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Roxette In Concert 2025 – Perth – 5th March 2025 – #3

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After an amazing opening show and an awesome second concert in South Africa, the Roxette gang arrived in Perth, Australia two days before the first Oz gig. They didn’t have much time to recover from jetlag, but they seemed to enjoy their day off in the city and next to the pool in hot hot hot Australia.

Last time Roxette visited Perth was in February 2015 on the 30th anniversary tour. Then they played at Perth Arena, this time they performed at beautiful Kings Park & Botanic Garden. The gates opened at 5.00 pm local time, support act Boom Crash Opera went on stage at 5.30 pm, Jon Stevens at 6.45 pm and Roxette entered the stage a couple of minutes after 8.00 pm.

I spotted photographer Anders Roos in vids and pics from the show, so we will surely see some fab pro shots on this leg of the tour.

10 years passed since the last Australian Rox gigs, but the crowd still remembered the lyrics and sang along loudly. Per & Lena & the whole band were very energetic and enjoyed performing Down Under. Lena could feel as welcomed in Oz as in South Africa.

Setlist

  1. The Big L.
  2. Sleeping In My Car
  3. Dressed For Success
  4. What’s She Like?
  5. Crash! Boom! Bang!
  6. Fading Like A Flower
  7. Opportunity Nox
  8. Things Will Never Be The Same
  9. Vulnerable
  10. Milk And Toast And Honey
  11. Wish I Could Fly
  12. Stars
  13. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
  14. It Must Have Been Love
  15. How Do You Do!
  16. Dangerous

Band presentation

  1. Joyride

Encore

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

Next stop is Melbourne for a sold out show on 7th March!

Videos

IMHBL
FLAF

Pic by Marie Dimberg shared on Roxette’s Facebook

Pics by Åsa Gessle shared on Roxette’s Instagram

 

Per after the show on Facebook:

Perth March 5, 2025! Wow! Amazing town. Amazing crowd. Amazing heat. Love to be down under, folks! Had a blast last night. Thanx all you 6500 aussies stopping by. We’ll meet again for sure!

PG on Instagram:

Thanks for an amazing gig in Perth. Lovely crowd on a very hot evening for us Swedes. Felt like you all (and we) had lots of fun! See you soon again!

Lena after the show:

Thank you Perth!! I was very surprised to see this banner in the audience saying ”Vetlanda”! Because that’s the small town in Sweden that I grew up in!! I felt at home.

Roxette XXX Tour – Perth, Australia – February 14 – #18

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Many thought it was a good idea to go and see Roxette on 14th Feb, so Perth Arena was quite packed. The band proved it was the best way the crowd could spend their Valentine’s Day. Marie changed the tiger pattern jacket she was wearing in Brisbane for a white jacket and she had a pair of very hot pants on. Even if it seemed to be a bad leg day for her (she was sitting during 2/3 of the show), her performance was still so powerful and one could realize again she’s such an inspiration. The band made the whole audience jump up from their seats and dance, as well as sing along loudly.

There were changes in the setlist. Fading Like A Flower just had to be back, since it has always been a huge hit in Australia. Almost Unreal stayed on the setlist though and came as the first extra song. Perfect Day was sadly left out and Watercolours In The Rain / Paint was performed at its place instead. 7Twenty7 wasn’t played.

Per shared their view on the show right after it had ended:

PERTH! Yes. Wonderful gig in wonderful Perth. Thanx everyone for singing along and showing some serious boogie-moves this hot Saturday! See you next time, dears!!!! Cheers from P&M&Co

Next gig is on Tuesday (17th February) in Adelaide, Australia.

 

Articles and photos

Instagram: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9;

Colosoul (photos by Henry Whitehead Imaging)
watoday.com.au (review)
amnplify.com.au (review)
justincawthorne.com (review)

 

Videos

Spending My Time
It Must Have Been Love, Dressed For Success, Dangerous
Joyride, Almost Unreal, Listen To Your Heart
It Must Have Been Love: 1; 2
How Do You Do!
Dressed For Success
Crush On You, She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio): 1; 2
Joyride: 1; 2
The Look
Listen To Your Heart

Instavideos:
The Look: 1; 2
Fading Like A Flower

 

Setlist

Sleeping In My Car
The Big L.
Stars
Spending My Time
Crash! Boom! Bang!
Crush On You
She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
The Heart Shaped Sea
Watercolours In The Rain / Paint
Fading Like A Flower
How Do You Do!
It Must Have Been Love
Dressed For Success
Dangerous
Joyride

Extra:
Almost Unreal
Listen To Your Heart
The Look

World Tour 2012: Perth, Australia – February 29 #89

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Comment from Per Gessle

Oh Yeah!!!! What a way to finish the Oz Tour! Super gig tonite in Perth. What a lovely crowd! What a lovely band! Thanx everyone for helping us out making this tour such an enormous success!!! We’d love to come back!!!!!!

Setlist
01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. 7twenty7
11. Fading Like A Flower
12. Crash!Boom!Bang!
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous
Band Presentation
15. Joyride (introduced with “Waltzing Matilda”)

16. Spending My Time
17. The Look

18. Listen To Your Heart
19. Church Of Your Heart

World Tour 2012: Perth, Australia – February 28 #88

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Comment from Per Gessle

Thank you Perth!!! Fab sweaty show tonite! Great crowd! Splendido band! See y’all tomorrow!

Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Stars
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be The Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. 7twenty7
11. Fading Like A Flower
12. Crash!Boom!Bang!
13. How Do You Do!
14. Dangerous
Band Presentation
15. Joyride (introduced with “Waltzing Matilda”)

16. Spending My Time
17. The Look

18. Listen To Your Heart
19. Church Of Your Heart

Thanks to Evgeny for sharing this.

Articles

Getty Images
Cozycot (gallery)
Perth Now (review)
Yahoo (review)

100,000 tickets sold Down-Under – two new shows, Perth dates rescheduled

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Live Nation Australia & New Zealand has added two more shows in Australia on its website. In addition, the two shows in Perth have been rescheduled and are now end of February.

Per Gessle was interviewed by Cameron Adams for Herald Sun

Nobody really wanted to tour us in Australia, eventually we found someone who was interested. I think we’ve sold more than 100,000 tickets in Australia so far. We’re very surprised by the reception for this tour all over the world. Suddenly we’re playing big arenas all over again, it’s mindblowing.

With these additions and changes the Australian leg of the tour looks like this at the moment:

Feb 14, 2012 – Brisbane
Feb 16, 2012 – Sydney 1
Feb 17, 2012 – Sydney 2 – sold out
Feb 18, 2012 – Melbourne – sold out
Feb 20, 2012 – Adelaide
Feb 22, 2012 – Melbourne – Pre-sale start on Sept 19th, on sale from Sept 22nd (TV-ad)
Feb 24, 2012 – Brisbane – Pre-sale start on Sept 19th, on sale from Sept 22nd (TV-ad)
Feb 28, 2012 – Perth – moved
Feb 29, 2012 – Perth – moved

David Rezmann contributed to this article.

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