Aug 4
Åsa Gessle has her 48th birthday today. Congratulations from the whole RoxetteBlog.com staff!
Per wrote today on his Twitter:
Åsa thanks everyone for remembering her. She’s getting pretty old actually…
P.S. Per, don’t forget that the older the wine the better it gets 
Marie Fredriksson was on U2 360° Tour concert in Gothenburg on August 1. Expressen published a little interview with her where she admitted that she liked U2 very much. On the other hand, Per Gessle posted on his Twitter, that U2 was great but not fantastic. I’ve seen them so much better many times before. Hilarious stage set though. Loved it.
If you want to download this interview, click here (thanks sweepi!).
Thanks to crashroxer & sarahdenrara @ R2R.
Jul 29
Photos taken in Munich (Germany) in May 2009.
NOTP tickets are currently on the 9th position on German ticket charts at Eventim.de.
You can also follow NOTP on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace.
Source: Nokia Night of the Proms
It can sound a little bit of silly (really?) in these days, but it’s worth a try at least. Danyela Etchart from Brazil sent us her blog entry. Read it, think over it and pass on.
What is ROXETTE ATTACK 2009 SUDAMERICA?
A project created by Roxette Fans in South America (“Sudamerica” in Spanish).
Our goals:
1. Bring back Roxette to the media;
2. Make contacts between business companies and Live Nation to bring back Roxette to do concerts in South America.
The beggining:
Roxette Brazil created a petition to bring Per and his band to Brazil during the Party Crasher Tour. Many signatures after and some words from Per & his band, the things have slowed down here in Brazil and Bianca & Alexandre contacted me to shake it a little bit!
As I had to travel to Uruguay, I took this opportunity nox to meet Rosina (a “crazy fan” just like me that since EHM Tour has been travelling to Europe!). We contacted Ezequiel from Argentina and still looking for someone to represent Chile.
ATTACK CREDITS: Bianca Capelletti, Alexandre Carvalho, Rosina Marmion & Danyela Etchart
The “ATTACK” plans:
As Roxette doesn’t have any promo stuff yet, that is why I’m developing a package that contain:
PROMO CD
RELEASE 2009 (Portuguese & Spanish + soon in English)
PROMO DVD
These items are based on Roxette Hits and they will be available for download very soon – I’m just finishing the artwork and also trying to contact with some fans that offer theirs help to exchange ideas!! (Gracias Emilio G.! I’ll contact you soon!)
ATTACK CREDITS: Danyela Etchart
The 1st ATTACK!
WHERE: Twitter.com
DAY: July 28th, Tuesday (New Wave Festival starts then)
TIME: THE WHOLE DAY!
GOAL: TYPE #ROXETTE many times till complete the 140 allowed letters
WHY: To see ROXETTE releated among the most wanted ‘TRENDING TOPICS’ on TWITTER!!!
ATTACK CREDITS: Caca Neves Jr., member of Roxette Brazil Team.
SO DO IT NOW!!!
#Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette #Roxette
Source: EnHändigBlog
Jul 21
Carrita Henningsson informs on Twitter that she saw Marie Fredriksson on the plane from Spain the other day. It means Marie was on holiday with her family in her Spanish house in Marabella. It’s very probable that New Wave Festival rehersals or recording session will start soon.
Per Gessle posts his own song(s) of the day every day and informs all his follwers about music events he took part in. I thought it would’ve been nice to have all these interesting informations in one place.
YouTube links are coming later on.
Of course, it’s going to be updated.
July 14:
Ruby, don’t take your love to town. Kenny Rogers. Great beard.
July 13:
Evil hearted Ada. The Flamin’ Groovies. Used to play this a lot with the GT-lads late 70′s.
July 12:
Fleet Foxes are quite good.
Sunday treat: Found my old Paperback writer/Rain 7″-single!!! (Info to all you young people: It’s by The Beatles!). My God, it sounds good!
July 11:
Cars. Gary Numan.
July 10:
@tevensso Excellent choice, sir!
(tevensso: Song of the night: It Never Rains in Southern California – Albert Hammond)
July 9:
Outstanding song of the day: Urge for going. Joni Mitchell.
Telstar. The Tornados.
July 7:
Forever young. Dylan. Live at David Letterman 1993. It’s on YouTube. http://bit.ly/rq4CX
July 6:
Red balloon.Tim Hardin.
July 5:
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood. Did you ever.
July 4:
Have you seen her. The Chi-Lites. Magnificent.
July 3:
Can’t make up my mind between L’important c’est la rose/Gilbert Becaud & Making plans for Nigel/XTC. Can you?
July 2:
Waiting on a friend. The Rolling Stones. Made for the shade.
July 1:
Somebody to love. Brad Newman. There’s a Swedish version as well. Någon att hålla i hand. Sven-Ingvars. Almost as good.
June 30:
Sweet Tuesday song of the day: Steve Miller Band: Fly like an eagle. Sounds old. And young.
June 29:
I don’t like Mondays. Boomtown Rats. Never liked that one. Manic Monday. Bangles. There you go.
June 28:
Sunday Ditty of the Day: Sally Simpson by the Who. It’s on Tommy.
June 27:
Duncan. Paul Simon. A masterpiece, never liked the flutes, though….
June 26:
Billie Jean. MJ. Outstanding. Unbelievably good.
June 25:
Hard to handle. Patti Drew. They don’t do ‘em like this anymore!
June 24:
Invisible to her. Brainpool. -”And all the boys are goin’ aaaah!”. Brilliant!
June 23:
A man without love. Engelbert Humperdinck. You need music like this once in a while.
June 22:
Donovan. Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness).
AC/DC last nite. Excellent popcorn!
June 21:
Fresh strawberries and Bend me, Shape me (American Breed). Flavours of the day.
June 20:
Anything by Erik Satie…………………………………
June 19:
Neanderthal man. Hotlegs. Cheers.
June 18:
She’s so high. Tal Bachman. Hated it on the radio a couple of years ago. Love it now. Is there a lesson to be learned from this?
June 17:
Watched quite terrible David Bowie-DVD “Plastic soul review” last nite. However, song of the day must be his Young Americans. Superb!
June 16:
Rebel yell. Billy Idol. Purrfect. Followed by All the way to Reno. REM. When they’re good they’re outstanding.
June 15:
I love the nu Jonas Akerlund-video. Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi. www.raf.se is where it’s at. Don’t know what’s happening but I like the song too.
“Goin’ back”. The Byrds.
June 14:
Sunshine on the westcoast! BBQ and old Jethro Tull.
The Sounds new album sounds very good.
June 13:
Saturday in the park. Chicago. Ha ha ha ha ……
June 12:
Playing “Hold me” from Russell Smith’s first solo album (on vinyl!!!). Produced by Barry Beckett & Co. Brilliant!
Barry Beckett dies. Such a shame. Extraordinary musician. Muscle Shoals. Check out, f i, Paul Simon’s There goes rhymin’ Simon. A treat.
The Friday Take-Off: Believe I’ve found/Soundtrack Of Our Lives. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
Reading a most fab book: “Bob Dylan – The songs he didn’t write”. About the covers he’s recorded & performed. A thrill.
June 11:
Can’thelpbutthinkin that Basse Wickman’s Son of Cathy’s Clown is the best Swedish single ever! Such a great voice (nevermindtheKnopflergtr)
Anders F. Rönnblom “Jag kysste henne våldsamt”. Pump up the volume!!!!
June 10:
“Walking out on love ” Paul Collins’ Beat + “Supersonic” Oasis. It’s one of those mornings…
June 9:
Just like a woman. Bob Dylan. Live 1966 Royal Albert Hall. Some of the most beautiful music ever made.
June 8:
Song of the afternoon: Harley-Davidson, sung with love & affection by Brigitte B.
Cry baby cry from The White Album. I never quite got over the fact that the Beatles broke up.
June 7:
Never gonna give you up – Rick Astley. The 80′s are underrated!
June 6:
BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU The Dandy Warhols. Should be played every Saturday morning!
June 5:
“Dizzy” Tommy Roe. Makes you wanna dance with the cornflakes.
June 4:
Just came back from Sthlm Stadion. Bruce sounded terrific, he even played Who’ll stop the rain but Gabriel & me were freezing our asses off!
“Feel like makin’ love”. Roberta Flack. Awesome.
June 3:
Someone is playing “Broken down angel” by Nazareth. Haven’t heard that one for years. Must be this crazy neighbourhood….
Ain’t it strange/Patti Smith Group. Fantastic. Can you believe Gyllene Tider played this -78? I made a Swedish translation. And we played John Cale’s “Helen of Troy”. “Flicka av guld” was the Swedish title if I remember it right… Got it on cassette somewhere..
June 2:
“Snow angel” by Ron Sexsmith. Just what we need for summer!
June 1:
Peter Bruntnell’s version of “Waterloo sunset”. Just dandy!
May 31:
Additonal suggestion: Whatever happened to my rock’n roll. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Makes you wake up.
Mothers’ Day. Song of the day: Take your mama for a ride. Lulu. 1976. Swell.
May 30:
“Dreams are ten a penny” by Kincade. Great production, great song!
May 29:
I just listened to Washington County by Arlo Guthrie. i loved that album as a kid, it still sounds like I remember it. Great sleeve too!
Almost song of the day: Dick Mixon’s wonderful remix of “Silly really”. He’s so talented, folks, you wouldn’t believe it!
“Everybody’s got to learn sometime” by the Korgis. Beautiful.
May 28:
Bo Diddley on the iPod. Oh yea.
Forgot about how overwhelming and ass-kicking Bowies’ Ziggy Stardust is! Oh man, play it again, please!
May 27:
More Steve M! Check this out & get blown away: http://bit.ly/10KsPJ OUTSTANDING!!!!
May 26:
No, haven’t seen Madonna since Paris 200?. However, got tcts to the Gbg show! She was at our gig at the Beacon, NYC 1992!
May 25:
Checking out Small Faces on youtube. “Tin soldier” is on my Top 10 best-song- ever-list. There will never be another Steve Marriott!!
Mama said by Nick Lowe is from “E.P.” Pretty hard to find these days. Good luck with it.
B-fast in the sun, Josh Rouse & Little Richard on the iPod, great Indy race last nite. Awopbopaloo.
May 22:
Meetings are up. Headin’ for New Jersey and Springsteen’s hometown-show. Sean Penn in the hotel lobby. We all love him.
Brooze in New Jersey last nite was a mesmerizing experience. I like Radio Nowhere for some reason. The crowd was the best I’ve seen.
I like Brooze when he’s showing off his pop side. Cover me, Hungry heart, Wauting on a sunny day, I don’t like Rosalita & Jungleland. Sorry.
May 17:
Someone next door is playing Dr Hook’s version of “Only sixteen”. What a great idea!!!
Xllent choice of music, Gabriel! Kim Fowley’s behind B. Bumble & Co! Kool kat indeed!
Keith Urban on the iPod? I met him in the gym at the Bev Hills Hotel a couple of weeks ago. Nice guy, b-ful wife!
Today on DagensSvenskbladet, Swedish humorous site, was published an article about Per Gessle and “his close relation” to Michael Jackson entitled “Gessle: It could’ve been me as well”. The title says all. To be honest, I do not see any point in translating more of this fake interview. I suppose, it was thought to be funny, but I do not really think it is.
(Updated) Per commented on it on his Twitter page on July 11 :
No, this “interview” is 100% fake. It’s supposed to be funny, I think. Didn’t get it though.
By the way – the only thing Per said regarding the death of Michael Jackson was on June 26 on his own website:
Incomprehensible and terribly sad. A master has left us. We will never experience anyone like him again.
Source: Gessle.com, Twitter
Jun 24
The forthcoming release from European Party Crasher Tour will be called “Gessle over Europe” and it will include live CD plus Stockholm gig on DVD, videos and documentaries as bonus. The double vinyl album will have 3 or 4 extra tracks compared to the CD due to technical reasons. CD/DVD will be released in the end of the summer and the LP edition somewhere in September.
Thanks to tevensso (@ TDR) we also got to know that “Dressed for success” will be from Cologne gig. This means that the city order given by Per (Cologne, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Stockholm#2, Warsaw, Halmstad, Munich) wasn’t accidental at all.
Jun 22
Per posted a message on Twitter in which he informed which cities will be included in the Party Crasher live LP/CD. Thanks to that we know that some live songs from Cologne, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Stockholm#2, Warsaw, Halmstad and Munich will be released.
I guess this is going to be the most uninteresting you’ve read here, but.. just gotta write it down. I must say I like Twitter more and more. I follow some “VIPS” because I like what they do (either music or TV shows or music) and I feel like one can get to know another side of these people which isn’t the image we get from interviews, magazine articles and so on. And one of these is of course Per Gessle. He surprised me a couple of times with his tweets. Once he commented on Keith Urban, I think he said he met him in LA.. and added he has a beautiful wife. I think that was the first time I hear/read Per comment about a woman more than just about her voice. Of course, besides his songs about love and sex and passion and love and Åsa.
Yesterday he posted “Don’t forget to vote in the EU-election, all you Europeans!” – I think, as far as my brain can recall, it’s the first time I hear Per somehow.. get involved in elections/politics. On May 30th he posted “EU-election. Just voted. A great opportunity to take a stand.”
As I said, I like Twitter! And as I said, just a random post.
And don’t forget to vote! If you don’t, then don’t complain about the results 
Jun 3
It is official. Our little pop duo has their own Twitter page. Not sure if it is going to be updated regularly, but it is worth seeing just for amazing 2002 photo.
And by the way, don’t forget to add RoxetteBlog on Twitter.
I have absolutely no clue what it needs for a topic to become a trending topic on twitter, any one has a clue? 1000 tweets? 10000?
Just thought it would be cool and sweet if she would make it on the trending topics on her birthday!
Your thoughts?
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