Roxette’s latest single “It’s Possible” reached #1 in the German radio station SWR3′s chart. This chart is done with the votes sent in by the radio listeners during the past week. Roxette entered the chart at #2 last week and has finally climbed to #1 this week.
SWR3 (Südwestrundfunk) was is one of the biggest radio stations in Germany and the biggest in south Germany.
Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle (=Roxette) were interviewed at Nyhetsmorgon. The interview is now online.
Enjoy!
You can find a translation in English on Roxette.ro.
Mar 30
The LP version of “Travelling” comes without any new pictures. Instead the pics are just bigger.
The demo of “Me & You & Terry & Julie” is rocky and doesn’t point that the final version would have slow verses and a fast chorus. The demo of “Touched by the hand of God” (called Charm school) is also acoustic – Per and an acoustic guitar.
The tracklist order is also different on the vinyl, beginning with side B (track 5 on the Cd) every following ‘track-couple’ is switched with each other, Easy Way Out with It’s Possible, EMSDYWMTCUYW with Perfect Excuse and See Me with It’s Possible (Version 02).
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Roxette entered the Swedish album chart at #8 with “Travelling”. As expected, #1 was Madonna with her “MDNA”. This means that Roxette was the second highest entry this week.
(One could think it was a bit of a bad timing to release the album the same week as Madonna…, but who cares, we still love our great band).
Per Gessle announced yesterday on Facebook that the video of “It’s Possible” will be premiered on Saturday March 31 on at Nyhetsmorgon, on the Swedish channel TV4.
Per will be in the TV studio for an interview as well. Normally the show is available online some hours after the TV broadcast.
Looks like the video premiere of It’s Possible + PG live interview in the studiosofa will be the real deal at Nyhetsmorgon, Swedish TV4 this Saturday at 10.30 am. Swell.
Update: Marie will join Per for the interview, which could already happen on 9.00 am!
The German video premiere will follow soon after, at 12.00 pm on MyVideo.de.
Mar 29
Mar 28
This the new ad promoting “Travelling” album in Sweden. It includes previously not seen pictures from Asian leg of the tour.
Per Gessle was interviewed today in the Swedish Radio P4 show “P4 extra med Lotta Bromé”.
In the approximately 20 minute long interview Per explained about live on tour, about him being quite picky about certain things, playing with Barbies, “Travelling” and much more. You can listen to the interview – in Swedish of course – on SR’s website here.
Roxette Café has uploaded it on mp3. And Roxette.RO has done a short translation to English of the interview.
Mar 27
New Roxette album Travelling entered official Czech album chart on #7. Although was realease date set to this Monday, album was already released last week in Thusrday. So only two days were enought for Travelling to jump on positin 7. FYI Charm School scored #1 and received Gold status in Czech Republic last year.
Additionally “It’s possible” debuted at #64 on German single charts.
The news seem to have been circulating for a few days now. It is however still not confirmed at this point.
We have received some messages from fans indicating that Roxette are to play at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on August 30, 2012. But again, as mentioned above, the date is still not confirmed and the information we could find was published on ticket reseller websites.
Per Gessle commented in Facebook some weeks ago that they would probably be in Canada end of August and in US in September (Articles no 1, no 2 and no 3).
We will post the official information and the link to the official ticket seller when we receive it from Live Nation. For now we can only recommend to wait a little bit and avoid super expensive reseller websites.
Roxette’s performance at Swiss SF1 show Benissimo can now be found on the Benissimo website (starts at about 2:00:00) or youtube (see below). Roxette performed “It’s Possible” in which seems to be the only TV performance to promote “Travelling”.
There was also a short interview on SF1 Glanz & Gloria
Here is a collection of some videos we found on YouTube with the new songs from Travelling.
The purpose of adding the links here is to spread the word about this brilliant new album, don’t forget to buy a copy on iTunes or Amazon or your store next door! You can also listen to the album in some countries on Spotify.
The videos might be gone soon, so just use your imagination to look for other options.
01. Me & You & Terry & Julie
02. Lover Lover Lover
03. Turn Of The Tide
04. Touched By The Hand Of God
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Here are the very first look at Roxette’s TRAVELLING album. Have you purchased/ordered your copy yet?
Arnaldo Mariano Suarez informed us that Roxette is to play in Santiago de Chile for the second time during this amazing World Tour. Their gig is scheduled for Saturday, May 5 at Espacio Riesco and tickets should go on sale tomorrow, March 22. Previously it was said that Roxette might play a concert a day before Buenos Aires date on April 23, but it was officialy denied by Roxette management.
The concert in Asunción, Paraguay, was scheduled for the same date, May 5th and Live Nation has confirmed that the concert has been cancelled. They have never cancelled any date on the current tour being on sale before – except Auckland because Per fell ill. Here is the official statment from Paraguayan organizators:
The promoters T4F & Escenario are affraid to communicate the cancellation of the concert “Roxette Charm School” which was scheduled on May 5th 2012.
The cancellation is due to the fact that Roxette will perform a concert on a date too close, in the city of Santiago de Chile, which creates logistical problems such as lack of time and flight links that makes their concert not possible in our country.
The Producers also report that the return of the tickets for the concert “Roxette Charm School” will be held from Wednesday, March 28 until Wednesday, April 4 2012, from 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:30 to 17:30.
Here is the scan from one of Chilean papers sent us by Claudio Méndez Rojas. Thanks!
