Per reveals at www.haveaniceday.nu information on the forthcoming “Salvation” single. The b-side will be an unreleased song called “See Me”, which is an outtake from the “Crash! Boom! Bang!” sessions (there seems to be more and more tracks from that time!). The maxi single will contain also a previously unreleased version (the original one) of “Crazy About You”. If you don’t remember, “Crazy About You” was released as a b-side of “You Don’t Understand Me”. Maxi single will also contain the “Stars” video.

• www.haveaniceday.nu

“Salvation” will be released in the end of October, which is EMI’s decision. The video will be shot in Italy.

There are plans for a compilation video with some very old stuff, like “Neverending Love”, but nothing has been confirmed yet. There won’t be a release this year, that’s for sure, however. “Un dia sin ti” will also be on the video.

Next album will be released “maybe maybe maybe in xmas 2000”.

“Stars” is going to be released in Canada soon.
Right now it looks like there won’t be any live gigs this year.

Anders Herrlin is making an album with his girlfriend, Jenny, for Sony.

“Have A Nice Day” has sold 90,000 copies in Japan.

“Well, I think that the MTV Unplugged show eventually will be released”, says Per.

Jackie Öfwerman who appears on “Have A Nice Day” is the daughter of Staffan Öfwerman, another member of the Roxette band. (Staffan is brother of Clarence, if I remember right.)

The name of Per’s wife, Åsa, is pronounced like “awesome”.

• www.haveaniceday.nu

Per has written a short message for the fans on www.haveaniceday.nu:

Time flies. Now the summer’s over. Hope you’ve had a good time, we surely did. I’ve spent most of my time in Halmstad with my suntanned family and friends as well as starting to write for the next Rox album. Marie has for what I know hardly left her boat at all this summer. The weather has been fantastic. But now it slowly gets back to normal which in our case means promotion, promotion and more promotion.
 
And also, I try to get back to the chat side to answer some of your intelligent Q’s. I’ll try to behave. Hope to see you out there.

Per G.

For those who don’t know, www.haveaniceday.nu is the official “Have A Nice Day” site, maintained by Roxette Recordings.

• www.haveaniceday.nu

Roxette chatted for a moment on the Internet. As I feared beforehand, Aftonbladet’s “unique multimedia chat” was way too ambitious to be usable. At least in IE5/Windows 98 there was no sound in the streaming video interview and some of the pages were unreachable. The previous Roxette chats have also suffered from technical problems.

In the text chat there wasn’t anything new. “Kikki” (probably Per with wrong user name) said about the US record deal that “Take it easy. It will happen eventually. Trust us.” Per said his favourite solo track is “Stupid” and Marie said her favourite is “Tro”. There wasn’t more than 26 questions in total.

• Chat log
• Video interview (requires RealPlayer)

The UK version of “Stars” single has been released as a 2-CD set. I’m not sure if the tracklisting I published earlier is the real one, because there’s at least one change: CD #1 contains “Stars” video that wasn’t mentioned in the listing.

On September 29, 16pm CET Per and Marie will be chatting in an unique live chat on Aftobladet’s web site. The chat will be unique because there will be simultaneous live video stream with sound and text-based chat. Per will be by the keyboard with his “furious fingers” while Marie answers fans’ questions in front of a video camera.

To join in, be sure to have Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 4 or newer with RealPlayer G2. You may also have to register to KlubbPuls (Aftonbladet’s online club).
The information is only in Swedish.

• Aftonbladet’s Swedish info page

“Have A Nice Day” album has sold 250,000 copies of in Germany and thus Roxette received a gold record. At the same time they also received double platinum for “Look Sharp!”. This means that 1 million copies of the album has been sold in Germany.

Expressen also mentions that the magazine Fono has awarded “Wish I Could Fly” as “Continental No 1 Hit”.

• Expressen’s Swedish article

The Swedish rock musician Pugh Rogefeldt releases his new album in October. One of the guests on the forthcoming “Pugh maraton” will be Per Gessle. This time Per won’t be singing - instead he’s playing harmonium on the track “Gammeldags tro” (“Old-fashioned faith”). Per had troubles finding a suitable harmonium, but finally found one in Laholm.

• Expressen’s Swedish article

EMI is going to release a special edition of “Have A Nice Day” album for the Spanish markets. The special edition will contain the 3 tracks from the album in Spanish:

• “Alguien” (“Anyone”)
  
• “Lo Siento” (“Salvation”)
  
• “Quisiera” (“Wish I Could Fly”)
  

The Spanish edition will be released in Spain, Latin America and probably in Portugal around October this year.

Per tells in his brief answer that the video for “Salvation” will be probably shot in Rome, Italy.