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.
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As Swedish Government informs on its official website – Roxette is to receive music export award for 2011. Here is the official statement:
This year’s music export award-winnig duo celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011 with one of the biggest tours a Swedish band has ever done. The world tour that began in Russia in February 2011 – and that will extend well into this year – exceeded the forecast for number of tickets sold to over one million. The group has since its start sold over 50 million albums and another 20 million singles, and created some of music history’s greatest hits: It Must Have Been Love, Joyride, The Look, Listen to Your Heart and Dressed for success – just to name a few. After ABBA – Roxette’s the most successful band of all time on the international music scene.
The Government’s 2011 Music Export Prize will go to Swedish House Mafia as well. Roxette received this prize once in the past in 2001 for Room Service album and tour.
Congrats to Roxette from the whole RoxetteBlog.com team!
Swedish photographer Fredrik Etoall is the man in charge for new Roxette photosession that will probably find its way in the TRAVELLING album bookler or promotion process. He has published a blurry photo from his photoshoot yesterday.
Thanks to RoxetteCafe.com for this information.
If you haven’t become a fan of the official TRAVELLING cover YET, so we collected several fan made ideas how the album cover could’ve looked like in parallel universes.
Would you like to share your vision of the parallel world? Send your projects to office@roxetteblog.com
We have it! Barry Mieny informed us that the font used on the TRAVELLING album cover is called Vanthian Ragnarok.
Tina Engmann added that “Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotel Rooms and other strange Places” is written with Bebas Neue and Roxette on the bus with Musa.
Antonio Epifania from Australia reports that Sydney radio station Mix 106.5 is giving listeners a chance to win a meet & greetwith Roxette plus tickets to their show on the 25th of February! He was listening after they announced Monday’s winner to an interview with Oscar winner South African actress Charlize Theron and it turned out that she is also a Roxette fan! Roxette helped her get through her difficult high school years.
You can have a listen here & she says it at 1:45min
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.
We have gathered few posters from the World Tour 2012 – if you have anything more to add to this thread, please mail us at office@roxetteblog.com
As you know – the plane picture used on not the final cover of the Roxette’s forthcoming “T2 – Tourism 2″ album was taken by Norwegian photographer Fredrik Olastuen. Who is he – you may ask.
Here’s the little piece of information he publishes on his Flickr page.
26 years old, living in Jessheim, Akershus, Norway.
Work in the videoconferencing industry, certified on Tandberg equipment. When not on work, I spend most of my time as a hobby-/freelance-photographer.
I do mostly sports and concert foto, but experiencing with all kind of genres.
I have always been interested in photo, but it really startet to evolve when I bought my first DSLR. Now I’m almost only shooting with my Canon Powershot G10, but it’s still a lot of fun and I like to experience with motives and techniques.
My main goal is to have fun and take nice pictures of my life and surroundings, and experience while having fun. If you like my photos, that’s a nice bonus
If you want to follow my updates, you can add me as a contact here on Flickr or on Twitter where I will post every time I publish new photos.
Our reader Barry Mieny has removed the dark area in the bottom of the cover published by online Swedish shop CDON.com. If you look closer you may see that the album’s name includes colone instead of dash [T2:Tourism2[ and that there’ll probably be no spaces in between. This looks like a very tricky name!
We have no confirmation if this cover is real or not.
Update: The cover appeared in better quality at Ginza.se:
Thanks Honky Tonk!
Update 2 by J: Sven H has done some research and found the original plane picture and some information. The picture with the airplane was taken by Fredrik Olastuen who posted the following on his blog:
Speaking of photography, before the weekend I had a very pleasant surprise. Somebody had discovered one of my photos on Flickr and wanted to buy it, to use it album cover of a famous band in Sweden. I, of course, agreed to it, nice that my work is noticed and is appreciated. The picture otherwise also received many good comments earlier, quite funny actually, since the picture was taken almost by chance.
And I myself found this comment on Fredrik Olastuen page, left by Pär Wickholm at Minus on January 11. He basically writes that he works as a graphic designer and would like to buy a picture for an album cover for a “successful artist in Sweden”.
So it looks like the cover will at least have this plane on the cover. The idea is nice, also playing with the T2 = terminal 2, plane, travel, that the whole band is on the cover.. but let’s hope the bus and the band pictures get better!
Thanks Sven!
Colombian gig cancelled
Jan 25
Per Gessle has just answered fan’s questions on the Roxette’s Facebook page if the Colombian gig is cancelled . Unfortunately, he confirmed that.
Looks like the Col gig won’t happen this year. Some LiveNation issue I guess.
It is very likely that Chilean date will be included in the tour schedule between Quito and Lima concerts.
World Tour 2012: Tickets
Jan 24
Here are the World Tour 2012 tickets – if you have any other version of ticket you would like to share (without bare codes of course!), please do at office@roxetteblog.com
Here are the 27 concerts that we still haven’t got any ticket pictures for:
20.02 Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia
22.02 Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia
24.02 Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia
28.02 Challenge Stadium, Perth, Australia | (moved from Feb 23)
29.02 Challenge Stadium, Perth, Australia | (moved from Feb 24)
08.03 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Hall 5BC), China
12.03 MasterCard Center, Beijing, China
14.03 Shanghai Grand Stage, Shanghai, China
17.04 Coliseo Ruminahui, Quito, Ecuador
21.04 Explanada Estadio Monumental, Lima, Peru
25.04 Luna Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina
26.04 Ruca Che, Neuquen, Argentina
05.05 Asuncion, Yacht Club, Paraguay
08.05 Curitiba, Teatro Positivo, Brazil
10.05 Sao Paulo, Credicard Hall, Brazil
12.05 Rio de Janeiro, Citibank Hall, Brazil
15.05 Brasilia, Nilson Nelson, Brazil
18.05 Recife, Chevrolet Hall, Brazil
30.06 Kaiserlautern, Germany
03.07 Glasgow SECC, United Kingdom
04.07 Manchester Evening News Arena, United Kingdom
06.07 LG Arena Birmingham, United Kingdom
09.07 The O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland
13.07 Odderøya Live Festival, Kristiansand, Norway
14.07 Fredriksten Festning, Halden, Norway
27.07 Kotka Martime Days, Finalnd
18.08 Color Line Stadium, Jugendfest festival, Ålesund, Norway
Thanks to Daniel Rezmann, Petra Osifova, Fernando Leonel Kuz, Yu, Arnaldo Mariano Suarez, Roxette En Rosario Facebook page, Fabio Deluca, Celestte, Alexis Schettler (Lexy), Heidi Janse van Rensburg, Youdidz NugroHo, RoxetteCafe.com.
Update January 24:
Here’s the intial cover for T2 – Tourism 2 release. CDON.com also changed Unviersal reference – the album will be out on EMI label.
Swedish base online shop CDON.com published intial date for the T2 – Tourism 2 album release. According to the website the new Roxette album goes out on March 30 and will cost around EUR 17.95. The name is still unknown.
The interesting fact is that it’s the first Roxette’s album to be released under Universal Music label.
Thanks to Daniel Kuhn for finding this and RoxetteCafe.com for informing about the cover.
We’ll certainly be listening to our hearts come July when pop duo Roxette are coming to Dublin for a headline show. Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle who are Roxette have enjoyed an excellent world tour in 2011 and success with their new album ‘Charm School‘ and have played to over 800,000 fans at 79 concerts in 31 countries.
This world tour continues into 2012 with Roxette playing Australia, Asia, South America, South Africa, Europe which includes a date at The O2, Dublin on July 9th 2012.
Tickets for the show at The O2 cost €44.05 inclusive of booking fee and will be going on sale Friday 27th January at 9am
Thanks to Evgeny for informing about this news.
Big Daddy, Indonesian tour promoter for Jakarta Roxette concert on March 3, has just informed that the venue for the concert has changed from Indoor Tennis Stadium into Mata Elang International Stadium International Stadium that takes around 15,000 people.
My Ticket Indonesia has also started sale of tickets for the concert.
Thanks to Leonardo Furtado for letting us know.
