Roxette were a hit-making machine in Australia achieving four x Top 3 albums with Look Sharp!, Joyride, Tourism and Crash! Boom! Bang!, hit songs Dressed For Success, Listen To Your Heart, Dangerous, Fading Like A Flower, and number one singles The Look, It Must Have Been Love and Joyride.
2025 will see a live revival of this massive catalogue, all penned by Roxette’s frontman Per Gessle, when he takes the band back on stage to do what he loves the most; perform his songs live in front of a dedicated audience.
Per and the Roxette band will be joined on stage by Swedish singer Lena Philipsson offering fans the chance to reconnect with the group’s timeless hits.
When on Australian TV Per speaks about his decision to reform the band after Marie’s death and their last performance in 2016, he says:
It’s been a tough decision to make. My partner in Roxette, Marie, passed away in 2019, so I didn’t really know what to do with this catalogue of songs. I decided to not start a new duo, but to hire a good friend of mine who is also an amazing singer and amazing performer. Lena Philipsson is actually a superstar here in Sweden.
The tour coincided with the band’s resurgence in popularity:
I don’t know if it is the right time — I just feel like it is a big world out there who still enjoys the Roxette songs. I want to do an homage to the Roxette catalogue. It is not about new music, it is about the old hits.
Per praises Lena’s style:
She is very different from Marie, of course, but she’s got her own style and I think she’s going to fit the Roxette songs perfectly well. We haven’t started rehearsing or anything, but we played some songs together and it sounded terrific. I’m really happy.
Nine years since the last tour, Roxette In Concert will begin the Australian leg in Perth, before playing shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Wollongong, Adelaide, and Hobart. These will be followed by a day on the green shows at the Hunter Valley’s Bimbadgen and Mount Cotton’s Sirromet Wines.
Opening for Roxette will be one of Australia’s biggest names in rock, Jon Stevens (Perth and a day on the green shows only), and Aussie pop rock superstars Boom Crash Opera (all shows).
Roxette will play eight shows across Australia in March 2025.
March 5 – Perth, Kings Park and Botanic Garden
March 7 – Melbourne, Margaret Court Arena
March 8 – Sydney, ICC Sydney Theatre
March 9 – Wollongong, WUB Entertainment Centre
March 11 – Adelaide, Entertainment Centre
March 13 – Hobart, MyState Bank Arena
March 15 – Hunter Valley, Bimbadgen (A Day On The Green)
March 16 – Mount Cotton, Sirromet Wines (A Day On The Green)
Mastercard presale: cardholders can access tickets from Monday 6 May, 10am (local) – Wed 8 May, 9am (local). Visit www.priceless.com/music to find out more.
Live Nation presale: Wednesday 8 May, 10am (local). Register to My Live Nation to access presale.
General on sale: Friday 10 May, 10am (local).
Watch the promo videos to Roxette In Concert 2025 in Australia!
Watch the Australian TV morning show interviews with Per:
