It all started with a flight to Sundsvall on Friday and the mere twist of fate that the whole of Roxette were on my flight! I promise it was a coincidence, I booked my flight in April and our sources inform us the band only booked there flight around a month ago (I promise we are not stalking you!) I say WE because I was taking the flight with my friend Dany from Brazil! Dany has still not quite got over the shock that she walked through airport security at the exact same time as Marie Fredriksson; she glanced to her right and nearly fainted with shock at seeing Marie and had to sit down! Boarding the flight with the entire band and chatting to Christoffer, Magnus, Clarence and Pelle at the boarding gate was just a fantastic experience and the guys are wonderful to be around!

Saturday morning and the day of the concert started extremely early for myself and Dany as we were outside Norrporten Arena for 6am, only we were not the first as we expected ourselves to be! Huddled up under a sleeping bag was Laura a girl from Argentina who had been there since 4.30am, and I thought I was crazy! Surprisingly the hours in the queue passed rather quickly when you get talking to other people and before lunch time the international fans had begun to flood in – I was the only UK fan!

Moving on to what you all really want to know about though… and my guess that is the concert!

Roxette’s performance in Sundsvall was just amazing and although it tried to rain before the concert started it eventually held off! I almost do not have the words to describe the atmosphere in the venue, the 16,000 strong crowd in the Norrporten Arena were treated to 20 songs from Roxette, (1 cover ‘Steppin Stone’ but this time the Monkees version rather than the Paul Revere version as on the Party Crasher Tour in 2009). Marie is ever the performer on stage and watching her is like being thrown back 20 years to being a teenager again. Those of us that had the pleasure of being fans back then and seeing Roxette in the 90′s on the Joyride 91 & 92 and Crash 94 tours can see how Marie and Per throw in some actions on stage just like years ago, the stage is just made for Marie, she owns the stage, think back to those words she once uttered in the joyride interview (the one we all once owned on VHS video that we watched over and over and over and wore out when we were teenagers!) when she said how she always wanted to be a performer from a young age, she is a performer, the stage does indeed love MARIE FREDRIKSSON! In fact even writing those words sends shivers down my spine. Marie and Per’s performance on stage in Sundsvall was fantastic, unbelievable! A natural a kind of go with the flow and see what happens and something many of us thought we would never see again after Marie got sick, and here we are, the Roxette come back has indeed happened and in less than a week they will play to 20,000 people in Halmstad!

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