Roxette

World Tour 2011: Riga, Latvia – March 16 #08

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We need your help. The whole Roxette World Tour 2011 will be covered with such topics. If you find something connected with this particular part of the tour, post it in the comment section and we will add it to the article. Thanks for your help and cooperation!

Riga, Latvia, March 16th

Articles and photos

Concert: http://yfrog.com/gyae5txj | http://twitpic.com/4a3yw1 | Delfi.lv

We got these wonderful pictures from Oskars Kupše from Latvia. You can find the rest on his website Rock’n’photos.com, he told us that more pictures will be uploaded later today.

More photos by Oskars can be found here now.

 

Videos

By pnkrock3r: various snippets of the whole concert in one video

By J0ns71:  9 videos from It Must Have Been Love until the end of the show. Videos are from far away but the sound is fine. Fading Like A Flower, How Do You Do!/Dangerous, Joyride, Spending My Time, The Look, Way Out, Listen To Your Heart, Church Of Your Heart

By Saifermatt: Sleeping In My Car

By vkuvideos (including the end of Dressed For Success): Dressed For Success

By Evijz (bad sound quality):  Listen To Your Heart

By Cone007: Spending My Time

 

Norwegian band accuses Roxette of plagiarism

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According to an article on Norwegian newspapers Dagbladet and Side2,  the Norwegian band Hollywood Vampires claims Roxette has stolen parts of their song “She Had Nothing On But the Radio”, which was released in 2008. According to the singer of the band Paul E. Vercouteren, these parts can be found in Roxette’s latest single “She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)”.

“It is weird that another band is earning money on the chorus we wrote,” tells Vercourteren to Dagbladet. Vercourteren claims that besides the chorus, the bass rythm and guitar chords are similar as well, and that all in all, the song is “too similar to be a coincidence”.

The norwegian band is now considering if they take any legal steps against Roxette or not.

Here’s the link to Hollywood Vampires song. What do you think? Personally, to me this song sounds like Green Day.

Roxette highest new entry on UK Radio Airplay Charts this week

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Update March 21, 2011:

“She’s Got Nothing On” up to #26! on UK Radio Airplay Charts.

Thanks Chris for the tip.

Published March 14, 2011 – 13:12

Roxette entered the UK Radio Airplay Charts with “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” at #31, the highest new entry of the week!

The song started out last week on Radio 2’s A-List and several programmes frequently played it. It still remains on the A-List for a second week running! Fans also report hearing it on Radio 1 as well as local commercial radio stations!

The new album “Charm School” sees a release in the UK on March 28th with both the regular and the deluxe album being already available for pre-order from online stores! All fans want now is that UK tour date!

Andreas Weizbauer contributed to this article.

World Tour 2011: Minsk, Belarus – March 12 #06

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So far we have a lot of material for each concert so we will keep on adding an article per concert.

Minsk, Belarus, March 12th

Setlist (not confirmed)

1. Dressed For Success
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. The Big L.
4. Wish I Could Fly
5. Only When I Dream
6. She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
7. Perfect Day
8. Things Will Never Be the Same
9. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7Twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous

Band presentation (performing a guitar solo version of Ukrainian song “Chervona ruta”, so Per didn’t lie about Christoffer’s last night’s experience in a pub! lol)

15. Joyride

First Encore

16. Watercolours in the Rain
17. Spending My Time
18. The Look

Second Encore

19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Photos and articles

Photos: UltraMusic | xlam.by | euroradio.fm

Article, photos and video about the concert

Videos

By Makarixa66: before the show (with Per’s playlist ;))

By CaRaNebesnaya: Spending my time

By fenix190501: 7twenty7 | It Must Have Been Love

By DashuniATube: Perfect Day

By Megaflashlite (poor quality): Sleeping In My Car

Concert

Misc

Roxette’s world tour goes on in Autumn – first dates showed up

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Per Gessle already mentioned in various interviews in Germany last month that the tour would go on in Autumn with 25 more dates. Some dates have already started to pop up in the net. Here are some findings:

– According to KölnTicket: October 16, Mannheim, SAP Arena, Germany

– Eventim, official German ticket vendor, updated their website indicating that the tour in Germany goes on “from” 11-6-2011 (Berlin) until 25-10-2011 (unknown city).

– According to this article in Austrian newspaper, Roxette is supposed to play in Vienna in October.

– On the other side, Spanish radio Europa FM wrote today on their Facebook page that they are going to be the “official radio station of Roxette’s tour in Spain“.

Europa FM emisora oficial de la gira española de Roxette! Sleeping in my car, Dressed for success, It must have been love, How do you do, Spending my time… ¿Qué canción te marcó más del dúo sueco?

This probably means that more dates are going to be announced during the next days!

Update March 11: Eventim has changed the “until” date 25-10-2011 back to June, but anyway, Per already announced in various interviews that there are 25 more shows to come, so it’s just a matter of time.

Thanks Kirsten and Nicole.