After a wonderful gig in London, everyone had a couple of days off to relax their voices and take a rest. Now the gang is on home turf and played their first of two sold-out shows in Sweden.
The Linköping concert was held at Saab Arena, an ice hockey arena. It was fully seated and this time there was a support act, Melodic Fluke, the Halmstad band that was also the opening act in Halmstad in summer. Take a look at their pic with Per backstage. Melodic Fluke started at 20:00 and Roxette took the stage a couple of minutes after 21:00.
The venue was huge, so there were screens on both sides of the arena.
The audience was rather reserved and well-behaving. They remained seated during the whole concert. They stood up only when the front rows stood up for The Look, but they sat down again when it was Queen Of Rain’s turn.
The band was happy to perform in Sweden and they tried to animate the crowd. The audience was the best at clapping along though. The concert was much fun anyway with a lot of action on stage.
Per had some issues with the prompter, because one of the lights from above was shining too bright on it, so it was not too visible. Micke N-S tried to do something with it already at the beginning of the show, to turn the prompter a bit around, but that light was still there. Before the encore, BoJo came up on stage as well to discuss it with Micke N-S. This little problem added some nice touch in the lyrics especially during She’s Got Nothing On.
For me it was a different experience to attend this show, because a certain drummer was sitting right next to me. Micke Syd came to see the concert with his wife, Helena. We attended concerts together in the past, but then most of the time he was of course on stage and I was off stage. Haha. On other rare occasions we were at the same show, but far from each other in the audience. So now it was really different. Haha. He was in Halmstad during the day, he came for the show and on 5th December he was off to Halmstad again. It’s been quite busy for him, so he was understandably very tired and he also caught a cold, but that didn’t keep him away from some drumming and playing the keyboards in the air during the gig.
Chris played Ljudet av ett annat hjärta as the intro to Joyride. Micke Syd was happy to hear that one too. See him in my TikTok video HERE. Haha.
Setlist
1. The Big L.
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Dressed For Success
4. Crash! Boom! Bang!
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. Opportunity Nox
7. Fading Like A Flower
8. Vulnerable
9. Milk And Toast And Honey
10. Almost Unreal
11. Stars
12. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
13. It Must Have Been Love
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride
Encore
17. Spending My Time
18. Listen To Your Heart
19. The Look
20. Queen Of Rain
Next stop is Stockholm on 5th December! Check out the remaining 2025 tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!
Photos in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres. More photos HERE!
Per after the gig:
Linköping! What a lovely Thursday! Thx so much for coming!!!