Comment from Per Gessle THANK YOU MANCHESTER! What a fab evening we had! Super crowd (as expected) and a quite jolly band I must say! Have to come back before long! Thanx for sharing these two hours with us! Cheers, P&M&Co Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping In My Car 03. The Big L. […]
Comment from Per Gessle Glasgow! Yey! What a crowd! Wonderful vibe, great response in spite of some technical problems. We played here almost exactly twenty years go! Amazing! See you next time. Thanx you lovely Scotsmen/Scotswomen!!! Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping In My Car 03. The Big L. 04. Spending My Time 05. […]
Per Gessle announced that “The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye” remake will be released as an EP. This will be a limited edition on blue vinyl and will feature 4 tracks: Side 1: The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (Bassflow main version) The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (Bassflow radio edit) Side 2 The Sweet […]
Comment from Per Gessle Thank you Kaiserslautern for a magnificent evening! Lovely crowd, great vibe, splendid band! Who can ask for more? And found Tom P & The Heartbreakers in the bar at the hotel. What a night! Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping In My Car 03. The Big L. 04. Silver Blue […]
Comment from Per Gessle Thank you Amsterdam for a wonderful night! Oh it’s such a pleasure playing for you guys and dolls!!! We had a blast in spite of a few hiccups (can someone teach me the chords to It’s Possible?). A beautiful evening! Cheers, P&Co Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping In My […]
If you have survived the amazing Bassflow remake, you may want to watch this interview with Per and Marie at Peace & Love from SVT1. Marie is laughing so funny, it’s contagious!
There was a time when you recorded LP albums. Each side was about 20 minutes long to maximise the sound quality. Our ”Joyride” album was so jam-packed with material that we just had to omit a few pearls that we really loved. One of them was “The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye”, which instead was […]
Per Gessle announced today that Roxette will play in Bodø, Norway, on August 17. This is the second concert of Roxette in Norway in August, and the 4th this year, as you can see below or on the Tour Plan 2012. 13.07 Odderøya Live Festival, Kristiansand, Norway | Tickets #120 14.07 Fredriksten Festning, Halden, Norway […]
Argentinian Gente detras de las paredes website has released the very new and of decent quality video bootleg from the Roxette concert in Buenos Aires that took place on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. It was the first of five live Roxette show in Argentina – including cities of Mar del Plata, Neuquen, Rosario and Córdoba. […]
The best band (or 2nd best) on this planet is back! Brainpool is to play in the Mossegårdsfestivalen, Sweden, on June 17. According to the festival plan, Brainpool is set to play between 21:15 and 22:15. And that’s not all. According to this article on Sydsvenskan, the band is also working on a new album […]
SWR Baden-Württember has published this picture claiming this is the cover of the promo single for “Touched By The Hand Of God”. Thanks to RoxetteCafe.com for sharing this.
Thanks to Petr Kulda for finding this.
As Claudia and Kerstin inform, there will be a fan party after the one and only German Roxette concert this year in Kaiserslautern on June 30. How to get to the club (Google map) The Facebook event | The complete flyer
Some may remember the Saturday comments made by Per Gessle on the Roxette’s official Facebook page (here) about the quality of service on the Johannebsurg’s OR Tambo Airport: Just spent 90 minutes at one of the world’s worst airports; Johannesburg. Could actually be the No 1 on that scary list….Good God, how about some organization […]
Comment from Per Gessle Cape Town #4 in just over a year! Fantastic. We love this place and feel extremely welcome here! Tonight’s show was a blast. The band + Marie in top shape. Even “It’s Possible” sounded terrific. Thanx a million. Promise to come back! Cheers, P&M&Co Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping […]
Comment from Per Gessle THANK YOU DURBAN! What a fantastic night! Seventeen years since we met the last time and boy, did we have a reunion! Marie + the band in top shape, wonderful crowd (9000 ppl) in World Class Mode, we all just loved it! Hope to see y’al soon, dear friends! Now we’re […]
Helena Josefsson has just posted on her official Facebook page a photo of her newly born baby boy – Cornelis. He came to the world on May 31, almost a week ago. He is healthy, 54cm long and weighs 3,935g. His brother Charles-Didrik is very proud! So am I! /Helena All the best for Helena&baby […]
As Ultimate Classic Rock informs, George Marino, who mastered hundreds of albums in a career of nearly 40 years at New York’s Sterling Sound – including many of Roxette’s albums, passed away yesterday. Marino died following a year-long bout with lung cancer. “Today Sterling Sound and the music industry as a whole has suffered a […]
Per Gessle already announced in Facebook in May that Roxette would play in Mexico in September. Now the date has been officially announced by Ocesa Pop in Twitter: the concert will take place on September 19th in the Auditorio Nacional of Mexico City. There is going to be a Banamex pre-sale on June 11 and […]
Comment from Per Gessle Thank you Jo-burg!!! Had a blast tonight! Check out the clips and you’ll see!!!! We haven’t played here since 1995 (Ellis Park, 60.000ppl!!!) but felt very welcome! Hope you had fun! See you soon again!!!! Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping In My Car 03. The Big L. 04. Silver […]
This is an article you cannot miss to read! If you don’t speak Swedish, try using Google Translator. It’s really worth the reading. And have a tissue at hand, for the tears. The reporter met Roxette in South America and writes about the tour, Marie’s story, Marie and Mikael, how Per and Marie met, Roxette’s […]
One more concert has been added to the Roxette World tour: Festival Peace & Love in Borlänge, Sweden on June 27. This is the only show Roxette will give in Sweden this year (if we don’t count the corporate concert in August). Information about tickets can be found on the Peace & Love site. Other […]
On Friday afternoon people who bought tickets for Danish Brondby Roxette concert on July 21 were informed that this particular show is cancelled due to “logistical problems”. Here is the message: Due to logistical problems on Roxettes tour, we will unfortunately have to cancel the concert at the cricket ground at Brøndby Stadium on 21 […]
This Oriflame CD-sleeve was found the other day by Per on his balcony. We really like the idea of looking for a full rox concert DVD on this balcony as well. C’mon Per, you can do it!
Radio Berlin in its chart show “Hey Music” has recently added Roxette’s “Touched By The Hand Of God” to the voting list. We have no information if this is the second single off TRAVELLING or just a pick from radio’s dj. Update Per Gessle has confirmed on Facebook that this is the second single Yep, […]
After our two calls for a full DVD show and Gessle’s unsatisfactory answer (here and there), we were informed by The Man on Facebook when we can expect this “imperfectly perfect” DVD to be released. It seems like it can be out just in time for Christmas shopping. According to various fan sources production company […]
Last September we revealed that Roxette are set to play at Globen in Stockholm this summer (August 2012) on the special anniversary corporate event organized by the Swedish company Oriflame. In the beginning of May this year it turned out that Russian edition of “Travelling” does not include the very first international single “It’s possible” […]
Comment from Per Gessle Yeah! What a beautiful way to end the Brazilian + South American Tour!!! Recife! Unknown ground for us and what a wonderful one it became! Superb crowd + a band loaded to the teeth kickin’ ass in every song. We all loved it! Thanx for your support + voicepower, y’all. See […]
Got a sense of humour? So we’re sure you will enjoy those two drawings of the Roxette’s 2012 band prepared by Chilean fan – Sebastian Lucaveche ([email protected]). Well done, Sebastian!
Comment from Per Gessle Brasilia! Thanx for an overwhelming evening! Such a beautiful crowd, fantastic response. Sorry that the electricity wasn’t on our side which meant that we couldn’t use all our lights. It didn’t matter! We had a blast. Hope to come back before long!!!! Cheers, P&M&Co Setlist 01. Dressed For Success 02. Sleeping […]