Soul Deep & Knocking On Every Door
Live in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 2 or 3, 1992 at Velez Sarsfield
Live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 9, 1992 at Praca da Apoteose
Bianca: This audio I ripped from the home made dvd from this show. It was broadcasted by a TV channel here, but not the complete concert, that’s why I have only 12 songs!
Live in Berlin, Germany on July 1, 1992 at Waldbühne
Part 2
Live In Stockholm, Sweden on July 22, 1992 at Sjöhistoriska muséet
If you have more concerts from that tour, please upload them on SendSpace or Rapidshare and share with us!
Thanks to tomato23 & bianca @ R2R.
Source for some informations: Roxette20.eu
Danyela’s “En händig blog”.
Jul 22
One of the most creative, incredible and craziest fans in the rox-world, Danyela Etchart from Porto Alegre in Brazil has started her own blog-site “En händig blog” (Handy blog) which is written both in Portuguese and English. There are many pictures, stories and jokes from her long and amazing trips to Sweden, gigs she was on, all the meetings with Per she had and even Swedish press-articles about her! So if you want to join the unpredictable and extreme joyride, just visit her website. And yes, Dany’s coming to Europe for “Night of the proms”!
Watch:
Dany’s Party crasher tour (trailer)
En händig man på turne (part 1/2)
En händig man på turne (part 2/2)
Some of the photos you will be able to see there:
Source: EnHändigBlog
We got the final tracklists of forthcoming releases from “Party crasher tour”:
I. Gessle over Europe – CD
1. Dressed for success (Cologne)
2. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her (Cologne)
3. Stupid (London)
4. Wish I could fly (London)
5. She doesn’t live here anymore (Copenhagen)
6. 7Twenty7 (Amsterdam)
7. I have a party in my head (Amsterdam)
8. Late, later on (Amsterdam)
9. Listen to your heart (Cologne)
10. Do you wanna be my baby? (Copenhagen)
11. Opportunity nox (London)
12. Doesn’t make sense (Cologne)
13. Joyride (Stockholm 2)
14. C’mon (Warsaw)
15. Are you an old hippie, sir? (Warsaw)
16. It must have been love (Cologne)
17. The Look (Halmstad)
18. Hey mr DJ (Amsterdam)
19. (I’m not your) Steppin’ stone (Munich)
20. Sleeping in my car (Amsterdam)
21. Queen of rain (Cologne)
There will be three tracks less than on LP – “The Party Pleaser” & “Dangerous” (Stockholm 1) and “Church of your heart” (Stockolm 2).
II. Live at Cirkus, Stockholm May 9, 2009 – bonus-DVD
1. Dressed for success
2. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her
3. Stupid
4. The Party Pleaser
5. Wish I could fly
6. She doesn’t live here anymore
7. 7Twenty7
8. I have a party in my head (I hope it never ends)
9. Late, later on
10. Listen to your heart
11. Do you wanna be my baby?
12. Opportunity nox
13. Doesn’t make sense
14. Church of your heart
15. Dangerous
16. Joyride
17. C’mon
18. Are you an old hippie, sir?
19. The Look
20. It must have been love
21. Hey mr DJ (won’t you play another love song)
22. (I’m not your) Steppin’ stone
23. Sleeping in my car
24. Queen of rain
III. 100 x tribal homevideos from the tour filmed by Mr Gessle and his posse
IV. Video clips:
· Silly really
· Jo-Anna says
· C’mon
· Do you wanna be my baby (director’s cut)
· Kix (director’s cut)
· I want you to know
· Hey mr DJ (won’t you play another love song)
· Shopping with mother
· Kix (Lovely Pair mix)
· Kix-cha-cha (director’s cut)
V. Party Crasher EPK – interview by Sven Lindström
VI. Son Of A Plumber Documentary
Source: Gessle.com
The Live LP order:
Gessle over Europe – LP
1. Dressed for success (Cologne)
2. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her (Cologne)
3. Stupid (London)
4. The Party Pleaser (Stockholm 1)
5. Wish I could fly (London)
6. She doesn’t live here anymore (Copenhagen)
7. 7twenty7 (Amsterdam)
8. I have a party in my head (Amsterdam)
9. Late, later on (Amsterdam)
10. Listen to your heart (Cologne)
11. Do you wanna be my baby? (Copenhagen)
12. Opportunity nox (London)
13. Doesn’t make sense (Cologne)
14. Church of your heart (Stockholm 2)
15. Dangerous (Stockholm 1)
16. Joyride (Stockholm 2)
17. C’mon (Warsaw)
18. Are you an old hippie, sir? (Warsaw)
19. The Look (Halmstad)
20. It must have been love (Cologne)
21. Hey Mr DJ (Amsterdam)
22. (I’m not your) Steppin’ stone (Munich)
23. Sleeping in my car (Amsterdam)
24. Queen of rain (Cologne)
6 tracks from Cologne
5 tracks from Amsterdam
3 tracks from London
2 tracks from Warsaw
2 tracks from Copenhagen
2 tracks from Stockholm 1
2 tracks from Stockholm 2
1 track from Munich
1 track from Halmstad
In bold: these songs will be missing on the CD version
So now we know that there won’t be any Roxette live songs on this album and it’s very probable that three songs from London show will be the same as these from Sirius programme. The same will probably happen with Stockholm 1 which will be on DVD.
Source: Gessle.com
Party crasher live CD/LP
Jun 22
Per posted a message on Twitter in which he informed which cities will be included in the Party Crasher live LP/CD. Thanks to that we know that some live songs from Cologne, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Stockholm#2, Warsaw, Halmstad and Munich will be released.
London bootleg cover
Jun 14
Arnaldo Mariano Suarez from Argentina has prepared a new artwork for Sirius broadcasting of Per Gessle’s London gig. Thanks a lot.
Party Crasher Tour tickets
May 30
Do you still live on memories? Do you still have flashbacks from the Man’s latest tour? Yep, me too! That’s why I would like to present Party Crasher Tour’s tickets’ collection from each and every gig. I say thanks to all of you who helped me to collect all these tix. If you’ve got any ticket which looks different, then drop a line.
Helsinki – Mari Pudas / Ivanych @ R2R
Oslo – Jan Hedman / Daniel Bernhard
Copenhagen – Bo Hansen / Anja Jensen
Warsaw – Mikolaj Prymka
Prague – Almost Unreal @ R2R
Hamburg – Christina Röhrs
Munich – linki @ R2R
Cologne – Christina Röhrs
Zurich – Alison Lowther / Ms. Fredriksson @ R2R
Gent – otus! / Txiqui @ R2R / Andreea Totoescu
London – Alison Lowther / xarrrr @ R2R
Amsterdam – sarah @ R2R
Halmstad – Alison Lowther
Stockholm – tomos85 / Andreas Kullbjer / Sudek
