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World Tour 2011: Samara, Russia – March 3 #02

Mar 2

Posted by Sascha in Roxette, Tour | 65 Comments

We need your help. The whole world tour will be covered with such topics. If you find something connected with this particular part of the tour, post it in the comment section and we will add it to the article. Thanks for your help and cooperation!

SAMARA, RUSSIA 03-03-2011

Setlist

Same as Kazan excluding Watercolours In The Rain and Silver Blue.

Thanks Evgeny for the information.

Articles

samara.kp.ru: Report and video of arrival in Samara. | smbc.ru: Arena sold out with 3,800 people | Samara.kp.ru about the concert

Photos

Samaralife blog with many (hot!) photos | Seleste-Rusa LiveJournal

Videos

AUDIO BOOTLEG

News report on Russia 1

News Report on trkterrachannel

Two videos by AndreyNikopol: The Big L | Summary including bits of all songs

Three videos by natorchik:  Wish I Could Fly (and a bit of Only When I Dream) |  Things Will Never Be The Same and It Must Have Been Love | Listen To Your Heart

Five videos by TheHOwR: Dressed for Success | How Do You Do!/Dangerous | Way Out | It Must Have Been Love | Listen To Your Heart

Five videos by Arslanov107: Dress For Success/Sleeping In My Car | It Must Have Been Love | How Do You Do!/Dangerous | Joyride|  Spending My Time | Opportunity Nox and The Big L | Wish I Could Fly and Only When I Dream | She’s got nothing on | Perfect Day | The Look | Fading Like A Flower | Things Will Never Be The Same | 7twenty7 | Way Out | Listen To Your Heart

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Cologne and Leipzig concerts (almost) sold out

Mar 2

Posted by Sascha in Roxette, Tour | Comments off

As it appears 2 more concerts in Germany are close to sold out after Berlin. Cologne is already sold out at both big ticket vendors, while the availability for Leipzig goes on/off at getgo.de and eventim.de. According to Roxette’s homepage, 53,000 of 60,000 tickets in Germany (excl. the Audi gigs, as it appears) are sold. The Hessentagsarena in Oberursel/Frankfurt has capacity for up to 30,000 visitors.

Have a look at our World Tour 2011 page for the complete tour plan so far.

Thanks to Rene for the Cologne tip!

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World Tour 2011: Kazan, Russia – February 28 #01

Feb 28

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 80 Comments

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KAZAN, RUSSIA 28-2-2011

Setlist

01 -Dressed For Success
02 – Sleeping In My Car
03 – Opportunity Nox
04 – The Big L.
05 – Wish I Could Fly
06 – Only When I Dream
07 – She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
08 – Perfect Day
09 – Things Will Never Be The Same
10 – It Must Have Been Love
11 – 7Twenty7
12 – Fading Like A Flower
13 – Silver Blue
14 – How Do You Do!
15 – Dangerous

Band presentation (with Kalinka Malinka)
16 – Joyride

First Encore (first extras)
17 – Watercolours In The Rain
18 – Spending My Time
19 – The Look

Second Encore (more extras)
20 – Way Out
21 – Listen To Your Heart
22 – Church Of Your Heart

Photos

Tatar Inform | Kazan KP | InKazan

Concert videos

IMHBL (bit) | Bits of the first 3 songs | The Look | Listen To Your Heart | It Must Have Been Love (full)

YouTube user olga2709k has uploaded parts of the concert on her account.  So far: Part 1 (Dressed for Success, Sleeping In My Car, Opportunity Nox) |Part 2 (The Big L, WICF, Only When I Dream) | Part 3 (She’s Got Nothing On, Perfect Day,  Things Will Never Be The Same) | Part 4 (It Must Have Been Love, 727) | Part 5 (Fading Like A Flower, Silver Blue) | Part 6 (How Do You Do!, Dangerous, Joyride) | Part 7 (The Look). Thank you!

You can find videos about Roxette’s arrival in Kazan in our previous article.

Articles

Kazan KP | Expressen about tour start

Expressen backstage: Marie saying she was really nervous that is why she forgot the lyrics for LTYH and Per saying that Roxette wants to play in North America and Australia.

Aftonbladet: “It’s a tour without an end” + “We want to go to Australia, we really want to play in Canada or in USA or in any other places. There are some plans.” + “We will add one song to the setlist on each continent” + “It’s the world’s best rehab for Marie”

SVT Interview with Per: Roxette rehearsed around 40 songs and will play 23, 24 each evening. They want to differ the playlist as they know that some songs are much more popular in specific countries.

Reviews

Expressen 3/5: “Here starts Roxette’s success tour”

Aftonbladet 3/5: “Marie Fredriksson sings better and better. It is a return of no one thought was possible, and she takes advantage of the slow songs, as an excellent ‘Spending My Time’.”

Misc

Marie wore the official T-shirt of Kazan hockey club Ak Bars in the second encore.

The background picture was changed from Joyride one to Charm school artwork.
Does anyone know when it happens on the concert?

7,000 people attended the show.

Helena Josefsson (backing vocals) tried to save a squirrel who is captured in a small cage in the hotel reception. You can follow her comments and actions on her Facebook page.

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World Tour 2011: Press conference in Kazan

Feb 27

Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 15 Comments

Tatar-inform.ru informs that tomorrow at 12.00 AM local time (+3 GMT) Roxette press conference will broadcasted on the site. The conferece is said to be held today, though. Roxette will spend 3 days in Kazan, before they kick off to Samara. And yes, they are in Russia now.

Update 1: Roxette is in Kazan – here is press report with TV-clip.

Update 2 – quotes from the conference:

  • 80% of the tickets to Kazan show were sold
  • Rehearsals take place from 12 till now (4 pm)
  • On March 1st Roxette will have a cultural programme – Kazan Kremlin and so on.
  • About 25 songs will be performed, 3 songs from the new album will be included.
  • The show will last for about 100 minutes.
  • Kazan is the best selling city among other Russian ones.

    • Thanks to Ilya!

    Update 3 – Expressen reports from Kazan and quotes the tour manager:

  • Until August Roxette will have sold 1 million tickets.
  • This is one of the biggest Swedish tours ever, Roxette only competing with themselves.
  • All 6 dates in South Africa are sold out (?).
  • They had to add 4 (?) dates due to popular demand in Germany.

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    Roxette on Audi RockPop Festival

    Feb 23

    Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 2 Comments

    Despite earlier fears, it seems like two new German June concerts will take place in the end. Donaukurier.de published an information yesterday that Roxette is to perform together with Ich&Ich on Festival that will take place in Ingolstadt on June 24th. This event will celebrate opening of the new stadium for local football team Ingolstadt 04.

    We have no updates on the second gig Neckarsulm, but we can only suspect that it was not cancelled either.

    Update: Roxette Official confirms that both concert in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm take place, on June 25th and 24th respectively.

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    Mexico date off the tour

    Feb 21

    Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Rumours, Tour | Comments off

    Roxette.se published an updated 2011 World Tour schedule yesterday. It was long speculated if the actual gig in Mexico would take place as the sale had not started in the last 3 months. Now it seems like the concert was cancelled.

    We were unoficially informed that Montevideo gig would be organized on April 2nd instead of the Mexico date.

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    Which new song should Roxette add to the tour setlist?

    Feb 16

    Posted by Judith in Fans, Roxette, Tour | 36 Comments

    We have heard that Roxette have rehearsed 6 new songs for the tour, but are still unsure about which ones should make it to the setlist. You can choose up to 3 songs below.

    The poll will be closed on 21st February.

    Update February 21st: the poll is now closed! Thanks for participating.

    • Speak To Me (57%, 136 Votes)
    • Way Out (42%, 101 Votes)
    • No One Makes It On Her Own (38%, 91 Votes)
    • She's Got Nothing On (34%, 82 Votes)
    • Only When I Dream (32%, 77 Votes)
    • Big Black Cadillac (19%, 45 Votes)
    • Dream On (15%, 35 Votes)
    • Sitting On Top Of The World (11%, 27 Votes)
    • In My Own Way (9%, 22 Votes)
    • After All (9%, 21 Votes)
    • Happy On The Outside (9%, 21 Votes)
    • I'm Glad You Called (8%, 19 Votes)

    Total Voters: 240

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    Warsaw gig is sold-out

    Feb 15

    Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

    Warsaw gig in Torwar hall for around 8,000 people on June 19th is sold-out – Eventim.pl and Live Nation Poland‘s websites inform. This is the 10th sold-out show on 2011 Roxette World Tour.

    Update: In fact it’s the 12th sold-out show as Sofia and Gothenburg were moved to bigger venues.

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    Roxette to perform 25 songs on the forthcoming tour

    Feb 8

    Posted by Tomasz in Interview, Per Gessle, Roxette, Tour | 25 Comments

    Per Gessle has revealed in today’s inteview for Swedish radio station Mix Megapol that Roxette would probably perform 25 songs on the new tour – they rehearsed 5 songs from the new album as well. In the new German interview for Frankfurter Rundschau he also reveals that they will play their biggest hit mostly

    That’s simply because I’m a fan myself. If I go to see U2, the Stones or AC/DC, I want to hear their greatest hits. I remember going to a concert of The Police’s Reunion Tour once and they only played three of their hits – and then all this other shit they had been doing. I hated it and left. If David Bowie ever goes on tour again, I’ll want to hear the hits that have meant so much to me. Not the ones he happens to be desperate to play. If I pay – play for me!

    Listen to the interview (5 mintues in to the clip)
    Picture 1 | Picture 2

    Thanks to Daniel and Mr Jefferson for those pieces of information.

    Update February 10: Roxette.ro features an English translation of the whole interview. Thanks Mixella!

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    Third Roxette concert in Norway

    Jan 27

    Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | Comments off

    Aftenbladet.no informs that Roxette is going to perform in Norway for the third time this year, after the sold-out show in Bergen (June 6th) and the one on Stavern Festival (July 7th). This time they choose Radhusplassen in Haugesund on Friday July 29th.

    5,500 tickets will go on sale soon.

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    Roxette to perform for the second time in Czech Republic

    Jan 24

    Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 2 Comments

    Roxette will perform for the second time in Czech Republic this June. The first concert will take place in O2 Arena in Prague on Jun 5th and is almost sold-out. Roxette decided to add another gig for Czech fans – this time in Ostrava on June 27th at CEZ Aréna.

    “After already sold-out show in Prague, Czech fans will have a second chance to see the spectacular comeback of the Swedish pop duo” Jan Kostecki, concert organizers representative, says.

    Tickets for the Ostrava concert will go on sale on Monday, January 24th at Ticketpro and Ticket Art.
    Tickets are available from 690 to 990 crowns.

    Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy for this piece of information.

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    German concert tickets selling very well

    Jan 20

    Posted by Sascha in Roxette, Tour | 6 Comments

    Our reader Thorsten asked the German tour promoters about Roxette’s ticket sales. Here’s what he found out:

    Out of curiosity I contactet the German concert agency that organizes Roxette’s German concerts and also the local organization staff for each
    of the 4 German concerts in Cologne, Leipzig, Berlin and Oberursel. I got official confirmation today from Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur (mlk.com)
    that the Berlin gig is definitely sold out with 10.000 tickets. The
    Hessentag staff responsible for the concert in Oberursel just e-mailed me
    that by the end of December 5.000 tickets had been sold. By today ticket
    sales have surpassed 10.000 already for the Roxette gig. Additionally they
    let me know that the Hessentags-Arena will hold a capacity of 30.000
    people for the Rox concert and that I should better hurry to buy tickets.
    The agency responsible for the Cologne gig at Tanzbrunnen (DBE) wouldn’t
    tell me the exact sales figures. But after I asked if the rumor was true
    that already more than 5.000 of the ca. 10.000 tickets had been sold, the
    reply was “we recommend to buy tickets soon!“. So I figure a substantial
    number of tickets has already been sold. I’m still waiting for a response
    for the Leipzig concert and will let you know what I heard if that is of
    interest to you and this news site.

    Thanks for the investigations, Thorsten! Of course all the other readers are invited to share interesting stories and news as well via our contact form or comments!

    Meanwhile the recently added concert dates in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm appear to be deleted from roxette.se’s tour plan, while still part of Livenation’s. That doesn’t have to mean they are cancelled as we learned from the re-appearance of the Dubai gig. So let’s wait for the next tour update that Per indicated recently.

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    “Roxette World Tour 2011″ – Setlist Voting PART 1

    Jan 7

    Posted by Tomasz in Fans, Roxette, Tour | 30 Comments

    A few hundred fans decided to drop their votes in our little voting machine called “Roxette World Tour 2011 – let’s help with the setlist again!“. There were some who did not play fair and tried to vote more than once, but they did not succeed in the end. After two months of voting and hours of counting, we can announce the final results…

    1. The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
    2. A Thing About You
    3. Spending My Time
    4. The Rain
    5. Silver Blue
    6. June Afternoon
    7. Surrender
    8. Run To You & Keep Me Waiting
    9. -
    10. So Far Away

    To quote the Man from the summer Daily Roxette interview:

    I don’t know about this Internet vote, there always comes up weird song choices like “The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye” laughs Per. We played ‘Silver Blue’ since that song won. We did it in a new arrangement that was nice.

    Will Roxette use any of our propositions in their setlist? Time will only tell.

    By the way, be prepared for a very quick voting just after the album’s release. You know – to pick up the songs we like the most from that. :-)

    Update Jan 9:

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    Berlin show sold out!

    Jan 6

    Posted by Sascha in Roxette, Tour | 8 Comments

    Roxette’s world tour concert in Berlin appears to be sold out at the biggest ticket vendor eventim.de. This could change again with additional contingents but indicates the nearing end of capacity. However, the promotion partner Spreeradio still has tickets on sale. So if you think about going there — don’t wait too long!

    Update: A couple of hours later the other official ticket vendors like getgo.de and trinitymusic.de have sold out as well. Be cautious if you buy from unknown re-sellers! The normal price was between 59 and 62 €.

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    Three Roxette World Tour 2011 shows are sold-out

    Dec 16

    Posted by Tomasz in Roxette, Tour | 5 Comments

    We have three good news for you today:

    - Roxette show at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo on April 14th, 2011 is sold out (Source)
    - Roxette show at Grand Arena in Cape Town on May 11th, 2011 is sold out (Source)
    - Roxette show at The Superbowl in Sun City on May 14th, 2011 is sold out (Source)

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