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Fans in China
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xuseam said on November 28, 2002 07:30:
Have you heard http://cn.roxette.org a Roxette fanclub in China? We have built this fanclub for several years. During those years I think our Chinese roxers are the most royal fans in the world. We keep on loving Roxette even we have a little chance to meet something about Roxette in our daily life. The hard problem we always has that is really really hard for us to buy roxette cds, especially singles, live songs, videos etc. Since there is no a HMV in our mainland except Hongkong(It’s still not very easy for ordinary people to go there and this HMV in Hongkong often has seldem Roxette CDs), we have to buy Roxette CDs abroad. It is very inconvenient. And we still can’t buy through Internet Shop, because some service are not include China, and what’s more, we nearly don’t use cards which paid on EUR or US $. In our website, We try to help each other by ourself, translating English news into Chinese, talking about Roxette in our forum everyday, and distributing personal collection to other Chinese roxers by uploading and downloading. Sometimes we provided CDrs for free if we are in the same city. Still now none of us has bought the DVD, “The Ballad Hits” and “The Look For Roxette¡°, and some early releases. But We still love Roxette and have enough patience waiting the release of The Ballad Hits in China!
Sascha said on November 28, 2002 07:51:
Hi! It’s great to hear from roxers like you who are not that present on english speaking internet. I always thought CDs in China were mostly bootlegs!? Roxette’s concert in China was a really big thing in ’95. There were articles in all the magazines! Must have been a great experience for M&P.
m-cvk said on November 28, 2002 08:49:
Yeah, it was really a big thing for P&M. It took 1,5 years to play there. All songs were translated to see if they were politically correct. But P&M have done it! That makes me very proud of being a fan.
xuseam said on November 28, 2002 10:43:
China has changed a lot since 1995. I found most Chinese fans are around 24 years old. When Roxette held concert in Beijing 1995, we were college students. In that time westen pop music was something new to us, it is really a big thing. Roxette are the second westen band that have come to China after Wham. Now things has changed, We can listen to any new westen songs at the first time and buy many foreigner’s CDs in big shop nearby. And Roxette and EMI seem not to pay much more important attention on their Chinese market after 1996. Although they released HAND abd RS in China, but there was only a few reports in our TV and radio about Roxette without any promotion. I have to say some facts here, maybe to many young people in China, Roxette is unkown or less famous than such as Auqa, MLTR, after they have done some promotion and performance in China later years. Even to those people who went crazy in that night of Roxette concert six years ago, Roxette was just an old memory. Many new fans began to love Roxette because they bought a complication ablum which included a song of Roxette’s, then they search “Roxette” on internet and found our site, they often said in forum that they are too difficult to find a thing about Roxette around them and they would buy any Roxette’s stuff without any hesitation.
ally77 said on November 28, 2002 10:48:
I think the fans in China rule very much. I would have loved to have been at the 95 concert, that must have been an experience.
Majdy said on November 29, 2002 03:48:
Hi, chinese fan. I’m from Indonesia. great to see you. please give my regards to all the loyal fans out there...
xuseam said on December 2, 2002 05:01:
Reply To A Fan’s Question:
Sorry! My mail box were updated last week. All mailes have been deleted. I forgot your email.
I never found a VCD about Roxette Bejing 95 concert, so did my friends. We only could buy Livism. I didn’t watch the concert live, because I was very young that time and I lived in Shanghai far away from Bejing. But some of special progam for Roxette were been playing on TV nearly everyday during that week. I collected some reports about Roxette, I remember a article said that Per regretted not to hold a concert in Shanghai. He also said that Shanghai’s journalists were much more enthusiastic than Bejing’s and Shanghai seemed to more fashionably than Bejing.
LittleSpooky said on November 28, 2002 07:34:
*waves a little banner that reads*
GO CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have it difficult over there :o( Keep up the work and good luck!!!