So now you have your own chance to ask Per Gessle about forthcoming album and world tour. Just write a question (or drop a line) in the comment section and we – RXB staff – will choose the best ones and will try to get a little more information on these issues from the Man.
Please, don’t ask Per if Roxette is going to visit your country/city, he’s an artist, not a touring agency. Thanks for your patience 🙂
We are waiting for your questions till November 6th… so you have just 24 hours!
Per Gessle was interviewed for the Swedish public chanell SVT’s “The Seventies” series. He talked about his youth inspirations including punk music and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
More at SVT Play.
Arrival in Halmstad and one day left until the show. Fortunately we read about the “Kung av Tylösand” exhibition in Söndrum’s library and decided to go there. We saw around 30-40 pictures from the past – mostly from Per’s solo tour in 2003 and the Crash!Boom!Bang tour in 1994 – taken by Dan Karlsson.
Fortunately we didn’t have to pay any entrance fee because it wouldn’t have been worth it. The pictures didn’t reveal any new motives, persons, situations – whatever. So after we saw five or six we knew there wouldn’t be anything new to watch and laughed about the fact that they sold the photos for 1200 SEK (more expensive pictures cost 3000 SEK). I could win a contest promising that every long-term-fan has better photos on his/her computer. For those who couldn’t go: you didn’t miss a thing – maybe a good laugh about the high and totally unrealistic prices. If you have any good Gessle photos on your compter you should try to sell them somewhere, you could maybe make a killing..
Here you see some pictures taken at the exhibition by myself.
I asked Per on Twitter yesterday if we could know the songs that were played before the concert from his pre-mix tape, as there were a few I spotted being British and growing up in a world of 60’s music (mostly Northern my Dad hailing from Liverpool!)… and the list appeared late last night, so hear it is!
KICKS by Paul Revere & The Raiders
SURFIN’ BIRD by The Trashmen
TEENAGE KICKS by The Undertones
* TEACHER TEACHER by Rockpile
HOT LOVE by T. Rex
BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY by Daniel Boone
* WASHINGTON SQUARE by The Village Stompers
JOLENE by The White Stripes
STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE by The Supremes
MY BABY LOVES LOVIN’ by The White Plains
SON OF A PREACHER MAN by Dusty Springfield
A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE by Mindbenders
MMM MMM MMM MMM by Crash Test Dummies
THE RAIN, THE PARK & OTHER THINGS by The Cowsills
MY SWEET LORD by George Harrison
BILLION DOLLAR BABIES by Alice Cooper
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER by Al Green
GIVING IT ALL AWAY by Roger Daltrey
BETTE DAVIS EYES by Kim Carnes
GREEN TAMBOURINE by The Lemon Pipers
1-2-3 by LEN BARRY
ECHO BEACH by Martha & The Muffins
TOY SOLDIERS by Martika
* TICKET TO RIDE by The Beatles
TELEGRAM SAM by T. Rex
THE ONE I LOVE by R.E.M.
PLEASE MR POSTMAN by The Marvelettes
JESSIE’S GIRL by Rick Springfield
MO’REEN by The Mascots
TRETTIFYRAN by Nisse Hellberg
SUNDAY MORNIN’ COMIN’ DOWN by Kris Kristofferson
TAINTED LOVE by Gloria Jones
LOLA by The Kinks
HEY JOE, WHERE YOU GONNA GO? By The Leaves
* MUSTANG SALLY by Sir Mack Rice
LITTLE BIT O’SOUL by The Music Explosion
SHOPPING WITH MOTHER by Per Gessle
AFTERGLOW (OF YOUR LOVE) by The Small Faces
SHOPPING by Pet Shop Boys
MARIE PROVOST by Nick Lowe
COTTON JENNY by Gordon Lightfoot
WORDS ENOUGH TO TELL YOU by The Mascots
* YOU WON’T BE HAPPY by Paul Collins’ Beat
MIDNIGHT RIDER by Paul Davidson
SYMPATHY by Rare Bird
TONIGHT, TONIGHT by Smashing Pumpkins
BEHIND THE WALL OF SLEEP by The Smithereens
* MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU by Stardust
As you’ll notice there is a fair few 60’s and 70’s artist’s in there, some classic music pops by fab four from Liverpool The Beatles and then we have The Kinks, Dusty Springfield, The Supremes and the fab George Harrison plus some tracks from the fabulous Swedish group The Mascots which many will be well-known with from the En Händig Man tour pre video warm up! There is of course some modern day artists as well like Smashing Pumpkins, Crash Test Dummies, Pet Shop Boys, Nisse Hellberg and even Per’s Shopping With Mother makes the list!
All in all a great warm up to Roxette appearing on stage, a fantastic collection of songs and certainly one to remember the show by! You can go have most of them now over at Spotify…
*) not on Spotify… so I suggest you head over to faithful iTunes and purchase what you are missing there!
The King of Swedish Pop Per Gessle met with the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf just before Prince Carl Philip’s race in the Porsche Carrera Cup in Falkenberg on the hot and balmy afteroon July 10th. “It is a little bit of freezing… Naaah, I’m just kidding. I’ve read that there was 50 degrees in Bangkok and it was probably the same here in Falkenberg,” says Per to Expressen.
It was not long before he and his familly found the shelter from the sun. He chose the same tent where the King of Sweden Carl Gustaf followed Carl Philip’s race on the track. Just before the race began Gessle had time to say thanks for the royal reception at the castle after Victoria and Daniel’s wedding. “I thanked him for lately. The wedding was fantastic,” adds Per in Expressen’s article.
Prince Carl Philip finished the race in the eighth position.
Source: Expressen.se
