Sydney

World Tour 2012: Sydney, Australia – February 17 #82

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Comment from Per Gessle

Sydney 2 was, as expected, awesome! Thanx all you 11400 ppl showing up with so much love + affection. We’re blessed with crowds like these. Not to be taken for granted! Cheers!!!!

 

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. Opportunity Nox
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
13. Crash! Boom! Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “Waltzing Matilda”)

17. Watercolours In The Rain
18. Spending My Time
19. The Look

20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart


Misc

For the first time since May 2011 Roxette played “Stars” instead of “Only when I dream”.


Articles and Photos

 

Twitter response from fans

@ebbob: Fuck that was good! So glad I saw them. Roxette!
@ricardoSBS: #roxette concert great #musiclikeitshouldbe
@missmeanjep: Who needs #drphil when you’ve got #roxette?!
@misscathxoxo: i have NEVER heard anyone mention roxette since the 80’s and suddenly everyone’s all over them. #whitneysyndrome
@haydn_live: #Roxette just blew my mind. Ugh. Love.
@simon_kline: Roxette concert tonight is totally magical! Damn Awesome!
@Free_Hat: Roxette + Waltzing Matilda. Did that just happen?
@babis666: Everyone do yourselves a favour if you haven’t already seen Roxette. Go and buy a ticket. Best concert ever

World Tour 2012: Sydney, Australia – February 16 #81

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Comment from Per Gessle

Oh Yeah! Sydney certainly kicked ass tonite! We had a blast. On nights like this we have the best jobs in the world!!!! Cookin’ crowd. The band on fire!!!!! Vids to follow shortly.


Setlist

01. Dressed For Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
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. Opportunity Nox
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
13. Crash! Boom! Bang!
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride (introduced with “Waltzing Matilda”)

17. Watercolours In The Rain
18. Spending My Time
19. The Look

20. Listen To Your Heart
21. Church Of Your Heart


Articles and Photos

Pics on aapone.com.au
Review in The Daily Telegraph
Photos on Flickr

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Twitter response from fans

@Nathan Forsyth: Lady next to me at Roxette concert remembered all the words…. Wish I could say the same for Roxette #ijoinedthejoyride>
@SydneyCHEKYchic: I took a Joyride in Sydney To see * ROXETTE * fantastic concert
@solangefrancois: Roxette was one of the most fun concerts I’ve ever been to! And now my taxi driver is playing It Must Have Been Love! Top night
@mon_pronk: Roxette where so good. I want my future husband to be like Per, he’s just so genuinely happy and so Swedish.
@mpsheriff: Roxette u were awesome but u should’ve finished ur encore with The Look & not been so cheeky with the 2 extra songs. Too much for encore #fb

10th show in Australia added!

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Live Nation Australia & New Zealand has finally revealed this news earlier today – it seems like Roxette’s successes with the current tour down-under never end. Though it was said that 9 scheduled concerts in Australia are the final list – now it turned out that the demand is so overwhelming that there will be the third (and final, haha) show in Sydney!

OK you deserve to hear it first – there will now be a TENTH show – a THIRD & FINAL for Sydney – on Saturday February 25. If you’re in Sydney and want to go there will be a LN pre-sale but you won’t need to log in to My Live Nation, instructions to come. It’s Mardi Gras night so will be a huge party

We just love such promoters who do their work well!

Thanks to Celestte Thistlethwayte for letting us know.

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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New TV ads for Australian tour

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Live Nation Australia & New Zealand on its Facebook page has published 5 new TV ads for Australian Roxette tour. You might remember the first ad for the very first Sydney concert which we published here few weeks ago. Have a look here for more:

Feb 14 – Brisbane

Feb 17 – Sydney 2

Feb 18 – Melbourne

Feb 20 – Adelaide

Feb 23 – Perth