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World Tour 2012: Santiago de Chile, Chile – May 5 #104

May 6

Posted by Kiwein in Fans, Roxette, Tour | 10 Comments

Comment from Per Gessle:

Santiago! Oh Yea! Some of the jolly band members consider this show to be in the Top 3 of the whole tour!!!! Majestic! We had a lovely and a very sweaty evening with the most enthusiastic crowd you can ever imagine. Marie in top shape as well as the rest of the Roxers. Thanx everyone for making this a night to cherish!!!! We’ll be back!!!

 

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
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. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “Todos Juntos”)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

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World Tour 2012: Cordoba, Argentina – May 3 #103

May 6

Posted by Kiwein in Roxette, Tour | No Comments

Comment from Per Gessle:

Cordoba! 2nd time! One year! Thanx for treating us so well. We had a blast tonight. Great great crowd + band eager to please! See y’all next time. Keep up those smiling faces! Cheerio, P&M&Co

 

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
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. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with ???)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Videos:

 

Media:

Cadena3
La Voz
LA MAÑANA de Cordoba

 

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World Tour 2012: Rosario, Argentina – April 30 #102

May 2

Posted by Kiwein in Roxette, Tour | 9 Comments

Comment from Per Gessle

Rosario! Oh my Gosh! SuperGig, superBand, superMarie, superCrowd! We had a blast! Hope we can come back before long. You made us feel very special. Thanx for all the beautiful noise!!! Hope you can feel our appreciation!
Awopbopaloobop. P.

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
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. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with De Música Ligera)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Videos

 

Media:

Rosario3

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World Tour 2012: Mar del Plata, Argentina – April 28 #101

May 2

Posted by Kiwein in Roxette, Tour | 1 Comment

Comment from Per Gessle

Mar del Plata!!!!!! Big big thanx from all of us. We had a blast and appreciate your enthusiasm and very loud voices throughout the evening. Did you notice the cameras? We’re filming seven shows right now so keep that smile on your face and you might wind up on prime time TV! Marie in top shape tonight as well as the band. Can you ask for more? Love and happiness from P.

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
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. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with De Música Ligera)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Videos:


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World Tour 2012: Neuquen, Argentina – April 26 #100

Apr 27

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 3 Comments

Comment from Per Gessle

Neuquen! What can we say! A beautiful evening with a wonderful crowd helping us out with those complicated highly sophisticated lyrics!! You looked and sounded terrific!!! Thanx!!! Hope we can see y’all again! We loved that vibe!!!!! Cheers from P&M&Co. PS. Very proud to have had our 100th gig on this tour in your town!!!!!

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
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. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “De musica ligera”)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy

Articles

MinutoNeuquen.com

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¡Hola Chile!

Apr 26

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 1 Comment

Thanks to Danilo Meza Martinez for sharing.

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Two interviews with Per Gessle on Argentinian TV

Apr 26

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 1 Comment

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Promotion in Chile

Apr 25

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | No Comments

AlexisRox Chile informs us that Roxette’s May concert in Chile is promoted in underground stations and at the bus stops in the streets of Santiago.

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World Tour 2012: Buenos Aires, Argentina – April 24 #99

Apr 25

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 4 Comments

Comment from Per Gessle

Oh my God….Lunatic Park. There are no words to describe the feelings we have and the welcome we receive every time we hit Buenos Aires. Tonight was the loudest crowd we’ve heard since we played here last April and it felt most fitting that the premiere of IT’S POSSIBLE live took place here. And hey, thanx for making this band really proud of our music but even more proud of having fans like you!!!!

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Silver Blue
05. Stars
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. It’s possible
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “De musica ligera”)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Misc

Concert was a sold out event 24 hours before it took place. “Wish I could fly” wasn’t performed on the concert (the first time on the tour) and “Opportunity nox” was replaced with “It’s possible”. Here is short statistic how the concert looks like at the moment

0 songs off Pearls of passion (1986)
4 songs off Look sharp! (1988) 20%
7 songs off Joyride (1991) 35%
3 songs off Tourism (1992 – I counted IMHBL and SB in) 15%
2 songs off Crash!Boom!Bang! (1994) 10%
2 songs off Have a nice day (1999) 10%
0 songs off Room service (2001)
0 songs off TBH/TPH (2002/2003)
1 song off Charm school (2011) 5%
1 song off Travelling (2012) 5%

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Sleeping in my (Roxette) show… a live DVD would be great!

Apr 24

Posted by Judith in Releases, Roxette | 22 Comments

Per Gessle replied on Facebook regarding the DVD topic – thanks for taking the time to answer!

Personally I think this is a brilliant idea. You get a shorter version for TV + a longer version for the DVD market. The long one will have at least 60-70 min live stuff. It’s splendido to mix up live performances w/ funny stuff from backstage + studio + hotels + airports + private areas. Otherwise you’ll fall asleep. But that’s me.

Fall asleep? We thought it would be interesting to know how many would really fall asleep with a full live DVD :)

We think the DVD could have the fun stuff as an extra bonus at the end or even mixed in between, but still, a full concert with all the songs which were played during the tour… pretty please…

Really, we just want to say that this Roxette live really deserves a live DVD. They are THAT good! This tour has been great, and what is still to come, a full live DVD would simply capture all this. All songs have something fun or deep or special. And there is nothing like a full concert live DVD to capture all this energy, happiness, positive feeling, power of this fantastic tour which started as a small-medium one and has grown and grown to an extent I think nobody expected. A live DVD would be a great testimony for this. If not now, when?

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Would you fall asleep watching a live DVD of Roxette? :)

Note that if you are for the full live DVD, you should vote the option which starts with “no”

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Besides voting, you may want to leave your comment about how you feel about this, about the tour, what the tour, the 2 albums etc have meant or mean to you. Be kind and constructive!

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Roxette have no plans to release full live show on DVD/BD

Apr 24

Posted by Tomasz in Releases, Roxette | 14 Comments

According to various sources Roxette decided not to release a full live show on DVD/Blu-ray Disc. Despite previous announcements about filming in Barcelona, Oberursel, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, now we know those plans do not exist any longer. Instead of releasing the concert, the band is working on a documentary where they can potentially ‘squeeze’ several live songs inbetween. Something in the style of Gyllene Tider’s “Återtåget” documentary? We assume so. The documentary will have two versions: a longer one that is aimed to be released for sale and a shorter one for Swedish channel TV4.

The crew has visited Roxette so far in e.g. South Africa, China and now they came to South America to film the Argentinian and Brazilian hypes.

Our comment: We feel disappointed with a such decision. So far the only Roxette concert available in HQ is “MTV Unplugged”. No other show was released in any of contemporary formats (we exclude CD discs). This situation reminds us of the lost opportunity to film the “Room Service Tour”. We don’t want this to happen again. Please, Per & Marie, EMI Music & Live Nation staff, reconsider your decision!

Update: And here we got comment from Per Gessle himself.

Personally I think this is a brilliant idea. You get a shorter version for TV + a longer version for the DVD market. The long one will have at least 60-70 min live stuff. It’s splendido to mix up live performances w/ funny stuff from backstage + studio + hotels + airports + private areas. Otherwise you’ll fall asleep. But that’s me.

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Roxette’s arrival to Buenos Aires

Apr 23

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

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World Tour 2012: Lima, Peru – April 21 #98

Apr 23

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 1 Comment

Comment from Per Gessle

Oh Yea! Lima was, just as expected, an out of this world experience! Superb crowd, Marie’s voice in good shape and the tiny boogie band in killer mode!!! Such a pleasure to be on stage in this environment. Big thanks to all you almost 15000 ppl who participated in making this Saturday night a winner! Cheers, P&M&Co



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
13. Crash!Boom!Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band Presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “El Condor Pasa”)

17. Spending My Time
18. The Look
19. Listen To Your Heart
20. Church Of Your Heart

Articles

VisorRock (gallery)
Elcomercio.pe
Terra.com.pe
Facebook gallery no 1
Rpp.com.pe (gallery)

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Peru is getting ready for Roxette concert

Apr 21

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour, TV | No Comments

Thanks to Patricia Peres and RoxetteCafe.com for finding those reports.

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World Tour 2012: Quito, Ecuador – April 19 #97

Apr 20

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

Comment from Per Gessle

Oh yea Quito! Thanx for a wonderful evening, thanx for singing along (does everyone in Equador know our songs by heart????), thanx for showing us your beautiful town, we’re certainly having a blast here. Thanx for your support tonight, it felt like we all were one, we had a fab time even though we couldn’t play LTYH due to Marie’s (lack of) voice. Next time we do it in a ten minute version! LOVE, P&M&Co

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. 7twenty7
11. Fading Like A Flower
12. Crash!Boom!Bang!
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous
Band Presentation
15. Joyride (introduced with “Chullita Quiteño”)

16. Spending My Time
17. The Look
18. Listen To Your Heart (not performed due to Marie’s voice problems)
19. Church Of Your Heart

Miscs

Concert was due to take place on April 17, but later – after Caracas was announced (April 17) and Bogota (April 19) cancelled, it changed the date. Over 9,000 people bought tickets to that very first Roxette concert in the country. The group was really popular in the 90′s and looking at the clips from the concert you can still see how popular all Roxette songs are there.

Articles
ElComercio.com
Picture of the setlist

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