World Tour 2011: Stockholm, Sweden – November 3 #68

Comment from Per Gessle

Aaah Stockholm. Thanx for a wonderful evening. Grymt att vara på hemmaplan!!! Tjohooo från oss alla!

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Soul deep (medley with SGNO)
08. Perfect Day
09. Things Will Never Be The Same
10. It Must Have Been Love
11. Opportunity Nox
12. 7twenty7
13. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
14. Crash! Boom! Bang!
15. How Do You Do!
16. Dangerous
Band presentation
17. Joyride (introduced with “Ljudet Av Ett Annat Hjärta”)

18. Watercolours in the rain
19. Spending My Time
20. The Look

21. Listen To Your Heart
22. Church Of Your Heart

Misc

Almost 10,000 people in the audience, including Sweden’s Foreign Affair Minister – Carl Bildt.

Articles

Expressen’s live report from Globen
Expressen (short review)
Expressen (longer review, 2/5)
Expressen (gallery)
Aftonbladet (review, 3/5)
Svenska Dagbladet (review)
Rockfoto.nu (gallery)
Makebelivestudio.se (gallery)

Star Observer: Roxette still blooming like a flower

So it came as a surprise to many — even tour organisers themselves — when early ’90s hitmakers Roxette’s lone, toe-in-the-water Australian concert date sold out in half an hour earlier this year.

It’s surprising, but it’s been happening all over the world, so we’re on this neverending tour, Gessle told the Star Observer from his Stockholm home.

I’m so proud of the Roxette catalogue. We play to people of different ethnicities, different languages, different religions, in cities whose names I can’t even pronounce. And all of them are there because they love Listen To My Heart or Spending My Time or It Must Have Been Love. It’s just incredible, the power of music.

It’s the nature of the business that you have to die, commercially speaking, to let the next generation of artists come up. And of course the bigger you get, the harder the fall. We had almost four years where we always had a song in the hot 100 in the US.

More at starobserver.com.au