Roxette

Roxette announces world tour!

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Live Nation sent a press release today announcing a Roxette world tour. Read yourself!

Roxette are setting off on a much anticipated world tour 2011. They kick off in Kazan, Russia March 1st and will cover at least four continents during the year. Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle are returning to the world stage full of new enthusiasm after their six sold out concerts last summer. Roxette toured Europe in 2001. However, the last world tour took place in 1994-95 with the “Crash! Boom! Bang!” album.

Roxette is one of the world’s most successful hit machines. Their big break came in the late 80s with “The Look” from the album “Look Sharp!” Since then the band has ruled album and single charts all over the world with massive songs like “It Must Mave Been Love”, “Listen To Your Heart”, “Joyride”, “How Do You Do!”,“Dangerous”, “Fading Like A Flower”and “Dressed For Success”. Roxette have sold over 75 million albums and the epic songs “Listen To Your Heart” and “It Must Have Been Love” have each been played over 4 million times on US radio alone. For a period of four years in the 90s the band never left the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

‘If you’d asked me a couple of years ago,  if there would ever be a new Roxette tour I would have very quickly said “No!”,´ says singer, guitarist and songwriter Per Gessle. ‘Knowing what Marie (Fredriksson, lead vocalist) had to go through in recovering from her severe illness, this is not only unbelievable, it seems almost magical to me. It will be wonderful to meet all our audience on Planet Earth again.’

‘I’ve been longing and hoping for this since 2002. It makes me incredibly happy to know we’re going to meet our fans all around the world again,’ says Marie.

Besides the tour, Roxette fans can look forward to a brand new album in the first quarter of 2011.

Tour plan

01.3 Basket Hall, Kazan, Russia
03.3 MTL Arena, Samara, Russia
05.3 Palace of Sports, Yekaterinburg, Russia
07.3 Siberia Arena, Novosibirisk, Russia
10.3 Exhibition Center, Kiev, Ukraine
12.3 Minsk Arena, Minsk, Belarus
14.3 Siemens Arena, Vilnius, Lithuania
16.3 Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia
18.3 Saku Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

01.4 Viva Cuervo Salon, Mexico City, Mexico
04.4 Luna Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina
05.4 Luna Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina
08.4 Orfeo, Córdoba, Argentina
10.4 Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile
12.4 Pepsi on Stage, Porto Alegre, Brazil
14.4 Credicard Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
16.4 Citibank Hall, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
17.4 Chevrolet Hall, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

11.5 Grand Arena, Cape Town, South Africa
14.5 The Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa
15.5 The Superbowl, Sun City, South Africa
20.5 World Trade Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

03.6 SeeFestTage, Schwarzlsee, Freizeitzentrum, Graz, Austria
05.6 O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
09.6 Plenen, Bergen, Norway
11.6 Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany
12.6 Hessentag, Frankfurt, Germany
15.6 Völkerschlachtsdenkmal, Leipzig, Germany
16.6 Tanzbrunnen, Cologne, Germany
19.6 Torwar, Warsaw, Poland

09.7 Bospop Festival, Weert, Netherlands
16.7 Rowlit Festival, Nordkalks Dagbrot, Pargas, Finland
22.7 Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark
24.7 Trädgårdsföreningen, Gothenburg, Sweden
31.7 Suikerrock Festival, Tienen, Belgium

Dates to be added.

2010 tour bootleg: Halmstad, audio x 2

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Time flies – 10 long, windy days passed since I had posted the last bootleg here on RXB. So now it’s a high time to present you two “new” audio recordings from one and only concert. Sweden’s Liverpool, Roxette’s hometown, småstad or whatever expression you would like to use – it’s all about rainy and cold Halmstad which got a little bit warmer on August 14th.

These two recordings have different quality, but I do hope you will appreciate hard and very exhausting work of two groups – Czech fans and so-called superduo Justyna & Kai 🙂

The first bootleg (let’s call it Czech) includes all songs – the last ones from Gyllene Tider are ripped from the well-known YouTube videos. The second one (it could be Polish-German one) has a nice cover plus all the songs except “It must have been love”, “Joyride” and two GT’s classics like “Sommartider” and “När alla vännerna gått hem”. So it’s up to you to choose which one is the bigger, the better.

Czech bootleg ||||||| Polish-German bootleg

To quote the Man:

Thanx for yesterday. A truly magic night that we’ll never forget. Rox were great, GT were great, the crowd was awesome!!!! Cheers, P.

P.S.
St. Petersburg in audio is still waiting in the line.
Do you have any other recordings?
Maybe you ripped any of these video bootlegs I posted.
If yes, please share with us with your recordings – here in the comment section, on Fb or Twitter. You can use our e-mail address: office@roxetteblog.com

2010 tour bootleg: Stavanger, video

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It was a windy and cold night in Norwegian Stavanger on August 21st when Roxette performed in front of over 8,000 people. In fact it was unforgettable evening even for nature as the beach where the gig took place was so destroyed during the concert that it is very probable that there will be no Summer Festival out there next year.

To quote Per G.

Truely magnificent gig in Stavanger. Thanx everyone for making life sweet!!!!

Marie was great. Her hi-lites were Halmstad, Stavanger and St. Peter.

Spanish fan team decided to record everything on tape (high quality one! :), but there was some minor problems and that is the reason why the first two songs – “Dressed for success” and “Sleeping in my car” are missing. Anyway – sweet sixteen from Stavanger only for you on RXB.

81:12 – 6.96GB

1. Opp?rtunity nox
2. The Big L.
3. Wish I could fly
4. She doesn’t live here anymore
5. 7twenty7
6. Perfect Day
7. Things will never be the same
8. It must have been love
9. Silver blue
10. Fading like a flower
11. How do you do!
12. Dangerous
13. Joyride

Encore:
14. Listen to your heart
15. The look
16. Church of your heart

HDCam
AVC
MPEG2
AC3
MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280×720 50.00fps [Video]
Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo [Audio]

To avoid problems with torrents, Spaniards uploaded all the clips on megaupload service. It’s almost 7 GB!
PART 1, PART 2, PART 3
PART 4, PART 5, PART 6

“Fading like a flower” stright from this video bootleg:

Roxette Lyrics Studio for iPhone is not official Roxette release.

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UPDATE FROM PER GESSLE (October 8th):

The Roxette iPhone app called Roxette Lyrics Studio is not offical or approved by Roxette and will therefore be removed from iTunes.

Here is the message from Krystian Szczodrowski that we got the other day.

Good news for all Apple fans. Roxette APP is available on your iPhone. So don’t waste your time searching countless websites for Roxette ‘s lyrics. Roxette Lyrics Studio it’s official, authorized and licensed lyrics for all Roxette songs. Roxette Lyrics Studio features lyrics and videos of Roxette’s coolest tracks. You can learn every word of Roxette’s best songs and sing along with his videos on iPhone, iPod, iPad.

Functions:

• Viewing: watch YouTube videos with the Roxette Lyrics Studio
• Favorites: add songs to a list of favorites
• Searching: search the Roxette Lyrics Studio by song names or lyrics
• Sharing: share with friends via Facebook, e-mail and SMS
• Status Updates: publish up to 150 characters of a lyric as your status on Facebook or Twitter
• Application updates: ongoing updates of the artist’s catalog

RoxONiPhone

2010 tour bootleg: St. Petersburg, video

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So here it comes! The best gig according to Per Gessle himself finally is available on the tape – and all thanks to Hungarian fan Gyöngyvér Simon who spent precious rox-minutes on recording this concert. We do really appreciate this!

5,23 GB
Picture:
Codec: MPEG-1/2 Video (mpgv)
Resolution: 1280×720
Rate: 60 fps

Audio:
Codec A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52 )
Channels: 2 (Stereo)
Sample/sec: 48000 Hz 320 kb/mp

DOWNLOAD

1. Dressed For Success
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Opportunity Nox
4. The Big L
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
7. 7Twenty7
8. Perfect Day
9. Things Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Silver Blue
12. Fading Like a Flower
13. How Do You Do! + Dangerous
14. Joyride
15. Listen To Your Heart + The Look
16. Church Of Your Heart
17. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone

And if you wonder if it’s worth downloading, so just watch this sample: