This is a selection of Mr. Gessle’s verbal and physical boogaloo bonanzas from the short videos published on Roxette Official. I tried to collect the most memorable ones, but of course, there is a little boogalooing in almost all of the short vids. Enjoy!
For today, I couldn’t start the video selection with anything better than the Swiss Benissimo birthday boogaloo. 😉 Happy birthday, Mr. G!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9Dmvmjs08
2013 seems to be a good year for comebacks and setting up accounts on social media sites. 🙂 Being formed in 1993, Brainpool has its 20th anniversary this year. As we informed you earlier, the band performed on Mossagårdsfestivalen 17th June, 2012. Next to David Birde, Jens Jansson and Christoffer Lundquist, Magnus Börjeson also appeared on stage that night.
Chris said in this article that a new Brainpool album is in sight, but as we could see, release of the album wasn’t happening last year.
Now Brainpool has a Twitter account: @brainpoolband As the band tweets:
Good to have a channel of communication on standby in case we suddenly have an idea.
Talking about ideas, we already had one. 😉 What about being the support act on a possible GT tour?
Well, at least Gyllene Tider is back with a new facebook page – as The Daily Roxette informed earlier today. The page has already reached more than 23 000 fans in 1 day, after it’s been published.
A cover picture was set on GT’s page with Per Gessle in the front, while all other members of Gyllene Tider (Micke Syd Andersson, Göran Fritzon, Anders Herrlin and Mats MP Persson) appeared a bit blurred in the background. EMI asked to remove that photo, so now you can only find it here and there on facebook or if you were quick enough, you could save it to your hard drive. 😉
First rumours about a possible GT album and tour appeared last year when Roxette was still touring. We also wrote several articles about it. Here you can see what Per’s reaction was to all the rumours and Expressen’s article. So, should we still hold our horses or will there be anything happening to save money for this Juni, juli, augusti?
After the premiere of Roxette’s new documentary ”It All Begins Where It Ends”, now we could watch the TV cut of ”Travelling The World – Roxette Live 2012” premiering on SVT1 today.
We got a nice taster when we saw the live scenes in the documentary and from the Joyride teaser shown on SVT Play, so we had some images in our minds how the whole concert film would look like. Favela (the filmmakers) shared the info some hours before the premiere that TV version consists of 11 songs from 11 cities, filmed in Argentina, Germany, Chile, Brazil and Sweden. Besides these countries, South Africa also appeared in the film.
Now seeing this 58m 12s long version we could relive the gigs – in the front row. Enjoy it here!
One thing is definitely strange in the film: the constant cuts coming too fast after one another, breaking the flow of the songs a bit (mainly in It Must Have Been Love with scenes shown even from the video clip). However, all the incredible camera angles (e.g. the one used during She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)), the fantastic sound, as well as those many happy and familiar faces on and off the stage make it bright, even though the colours in the film are not that saturated.
Regarding the DVD version, it may be a wishful thinking, but we write it in the name of many, many fans that it would indeed be great to have all the 26 songs* ever appeared on the setlist during the tour. If we can’t get them in video format, then at least on a bonus CD, as the sound is amazing indeed. Chris did a fantastic job mixing it.
*Songs played live during the tour in alphabetical order (the songs appearing in the TV cut of the concert film are in bold – the number next to them shows their sequence; places mentioned in the film before all songs are most probably referring to the crowds, as stage scenes are from South America; however, crowd scenes also seem to be mixed, not just from one venue during one song):
We are curious if a list of all concerts – not just the ones where the shootings took place – will also appear on the DVD to show the world at least this way how big the Neverending Tour was.
We’ll get to know it latest when the DVD is available – hopefully this March, according to Per’s earlier comment.
Today, by watching the docu (It All Begins Where It Ends) for about the 5th time and reaching the scene at 36:10 I started laughing again, just like I did during the first 4 views. Then I thought I definitely need this sound as a ringtone. So I ripped this part and made an mp3 file of it. But why to keep it just for myself? Maybe some other Roxers need a new wake-up alarm ringtone, too. That’s how it showed up on my YouTube channel and was posted on Roxette Official. I’m not sure if Per’s comment (”People are strange.”) was referring to himself or at the mental hospital thinking of people using this sound as a ringtone. Anyway, it seems to be a hit! Too funny and too cute to stay hidden in that fantastic documentary. Any new ”hits” are more than welcome in our ringtone collection, Per. 😉
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Srn-rjP3s
If you are interested in what other things make people wake up in the morning, you can read the comments under Per’s post, here. 😉