Per and Marie were in Finland last Friday. They were supposed to be in Finland both Friday and Saturday, but the trip had to be shortened to one day because the Finnish air traffic controllers are on strike and the Helsinki airport was closed on Saturday.

Because of their tight schedule they were only in Pasila where the main TV channels have their studios. First they recorded “Wish I Could Fly” playback for Miss Finland competition (it was shown yesterday) and then they did an interview for Jyrki in the same studio (the interview was shown today). After lunch they went to another TV channel’s studio where they did a short clip for a TV show called Dynamo (will be shown in March).

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to meet them, but maybe next time… :-)

Roxette.Org is a new Roxette site on the Internet. They are going to provide free server space for Roxette-related web pages.

A short roxette.org URL sounds much better than a mile-long geocities.com URL, doesn’t it? :-)

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“Have A Nice Day” will be in Japan on February 17. Toshiba-EMI has already made a page about it on their web site, in Japanese of course. There’s nothing special said, the text is mainly the track listing of the album.

Per told yesterday on the chat that this time the Japanese won’t get any bonus tracks.

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Roxette chatted live on the Internet just moments ago. The system got so overcrowded that many people were kicked away from the chat. For a while, the fans couldn’t get any questions through and Per was asking if there’s anyone on the line.

They didn’t tell anything really interesting (IMHO). If I understood them right, the single #2 won’t be “Anyone” but “Crush On You”. “Anyone” will be released in the autumn.

According to Per, there will definitely be a HaveANiceTour starting later this year. Brainpool or Janne Kask won’t be their support acts. Per also told that they are not going to perform Spanish songs in the USA, but they do play English songs in Spain :-)

A “die-hard Roxette fan” from Iowa, USA reports that “Wish I Could Fly” has been played on the radio there. “Coming from the US, I rarely hear Roxette on the radio anymore, so I was genuinely, but quite happily, shocked when I heard their new single playing on a local radio station”, Brian Haglund tells in his message.

Today at 5pm CET Roxette will be chatting live at www.haveaniceday.nu. I’m looking forward to see you all there!

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The www.haveaniceday.nu chat is going to be provided by Passagen. Their “celebrity chat” system is a Java applet, so you’ll need a browser that supports Java. Netscape and Internet Explorer have a support for Java from version 3.

Soon you will be able to listen to all the tracks of “Have A Nice Day”. From February 9 Roxette is going to release a new 30-sec sound clip from the album every day. The sound clips will be available at www.haveaniceday.nu.

Expressen’s article also tells about the chat which is going to take place on Monday 5pm CET (that’s 4pm UTC). The chat is going to last two hours, so we’ll going to hear a lot of interesting stuff on Monday.

They also mention that “Wish I Could Fly” has sold gold in Sweden in only 5 days. The limit for getting a gold record for a single in Sweden is 15000 copies.

Two people from the Italian Roxette Fan Club met Roxette yesterday. Per and Marie told that the tour they are planning is definitely going to be a world tour and it’s going to start around September, depending on the USA release dates.

According to our reader from Denmark, Roxette is going to perform at the Danish Grammy Awards tomorrow. The special guest of the show was supposed to be Cher, but because of pain in her back, Roxette was appointed on the last minute. The awards will be broadcasted live on DR1 at 9pm CET.