Brainpool’s new album “You Are Here” and the excellent lead single with the same title are in the shops. Brainpool’s bassist-singer Christoffer Lundquist appears on Roxette’s latest album. Brainpool thanks Roxette in the booklet of “You Are Here” for “keeping them busy”. But on the contrary to Roxette, Brainpool boasts in the booklet that “no sequencers, computers or samplers were used”.

• Brainpool (A Site For Sore Eyes :-)

Following the success of “Baladas En Español”, EMI International is planning to release a four or five track EP of ballads from the Have A Nice Day album in Spanish. Included will be translated versions of “Wish I Could Fly”, “Anyone”, “Salvation” and “Beautiful Things”. According to EMI, there is a “rush” on this project.

The translations are made by Luis G. Escolar, the same person who made the much-maligned translations for “Baladas En Español”.

Roxette’s members will be on Swedish TV twice this weekend! First SVT2 broadcasts the movie “Sånt är livet” (Sweden 1996, directed by Colin Nutley). The movie will be shown on Saturday 21.45 CET and it features several songs from Marie’s latest solo album.

Roxette visits SVT1’s Söndagsöppet on Sunday. On the show, starting at 18.15 CET, they perform the song “Anyone”. The show is broadcasted around Europe via satellite on SVT Europa.

• Sˆndagsˆppet

The album has now been released in the UK, but North America is still waiting for the release.

Per told at www.haveaniceday.nu that the singles released from the new album will be (in chronological order) “Anyone” (April-May-June), “Stars” (July-August), “Salvation” and “Crush On You”. “Stars” remixes are also waiting to be released.

In Japan Roxette has apparently already released a double A-side single “Pay The Price / Anyone”.

The video for “Anyone” was recently shot in Portugal. The director is Jonas Åkerlund, who also directed the “Wish I Could Fly” video.

Per has also given hints about a Roxette box-set (it rhymes quite nicely, doesn’t it :-). The box is likely to contain at least an official release of Roxette’s Unplugged concert back in 1993.

Next Roxette home video may contain in addition to the Roxette tracks the excellent Gessle videos “Do You Wanna Be My Baby?” and “Kix”.

According to Per the new album is likely to be released in Canada on Capitol label.

In the USA, however, things aren’t going very well. Lars-Erik Olsson, who told us about Roxette’s negotiations with Epic in the US, said recently at Rox Britannia that “the deal with Epic seems to have fallen through and it looks unlikely that the album will be out on July 4th”.

“Have A Nice Day” has sold over 1 million copies in less than one month without release in the UK or USA, reports Rox Britannia. Way to go, Roxette!

The Latin American division of the Official Roxette Fan Club has now got their own web site. “Our main objetive is to make easier ppl from Latin America join the FC. But we’ll have other activities, such as fanmeetings and so”, say the division managers Ezequiel “PiR_GeSSLe” González and Erika van de Staaij.

• OIRFC - Division Latino AmÈrica

Roxette will be appearing on MTV UK/Ireland’s Select MTV today. The show starts at 5pm UTC. Don’t miss it!

Roxette will be playing live at the Capital Cafe in London’s Leicester Square on March 10. At Music Capital’s web site you can enter the competition to see them.

• Music Capital

Roxette’s new album “Have A Nice Day” went straight to the top in Sweden. Only a week after the release, and the album is No. 1 in the charts!