Roxette

World Tour 2011: Vienna, Austria – October 10 #55

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Comment from Per Gessle

Wow! What a crowd! What a band!!! Thanx everyone for making this new-start of the tour such a jolly one!!! We certainly had a blast. Chris was outstanding as always, Helena took us to heaven w/ no return, Pelle was at the front line as always, Magnus wooosh!! what a wardrobe! + Clarence; majestic presence and skills beyond belief. And I haven’t even mentioned Miss Marie. A class act from a different planet. And Vienna, hope to see you again real soon!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers, P.

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 (as a 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 “Strauss Waltz”)

18. Watercolours In The Rain
19. Spending My Time
20. The Look

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

 

Articles and photos
Kronet.at
Oe24.at #1 #2 #3
The Daily Roxette’s interview with Per
News.at

Miscs
New stage and lights. Two songs were dropped (Silver blue + Way out) and two ‘new’ were included – Soul deep and Crash!Boom!Bang! Around 8,000 people in the audience.

Roxette play in Jakarta, Indonesia

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One of Indonesian music promoters, Big Daddy Entertainment Group, has just announced that Roxette is going to have a concert in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 3rd, 2012 – just after Australian tour ends. Several Indonesian entertainment news media/blog have written about the announcement, including Rolling Stone Indonesia.

Last time Roxette performed there was on February 6, 1995, and that was their first and only concert ever.

Source: RollingStone Indonesia
Thanks to Miedy Bishop for informing us about that.

Vienna (Austria) is getting ready for Roxette

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Roxette will give a concert in Vienna, Austria, next Monday 10th of October. This concert is in a way special because of two reasons: it will be the first “official” concert of the European Autumn leg of the neverending tour, which also means a new stage and maybe maybe maybe even a new setlist, and the “first” one after the last concert of the summer tour.

“First” and “official” if you allow me to consider the concert in Tromsø, Norway in September part of the summer tour and the corporate concert Roxette gave for Vestas Wind Systems in Herning, Denmark, last Sunday as not part of the Autumn tour.

I feel that it is special also in another way. The Austrian media has published a couple of articles about the concert, Roxette sounds more often on the radio, and last but not least, currently 2 contests are running to meet Per (ORF) or Roxette (Krone) next Monday.

And as a funny note. I just received a warning from ARBÖ, an Austrian car club, for traffic jam which might be caused by Roxette  on Monday. They warn about possible traffic jams around the area of the concert place, Stadthalle, before and after the concert and advice people to either take the public transport (free with the concert ticket) or plan to go to the concert with enough time. And, of course, getting back home by car might also take a while.

And I am currently thinking, Christoffer was given some suggestions for songs to play during the Joyride intro. Which one will make it? We’ll find out on Monday!

The countdown has started 🙂

PS: consider this more a blog than real news, I am also somehow getting excited about the concert, the first one for a long time I don’t have to travel to somewhere and is so to say “next door” and “home”. If I am allowed to consider myself already half “wiener” after living some years here… But my Spanish side will be present as well, specially because two dear Spanish magic friends are joining the concert as well! I just say “Claaaaaaarence, Claaaaaarence”.

Roxette’s new stage in progress

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The “damp” blog by Lucas Lindholm offers some interesting insight to the preparation of Roxette’s new stage equipment for the upcoming European leg of the Charm School World Tour. The more-or-less locally rented stages of the previous tour legs seem to get replaced by more dedicated touring equipment. Per hinted at stage upgrades in an interview early August:

The successes of the first half of the tour means that Roxette will be travelling with a larger stage and more equipment. We need to improve it a bit for the autumn tour.

The photo galleries so far picture the work on September 26, 27 and probably 28. So who’s able to describe the visible technical upgrades, any experts out there?

Source: damp

Coldplay single “Paradise” inspired by “Wish I Could Fly”?

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Belgian newspaper “Het Nieuwsblad” reports about a striking similarity between the backing tracks (not the vocal melody) of Coldplay’s new single “Paradise” and Roxette’s hit “Wish I Could Fly” from 1999. Coldplay have been in the focus of plagiarism claims before with previous singles, so the author asks if Chris Martin & Co. have asked Marie & Per in advance for this kind of “inspiration”. Judge for yourself:

Source: nieuwsblad.be