Russian art-photographer Ekaterina Belinskaya had the chance to shoot Roxette minutes before the Moscow concert. Check out the great result and more of her work at her website!
Photo used with kind permission of Ekaterina Belinskaya.
Sascha
Tour 2010: Moscow, September 10
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Setlist
1. Dressed For Success
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Opportunity Nox
4. The Big L
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
7. 7twenty7
8. Perfect Day
9. Things Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Silver Blue
12. Fading Like a Flower
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous
15. Kalinka / Joyride
16. Listen To Your Heart
17. The Look
18. Church Of Your Heart
19. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
Fan stories
BY VASSILIY:
After Joyride (if my memory runs perfect) guys said “Moscow, thank you!” and left the stage. Marie was near the mic, smiling and looking at happy crowd, and when she looked back she saw no one on the stage except her ) She hesitated. Said ” You are great!”, turned back looking for someone to re-appear on the stage, but there was still no one. Then a guy appeared and accompanied her out. Since the croud was crying “Marie, Marie” and Marie herself performed this awkward moment with a little bit of humour, it all looked sweet ))
Videos
Concert video by kp.ru | Opening+DFS | SIMC | Greeting | TBL | ON | 727 | WICF | IMHBL 1 | 2 | HDYD | PD | SB
Photos
rus.ru gallery | Moshkov gallery
Roxette’s comments
Media reports
Their songs are natural, like air, for now three generations of Russians. I’ve never seen such an unanimous warm welcome to foreign artists by the metropolitan audience. The journey into joy succeeded!
aif.ru | vmdaily.ru | event-factory.org
Trivia
New interview: “Maybe we’ll tour in Europe, South America and Canada”
And there’s yet another Per interview from Russia! Some interesting bits:
– Roxette aims to tour in Europe, South America and Canada.
– They already recorded a dozen tracks and should be finished in a few weeks.
– Per thinks Marie recovered so well not least thanks to the love for music and desire to sing.
Source (in Russian): RBC daily
Russian interview with Per
In advance of Roxette’s 2 upcoming concerts in Russia, TRUD did an interview with Per. He speaks about the comeback, the new album, Roxette’s breakthrough and the future of the music business.
About the album:
Most of the work is actually done. This is a very strong album. Some very, very good ballad for Marie and a few fast songs. We want to sing much together. To avoid: this song Marie, and this song Per. Just like in our early songs like «Paint», «Dressed For Success» or «The Look», where we sing together.
Read the article in Russian or a Google translation!
Tour 2010: Smukfest Skanderborg, August 8
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Setlist
* Dressed For Success
* Sleeping In My Car
* The Big L
* Wish I Could Fly
* She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
* 7Twenty7
* It Must Have Been Love
* Silver Blue
* Fading Like A Flower
* How Do You Do
* Dangerous
* Joyride Joyride
Extra:
* Listen To Your Heart
* The Look
* Church Of Your Heart
Fan stories
Gabba77: May the devil take Google Translate – and all of you guys would not had read these horrible reviews…
But I was there and I must say that I was really surprised about the big interest for the concert. I had thought that there would probably be 10-15 hardcore fans who would insist on being in the front row and then a lot of curious people who would like just to be there to see this famous duo Roxette.
But 2 hours before the concert I realized I was wrong. There were a lot of fans. People from Germany, Sweden, England, Argentina, Peru and Denmark of course. But not only the fans – everybody wanted a place up front.
It also really surprised me that people seemed to know all the lyrics. I stood among some people with an age of about 20 years – (They were not what we call fans.) They had hardly learned to speak as Joyride was released. But they sang along on all the songs – not only Joyride, LTYH, The Look & IMHBL that you hear on the radio from time to time. But they also knew the lyrics of songs like Fading Like A Flower & Dangerous which you never hear on the radio here.
I had never dreamt that so many people with a Roxette passion were hiding here in Denmark. What a nice surprice!
The reviwer from Gaffa.dk writes that he has been writing several hundreds of music reviews during the last ten years and he has never before experienced such an enthusiastic audience as met Roxette at Smukfest.
It is a big shame that it seems that nobody recorded the moment that Roxette entered the stage and started playing Dressed For Success – it simply does not get any bigger!
What a thrill, what blessing what a big moment – Hallelujah!
Videos
HD clips by MusicDKMan (Joyride, 7Twenty7, The Look, Fading like a flower, How do you do!) | Listen to your heart (by Momse1, has Fading as well) | It must have been love (by AiCStrange2508) | Church of your heart (by stinasveske) | The Look (by pnordentoft) | It must have been love (by metalmickeydk) | How do you do! (by metalmickeydk) | Silver Blue (by 1977browneyedgirl) | The Look part I (by Lurirox, has The Look II + Church as well) | Dressed for success (by MacGyverBurger)
Photos
Roxette’s comments
Thanx for a great weekend!!! Sundsvall was pretty shaky just like a PREMIERE should be!!! The Smuk festival last nite was really really awesome. I’m so proud to be part of this!!!! /Per
it looks like it’s gonna be around 20.000 on Saturday. And almost 30.000 last night. There is a God. / Per
And over 16.000 two days ago… hmmm… forgot that…. Getting spoiled I guess / Per
Official videos
Media reports
Ugly reviews: Ibyen.dk | Ekstra Bladet | Horsens Folkeblad | TV2 VIP
Fairly nice review: Gaffa | So-so review: Nordjyske.dk
Trivia
Close to 30,000 people in front of Roxette’s stage!