Roxette

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

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Barcelona – 16th November 2025 – #31

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Without a day off, the gang continued their journey in Barcelona.

Some fans had been queuing since the morning, but most of the people came to the venue 1 hour before the doors opened (19:30). There was no support act, so Roxette went on stage at 21:00.

It was a standing show with hardcore fans in the first rows and the crowd was singing along very loudly during all the songs. Per asked the audience if they are like this on a Sunday, how they celebrate Saturdays. Haha. The whole gang was in top shape and the sound was fantastic.

When Per presented the band and he turned to Magnus, Magnus said he felt great. He bought a brand new hat in Barcelona. It’s colour-coded to go with his Blue Swedish Sex Machine. The crowd cheered for him. All band members were welcomed warmly. Chris played Cant del Barça, the official FC Barcelona anthem as the intro to Joyride. The crowd was singing along extremely loudly. Christoffer even stopped playing at one point and just conducted the sing-along. It was cool!

The crowd went „olé!”-ing before the encore and shouted „Roxette, Roxette” several times before Per and Lena got back on stage to perform Spending My Time.

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 Leipzig on 18th 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:

Barcelona! Wow! Third time at Sant Jordi Club since 2011! Always a treat!! Love to you all who attended tonight and made this gig one for the history books!

Lena after the show:

It was cooking in Barcelona yesterday. So grateful to be a part of the Roxette-family! Thank you Per Gessle and thanks to all the dedicated fans out there! Amazing!!

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Valencia – 15th November 2025 – #30

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Valencia has just witnessed the 30th show on the Roxette In Concert tour. Roig Arena greeted us with an amazing facade (check it HERE) and all the people were taking selfies / photos with it before entering the venue.

The doors opened at 19:00 and there was no support act, so Roxette went on stage at 21:00. The Spanish shows in summer were very loud and amazing, so I expected Valencia to be loud as well, but I somehow couldn’t imagine the show could even top Copenhagen. Well, it could! Oh my God! What an absolutely awesome gig it was!

It was a fully seated concert, but we didn’t use our seats too much. Thanks to the hardcore Spanish front row, the whole arena got on their feet. The longtime Roxers in the front stood up already during the first song and the entire audience followed them. People were undecisive during the ballads, so some of them sat down, some of them stayed standing and there was a mix of it too: the ones who sat down in the beginning, but couldn’t keep their asses on the seats and stood up after a little while.

The crowd reactions were fantastic. When each and every song started to play, they reacted with an „aaah”, noticing that a hit came after a hit. They were singing along loudly, clapping and dancing. The gang on stage got pretty fuelled by this and they were even more powerful than in Denmark. You could see all those happy faces on and off stage. Magical feeling it was!

Per greeted the crowd with an „hola!” and said Valencia is a truly wonderful city. This is the first time he is here and he just loves it. The audience was cheering for him. Lena also greeted the crowd with an „hola!” and said she feels great. In Valencia you are always happy. The crowd accepted her warmly.

Before Per presented the band, he asked the crowd if a Saturday night is always like this in Valencia. He has to move here then. Haha. The crowd rewarded it with a longer „olé! olé! olé! olé!”.

Chris played the Anthem of Valencia as the intro to Joyride. The crowd was singing along loudly and released some heart-shaped balloons in the front row. Lena was also playing with those balloons that ended up on stage.

At the end of the show, front row fans held up TACK signs to thank for the concert. The band appreciated it.

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 Barcelona on 16th 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:

Wow! Amazing gig in Valencia! Had so much fun with a wonderful Saturday night crowd! Thanks for all your generous very loud voices and for reminding us what it’s like to perform in Spain. Outstanding! See you tomorrow in Barcelona!!!!

Lena after the show:

Energy was high in Valencia!! Thank you soooo much!!