Tour promotional posters blanket Stuttgart
Written by cskendras on June 29, 2001 to Live.
STUTTGART - Over the past week, workers have been busy putting up promotional posters for the Roxette concert. Now, nearly every corner of Stuttgart is full of “Room Service Tour-2001” posters.
Roxette’s tour venue in Madrid destroyed by fire
Written by Senna on June 28, 2001 to Live.
MADRID - 
Palacio de los Deportes, the venue in this city where Roxette was going to play in October, was destroyed by a fire this morning.
Tickets for the concert were to go on sale tomorrow, but now Roxette must first find a substitute venue. Palacio de los Deportes (“Sports Palace” in English) had a capacity of about 14,000 people and was one of the biggest concert venues in Madrid. It was here that Roxette played during their Crash! Boom! Bang! tour in 1994.
One possible place for Roxette’s concert might be La Cubierta, a bull-fighting venue in Leganés, 10 kilometers from Madrid.
- El Mundo article (in Spanish, with additional pictures)
“Roxette Day” this Friday on South African radio station
Written by administrator on June 27, 2001 to Roxette.
JOHANNESBURG - After Roxette’s recent chart success with “The Centre Of The Heart,” EMI has encouraged 5FM, South Africa’s most popular radio station, to devote an entire day to our favorite Swedish duo. South Africans can tune in this Friday, June 29th, and take part in various competitions via phone.
For curious fans outside South Africa, they can listen to 5FM in streaming audio (the link is available on their website).
Meanwhile, South African fans are eagerly awaiting additional information about dates and venues for the Room Service tour which, according to Per Gessle - as quoted in his local daily newspaper Hallandsposten - is headed here in December.
Interview about “Room Service” on SOL Musica
Written by HeartCentre20 on June 27, 2001 to Roxette.
SOL Musica is a very well known Portuguese and Spanish music channel that, during June, broadcast the promotional interview with Roxette about the new album “Room Service” and about the lead single “The Centre Of The Heart”. The interview was split into six parts, interrupted by small bits of the TCOTH video. While many subscribers to The Daily Roxette may already be familiar with the content, here is a full transcription of the broadcast:
PER GESSLE: We released the last album in the spring of ’99. “Have a nice day” was the title. We were doing promotion on that one and we decided not to tour with it and got back into the studio and started to work on this album in January 2000. Prior to this we worked on the HAND album (1998). It takes about a year to do an album.
MARIE FREDRIKSSON: It feels great. It’s always a lot of fun being together cause we know each other so well. And this album “Room Service” is really… we both like it very much. It has a couple of songs that are much Roxette. It’s a mix of the old days and how we sound today. We’re looking foward to promoting the album. Read more…
“Sommartider” voted as the second best summer song
Written by Lissie on June 26, 2001 to Gyllene Tider.
Mix Megapol, a Swedish radio station, let their listeners vote for the best summer songs ever made. When the returns were in, Gyllene Tider’s “Sommartider” turned out to be the second best song after Tomas Ledin’s “Sommaren är Kort”. “Gå & Fiska!”, another Gyllene Tider song, ended up at number 8.
Latin America requests a Roxette Tour
Written by PiR_GeSSLe on June 26, 2001 to Live.
Inspired by the successful campaigns to get Roxette and Marie to go on tour, ¡Roxette Latino!, RunToRoxette and Roxette México have launched a Web page to ask Marie and Per to include Latin America in their Room Service tour, that will be starting in Europe. At the site, you can leave messages to Roxette and view all the messages already posted.
Roxette’s songs from Room Service have reached some of the highest positions on mostly every chart all over Latin America, and many fans are waiting to see Roxette on stage once again.
Tickets for concerts in Spain to go on sale Friday
Written by Jud on June 26, 2001 to Live.
BARCELONA - Tickets for the two concerts in Spain will go on sale this Friday. They will be available from the following places:
BARCELONA SHOW (in the “typical shops):
- Fnac, Revolver, Castello, etc. - these last two are record shops in the center of Barcelona - and then Servicaixa and El Corte Ingles (these two are
selling online).
MADRID SHOW:
- Servicaixa, Corte Ingles, Madrid Rock and Fnac.
Further details, such as pricing, will be available soon. If anyone coming from abroad needs help in purchasing a ticket, RoxSpain is willing to help. Write to [email protected] with any questions.
Roxette make the cover of Swiss entertainment magazine
Written by Oliver on June 25, 2001 to Roxette.
“Good News” is an important magazine in Switzerland with coverage about future concerts and other entertainment news. The lastest issue – just out – has Per and Marie on the cover.
The article inside devotes four entire pages to Roxette, as their upcoming concerts are considered to be one of the highlights this year. The magazine wrote a very positive story and in the Discography sidebar, every Roxette album is praised! In fact, this reporter has never read such positive things from a journalist about Roxette.
Cover image of “Good News” used with permission.
Real Sugar becomes a #1 hit in Argentina
Written by administrator on June 22, 2001 to Sales & Charts.
The current single from Room Service – “Real Sugar” – has reached the highest position on Much Music Argentina after only one week on the show!
It’s a sweet summer for the sugar industry!
Written by administrator on June 22, 2001 to Sales & Charts.
Apparently, the A*Teens went a little overboard with Roxette’s “Real Sugar” and now they have a “Sugar Rush.”
In the “Countdown” program on the Much Music Channel, the “Real Sugar” video is at #4, while the A*Teens are at #6 with “Sugar Rush”.
