The BBC reviews “Charm School”. Fun reading!

Chris Roberts of the BBC got to review Roxette’s new album for the upcoming UK release. They get away pretty fine!

With a Hollywood-like sense of triumph over adversity, Roxette return with their first album since singer Marie Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002. She recovered, and the Swedish power-pop duo seems appropriately exhilarated. …

Read it here: BBC

World Tour 2011: Riga, Latvia – March 16 #08

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Riga, Latvia, March 16th

Articles and photos

Concert: http://yfrog.com/gyae5txj | http://twitpic.com/4a3yw1 | Delfi.lv

We got these wonderful pictures from Oskars Kupše from Latvia. You can find the rest on his website Rock’n’photos.com, he told us that more pictures will be uploaded later today.

More photos by Oskars can be found here now.

 

Videos

By pnkrock3r: various snippets of the whole concert in one video

By J0ns71:  9 videos from It Must Have Been Love until the end of the show. Videos are from far away but the sound is fine. Fading Like A Flower, How Do You Do!/Dangerous, Joyride, Spending My Time, The Look, Way Out, Listen To Your Heart, Church Of Your Heart

By Saifermatt: Sleeping In My Car

By vkuvideos (including the end of Dressed For Success): Dressed For Success

By Evijz (bad sound quality):  Listen To Your Heart

By Cone007: Spending My Time

 

“She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” climbs the charts!

Week 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Austria 75 22 29 9 13 10 14 17 23 24 28
Germany 100 18 22 12 12 10 10 18 19 23 22 25
Switzerland 75 67 26 24 21 19 31 30 35 31
Belgium (Fl.)* 94 86 84

Thanks to intensive promotion via “Wetten Dass…?” and TV spots “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” climbed up to #9 in Austria and #12 in Germany! We will collect the different chart positions of Roxette’s new single in this post…

Did the single enter the official chart of your country? Please tell us how it is doing!

Update March 8: As EMI Germany proudly announces, the single climbs to #10 this week! That makes “She’s Got Nothing On” Roxette’s 9th top 10 hit, the highest ranking single since “How Do You Do!” in 1992. Also in Austria the single jumps up to #10. What a magnificent comeback! This success shows how much potential Roxette still has – and compared to markets like Sweden, what a difference some promotion makes…

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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