Pascal said on July 15, 2006 19:13:

Hi folks,

Just found an interesting message from a Radio Donna host (Belgium) on his weblog. In march Per was in Belgium to promote Son Of A Plumber and he told the host (Mark Heyninck) Roxette will never perform live again. It’s a closed chapter, according to Per. The host cut it out of the interview broadcast because it was a bit messy.

The message is, of course, in Dutch and can be read on this page:

http://markheyninck.skynetblogs.be/?date=20060331&number=1&unit=months

Scroll down to 22-03-2006 (with picture of the host and Per)

room-service said on July 15, 2006 23:44:

Per also said ’this’ sentence with the “closed chapter” in early may in an interview in the Netherlands, you can find it here on TDR:
http://www2.dailyroxette.com/article.php/2033

And here’s a quote out of it:
Q: Is there any chance Roxette will play NOTP again now with Marie releasing a new album and working on Roxette again, or is that pretty much a closed book?
Per: I don’t know. I think it’s a closed chapter. I don’t think Marie ever will tour again. I don’t think she will leave her family. But on the other hand I can’t speak for her, it’s really up to her, but I don’t think so, no.

4 times “think” in this little sentences ;-)

The Marie statement about touring and so on, you can find in this article:
http://www2.dailyroxette.com/article.php/2056

The most important parts of the article about this topic:

“I stressed too much in the past, Roxette took all my energy. One cannot live like that for long, and maybe, I think, there was some meaning in all what has happened, even if it may sound weird.”
And then she also said: “I want to go on living, my way, and that’s for sure not like I lived before. It is nice to take things easy” [...]

She said that she’ll live different, but not really how that’ll look like.

Marie explains that she definitely misses to be on stage in front of thousands of people. Of course it’s hard. “What we did with Roxette was great and I’m very proud of it. We celebrate our 20th anniversary in Autumn, can you believe it? [...] But everything went so fast. Then I met Micke and things changed, and when Josefin was born we totally calmed down.”

She said that she already calmed down in 1994 and will miss it to be in front of tousands of people, but she didn’t really say that she never ever will tour again - ok, it’s the logical consequence of “i’ll miss it”, but perhaps sometimes in the future... ;-)
We’ll see what will happen to Roxette after the GH, perhaps everything is a closed chapter then, but maybe not...

Pascal said on July 16, 2006 08:10:

OK, thanx for the clarifications.

Santi said on July 16, 2006 14:39:

@Sascha: Well, if we are to believe what this Donna Radio announcer wrote in his blog, it does not mention at all tours. It’s says to “never perform live again”. I guess that surely includes single performances.

Fortius said on July 16, 2006 20:28:

@ chrisjankunas, I was thinking the same.

Sascha said on July 17, 2006 07:08:

@ Santi: Who knows if Per really said it that way or the blogger got it a bit wrong? Per just said something like he “believes not but doesn’t know”. And don’t forget 3 years ago Per didn’t even believe in Marie surviving the cancer, Roxette ever recording again... Everything can change, so we shouldn’t guess to much into the future!

tevensso (moderator) said on July 19, 2006 16:21:

Like Lars I say, I do believe we have great chances of seeing Roxette again.