Roxette

Secret Roxette trip to Russia

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As Evgeny Perekopskiy posted on his Facebook account today, Roxette – including the band with Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist, Pelle Alsing and Magnus Börjeson – have been in Moscow during the last days. They arrived on December 9th in the evening and flew back to Stockholm this morning.
So far, nobody knows why they have been there and what they did. So speculations started that Roxette either did a video or photo shoot or came to Moscow for some TV show recording, maybe even some New Year’s Eve show.

Back from Moscow Per Gessle lets us know what the trip was about:

Just got home from a couple of dayz (and nights) in jolly Moscow. Great TV-show, superb crowd. Hey you Russian ppl, see ya again in March!

Roxette to perform live on New Year’s Eve in Warsaw

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According to Polsat TV‘s press office – Roxette will definitely perform live on New Year’s Eve party on December 31st in Warsaw. As for the chosen songs, they cannot reveal anything at the moment. They do not want to say how many, which and if any new song will be performed neither. The Polsat press releases informed about “It must have been love”, “Listen to your heart”, “Joyride”, “The look” being performed in Warsaw; on the other hand “How do you do!”, “Dangerous” and “Sleeping in my car” are also used in various TV and radio promos.

Meanwhile, in the streets of Warsaw, in the press and all over the internet the New Year’s Eve concert’s promotion has just began entitled “Sylwestrowa Moc Przebojow” (Power of New Year’s Hits). As you can see below, Roxette’s photo is not on the posters – Polsat TV decided to use only the Polish artists images. Other foreign guests to perform in Warsaw are Opus (“Life is life” theme) and Denzel (“Pump it up”). The Polish artist will perform the most popular European hits as Polsat and the Warsaw authorities want to mark the start of Polish Presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2011.

This will be probably the first time ever when Roxette will perform in front of over 100,000 people. Close to 4,000,000 people are expected to watch the show on Polsat TV. Unfortunately, Polsat has no official live streaming on the internet. The other media partner is Radio ZET, which should broadcast the show as well and yes – you can listen to it all over the world.

If you want to see a TV ad for the concert – “Joyride” and “How do you do!” is used in the background, please visit Polish Roxette fan page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RoxettePL

The official event website has just opened its gates, though it is only in Polish. The admission to the Constitution Square will begin at 7 PM, one hour before the whole show will start. Between 2 and 7 PM soundchecks and general rehearsal will take place.

If you have any question regarding this show, just drop a line in the comment section.

Another date in South Africa, bigger venue for Sofia

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Two good information from Rox World 2011 Tour camp.

As you may remember South African gigs sell like hot cakes and over 5,000 tickets were sold just in the first hours of the sale. This is one of the reasons why Roxette adds the fourth concert in this country – the new one is for Cape Town on Tuesday May 10th, 2011. This makes the first concert (May 11th) to become the second one. Check Computicket.com for more information.

Bulgarian fans do not disappoint Roxette – the concert in Sofia on May 29th will be moved from the National Palace of Culture to the bigger venue – the Georgi Asparuhov stadium. Over 4,000 tickets were sold for NPoC which was “sold-out” for the place.Unfortunately, the organizers will provide only sitting places on the stadium. For additional tickets, please see the link (in Bulgarian only).