Roxette

The first one to buy Roxette tickets for Sundsvall concert

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Ingrid Olivelöf was the first person who managed to purchase tickets for Roxette show on Norrporten Arena in Sundsvall on August 7th. She waited over an hour with more than 50 people in queue in front of Entré Sundsvall on Friday morning, April 23rd. Mattias Aamisepp from Radio Guld, local radiostation, played Roxette songs to improve people’s moods. Ingrid chose “Dressed for succes” as the best Roxette song in the talk with journalist. She bought three tickets in the second row in B-section.

Source: St.nu

Prices of tickets for Roxette’s concert in Sundsvall

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The sale will start today at 11.00 AM Swedish local time via Ticnet.se or through Webbiljett.se (the site is recommended by the organizers).

The tickets prices:

– Läktare (Sections) 810 SEK [B, C, L, M] / 710 SEK [D, K, J] / 610 SEK [G, I, H]
– Ståplats (Standing place) 510 SEK
– Rullstol (Tickets for people on wheelchairs) 510 SEK

There is no information regarding what is the differance between these prices.

Roxette to play in Sundsvall on August 7

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According to Swedish media, and confirmed to Roxette’s manager Marie Dimberg, Roxette will play in Norrporten Arena, Sundsvall (Sweden) on August 7.  The organizators exepect around 20,000 in public. This will be, if no more shows are added to the tour, the real first Roxette concert since 2001.

Tickets will be on sale on April 23 via Ticnet. The support band will be German The Baseballs, known from their Elvis-covers of Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and… Roxette’s “The look”.

It seems like the information in Norwegian and Danish press about two gigs in Sweden are finally confirmed.

Aftonbladet, SVT, ST, Dagbladet

Watch 2-minutes report about the concert

Chrissi Schäfer and Eloy Mathesan contributed to the article.

New Roxette album postponed to 2011

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As The Daily Roxette reports, the upcoming Roxette album got moved from end of this year to early 2011. The recordings go well, but they plan to have a summer break (where they’ll perform live around the Baltic sea) to resume recording until October. The actual plan is to record 16 songs with the first single to be released for Christmas 2010.

Comment: In my opinion that’s a good decision!
– The current EMI turmoil could lead to a quite insecure release/promotion situation this year. EMI was rumored to have postponed the next Coldplay album for example.
– The pre-christmas market is always very crowded with album releases. Nobody knows if Roxette’s name is still big enough to gather enough attention between such a huge competition. Roxette have a good history of winter/spring releases (all studio albums except (POP and LS).
– Judging from previous release interviews they always got fresh inspiration through a recording break.

I guess a first single already 2-3 months in advance of the album will keep us more excited than single/album released within 2 weeks… 😀