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2011: Roxette's "Charm School" tour

Grand Arena, Kapstaden, South Africa


Per Gessle: I feel this is the best Roxette band our fans have ever seen

Clayton Morar, SA’s celeb expert & autograph hunter, posted a blog entry from the Monday press meeting in Cape Town. Read some extracts from what he noticed during the interview: I feel this is the best Roxette band our fans have ever seen. We’re enjoying touring around the world and we’ll continue to sing and […]

Gyllene Tider’s Micke Syd performing a song for the legendary Swedish football player


New pictures in the German concert ad

Germans revealed a new ad for the forthcoming Roxette concerts – some new pictures of Per and Marie were added to the classic Roxette videos.

Romanian ad for the Roxette gig


World Tour 2011: Cape Town, South Africa – May 10 #20

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 […]

Roxette is shooting a video for “Way Out”

Per Gessle revealed on Facebook that Roxette is shooting a video for “Way Out”, the second/third single off “Charm School”, in South Africa. Busy day! Shooting video for Way Out (safarihat on Clarence?) + preparing for supergig tonite in Cape Town. Will it be a mix of live and tour life as “Run To You”? […]

Per Gessle on radio interview: “We are preparing new songs”

Per Gessle was interviewed on KFM radio, Cape Town. You can listen to the interview here. Per talked about how he met Marie, that they’ve never been together as a couple, and goes very fast through Roxette’s career. He also revealed that this tour will go “waaaay into next year” and that they are “preparing […]


2011: Roxette's "Charm School" tour

Grand Arena, Kapstaden, South Africa



Just one 7″ vinyl, not two as previously stated

Not as excellent news for the record collectors out there: there will be only one 7″ single and that’s “Speak To Me” (new release date May 25). Read the full story...


[News] Just one 7″ vinyl… http://bit.ly/j28gtb



Busy day! Shooting video for Way Out (safarihat on Clarence?) + preparing for supergig tonite in Cape Town.



Per, in South Africa, says Roxette is preparing new songs

Per did a couple of live radio interviews along with TV appearance and press conference of sorts in Cape Town, South Africa yesterday. Read the full story...


[News] Per, in South Africa, says Roxette is preparing new songs http://bit.ly/iofi7A


Order “Speak to me” at Bengans.se

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Win a meet&greet in Cape Town tomorrow

Say ‘How Do you Do’ to Roxette. We have 4 meet and greet spots up for grab in Cape Town on Wednesday 11th May. All you have to do is like this status to stand a chance of winning. Source: Big Concerts like page


She’s Got Nothing On is the 6th most played song on the planet!
This week SGNO (BTR) is #6 at the World Chart! SGNO entered Top 10 at Radio Express’ World Chart two weeks ago at #9. Last week #7. The World Chart is presented by the American Radio Express. Every week they compile the World Chart by tabulating the most listened-to pop songs in the world, based on the playlists of 100s of top radio stations worldwide.


She’s Got Nothing On (but the Radio) is the 6th most played song on the planet

This week "She's Got Nothing On (but the Radio) is #6 at the World Chart!

Cape Town press conference

Source: Gallaimages.co.za More pictures from the press meeting can be found here at 24.com.

#6 at World Chart! Roxette is sitting on Top(10) of the world..

…and we like it! Roxette’s “She’s Got Nothing On (but the Radio)” is now at #6 on Radio Express World Chart, after entering the Top 10 two weeks ago at #9 and climbing to #7 last week.

World Tour 2011: Cape Town, South Africa – May 8 #19

Roxette is now in South Africa, where the band will play 7 concerts until the 17th of May. It was the 19th concert on the tour. 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 […]


2011: Roxette's "Charm School" tour

Grand Arena, Kapstaden, South Africa



Cheers from Cape Town. Love this place, just finished a great dinner with ze band. Jolly. Good. Yeehaa! P.



[News] Roxette arrives in South Africa for seven concerts http://bit.ly/iNyTP0



[News] Per, interviewed on Swedish morning TV show, talks about the tour http://bit.ly/lGbnv5


Roxette goes South Africa and we have 5 copies of the ZA Greatest Hits to give away

EMI South Africa was very kind and sent us 5 copies of “A collection of Roxette Hits – Their 20 Greatest Songs & Videos” *Exclusive South African Tour Edition CD & DVD* to give away among our readers. If you want to participate in the contest simply write a comment at the bottom of this […]


Roxette arrives in South Africa for seven concerts

Roxette has always enjoyed great success in South Africa, a country with strong ties to the Netherlands where Roxette also has a large fan base. Read the full story...


Per, interviewed on Swedish morning TV show, talks about the tour

STOCKHOLM – Per was on Swedish TV’s “Gomorron Sverige” program on Wednesday morning. Read the full story...


19.788.239 of you out there checked out the Roxette Official Facebook site IN APRIL 2011. Isn’t that wonderful?


Roxette invite Hungarian fans to the Budapest gig


Rumours from Slovakia: Gallons of milk, pounds of ginger

As we have May and spring is in the air in this part of the world, it’s nice to read a relaxing piece of information once in a while. Topsky.sk has published a very shocking and unbelivable story recently. Can you belive that Marie and Per want to choose out of 4 (four!!!) kinds of […]

South African fan website launched

All South African fans (and all others as well) – heads over to the Roxette website www.roxette.co.za launched by Hanro Manefeldt. There you will find the latest information from the world of Roxette, snippets from “Charm school” album and – hopefully – more content to be added any time soon. By the way – we […]