We were informed by several different sources that Sven Lindström, author of Per Gessle’s Swedish language biography released in 2007 called “Att vara Per Gessle” (To be Per Gessle) and co-host of Nordic Rox show on Sirius XM, was seen during Roxette’s Argentinian tour in Neuquen. It seems like this is the news many international fans waited for a very long time – rumour has it that he is currently writting an English language Roxette book.
Let’s keep fingers crossed for this to happen!
Per Gessle tells Sven Lindström in Nordic Rox Roxette Special why they did not do any photography session.
Pär Wickholm is a great Swedish designer. You leave vauge ideas on his desk and he comes up with 3, 4, 5 totally different concepts. Basiclly I said to him that we are not going to do any major photo session. We’re gonna collect pictures from here and there, favourite pictures, silly pictures, snapshots. I told Marie to collect 60 pictures and I collected 60 pictures and we just saw what would come up with them. After couple of weeks we decided that it’s good. I like it. It looks fresh and it reflects the album.
Thanks to Miedy Bishop for this information.
NEW YORK – January 23, 2009 – SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that Per Gessle of the multi-platinum band Roxette and music journalist Sven Lindstrom will host a two-part special celebrating the 100th episode of Nordic Rox, SIRIUS XM’s exclusive Scandinavian music show. Nordic Rox airs weekly on Sunday nights at 8 pm on The Spectrum on SIRIUS channel 18 and XM channel 45.
“One hundred shows! Can’t believe it! We started out as rookies with this simple mission to bring Scandinavian pop and rock music to the U.S. It’s been a blast,” said Per Gessle. “We’ve had great response from listeners all over the country. The best thing, however, is to put these shows together. To dig out thatspecial track we just know is happening and demands a bigger audience than just the tiny local radio station in the north of Sweden. That, to me, is what it’s all about.”
“One of the original goals of creating Nordic Rox was to bring the most original and exciting English language music from the rich musical history of Scandinavia to SIRIUS XM subscribers,” said Scott Greenstein, SIRIUS XM Radio’s President and Chief Content Officer. “Per and his team have built the artistic bridge between the music of Scandinavia and the music fans of North America.”
The two-part special will spotlight the 50 best Swedish songs of all time. In addition, broadcast highlights will include Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist of The Hives and rising Swedish rock star Lisa Miskovsky as well as archival interviews featuring several of the recording artists from the list.
The first part of the Nordic Rox special will debut on Sunday, January 25 at 8 pm ET, with encore presentations on Wednesday, January 28 at 11 pm ET and Saturday, January 31 at 8 pm ET. Part two of theNordic Rox special will debut on Sunday, February 1 at 8 pm ET, with encore presentations on Wednesday, February 4 at 11 pm and Saturday, February 7 at 8 pm ET.
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Thanks to Majdy for recording the show and shirley for the press release.
Jan Gradvall* and Björn Nordström, two authors of “Tusen svenska klassiker” (Thousand Swedish classics) – a new bible for all those who love Sweden and are interested in its music, were interviewed lately by Sven Lindström and Per Gessle on “Nordic Rox” at American Sirius Satellite Radio.
Norstedts, the publishing company, got the rights to publish this interview on its website and now you have a chance to listen to 7-minutes programme. And yes, the news title was taken from Per Gessle’s opinion 🙂
* Yep, he was the guy behind the liner notes in RoxBox as well as the author of forthcoming book on another Swedish band – kent.
Here is the final list of the 50 greatest Scandinavian summer songs according to Per Gessle and Swedish music journalist Sven Lindström which they played on Sirius’ Nordic rox on June 12.
Top 50 songs:
Save Tonight – Eagle Eye Cherry
Worry Sick – Edith Backlund
Hurtful – Erik Hassle
God morgon Columbus – Pontus & Amerikanerna
Sunny Girl – Hep Stars
Cup noodle song – Pineforest Crunch
Runnin’ out of gaz – Pauline Kamusewu
Words Enough To Tell You – The Mascots
The Sun – Melpo Mene
Electric – Melody Club
Dream my days away – Broder Daniel
Honey Honey – ABBA
Ser bara moln – Alf
En gång i vårt sommarland – Gunnar Wiklund
Do You Love Me – Amanda Jenssen
Don’t Call The Police – Moneybrother
Dream On – Atomic Swing
Do You Know – The Lollipops
Sommaren rasar – Bob Hund
Tjörn – Björn Olsson
Over ‘Fore It Started – Caesars Palace
You Can’t Hurry Love – The Concretes
We Got To Be Good To Each Other – Ray Wonder
Watercolours In The Rain – Roxette
Måndagsbarn – Veronica Maggio
Hit – Wannadies
Dimma – Dag Vag
Got To Go – Damn!
Different Sound (Feat. Malte) – Teddybears
Holidays – Brainpool
Nothing to Worry About – Peter Bjorn And John
The Girl and the Robot – Junior Röyksopp
Spiderweb suit – Sandy Mouche
Holiday for girls – Lisa Lindebergh
En ny tid är här – November
No One Sleeps When I’m Awake – The Sounds
Hunting high and low – a-ha
Bo Bo Boogie Pack – Annabee-Nox
One Way Love – Agnetha Fältskog
Segla på ett moln – Anne-Lie Ryde’
Lizard – The Mopeds
I can buy you – A Camp
C’mon – Per Gessle
Heartbeats – José Gonzalez
Don’t Hate On Me – Vincent
Pizza – Adiam Dymott
Stadsvandringar – Dungen
Every raindrop means a lot – Tages
Sail with me, come on and try – I love… – Pugh Rogefeldt
Solglasögon – Docent Död
Sommartider – Gyllene Tider
Cigarettes – Anita Lindblom
Sommartider was not Per’s selection, but Sirius’.
Thanks to the_tevensso from the official Son of a Plumber board.