World Tour 2011: Ekaterinburg, Russia – March 5 #03

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So far we have a lot of material for each concert so we will keep on adding an article per concert.

Ekaterinburg, Russia 05-03-2011

Photos

E1.ru

Videos

Video by Smabarn: Joyride

Videos by Nedsend11 (all about 1 min long): Perfect Day | Things Will Never Be The Same | She’s Got Nothing On | Wish I Could Fly

Videos by PankinE: Dressed For Success | Sleeping in My Car | Wish I Could Fly | It Must Have Been Love | Spending My Time | How Do You Do!/Dangerous | Listen To Your Heart

Video by Alex Kibkalo / TDR: Church Of Your Heart

Videos by Lora 515: Sleeping In My Car | Spending My Time | The Look

Videos by Tatti31: Things Will Never Be The Same | Perfect Day | Wish I Could Fly

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

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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 | JoyrideSpending 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

Cologne and Leipzig concerts (almost) sold out

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!

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

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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.

World Tour 2011: Press conference in Kazan

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.