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Roxette In Concert 2025 – Halmstad – 27th July 2025 – #25

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The last summer show on the Roxette In Concert 2025 tour happened at Brottet in Halmstad. It was the 25th gig on tour, also sold out.

The support act was Melodic Fluke, just like the previous day, and they played for appr. 30 minutes from 20:00. Roxette took the stage a few minutes after 21:00.

After Sleeping In My Car, Per greeted the crowd and said it was nice to be back. He thinks Brottet is Sweden’s most beautiful venue and it’s always fun to play there. Mr. G also introduced the newest member of the Roxette family, the absolutely incomparable Lena Philipsson. The crowd cheered her loudly.

The setlist was the same as the night before, so the gang stuck to 20 songs.

For the last show, the hardcore fans prepared with two flashmobs. One of them – based on Sandra Knospe’s idea – was to raise our hands in the shape of a heart during It Must Have Been Love. So when Lena dedicated the song to our beloved Marie, we raised our hands and kept them in the air for almost the entire song. At least the first 2 rows in the audience did. Dea noticed the action and she also formed a heart.

During the band presentation, the front part of the audience was preparing for the next flashmob: they were blowing up balloons. It was Basia Konarzewska’s initiative to bring back the balloons for Joyride. Christoffer played Kärleken är evig as the intro to Joyride and it was wonderful to see Per and Lena’s faces, and then the crowd’s sing along reaction was cool too when they recognized what song it was. After the intro, the fans were waving the balloons and released them into the air when it came to the lyric „in a wonderful balloon”. It looked fab! Here you can see videos of it from two different angles (1; 2).

When Per and Lena returned to the stage for the encore, Per thanked the band and their fantastic crew for this tour as it was the last show until autumn. He thanked the support act as well. Then someone from the audience shouted he should thank Lena too, so Lena was laughing and she thanked Per and Per thanked Lena. Then they performed Spending My Time.

For me it’s hard to say which of the last three shows was the best, so I would say the second Gothenburg gig and the two Halmstad shows are in my Top5, along with the best concert in Munich and another amazing gig in Madrid.

The energy during all the shows was wonderful both on and off stage. Hats off to Dea, Clarence, Christoffer, Jonas, Magnus and Norpan for their amazing instrumental and vocal contribution to the Roxette sound! All the love to Lena for accepting the challenge and giving us the opportunity to enjoy all our most beloved Roxette hits live again! She is the newest member of the Roxette family and has earned the love of the South African, Australian and European audiences.

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the genius who wrote all these hits and who always has the best sense of what works best with the song catalogue. Mr. G, the driving force behind it all!

And last, but definitely not least, Marie stays with us and is not only remembered during It Must Have Been Love, but her spirit is there throughout the entire show. Pelle is not forgotten either, Norpan keeps his light shining. Marie and Pelle, forever in our hearts!

After the concert we bumped into Valdemar Wahlbeck (who played Per in the Sommartider movie), Ville Löfgren (who played MP) and Moa Bondesson (who played MP’s girlfriend). It was their first Roxette show and they were impressed by it. No surprise!

The party was over at Brottet, but Hotel Tylösand organized a Roxette-themed afterparty at Leif’s Lounge, so most of the fans went to the hotel to join the fiesta. Per and the band together with their guests (with Jonas Åkerlund among them) had a separate summer tour leg closing party, also at Hotel Tylösand, but at Leif’s Terrace. When the band members arrived, we were able to thank them for the wonderful shows and the memories we had made together.

The DJ at Leif’s was a bit hard to convince to play Roxette songs at a Roxette-themed afterparty attended by Roxette fans, but sometimes we managed, so he played The Look, It Must Have Been Love, Neverending Love and Dressed For Success. He inserted some Gyllene Tider songs as well and Ännu doftar kärlek by Marie and Kärleken är evig by Lena in between ABBA songs and songs from the ’90s. Towards the end of the party we asked him to play Sommartider. At first he refused to play it, but then he realized that he couldn’t go against our will. Haha. So the night ended with Sommartider at 3 am. It was lovely to party together, not only at the concert, but also after the show.

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

Now 3 months off and the next stop is Budapest on 4th November! Check out all the 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:

Yoohoo! Amazing Sunday gig in Halmstad! 11000+ showing up. Fab vibe + super weather + band on its toes! Love this. Thanks for an amazing summer. See y’all in November but more pics + vids + love letters will pop up. Maybe some new music…. Stay tuned, folks!

Lena before the show:

Tonight it’s the last concert for this summer. This second tour with Roxette 2025. Thank you, Per, for bringing me along! It’s been a real joyride (well..literally haha, don’t know if I’ll ever bring back the keys…).

And thank you everyone for coming to see us. You’ve given us a lot of love. Sooo very happy about that, big kisses and hugs to you all! See you tonight!!

Lena after the show:

Amazing last show yesterday in Halmstad! I’ve had so much fun this summer. Thank you everyone for everything, thank you crew, musicians and production, you have all done a super job! Thank you Per and Åsa (all your photos!!) Thank you everyone who came to listen! Next tour around Europe in november-december 2025!

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Halmstad – 26th July 2025 – #24

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The last two shows on the summer tour leg are two sold-out gigs at Brottet in Halmstad. HERE you can watch a video of how long the queue was before the gates opened. So cool!

The support act was Melodic Fluke and they played for appr. 30 minutes at 20:00. Roxette took the stage a couple of minutes after 21:00.

After Sleeping In My Car, Per greeted the crowd and this time he also took the opportunity to welcome all the international fans in English. After that he couldn’t go on with his talk, because the front row started to sing „Olé, olé, olé, olé, Roxette, Roxette”. It was fun!

Mr. G also introduced the newest member of the Roxette family, the fantastic Lena. The crowd cheered her loudly and shouted her name: „Lena, Lena, Lena!” She said she felt great, „who wouldn’t feel great when in Halmstad.”

The setlist was the same as at the second Gothenburg gig, so Wish I Could Fly stayed in the set.

During the band presentation, all members got cheered loudly by the audience. Jonas played a little bit of Iron Man by Black Sabbath as a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. (Thanks for recognizing it, Daniel Rezmann!)

Christoffer played Ljudet av ett annat hjärta as the intro to Joyride.

Before Queen Of Rain, Per thanked the audience for coming and said he hopes they would have a further nice summer and „see you next time! Maybe tomorrow?” Haha. „Take care of each other, it’s a crazy world out there!”

This show is definitely among the best gigs on this tour leg. It couldn’t top Munich, but it was very close to that. The energy on and off stage was incredible! I must say that Lena is always fabulous, but last night it felt like she wanted to do extra justice to the songs in their hometown. She was outstanding! I think it was her most powerful performance in her Roxette history so far.

In the audience there was Mats Olsson, Sven Lindström, Jan-Owe Wikström. Anders Roos was taking photos during the concert.

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

Without a day off, the next and last stop on this tour leg is Halmstad on 27th July! Check out all the autumn tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

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

Per after the show:

Halmstad #1. Wow, what a gig! Unbelievable! Thx so much for all your beautiful voices! See you tonite for the summer finale!

Lena after the gig:

Thank you, Halmstad, for an amazing night!!

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Gothenburg – 25th July 2025 – #23

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Roxette came back for another sold out show in Gothenburg last night. The support act was Dagny again, but this time she and her band played less than on Wednesday. They entered the stage a couple of minutes before 20:00 and played for appr. 45 minutes. Nice, catchy pop music.

Roxette took the stage a couple of minutes after 21:00. As it turned out since the first Gothenburg gig, the new intro music is the intro of Hylands hörna, a Swedish talk show presented by Lennart Hyland, broadcast between 1962 and 1983.

After Sleeping In My Car, Per greeted the crowd and said it’s nice to see so many people. He told the audience that they had a fantastic evening here on Wednesday, but they plan to top it. Mr. G took the opportunity to welcome all their international friends in English. He got a loud cheering for that from the fans who came from all around the world (Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Australia, Germany, Spain, Greece, Hungary, etc.).

Per also introduced the newest member of the big Roxette family, the fantastic Lena. She said she felt wonderful. „I love Gothenburg and Gothenburg loves me, so I feel great!”

There was one change in the setlist. Wish I Could Fly was added after Crash! Boom! Bang! Thanks for putting it back in the set! (So next time, please add Things Will Never Be The Same as well! Haha.)

I lied, adding WICF was not the only change vs. Wednesday. Another change was that the band presentation got back to its original spot. Haha. After Lena dedicated IMHBL to Marie and they performed the song, Micke N-S came to Per to take away the acoustic guitar and brought him the one he should play on the next song. He emphasized that the next song is How Do You Do!. Per laughed and he started the intro teaser to HDYD.

During the band presentation, all members got cheered loudly by the crowd. Jonas played a bit of Paranoid by Black Sabbath as a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. (Thanks, Daniel Rezmann for recognizing it!)

Christoffer played Ljudet av ett annat hjärta as the wild intro to Joyride.

When Per and Lena came back for the encore, Per said now it’s only them two. Lena said: „yeah, only you and me”. Per added: „and 10,000 more”. Haha.

Before they performed Queen Of Rain, Per thanked the audience for coming and wished them a further great summer. „Take care of each other, it’s a crazy world out there!”

All in all, this gig could really top the one on Wednesday. The flow of the show was wonderful, the band was in top top top shape, Lena was awesome and Per was amazing too. He enjoyed the entire concert to the full, you could see his happy face. So lovely! And last, but not least, the Friday crowd was even more in party mood than the Wednesday audience.

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

Without a day off, the next stop is Halmstad on 26th July! Check out all the tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

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

Per after the show:

Gothenburg #2. Awesome evening. Fab audience and a band on its toes! Loved it! See you tomorrow in jolly Halmstad!

Lena after the gig:

Amazing night in Gbg!!! Thank you so much!

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Gothenburg – 23rd July 2025 – #22

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Finally, the Roxettes are on home ground and perform four sold out shows in Sweden. The first Gothenburg gig at Trädgårdsföreningen happened last night.

The stage was built one day before showtime and those who were walking around in Trädgårdsföreningen could witness the whole process. It’s always fun to see how these things work and how many people work on all the details.

On concert day, it started raining cats and dogs at 16:00 and it didn’t stop until a bit after we could enter the venue when the gates opened at 18:00.

On the side screens, there was Rox promo before the show started: promo of the autumn leg of the tour, the two Swedish shows in December and Joyride – The Musical in Stockholm in September. These ads looked quite cool on such big screens.

At the merch stands you could buy T-shirts, hoodies, caps and bags, as well as CDs.

The support act, Dagny – Norwegian singer and songwriter – entered the stage with her band at 19:45 and played for one hour. They sounded very good.

Roxette took the stage at 21:15 and the audience was cheering them loudly, while a new intro was playing during the band’s entrance. The setlist started with The Big L., as usual, and after Sleeping In My Car Per greeted the crowd and introduced Lena as the new member of Roxette. The audience cheered her loudly and Lena enjoyed it a lot, being on home ground.

After Fading Like A Flower, Per seemed to have some technical problem with his in-ear system and went to the side to technician Peter Fredriksson. Even Micke N-S walked to them with the guitars in his hands to see what the problem was. Then Per walked back to his mic while Peter was walking behind him trying to sort things out. Later Per still showed the guys that something was not working properly for him, but anyway, how they were playing and soundwise, we couldn’t recognize anything strange.

There was one point, when I thought it might have distracted him and it was when after It Must Have Been Love PG started the band presentation. It is usually How Do You Do! that comes after IMHBL, but now Mr. G was a bit too early with introducing the band. You could see the confusion on Jonas’s and Clarence’s face, then Micke N-S also came on stage to check what was happening. Well, what can you do? Haha. Chris played När vi två blir en which should have been the intro to Joyride, but this time it was followed by How Do You Do! When Per realized he had changed the order, he first talked to Magnus on stage, then he went to Chris before Chris finished the intro, probably telling him that they would continue with HDYD, so that he wouldn’t start playing Joyride. The setlist had a different flow this way, but I doubt anyone other than the hardcore fans (and of course the band and technicians) realized something was not going as planned. All were professionals and they made this change as smooth as possible. Next time everything will be back in the right order, for sure.

I must mention that the crowd’s – at least the front rows – sing-along to Clarence’s Neverending Love insert during the band presentation was fantastic! Even Per let us sing longer than usual. Haha. Maybe one day the complete song gets on the list.

During band presentation, Jonas played a little bit of Black Sabbath (Iron Man) as a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. (Thanks for recognizing it, Daniel Rezmann!)

The setlist was 2 songs longer than the festival shows, so the band played 19 hits. It was the first time for me that I had the chance to hear Vulnerable live. I just L.O.V.E. this song! Per was singing it and Lena and Dea joined him in the front and sang their parts. It sounded fab! Then they performed Milk And Toast And Honey. It was lovely to have these two ballads back on the setlist. The last time they played them was in Australia.

Unfortunately, What’s She Like? and Things Will Never Be The Same or Wish I Could Fly were not included, but hopefully, they are back a bit later. Fortunately, Almost Unreal stayed in the set.

The loudest sing along we experienced was during It Must Have Been Love, which of course Lena dedicated to Marie.

Before Queen Of Rain, Per thanked the audience for coming and said he hopes they would have a further nice summer and „see you next time! Maybe on Friday!” Haha.

Setlist

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

Band presentation

  1. How Do You Do!
  2. Dangerous
  3. Joyride

Encore

  1. Spending My Time
  2. Listen To Your Heart
  3. The Look
  4. Queen Of Rain

Now one day off and the band is back in Gothenburg for a second show on 25th July! Check out all the tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

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

Per after the show:

Amazing start of the Swedish tour in Gothenburg. Had a blast! Sold out (10000). We = happy! Thx for stopping by, dear you! New balls on Friday. Same place, same time.

Lena after the gig:

What a wonderful evening in Gothenburg!! So much fun!! Thanks to everyone who was there!

Roxette In Concert 2025 – Pori – 17th July 2025 – #21

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Roxette. At a jazz festival. Oh well… Haha. The band rocked the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland!

They took the stage at 22:00 Finnish time and played the 17-song setlist with full force! The audience enjoyed each song, hit after hit after hit. Christoffer played Säkkijärven polkka as the intro to Joyride.

Setlist

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

Band presentation

  1. Joyride

Encore

  1. Spending My Time
  2. Listen To Your Heart
  3. The Look
  4. Queen Of Rain

Now a couple of days off and then the gang hits Sweden! The next stop is Gothenburg on 23rd July! Check out all the tour dates and links to ticket sales sites HERE!

Photos in the article are taken by Mari Pudas.

More photos can be found on Pori Jazz Festival’s Instagram.

Per after the show:

Pori Jazz! Wonderful evening in front of….. I don’t know….. 10000 …. 12000 people. Maybe more. Doesn’t matter. Lovely evening, love in the air. Always loved Finland!!! See you soon again!!!

Lena after the gig:

Thank you Pori Jazz Festival! Amazing night!