Roxette slated to appear at charity concert for terrorism victims
Written by Starrox on October 11, 2001 to Live.
BERLIN - UPDATED German newspaper Berliner Zeitung reports that Roxette will perform at a charity gala for the victims of international terrorism in Berlin. The show, called “New York, New York,” will be Thursday, October 11th, starting at 9 pm CET. This is exactly one month from the now infamous 9.11.01 date.
Other artists set to perform include Patricia Kaas, Nena, BAP, Sarah Brightman, Corinna May and Howard Carpendale.
Update: According to our user Sandra, EMI Electrola (the German branch of EMI) has denied that Roxette would appear at the gala. A spokesperson at EMI Svenska confirmed that regretably, Roxette would not be there. (roxeteer, Oct 11)
- BerlinOnline article (in German)
Promoters seek supporting act for Austrian shows
Written by joyrider on October 6, 2001 to Live.
VIENNA - In an unusual promotion, Austrian radio station KRONE is searching together with EMI for a warm-up band for the two shows in Austria on November 1st and 2nd.
According to the station, they are looking for “young bands who want to warm up a huge audience with fresh, brand-new hit songs!”
- KRONE Hit Radio (In German)
Roxette nominated in Swedish Hit Music Awards
Written by roxeteer on October 3, 2001 to Roxette.
An organization of Swedish record companies, GLF, together with TV channels TV3 and ZTV, is organizing a new music awards show. Swedish Hit Music Awards, as it’s called, will be hosted live at Scandinavium in Gothenburg on November 11th. The nominees have been chosen based only on their record sales. Roxette has been nominated for the “best Swedish group” category.
The winner in Roxette’s category “will be chosen by record buyers,” reports Expressen. However, there are no further details on how votes can be casted. Expressen also notes that the winners will receive golden moose-shaped statues, designed by Ernst Billgren.
Per tributes Joey Ramone on album
Written by tevensso on October 3, 2001 to Per Gessle.
STOCKHOLM - Per will record a Ramones song for an upcoming Swedish tribute album to Joey Ramone who died last spring of cancer.
Per will sing the ballad “I wanna be your boyfriend”, one of the songs from the punk band’s debut album.
Clips from Stuttgart concert shown on TV
Written by matthias on October 2, 2001 to Live.
German regional channel B-TV (Baden-TV) today showed “Crush on You” and “Dressed for Success” – recorded live at the Stuttgart show yesterday.
The on-air personalities said that it was an exclusive, and there may be more shown tomorrow on their daily call-in show “Bernie and Co”.
The entire concert was filmed yesterday, including the opening act. The channel can be seen across Europe via satellite.
- B-TV (In German)
EMI warns of 20 percent drop in profits
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson on September 29, 2001 to Music Business.
LONDON - EMI, the music company behind artists including Roxette, Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, stunned investors this past week by warning of a 20% slide in full-year profits. Shares in the company plunged by 35 percent to 214p, wiping about £900m off the value of the company. At their peak, at the beginning of last year, the shares were worth 799p.
In a trading update, EMI said its core recorded music business would fall into an operating loss in the first half, blaming a “marked deterioration” in market conditions. The company, which has a global share of 14.1%, said the US and Latin America had been particularly weak. The firm’s market share, it added, should hold steady.
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MATAH to be released in Australia
Written by roxeteer on September 28, 2001 to Releases.
After skipping “Real Sugar” as a single release, EMI Australia has finally revealed the release date for the second single from Roxette’s “Room Service” album. “Milk And Toast And Honey”, the ballad already in the record stores in many European countries including the UK, will see daylight on October 29th. The single is going to include 4 different edits of the title track, plus a CD-ROM part with “Milk And Toast And Honey” video.
(David Di Troia contributed to this article.)
Roxette to be interviewed at German Disney Club
Written by marox1979 on September 28, 2001 to Roxette.
The German TV channel will broadcast a short interview with Roxette on the Disney Club’s “Die Fab. 5” today. Disney Club starts in the early morning, but the interview is likely to start at 10:00 CET.
Editor’s note: Sorry for not being able to publish this article earlier.
Great start for the tour in Munich
Written by roxeteer on September 28, 2001 to Live.
So, Roxette launched their Room Service Tour in Munich yesterday evening. According to roxettenews.com, published by the Official Fanclub, Roxette came on stage at 21:15 and played a 20-song set.
Surprisingly, even Göteborgs Posten’s reporter Johan Lindqvist liked what he saw and heard. Especially he mentions Jonas Åkerlund, who had created a stunning stage show with images displayed on a large silver screen. 4 out of 5 to Roxette from Lindqvist.
(Mikael Gardh contributed to this article.)
Universal plans copy protection for all CDs
Written by roxeteer on September 27, 2001 to Music Business.
Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music Group plans to start issuing CDs in October with software that prevents music from being digitally copied into computer files, Reuters reports. In practice, this means that their CDs won’t be playable in CD-ROM drives making it impossible to encode their contents into MP3 or similar files.
Other record companies are still testing different copy protection technologies. BMG plans to start using anti-piracy software on promotional CDs in the United States, but at the moment not on CDs for sale to the public. EMI’s representatives were not available for a comment.
