Here are links to some interviews published today in Romanian websites and newspapers:
MagicFM (Romanian, use google translator)
Clujlife.com (English)
Most important from both is that he confirms there will be “more touring, more recording, more smiles!“, that they will “start again pretty soon. With the feedback we’re getting from Planet Earth, how can we ever stop?“. He doesn’t confirm with whom the touring and recording will be though 🙂
Per Gessle tells in an interview with Expressen that he now wants to write in Swedish again and the best way to do it is with Gyllene Tider. This means new album and tour with Gyllene Tider, “maybe next year,” tells Per to Expressen.
He also comments that there will be more of this “new” Roxette (current Roxette set-up), even though he doesn’t mention when.
See you in Sweden (probably) next year!
Update: Per clarifies:
Hold your horses!!!!! Guess this reporter jumped the gun a bit. No decisions made that I know of. Sorry to disappoint.
Here is the press release in English we got from Roxette’s management.
A Swedish version is available too if you are interested.
Roxette back with new album ”Travelling”
and a taster: It’s possible!
Three years after their 2009 comeback, Swedish pop phenomenon Roxette are hotter than they’ve been since their early 90’s heydays.
Their world tour is in full swing with almost a million concert tickets sold since the tour kicked off in the Tatneft Arena in Russian Kazan a year ago. On top of that another million Roxette records has been added to the already dizzying 70 million that Roxette has sold over the years.
So far the band has played more than 85 shows in 30+ countries (and the trip continues—they don’t plan to rest until they’ve played 150 shows). But besides zigzagging between airports, arenas, hotels and meeting with fans from all over the world, the band also has found time to record their new album “Travelling”.
The idea has been to tap into all the positive energy that has boosted the band during this dazzling trip, and channel it to new Roxette music. In short, an album that just like 1992’s “Tourism” captures the feeling of a band on a roll—constantly on the move, snatching inspiration as they go; recording in hotel rooms, studios, at soundchecks and in concert.
The result is a fascinating musical postcard with 15 superb songs, most of which are new, some that are revisited classics and others being pearls that for various reasons hasn’t seen the light of day before. A tight and inspired band has gathered around a batch of Gessle tunes, where the relentless hit-maker again and again proves that his sense of melody and ability to surprise is still top-notch.
“It’s Possible” is the first taster from “Travelling” – 2 minutes and 34 seconds of sunny pop music that shows one of Roxette’s many sides 2012. There’s more to come.
Release date “It’s Possible”: March 2nd.
Release date “Travelling”: March 23rd.
Prelistening “It’s Possible”
http://soundcloud.com/emi-sweden/roxette-its-possible/s-HTDLj
http://www.facebook.com/RealRoxette
http://www.facebook.com/partypleaser
As RoxetteCafe.com informed on its Facebook page, Danish website imusik.dk revealed tracklist of the forthcoming Roxette TRAVELLING album due to be released next month on March 23/26. According to the titles published below – we will be able to hear live versions of “Stars” [Dubai], “It must have been love” [Rotterdam] and “She’s got nothing on” [Rio de Janeiro]. Previously announced song called “Charm School” was renamed into “Touched by the Hand of God”. Unexpectedly – Roxette chose to include “See Me” (CBB session) and “The Weight Of The World” (Room Service / TBH sessions) with old vocals from Marie and Per, but new arrangments and mixes.
What do you think about it?
01 Me & You & Terry & Julie [ispired by The Kinks’ “Waterloo sunset”]
02 Lover Lover Lover
03 Turn of the Tide [HAND outtake]
04 Touched by the Hand of God [previously called ‘Charm School’]
05 Easy Way Out
06 It’s Possible
07 Perfect Excuse [Marie and Helena on vocals, slower than Party Crasher version]
08 Excuse Me, Sir, Do You Want Me to Check on Your Wife?
09 Angel Passing [ballad]
10 Stars [Live in Dubai]
11 The Weight of the World [new mix, old vocals]
12 She’s Got Nothing on (But the Radio) [Live in Rio de Janeiro]
13 See Me [new mix, old vocals]
14 It’s Possible – version two
15 It Must Have Been Love [Live in Rotterdam, new vocals, modified in the studio]
According to Swedish online shops – Ginza.se, Bengans.se and CDon.se – the new Roxette album called “Travelling” will be released on March 23, a week earlier than previously expected. On the same date such star like Madonna will also release her long anticipated album.
Update February 7: As it looks like, the album will be released on March 23 in Germany and other “Friday release” countries, March 26 in most other countries.