World Tour 2012: Glasgow, UK – July 3 #116

Comment from Per Gessle

Glasgow! Yey! What a crowd! Wonderful vibe, great response in spite of some technical problems. We played here almost exactly twenty years go! Amazing! See you next time. Thanx you lovely Scotsmen/Scotswomen!!!

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Spending My Time
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7Twenty7
12. Fading Like a Flower
13. Crash Boom Bang
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “Scotland the Brave”)

17. The Look
18. Listen To Your Heart
19. Church Of Your Heart

For the very first time in a very long time Opportunity Nox was performed on the concert as well as Silver Blue dropped from the setlist. Spending My Time – instead of being first song in the encore section was just after “The Big L.”.

Articles

The Herald Scotlad (Interview article published before the concert)
The Herald Scotland (review of the concert)
Isopix (gallery)
stv (review) “The super-Swedes returned to Scotland in an 80s whirlwind.”

The BBC reviews “Charm School”. Fun reading!

Chris Roberts of the BBC got to review Roxette’s new album for the upcoming UK release. They get away pretty fine!

With a Hollywood-like sense of triumph over adversity, Roxette return with their first album since singer Marie Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002. She recovered, and the Swedish power-pop duo seems appropriately exhilarated. …

Read it here: BBC

Roxette highest new entry on UK Radio Airplay Charts this week

Update March 21, 2011:

“She’s Got Nothing On” up to #26! on UK Radio Airplay Charts.

Thanks Chris for the tip.

Published March 14, 2011 – 13:12

Roxette entered the UK Radio Airplay Charts with “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” at #31, the highest new entry of the week!

The song started out last week on Radio 2’s A-List and several programmes frequently played it. It still remains on the A-List for a second week running! Fans also report hearing it on Radio 1 as well as local commercial radio stations!

The new album “Charm School” sees a release in the UK on March 28th with both the regular and the deluxe album being already available for pre-order from online stores! All fans want now is that UK tour date!

Andreas Weizbauer contributed to this article.