NorrportenArena.se publishes a new video at least once a week in its blog section in which organizers discuss issues around Sundsvall festival – e.g Roxette’s favourite song, Roxette’s performance on Victoria’s wedding or concert sceneography.

According to DagensIndustri, pop legends Björn Ulvaeus, Tomas Ledin and Per Gessle are behind a new project which they hope will become Sweden’s biggest music competition – a kind of “Idol” on the web. It drew my attention that artists and songwriters can make money online, says Per Gessle to Dagens Industri. Behind the contest […]

The rumours reach back to January, but know it looks like confirmed: Roxette will perform on the special concert to Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria’s wedding! Over the weekend several scandinavian newspapers reported about Roxette, Benny Andersson and Carola (wedding dinner) to be among the invited performers. Officially it’s still secret, but Aftonbladet tells about Victorias […]

Q from David Di Troia: Hey Per! What are the stories with these songs? Taken From BMI: ONLY YOU – Is it really as bad as you made it out to be? Was it meant for TWATG? BEING WITH YOU ONLY WHEN I DREAM LOUD CLOTHES HOLIDAY LIBERAME AMOR – Is this the Spanish version […]

Per Gessle loves classical rock photos. This summer he will present works of his most favourite photographer – 71-years-old American Henry Diltz at Tres Hombres Art Gallery in Tylösand Hotel. This man has taken the most legendary photos of The Doors, Neil Yound, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Eagles, Joni Mitchell or Jimi Hendrix. The opening […]

You may have noticed that it got harder and harder to find official Roxette music videos on YouTube in the past months. That banning of “official” content is a matter of copyright issues between YouTube, music labels and the recording rights organisations. Now it appears that a user called “roxette” uploaded all the Roxette videos […]

32 years ago. Gyllene Tider – Live at Medborgarhuset (Bio Reflex) in Getinge May 12, 1978, Friday at 7.30 pm Tickets: 10 SEK [just 20 were sold, other people were allowed to enter for free] The band: Per Gessle Mats Persson Micke “Keef” Andersson (aka “Syd” in the later years) Janne “Bas” Carlsson Total time: […]

Billboard.com published an article about Roxette’s new album. You can read it here: Billboard.com

She did it again. Danyela Etchart, Brazilian fan, created an amazing documentary about Roxette “Join the Joyride!” tour concert in Porto Alegre, Brazil on May 6th, 1992. It was 18 years ago. More on that concert you can read on Dany’s fan blog.

April 2009. All of a sudden, many things were going on in the Roxette world. Per was on his Party Crasher Tour, rumours that Marie was to join Per in one of his shows, rumours about “Night of the Proms”, information was posted here and there, it was hard to keep up with all informations and […]

Here you have a chance to watch 8-minutes-long interview with Åsa Gessle in Swedish on TV4. Thanks to Dany and Rosina for informations.

Unknown picture from making of “Hitlåtens historia” was published today on NRK.no. Clarence “the third member of Roxette” Öfwerman joined Marie and Per in this photography. Source: NRK

Søndag 08-08-2010 Scene: Bøgescenerne 12.15 Aarhus Symfoniorkester 14.15 Walther Trout 16.15 Sanne 18.15 Amy Macdonald 20.15 Kent 22.15 Roxette

Norwegian TV station NRK1 showed “Hitlåtens historie” also known in Swedish as “Hitlåtens historia” – documentary on the story of “The look” hit single. There is no additional footage or any changes. Subtitles and the reader’s voice are in Norwegian. Source: NRK

Per Gessle’s wife, Åsa Gessle, will be on TV tomorrow. The show called “Förkväll” hosted on TV4 will provide a short film about her work as a designer. She designed a lamp called “in love” which you can see here. The show airs at 5.00 pm (CET) until 6.30 pm (CET). How long the report […]

Thanks to Christa.

Thanks to Danyela Etchart.

Head over to www.roxette.se to read a brand new interview with Per, talking about Roxette touring and recording again – and Marie & Per’s motivation behind it!

According to Dagbladet article, Sundsvall municipality will pay over 200,000 SEK for promotion of forthcoming summer festival on which Roxette will perform. Maria Åslin from Norrporten Arena says that this festival is perfect promotion of town and region. Money will be spent on advertisments in press, TV- and radiostations as well as on posters and […]

According to the German Night of the Proms fan website, Jonas Isacsson won’t be part of the Night of the Proms this year. A Dutch guitarist called Rob Winter will take Jonas’ place in the Electric Band in 2010. Jonas, who didn’t hesitate to say he’d do the tour again this year, says: He played […]

Media are really interested in summer Roxette concert that will take place in Sundsvall on August 7th. It will be the first full Roxette gig since 2001. According to the press release it will be the first European Roxette concert. It can mean there is no chance for any other show before August 7th. After […]

Source: Entre Sundsvall

Buying standing tickets for Moscow show is not as easy and simple as you may expected. Firstly you have to receive a certifacte which could be exchanged for a real ticket between September 8th and 10th. Here is the whole information: Certificates for tickets in the dance stalls are subject to mandatory exchange (not valid […]

13 out 20 the most expensive houses in Sweden are located in Djurholm area in Stockholm. Number 5 on the list is Per Gessle with his 520 m2 villa in Halmstad. The house is worth over 24,000,000 SEK now. He bought this property in 1993 for 950,000 SEK, but he and his wife have done […]

9,000 out of 25,000 available tickets for Roxette show in Sundsvall were sold in just 3 days. Unfortunately, it seems that Anders “Tjacka” Söderberg did not ask about any kind of permission from local police to organize this concert in advance. He claims that he could not discuss the issue with the local representatives, because […]

Ingrid Olivelöf was the first person who managed to purchase tickets for Roxette show on Norrporten Arena in Sundsvall on August 7th. She waited over an hour with more than 50 people in queue in front of Entré Sundsvall on Friday morning, April 23rd. Mattias Aamisepp from Radio Guld, local radiostation, played Roxette songs to […]

So here it comes. Afer one year of preparations and waiting we have finally managed to end up our works on yet another bootleg from “Party crasher tour” – to be honest – one of the funniest Roxette fan experiances in the 21st century. After more or less professional recordings from Prague, London, Amsterdam and […]

According to Musikindustrin‘s journalist Lars Nylin Roxette will play in Germany in December. In the article about Sundsvall concert he mentions Russia and Germany as the exemples of forthcoming Roxette shows. Time will tell if it is true. From The Daily Roxette: Per says that he doesn’t know anything about any German gigs.

The sale will start today at 11.00 AM Swedish local time via Ticnet.se or through Webbiljett.se (the site is recommended by the organizers). The tickets prices: – Läktare (Sections) 810 SEK [B, C, L, M] / 710 SEK [D, K, J] / 610 SEK [G, I, H] – Ståplats (Standing place) 510 SEK – Rullstol […]

According to Swedish media, and confirmed to Roxette’s manager Marie Dimberg, Roxette will play in Norrporten Arena, Sundsvall (Sweden) on August 7.  The organizators exepect around 20,000 in public. This will be, if no more shows are added to the tour, the real first Roxette concert since 2001. Tickets will be on sale on April […]