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Roxette back on stage

Roxette was back on stage in Sweden today evening. They performed "Wish I Could Fly" at the Grammis gala. Read the full story...


Roxette visited Finland

Per and Marie were in Finland last Friday. They were supposed to be in Finland both Friday and Saturday, but the trip had to be shortened to one day because the Finnish air traffic controllers are on strike and the Helsinki airport was closed on Saturday. Read the full story...


Roxette.Org to host fan pages for free

Roxette.Org is a new Roxette site on the Internet. They are going to provide free server space for Roxette-related web pages. Read the full story...


Album released in Japan

"Have A Nice Day" will be in Japan on February 17. Toshiba-EMI has already made a page about it on their web site, in Japanese of course. Read the full story...


“Wish I Could Fly” on the radio in Iowa!

A "die-hard Roxette fan" from Iowa, USA reports that "Wish I Could Fly" has been played on the radio there. Read the full story...


Today’s the day!

Today at 5pm CET Roxette will be chatting live at www.haveaniceday.nu. I'm looking forward to see you all there! Read the full story...


Roxette chatted for two hours

Roxette chatted live on the Internet just moments ago. The system got so overcrowded that many people were kicked away from the chat. Read the full story...


Java needed to chat with Roxette

The www.haveaniceday.nu chat is going to be provided by Passagen. Their "celebrity chat" system is a Java applet, so you'll need a browser that supports Java. Read the full story...


Sound clips from the new album

Soon you will be able to listen to all the tracks of "Have A Nice Day". Read the full story...


“Tour starts around September”

Two people from the Italian Roxette Fan Club met Roxette yesterday. Per and Marie told that the tour they are planning is definitely going to be a world tour and it's going to start around September, depending on the USA release dates. Read the full story...


Roxette at Danish Grammy Awards tomorrow

According to our reader from Denmark, Roxette is going to perform at the Danish Grammy Awards tomorrow. Read the full story...


Tour launched in August-September?

According to EMI Finland the negotiations for a live tour are already going on. Read the full story...


Discography book in spring

Roxette's world wide discography will be soon published as a book. The book, titled "The Look for Roxette - The Illustrated World-wide Discography & Price Guide", is compiled by Robert Thorselius and published by Premium Publishing. Read the full story...


Yet another domain for the Gessle family

In addition to the domains I told about earlier, Per's company Jimmy Fun AB has also registered the domain asagessle.com. Read the full story...


Roxette gives only 2 interviews in Finland

EMI Finland tells that Per and Marie will give only two interviews while they are in Finland on February 12-13. Read the full story...


Midem on MTV Europe

Music Television's next weekend is going to be "New Music Weekend". One of the weekend's special shows was recorded at Midem expo in Cannes. Read the full story...


Brainpool’s new single

Brainpool has recently released their new single, "You Are Here", on the Internet. Read the full story...


Roxette 2000 gets domain

Michael Bunkin's Roxette site, Roxette 2000, has now it's own domain. Go and check out the site! Read the full story...


www.haveaniceday.nu now also in English

The official "Have A Nice Day" site, www.haveaniceday.nu, has now also an English section. Read the full story...


Remix single on February 15

Rumours say that "Wish I Could Fly" remix single will be released on February 15. Read the full story...


Online chat on February 8

Roxette is going to have an online chat at www.haveaniceday.nu on February 8, 5pm CET. Read the full story...


Gyllene Tider played at 3.30am

Jan-Owe Wikström tells on Hallandsposten about Gyllene Tider's special performance at Per's birthday party. Read the full story...


Per on the Net – he may be watching you!

"Once Per Gessle and friends sat down to write postcards to get 'Flickorna på TV2' on Poporama. Read the full story...


Roxette on TV in Europe and in Argentina

"Wish I Could Fly" video has had its premiere on MTV Nordic. The video was shown on Nordic Top 5 and Per and Marie were at the studio. Read the full story...


Promotional tour schedule

The Official Fan Club has published the schedule of Roxette's promotional tour. Here it goes: January 26-27 Hamburg 28 Cologne 29-30 Brussels February 1 Sweden 3 Napoli 4 Milan 10-11 Sweden 12-13 Helsinki TV recordings: Dynamo on Friday and Miss Finland on Saturday 15 Sweden Grammis gala, Roxette will perform "Wish I Could Fly" live 16 Italy 17-19 Vienna 20 Cologne 22-26 Germany and italy 27-28 London March 1-2 Amsterdam 5 Oslo 6 Zürich 7-12 England 13 Frankfurt 17 Madrid 20-21 London 23-28 Japan 29 Sweden April PR in South America or South Africa. Read the full story...


Roxette buys Ace of Base?!!

Interesting news on yesterday's Svenska Dagbladet: Roxette has bought 51 per cent of the Swedish pop group Ace of Base on Monday. Read the full story...


Promotional tour begins

Aftonbladet has again an article on Roxette. This time it's about the promotion hassle which is going to start soon. Read the full story...


Roxette in Norway

Roxette was presented yesterday on the TV news broadcast of TV2, Norway's biggest commercial TV station. Read the full story...


Odds and ends

A 30-sec clip from the new video is available at fan club's site. Read the full story...


More German TV appearances

Here are some more dates from EMI Electrola's site: February 20: Interaktiv Spezial (VIVA) March 5: Jam Special Bits (VIVA) March 7: Jam Special (VIVA) Rox Britannia has some information on the German TV show Verstehen Sie Spaß (ARD, March 13) and how to get to see Roxette at the show. Read the full story...


The guitars have been crashed

As Per has said, "Have A Nice Day" is less guitar-based and more hi-tech. Read the full story...


Roxette on Norwegian newspaper

Norwegian newspaper VG has published an article on Roxette today. There doesn't seem to be anything really new in this interview. Read the full story...