Roxette

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Frankfurt – 23rd November 2025 – #35

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Without a day off, the band performed their 35th show on tour in Frankfurt.

Now we get used to it, but there was no support act in Frankfurt either. The doors opened at 18:30 and Roxette went on stage at 20:00. Before we entered, it was snowing outside, but the temperature was quite hot once the gang came up on stage. Just like in Hamburg, there were a lot of familiar faces in the crowd in Frankfurt too.

The band presentation started with Magnus, as usual, and he mentioned that a lot of famous people played at this venue, Jahrhunderthalle. Besides Frank Zappa, Les Humphries Singers also performed there in 1971, and he started singing their song, Mama Loo. The crowd joined in. Per laughed and told Magnus „they were here in 1971”, ponting at the crowd. ABBA played there in 1974, and now 52 years later, here are The Roxettes, Magnus added.

Chris played Pippi Langstrumpf as the intro to Joyride, and it worked perfectly with the very loud crowd.

The audience welcomed Lena very warmly. When Per and she came back for the encore and were about to play Spending My Time, someone shouted „we love you, Lena!”, she was distracted by that and thanked for it by sending a kiss towards the one who shouted. Per already wanted to start playing SMT, so he asked „are you ready?” Lena replied „yes, I’m ready, sorry, I was busy with…” Per said „sorry to interrupt”. Haha.

Now it gets harder and harder to name the Top5 shows, since all of them are fantastic, but let me include Frankfurt among the 5 best gigs on this tour leg. Pure energy bomb!

No changes in the setlist.

Setlist

1. The Big L.
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Dressed For Success
4. Crash! Boom! Bang!
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. Opportunity Nox
7. Fading Like A Flower
8. Vulnerable
9. Milk And Toast And Honey
10. Almost Unreal
11. Stars
12. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
13. It Must Have Been Love
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous

Band presentation

16. Joyride

Encore

17. Spending My Time
18. Listen To Your Heart
19. The Look
20. Queen Of Rain

Next stop is Düsseldorf on 25th November! Check out all the 2025 tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

Photos in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres. More photos HERE! Check out how Stars sounded in Frankfurt HERE!

Per after the gig:

Fantastic Sunday in Frankfurt. Had a blast!

Lena after the show:

A fun sweaty gig!! Thank you Frankfurt!

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Hamburg – 22nd November 2025 – #34

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The band had a day off after Berlin and visited Hamburg to perform the 9th show on the autumn leg. 9 shows down, 9 gigs still to come.

There was no support act in Hamburg either, so after the doors opened at 18:00, the band went on stage at 20:00. Barclays Arena is quite a large venue and it had a standing area in front of the stage and seats on two floors, at some point even on three floors. The concert wasn’t sold out, but the arena was well packed.

Per used his German several times during the gig and Lena also talked a bit in German saying „Mir geht’s super!”.

Before performing Vulnerable, Per said they started playing this song on this tour. He doesn’t know why, he probably has just forgotten about it. „Or maybe it’s really bad.” The audience was laughing. Lena said she loves it and we shouted „we too!” Haha.

The band presentation turned out to be very special. Since it was Clarence’s birthday, we thought it would be nice to wish him happy birthday, so we printed some Grattis signs to hold up when Per introduced Clarence. First it was Magnus to be introduced. He said they were in Hamburg already on Friday and they went to Gretel & Alfons, which he thinks is the best bar. Then Per turned to Clarence and we held up our signs. Clarence saw them and thanked for it. Then he started playing the tunes of Neverending Love, because Mr. G is hard to get distracted, he kept saying his usual intro speech. Then finally Per said: „to make things even more special, today it’s his birthday!”. We cheered for Clarence, the band started playing Happy Birthday To You and the audience was singing. Per said „beautiful! He is turning 28”. Haha. Then PG introduced Dea and Jonas and then came Norpan, the new kid on the block. Per went on: „and to make things a little bit more special, it was his birthday yesterday”. So we held up our signs again and started singing Happy Birthday To You to Norpan too. Per said he is also 28. Then Chris played HSV Hamburg die wunderschöne Stadt as the intro to Joyride, but the crowd didn’t really seem to recognize it, so Chris even sang a line into the mic. After the show we found out that Hamburg SV played a match at the same time as the concert was on, so probably all soccer fans went to see the match instead of the gig. Haha. The team lost to Augsburg though. They all should have come to the concert instead.

The whole show was amazing – even if the sound wasn’t the best – the audience sing-along was fabulous and the energy and fun on stage was fantastic! What an awesome Saturday night! So soundwise it’s still Berlin that was the best show so far on this tour leg, but otherwise this gig has just jumped to the No. 2 spot (after No. 1 Valencia) on my list. Sorry, Copenhagen. Haha.

No changes in the setlist.

Setlist

1. The Big L.
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Dressed For Success
4. Crash! Boom! Bang!
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. Opportunity Nox
7. Fading Like A Flower
8. Vulnerable
9. Milk And Toast And Honey
10. Almost Unreal
11. Stars
12. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
13. It Must Have Been Love
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous

Band presentation

16. Joyride

Encore

17. Spending My Time
18. Listen To Your Heart
19. The Look
20. Queen Of Rain

Next stop is Frankfurt on 23rd November! Check out all the 2025 tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

Photos in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres. More photos HERE!

Per after the gig:

Hamburg! Wow, what a FANTASTIC Saturday nite!!!! Had so much fun, thanks all you 8000 friends popping by! Love you all!

Lena after the show:

Thank you Hamburg!! A lot of action!!

At the end of THIS article you’ll find two sound files and you can hear Per saying some words about what a treat it is to play in Hamburg.

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Berlin – 20th November 2025 – #33

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After one day off, the gang performed at Tempodrom in freezing cold Berlin.

There was no support act in Berlin either, so after the doors opened at 18:30, the band went on stage at 20:00. In front of the stage there was a standing area, but in the rounded venue, there were seats around. It looked quite full by the time the show started.

Per showed off his German several times during the gig from greeting the crowd by saying „Guten Abend!” through „Danke schön” to counting in „Eins, zwei, drei, vier” for The Look. That was really cool!

Lena also greeted the audience and said she felt great, she loves Berlin. She also mentioned that her daughter came to see the show, so she felt even better.

It turned out to be an amazing Thursday night. The band was tight and after the audience warmed up, they became very loud and sang along to all the songs.

Christoffer played Berliner Luft as the intro to Joyride.

After the concert we met Per and he said that this show had the best sound on stage for them so far.

No changes in the setlist.

Setlist

1. The Big L.
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Dressed For Success
4. Crash! Boom! Bang!
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. Opportunity Nox
7. Fading Like A Flower
8. Vulnerable
9. Milk And Toast And Honey
10. Almost Unreal
11. Stars
12. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
13. It Must Have Been Love
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous

Band presentation

16. Joyride

Encore

17. Spending My Time
18. Listen To Your Heart
19. The Look
20. Queen Of Rain

Next stop is Hamburg on 22nd November! Check out all the 2025 tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

Photos in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres. More photos HERE!

Per after the gig:

BERLIN! Amazing evening! Sold out show with soooooo many Roxers around. Thanks for an outstanding Thursday!

Lena after the show:

Wonderful gig! Thanks a lot!! So much fun! (My daughter with friends came to watch – even better!)

Vote for the Roxette musical at the 2025 BroadwayWorld Sweden Awards!

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The voting period for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Sweden Awards has started. Vote for Joyride – The Musical in numerous categories!

The 2025 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between 1st October 2024 through 30th September 2025. Local editors set the categories, readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favourites! Voting will continue through 31st December 2025. Winners will be announced in January 2026.

During the entire voting period you can check the current standings, but read the terms and conditions carefully and vote only once.

You can vote HERE!

Categories in which Joyride – The Musical is nominated:

  • Best Musical
  • Best Ensemble
  • Best Performer In A Musical: this one is cruel, because 6 actors from Joyride are nominated in this same category: Jessica Marberger, Lucas Krüger, Emilie Evbäck, Anton Lundqvist, Hanna Hedlund, Edda Pekkari
  • Best Supporting Performer In A Musical: another tough category, because 3 actors from Joyride are nominated in this same category: Donald Högberg, Pia Ternström, Olle Roberg
  • Best Direction Of A Musical
  • Best Scenic Design Of A Play Or Musical
  • Best Lighting Design Of A Play Or Musical
  • Best Costume Design Of A Play Or Musical
  • Best Sound Design Of A Play Or Musical
  • Best Choreography Of A Play Or Musical
  • Best Music Direction & Orchestra Performance
  • Favourite Local Theatre – China Teatern or Malmö Opera (since Joyride was on there too this year)

Cast your vote by simply checking one nominee in each of the award categories. If you have no choice in any particular category, simply choose ‘No Nominee’.

Cast your vote only once. After submitting your vote, you will receive an electronic confirmation via e-mail. If you submit your e-mail address incorrectly, your vote will be disqualified.

All voting results will be tabulated, and will be audited at the conclusion of the voting process to remove fake, duplicate and other invalid votes. The results you see here may alter slightly or significantly as a result of that auditing process. No automatic, programmed, robotic or similar means of voting are permitted. Participants who do not comply with these Terms and Conditions, or who attempt to interfere with the voting process or the operation of the Site in any way will be disqualified and their votes will not be counted. BWW reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend voting should any virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud or other causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or proper conduct of the voting process. No user or participant shall attempt to manipulate final results by offering incentives of any kind or using any automated or semi-automated means to cast a vote. All decisions regarding the voting process shall be final and shall not be subject to challenge or appeal.

Good luck, Joyrider nominees!

P.S.: There are some irrelevant categories in which you’ll find Joyride nominations, but the editors will correct these shortly. So you should vote only for the categories mentioned above.

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Leipzig – 18th November 2025 – #32

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The first of six German shows on this tour leg was held in Leipzig. That was a tough change regarding temperature – from 25 degrees in Barcelona to 3 degrees in Leipzig. You could see Mr. G was freezing in his dressing room 20 minutes before going on stage. Haha. But as Åsa said, soon he got warm.

There was no support act, so after the doors opened at 18:30, we had to wait for only 1.5 hours to see the Roxette gang playing. It was a half standing, half seated setting of Quarterback Immobilien Arena.

After warming up with the first two songs, Per greeted the crowd by saying „Guten Abend!” and then they kicked ass with Dressed For Success. The audience was singing along to both the ballads and the uptempo songs and provided a rhythm by their clapping during many songs. There was a lot of action on stage and it’s always lovely to see how much fun everyone has by playing together.

Christoffer played Sachsenlied (Sing, mei Sachse, sing) as the intro to Joyride.

After we left the building, the party went on in front of the arena where a guy was playing The Look on a guitar. People gathered around him and sang along.

No changes in the setlist.

Setlist

1. The Big L.
2. Sleeping In My Car
3. Dressed For Success
4. Crash! Boom! Bang!
5. Wish I Could Fly
6. Opportunity Nox
7. Fading Like A Flower
8. Vulnerable
9. Milk And Toast And Honey
10. Almost Unreal
11. Stars
12. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
13. It Must Have Been Love
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous

Band presentation

16. Joyride

Encore

17. Spending My Time
18. Listen To Your Heart
19. The Look
20. Queen Of Rain

Next stop is Berlin on 20th November! Check out all the 2025 tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

Photos in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres. More photos HERE! Check out how Vulnerable sounded in Leipzig HERE!

Per after the gig:

Leipzig! Amazing opening show in Germany. Thx everyone for joining the joyride tonight! Had so much fun!!!

Lena after the show:

Thank you Leipzig!! Wunderbar