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Per recorded two new demos

Here comes news from Twitter. Per recorded 2 new demos while visiting the ‘Aerosol Grey Machine-palace’. Both are played on banjo. And both are primarily for Roxette for sure. Per also wrote, that Clarence and Christoffer is currently working on the Night Of The Proms strings arrangies. Songs sounds great. “I never knew I was […]

“The Look” covered by rockabilly band “The Baseballs”

Posted on June 28th: German rockabilly band The Baseballs included a cover of “The Look” in their first album “Strike”, which was released in May 2009.  The album also includes covers of Rihanna, Robbie Williams and Maroon 5 among others. Digger, singer together with Sam and Basti, explains why they choose “The Look” in an […]

Top Rox 2009 – let’s vote!

Hi all Roxers! Summer is here and there’s quiet about our favourite band right now. So here comes brand new poll. You can vote your favourite Roxette album, single, video, tour, album cover, album booklet and also best Per and Marie solo albums. Results will be announced during autumn in big article. Top Rox 2009. […]

SVT report from Artist Fund Gala

Swedish Television SVT published on its website a short report from Artist Fund Gala in Stockolm’s City Hall on June 18. You can spot Marie and Mikael arriving for this event. Watch it here. P.S. It’s the 101st post on RoxetteBlog.com since April 29. Let’s celebrate!

Gessle’s songs of the day (May-July)

Per Gessle posts his own song(s) of the day every day and informs all his follwers about music events he took part in. I thought it would’ve been nice to have all these interesting informations in one place. YouTube links are coming later on. Of course, it’s going to be updated. July 14: Ruby, don’t […]

The 50 greatest Scandinavian summer songs according to Gessle

Roxette’s Per Gessle and Swedish music journalist Sven Lindström celebrate the summer season with a countdown of the 50 greatest Scandinavian summer songs of all time on The Spectrum’s Nordic Rox, SIRIUS XM’s Scandinavian music show. Listeners heard songs by Peter Bjorn and John, Eagle-Eye Cherry, ABBA, Roxette and more. The Spectrum, SIRIUS channel 18, […]

Steamy ol’ wagon called Roxette.

Here are the list of rare Roxette live and playback performances from 1989 and 1990. Some of them might be well-known, but there were few I haven’t seen before. Check out them. Dangerous (Live in Hamburg 1989) Dressed for success (Live on Festival Bar, Italy 1989) Dressed for success (Live in Globen, Stockholm 1989, broadcasted […]

“Roxette Ballads” on #4!

Roxette’s song pack Roxette Ballads for the PlayStation game SingStar is #4 on the SingStore’s global download list for June. Source: Roxette.se & TDR

“What’s your game?” – 3 rox-related trivias

Evgeny Perekopskiy has created three rox-related trivias, so if you are registred on Facebook and want to check your rox-knowledge, just enter any of these quizes. Enjoy! Marie Fredriksson Per Gessle Roxette

Bolyos family’s performance at Monrad’s Fisk & Deli

As we previously reported, Marie Fredriksson, her husband Mikael Bolyos and son Oscar with Pelle Alsing on drums did a suprising performance at Monrad’s, a delicacy shop in Stockholm’s Djursholm, on May 29. There are many photos from the soundcheck and the concert itself on the shop’s official website. Thanks to Ivanych @ R2R.

Per Gessle on MJ’s death. Sort of.

Today on DagensSvenskbladet, Swedish humorous site, was published an article about Per Gessle and “his close relation” to Michael Jackson entitled “Gessle: It could’ve been me as well”. The title says all. To be honest, I do not see any point in translating more of this fake interview. I suppose, it was thought to be […]

New Roxette picture

The Daily Roxette offers a new picture of Roxette – taken at Per Gessle’s last concert on his Party Crasher tour in Cirkus, Stockholm. Rickard Eriksson took the b/w photo. Source: The Daily Roxette

Party crasher tour’s releases

We got the final tracklists of forthcoming releases from “Party crasher tour”: I. Gessle over Europe – CD 1. Dressed for success (Cologne) 2. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her (Cologne) 3. Stupid (London) 4. Wish I could fly (London) 5. She doesn’t live here anymore (Copenhagen) 6. 7Twenty7 (Amsterdam) 7. I have a party […]

New Roxette single in October?

According to yesterday Expressen’s (swedish tabloid newspaper) article we might expect new Roxette single in October. In the end of an article about Per’s forthcoming live album is written, that duo is planning to release a new single in the context of the forthcoming (Night Of The Proms) tour. The tour starts on October 23rd. […]

Party Crasher – UK edition

The online version of Robert Thorselius’ The Look For Roxette book published some pictures of Gessle’s “Party crasher” from United Kingdom. “Party Crasher” was released in the UK on June 15 and the label releasing the album was not EMI/Capitol, but Sony Music. P.S. It seems like Per knows this website well as he posted […]

Marie did perform at Artist Fund Gala in Stadshuset

As we previously informed, Marie Fredriksson and Mikael Bolyos attended on a June 18 gala at Stadshuset where...

Gessle over Europe – live LP order

The Live LP order: Gessle over Europe – LP 1. Dressed for success (Cologne) 2. Drowning in wonderful thoughts about her (Cologne) 3. Stupid (London) 4. The Party Pleaser (Stockholm 1) 5. Wish I could fly (London) 6. She doesn’t live here anymore (Copenhagen) 7. 7twenty7 (Amsterdam) 8. I have a party in my head […]

Roxette’s power-pop songs in Sony’s SingStar

SingStar for PS3 gets another song pack – Roxette Rocks. This pack includes the following tracks – Joyride – The Look – Dressed For Success – Sleeping In My Car – Wish I Could Fly Source: Roxette.se & TDR

Have a nice bootleg cover

Bianca from Brazil posted on R2R forum her own collection of bootlegs’ covers. She does not have the credits of everyone who made them. If you know anyone who created one of these covers, just leave a comment here or send her private message on R2R.

Live album title revealed

The forthcoming release from European Party Crasher Tour will be called “Gessle over Europe” and it will include live CD plus Stockholm gig on DVD, videos and documentaries as bonus. The double vinyl album will have 3 or 4 extra tracks compared to the CD due to technical reasons. CD/DVD will be released in the […]

Halmstad does love Per?

Yes, at least it seems so. Busses with this kind of congratulations drove through Halmstad in May 2009 just before Per Gessle’s gig in Sporthallen. Thanks to Danyela Etchart for picture.

Canadian artists Luke Jackson records at Aerosol with Christoffer and Magnus

For those who like Christoffer and Magnus’ work: Canadian artist Luke Jackson informed us he recorded his most recent album “… And Then Some” at Aerosol Grey Machine with Christoffer and Magnus. The album was released last year. You can read about how they became friends and how they came up with idea of recording […]

Zpargo – Bara en på tusen

Mikael Bolyos did it again. He shared a new-old song in which he was involved both as a songwriter and as a keyboard player. “Bara en på tusen” (Only one in a thousand) was recorded by Swedish trio called Zpargo (Mikael Bolyos, Göran Rydh and Lasse Johnsson). They released just two singles “Du finns i […]

Party crasher live CD/LP

Per posted a message on Twitter in which he informed which cities will be included in the Party Crasher live LP/CD. Thanks to that we know that some live songs from Cologne, London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Stockholm#2, Warsaw, Halmstad and Munich will be released.

Roxette in 2008

Crashroxer (@ R2R forum) found this interesting photo somewhere over the internet. It was most likely taken in December 2008 in Gothenburg before or after Stjärnklart show.

Budapest 1992 bootleg

On July 8, 1992 Roxette played one concert on theirs Summer Joyride ’92 European Tour on Ice Stadium in Budapest, Hungary. This gig was recorded by a preson who was sitting in the audiance. Now, thanks to Hungarian fans at Roxvideo.uw.hu, we are able to download the whole bootleg show. Try to download just one […]

Roxette in Amsterdam – photos

Here are five photos of Roxette taken in Amsterdam on May 6 just before the concert. Thanks to crashroxer. Source: GettyImages.com

Czech TV Nova report

As we previously informed, Czech TV Nova broadcasted 7-minutes report about Roxette reunion and Per Gessle’s Prague gig in its programme “Vikend” (Weekend). You can watch it on You Tube thanks to flickorna who has uploaded it. Thanks to crashroxer for information.

Marie at Marianne and Sigvard Bernadotte Artist Fund Gala in Stadshuset

Marie Fredriksson and Mikael Bolyos attended on a June 18 gala at Stadshuset where Crown Princess Victoria was handing out this year’s prizes from the Marianne and Sigvard Bernadotte Artist Fund. Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA was also among the other guests. It is not confirmed if Marie performed there or not. AFTONBLADET report Source: Stureplan.se, […]

Mikael Bolyos’ Never again

Thanks to Evgeny Perekopskiy (Ivanycz @ R2R) we are able to listen to a quite old Mikael Bolyos’ song. It was “sweet 1983″, Jonas Isacsson on guitar, Erik Häusler on saxophone and Mikael Bolyos on keyboards, programming & vocal. The song is called “Aldrig mer” which means “Never again”. DOWNLOAD IT If you know anything […]

Work in progress

According to Sydsvenskan’s article and web report, Christoffer Lundqvist, the man behind Per Gessle’s latest albums, is currently working on a new cd with Mulle kindergarten’s children’s choir from Lund in Scania. All lyrics were written by children themselves and the album will be released just before Christmas. All profits will be transferred to help […]

London bootleg cover

Arnaldo Mariano Suarez from Argentina has prepared a new artwork for Sirius broadcasting of Per Gessle’s London gig. Thanks a lot.