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Czech TV Nova will air short programme about Per’s Prague gig and Roxette

Czech TV channell Nova will air its weekly programme Weekend tommorrow, Monday, June 1 at 21:00 CET. Tommorrow episode’s title is “Kick off!” and part of it will be devoted to Per’s Prague gig, and to Roxette’s past and future. Reporter, big fan of Roxette, will also show us true Roxette fan flat, equipped in […]


Marie Fredriksson turns 51

Marie Fredriksson had her 51st birthday yesterday. She was born as Gun-Marie Fredriksson in Össjö, Sweden on May 30, 1958. Read the full story...

Bolyos family performs in Stockholm

Marie Fredriksson surprised when she, husband Mikael Bolyos and son Oscar did a performance at Monrad’s, a delicacy shop in Djursholm. Among other artists, the Bolyos’ family joined the spring festivity on friday and performed several songs. You can see a short video of Oscar’s performance at hotgossip.se. Since we forgot to wish Marie Fredriksson […]

Party Crasher Tour tickets

Do you still live on memories? Do you still have flashbacks from the Man’s latest tour? Yep, me too! That’s why I would like to present Party Crasher Tour’s tickets’ collection from each and every gig. I say thanks to all of you who helped me to collect all these tix. If you’ve got any […]

Roxette Reunion Special

SIRIUS XM Radio announced today that it will broadcast a Roxette reunion special, including an exclusive airing of the Swedish pop group’s Per Gessle’s recent performance in London, on its Spectrum channel, SIRIUS channel 18 and XM channel 45, on Sunday, May 31 at 8:00 PM ET (02:00 Swedish time). The Spectrum channel’s Nordic Rox […]

Roxette to enter studio this summer

The Daily Roxette offers a summary of a dutch magazine article where Marie and Per tell about their current motivation and near future plans – including new recordings already this summer. Check it out!

Marie Fredriksson’s birthday competition

For those of you who would like to celebrate Marie’s birthday in a extraordinary way , LittleMarie.net team has prepared a competition in which you can win one out of three home-made boxes with nine Mrs Bolyos pins. You just have to send them at [email protected] all questions you would like to ask Marie (that […]


Roxette reunion special to air on Nordic Rox; Marie special on Swedish P4

NEW YORK - A Roxette reunion special, hosted by Per, will air in the U.S. Read the full story...


Roxette enters studio this summer, probable release before the end of the year

ARNHEM/NIJMEGEN - “After all those years, we deserve to have a little fun!” Read the full story...


Gyllene Tider/Roxette fan becomes a Swedish knight

NEW YORK - Few Gyllene Tider/Roxette fans have been in a position to share their love of Per's music with others as much as Scott Greenstein, who as the Chief Content Officer of Sirius XM, is the one who approached Per with the idea for the program that was later named Nordic Rox. Read the full story...

Twitter – trending topics – Marie – birthday?

I have absolutely no clue what it needs for a topic to become a trending topic on twitter, any one has a clue? 1000 tweets? 10000? Just thought it would be cool and sweet if she would make it on the trending topics on her birthday! Your thoughts?

Per just confirmed on Twitter that Roxette will perform July 28 on the festival "New Wave 2009" in Jurmala, Latvia, as mentioned on The Daily Roxette a few weeks ago.


Roxette to perform on New Wave Festival 2009

According to Per Gessle’s tweet, Roxette is going to perform on New Wave Festival in Latvia this year with “the mighty Rox band”. Roxette will appear while the opening ceremony on July 28th in Jurmala. The festival will be broadcasted by Latvian TV3 and Russian 1. Articles from Latvian press: Mango Diena TVNET Thanks to […]

First part of Marie special for download!

Curtailed and fixed Marie Fredriksson, Lasse Lindbom and Kjell Andersson’s interviews from the first part of Marie Fredriksson radio special (P4 Musik, 24.05.2009) in wma, for anyone who wants it. You can download it here (“pobierz plik” means “download file”). Thanks to gyllene_tjej!


Reunited, Roxette to perform this July at “New Wave” event in Latvia

(Updated) - Editor's Note:  The Daily Roxette originally published this article over a month ago – on April 22 to be exact – announcing that Per and Marie were reuniting and would perform again as Roxette in Lativa this summer.  Read the full story...

Roxette among top artists at amazonMP3

Roxette made it to #16 of the “current top artists” at amazonMP3 in Germany! At the same time the “Roxette Hits” album is in the MP3 charts since 40 days, currently at #30. Looks like an early effect of the NOTP promotion!

Link to radio special – stay tuned for part II

The radio special about Marie Fredriksson which was broadcast yesterday night is available for download. You can choose between the Windows Media Audio stream or the Real Media stream. It’s recommended to use a download manager like flashget. Stay tuned for part II of the radio special. Next sunday, May 31st, P4 Musik will broadcast […]

Here's Per's pre-show (and post-show as well) mixed tape playlists, as you can see there were different playlists during the tour.

Here's Per's pre-show (and post-show as well) mixed tape playlists, as you can see there were different playlists during the tour. Get the Spotify playlist! (A few songs are missing though...) Crowd Pleasers – Party Crasher Tour – BEFORE #1! 1. Mis...

Party pleaser’s before concert’s playlists.

Here’s Per’s pre-show (and post-show as well) mixed tape playlists, as you can see there were different playlists during the tour. Crowd Pleasers “Party Crasher Tour” BEFORE #1! 1. Miss you – Adiam Dymott 2. The wind cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix Experience 3. Jessie’s girl – Rick Springfield 4. Tony the Beat (remix) – […]

Per Gessle “utmanare” at Svensktoppen

Per Gessle’s “The Party Pleaser” is “utmanare” (something like challenger, or candidate to enter the list) this week in P4’s Svensktoppen. Swedish contestant at Eurovision Song Contest Malena is #1 this week.

Night of the proms – who goes to which concert?

Have you decided to go to one (or more) Night of the Proms shows? Do you want to meet up with other fans, know who else is going? Following these links you will find lists of fans for each concert. On Roxetteforum (German) there’s even a sub-forum only about NOTP. RoxetteForum (German): Wer geht zu […]


Argentinian fan who learned to speak Swedish is subject of Aftonbladet article

There's an article in today's edition of Aftonbladet about Diego Nuñez, a long-time Roxette fan who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read the full story...

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Something about Twitter

Ashton Kutcher is an above 1-million-followers Twitter user. He wrote some interesting stuff about Twitter I’d like to share. I actually first thought Twitter sucked, but I gave it a 2nd try and.. I think it’s cool. 140 characters. That’s an art. Here’s the article.

Gessle shopping in Apple store in NYC

JakubNY spotted Per Gessle and son doing some shopping at the Apple store in NYC. There’s even a picture. If you want to read more about Per’s adventures in US, check out @PartyPleaser‘s tweets.

Radio special on Marie Fredriksson

Though we still have no informations regarding Marie Fredriksson’s performance on 10th World Childhood Foundation Gala in Gothenburg on May 18th, we were informed today about Swedish radio P4 special on her. The first part of this programme will be broadcasted on May 24th at 11.05 PM (GMT+01:00) and the second one one week later […]

Media report about Roxette’s comeback – part II

Here are more links to articles about Roxette’s comeback: Thanks Chrissie: http://i41.tinypic.com/2u5tauq.jpg Collected from Roxetteforum.com http://www.kwick.de/magazin/traenen_bei_reunion_von_roxette.21782.html http://www.nh24.de/content/view/21507/9/ http://www.roxetteforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9138.0;attach=24335;image http://www.koeln.de/koeln/was_ist_los/gayszene/nokia_night_of_the_proms_mit_roxettecomeback_163503.html

Per Gessle – The Sound of music – www.gessle.com

Per Gessle – the Last Show – www.gessle.com

Per Gessle – Chris’ drugs – www.gessle.com