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Gyllene Tider is back!

Jan 9

Posted by Patrícia Peres in Gyllene Tider | Comments off

Well, at least Gyllene Tider is back with a new facebook page – as The Daily Roxette informed earlier today. The page has already reached more than 23 000 fans in 1 day, after it’s been published.

GT

A cover picture was set on GT’s page with Per Gessle in the front, while all other members of Gyllene Tider (Micke Syd Andersson, Göran Fritzon, Anders Herrlin and Mats MP Persson) appeared a bit blurred in the background. EMI asked to remove that photo, so now you can only find it here and there on facebook or if you were quick enough, you could save it to your hard drive. ;)

First rumours about a possible GT album and tour appeared last year when Roxette was still touring. We also wrote several articles about it. Here you can see what Per’s reaction was to all the rumours and Expressen’s article. So, should we still hold our horses or will there be anything happening to save money for this Juni, juli, augusti?

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Romania gets ready for Roxette’s visit with interviews

Jul 16

Posted by Judith in Interview, Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

Here are links to some interviews published today in Romanian websites and newspapers:

MagicFM (Romanian, use google translator)

Clujlife.com (English)

Most important from both is that he confirms there will be “more touring, more recording, more smiles!“, that they will “start again pretty soon. With the feedback we’re getting from Planet Earth, how can we ever stop?“. He doesn’t confirm with whom the touring and recording will be though :)

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Gyllene Tider new album and tour next year?

Jul 14

Posted by Judith in Gyllene Tider | 2 Comments

Per Gessle tells in an interview with Expressen that he now wants to write in Swedish again and the best way to do it is with Gyllene Tider. This means new album and tour with Gyllene Tider, “maybe next year,” tells Per to Expressen.

He also comments that there will be more of this “new” Roxette (current Roxette set-up), even though he doesn’t mention when.

See you in Sweden (probably) next year!

Update: Per clarifies:

Hold your horses!!!!! Guess this reporter jumped the gun a bit. No decisions made that I know of. Sorry to disappoint.

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Press Release: Roxette back with new album “Travelling”

Mar 1

Posted by Judith in Releases, Roxette | 1 Comment

Here is the press release in English we got from Roxette’s management. 

A Swedish version is available too if you are interested.

Roxette back with new album ”Travelling”

and a taster: It’s possible!

Three years after their 2009 comeback, Swedish pop phenomenon Roxette are hotter than they’ve been since their early 90’s heydays.

Their world tour is in full swing with almost a million concert tickets sold since the tour kicked off in the Tatneft Arena in Russian Kazan a year ago. On top of that another million Roxette records has been added to the already dizzying 70 million that Roxette has sold over the years.

So far the band has played more than 85 shows in 30+ countries (and the trip continues—they don’t plan to rest until they’ve played 150 shows). But besides zigzagging between airports, arenas, hotels and meeting with fans from all over the world, the band also has found time to record their new album “Travelling”.

The idea has been to tap into all the positive energy that has boosted the band during this dazzling trip, and channel it to new Roxette music. In short, an album that just like 1992’s “Tourism” captures the feeling of a band on a roll—constantly on the move, snatching inspiration as they go; recording in hotel rooms, studios, at soundchecks and in concert.

The result is a fascinating musical postcard with 15 superb songs, most of which are new, some that are revisited classics and others being pearls that for various reasons hasn’t seen the light of day before. A tight and inspired band has gathered around a batch of Gessle tunes, where the relentless hit-maker again and again proves that his sense of melody and ability to surprise is still top-notch.

“It’s Possible” is the first taster from “Travelling” – 2 minutes and 34 seconds of sunny pop music that shows one of Roxette’s many sides 2012.  There’s more to come.

Release date “It’s Possible”: March 2nd.
Release date “Travelling”: March 23rd.

Prelistening “It’s Possible”
http://soundcloud.com/emi-sweden/roxette-its-possible/s-HTDLj

http://www.facebook.com/RealRoxette
http://www.facebook.com/partypleaser

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Roxette’s TRAVELLING tracklist revealed

Feb 26

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette | 15 Comments

As RoxetteCafe.com informed on its Facebook page, Danish website imusik.dk revealed tracklist of the forthcoming Roxette TRAVELLING album due to be released next month on March 23/26. According to the titles published below – we will be able to hear live versions of “Stars” [Dubai], “It must have been love” [Rotterdam] and “She’s got nothing on” [Rio de Janeiro]. Previously announced song called “Charm School” was renamed into “Touched by the Hand of God”. Unexpectedly – Roxette chose to include “See Me” (CBB session) and “The Weight Of The World” (Room Service / TBH sessions) with old vocals from Marie and Per, but new arrangments and mixes.

What do you think about it?

01 Me & You & Terry & Julie [ispired by The Kinks' "Waterloo sunset"]
02 Lover Lover Lover
03 Turn of the Tide [HAND outtake]
04 Touched by the Hand of God [previously called 'Charm School']
05 Easy Way Out
06 It’s Possible
07 Perfect Excuse [Marie and Helena on vocals, slower than Party Crasher version]
08 Excuse Me, Sir, Do You Want Me to Check on Your Wife?
09 Angel Passing [ballad]
10 Stars [Live in Dubai]
11 The Weight of the World [new mix, old vocals]
12 She’s Got Nothing on (But the Radio) [Live in Rio de Janeiro]
13 See Me [new mix, old vocals]
14 It’s Possible – version two
15 It Must Have Been Love [Live in Rotterdam, new vocals, modified in the studio]

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Roxette’s “Travelling” on March 23

Feb 2

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette | 11 Comments

According to Swedish online shops – Ginza.se, Bengans.se and CDon.se – the new Roxette album called “Travelling” will be released on March 23, a week earlier than previously expected. On the same date such star like Madonna will also release her long anticipated album.

Update February 7: As it looks like, the album will be released on March 23 in Germany and other “Friday release” countries, March 26 in most other countries.

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TRAVELLING – the official title of the new Roxette album

Jan 31

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette | 9 Comments

The cover of the forthcoming album called TRAVELLING was published today on the Roxette’s Facebook page. After previous projects for “2Rism” and “T2 – Tourism2″ Roxette finally decided to pick up different name. The album is due to be released on March 30 in Sweden.

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Per Gessle reveals to Expressen: Roxette is recording a new album

Jul 4

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette | 16 Comments

Roxette is already underway with recording a new album. At the same time the band’s successful World Tour that began earlier this year will extend – and continue throughout most of 2012.
(p) Lionel Zaragocin
- We’ve already started recording new songs for our next album which will be a continuation on “Tourism”, says Per Gessle.

Per Gessle, Marie Fredriksson and the rest of the “new” Roxette has received a nine-day vacation from the hectic tour. Expressen met Per Gessle related with the opening of photography exhibition with Terry O’Neill’s classic 1960s images of Tres Hombres Art in Tylösand.

- Some concerts are like a big karaoke-show, the audience sings along, all the time, says Per’s wife Åsa has been for most of the tour.

- I and MP were in the studio in Halmstad yesterday and wrote a new song, Per reveals. – New album is being recorded during this tour, in local studios and during the soundcheck. Just as the “Tourism” from 1992. All material is new. Working title is now “2Rism”

(c) ExpressenPer found a part of previously unreleased recordings. – Here are the songs with young Marie, before she became ill. We will use the song and record new backgrounds. Like Stones did when they found some leftover from the cult classic “Exile on Main Street” and Springsteen’s “forgotten” recordings of “Darkness on the Edge of Town” that was released as “The Promise”.

- These successes are pure bonus for us, that we had not counted on. We cannot compete with today’s artists like Lady Gaga and other pop based on beats, arrangements and a visual idea. It is not easy to do powerpop 2011. Yet we have just played for almost half a million people. When the tour is complete, we will reach 1.3 million.

Source: Expressen

Thanks to Emilio Gimenez Bahl for the picture.

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Per Gessle: I feel this is the best Roxette band our fans have ever seen

May 11

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

Clayton Morar, SA’s celeb expert & autograph hunter, posted a blog entry from the Monday press meeting in Cape Town. Read some extracts from what he noticed during the interview:

I feel this is the best Roxette band our fans have ever seen. We’re enjoying touring around the world and we’ll continue to sing and produce hits as long as Marie’s comfortable with how we do things and as long as the fans keep supporting us. All we’d like to do is to continue to make good music!

I love SA wine and I’ve previously brought my family out for a visit a few years ago, and we took a tour to all the wine farms outside Cape Town. While there I met up with Ernie Els (SA golfer) and Bjorn Bjorg (Swedish tennis star) and had a great time. I also love the food here and the great sights of Cape Town.

Check Clayton Morar’s blog out for more pictures and stories.

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New Roxette album postponed to 2011

Apr 18

Posted by Sascha in Recordings, Releases, Roxette | 7 Comments

As The Daily Roxette reports, the upcoming Roxette album got moved from end of this year to early 2011. The recordings go well, but they plan to have a summer break (where they’ll perform live around the Baltic sea) to resume recording until October. The actual plan is to record 16 songs with the first single to be released for Christmas 2010.

Comment: In my opinion that’s a good decision!
- The current EMI turmoil could lead to a quite insecure release/promotion situation this year. EMI was rumored to have postponed the next Coldplay album for example.
- The pre-christmas market is always very crowded with album releases. Nobody knows if Roxette’s name is still big enough to gather enough attention between such a huge competition. Roxette have a good history of winter/spring releases (all studio albums except (POP and LS).
- Judging from previous release interviews they always got fresh inspiration through a recording break.

I guess a first single already 2-3 months in advance of the album will keep us more excited than single/album released within 2 weeks… :D

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Gessle’s new Roxette album’s recording diary

Feb 5

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette | 6 Comments

February 4th, 2010:
The very first pictures and clips from Chris’ studio in Scania were presented.

February 3rd, 2010:

Grtgs fr ze studio. Day and nite #3! Just had a grt dinner by ze fire in Chris’s hse. His wife shd open a Michelin-rest! Back to work y’all!

This morning we could hardly find the studio. Serious amount of snow in the south of Sweden, folks. Are we human or are we dancer?

Had to take a 45 min walk w/ Clarence last nite, In 10 in of snow! At 3AM in the morning! I had a flashlight. Clare had a smile on his face.


February 2nd, 2010:

Just spent an hour listening to old demos. Hallelujah. So much rubbish, a few candybars…

Someone just sent me a link to Tapefly’s new single Sheela. Great stuff, wonderful guitar hook. We all love it in the studio

Greetings from The Studio. We’re making things happen here!!

January 26th, 2010:

Did some recordings at MP’s brand new Tits&Ass studio. Very cozy, great vocal-sound, nice coffee.

Read the rest of this entry »

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Diary from the Roxette studios: follow the album recordings!

Feb 4

Posted by Sascha in Recordings, Roxette | 3 Comments

Per keeps his nice habits and provides us newsbits and even photo/video material from the studios where Roxette’s brandnew album is being recorded. The first RX/PG album recording we can follow so close!

3 very successful days in the studio are finito. Home vids & pics at www.roxette.se very soon.

Check out the fresh material on roxette.se!

Source: Per on twitter | Photo: www.roxette.se

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Christoffer turns 40, ready to start studio works for ‘Roxette 2010′.

Jan 12

Posted by abysmo in Band Members, Releases, Roxette | 2 Comments

Christoffer Lundquist will celebrate his 40th birthday this Saturday January 16th. Right now he’s working with coleagues from Brainpool and an american director Shakina Nayfack on the new arrangements for songs from his Junk Opera, that will be premiered in New York soon. Works will finish January 23rd. Last week in January will Per Gessle and Clarence Öfwerman arrive to The Aerosol Grey Machine Studio to join Christoffer and start studio works for new Roxette album. Works will continue at least ’till midsummer when Roxette will probably move to Stockholm to mix new material. Per told in several inteviews that new album should be ready before Christmas 2010.

Thanks Lantartida for sharing info with us.

Source: Helenamouche.blogspot.com

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Roxette Sirius XM Special 2010

Jan 12

Posted by Tomasz in Interview, Marie Fredriksson, Media, Per Gessle, Roxette, YouTube | 3 Comments

Very interesting collection of photos taken during 2009 as well as these from the past mixed with the lastest interview with Roxette on American internet radio-station Sirius XM. Worth watching and listening!

If you would like to download the interview and songs, please read comment section here.

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Per Gessle: “I think there will be more Roxette tours in the future”

Dec 29

Posted by Tomasz in Interview, Media, Per Gessle, Roxette, Tour | 25 Comments

I have not listened to the X-mas interview with Per Gessle from P4 Halland yet, but from this what I read it seems the Man promised that there are going to be more tours from Roxette in the nearest future. 25th celebration in 2011 is not the bad idea, what do you think? :-)

More at P4 Halland. A short translation will come up a little bit later, when I will be at home.

Edit: There is a possibility to listen to the whole interview here (about 5-6 minutes into this broadcast).

Update, December 29: The Daily Roxette offers a summary.

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