STOCKHOLM - Swedish tabloid Expressen reports about Swedish summer tours. As we very well know, Per Gessle's "Mazarin" tour has been a huge success. Many of the concerts have been sold out and according to Expressen, the tour will profit millions of Swedish crowns. "It feels unbelievably cool that the sun is shining on me again," says Per.

  Not everyone is as happy as Per. A classic Swedish group GES - Anders Glenmark, Thomas "Orup" Eriksson and Niklas Strömstedt - released their second album earlier this year, eight years after their highly successful debut album. Their summer tour was expected to be successful as well, but everything has failed for them. Only 2,000 people appeared to their show in Lysekil, making it the record low for that arena ever and causing a loss of 340,000 SEK. The record high was in 1989, when 24,000 people attended a Badrock concert. According to Expressen the 25 concerts of GES summer tour have mostly been unprofitable and the average loss has been 250,000 SEK per concert.

• Expressen article about GES tour
• Expressen article about Gessle tour (in Swedish)
• Glenmark Eriksson Strömstedt