Jan-Owe Wikström tells on Hallandsposten about Gyllene Tider’s special performance at Per’s birthday party. As I earlier told, Gyllene Tider played five songs. The played them at 3.30am and the songs were “Det hjärta som brinner”, “(Dansar inte lika bra som) Sjömän”, “Skicka ett vykort”, “Flickorna på TV2” and “Tylö sun”.

Roxette is going to have an online chat at www.haveaniceday.nu on February 8, 5pm CET. Even though the site is in Swedish, this chat will be “English only”.

• www.haveaniceday.nu

“Wish I Could Fly” video has had its premiere on MTV Nordic. The video was shown on Nordic Top 5 and Per & Marie were at the studio. Nothing new there, but they confirmed that a remix single will be released.

The Argentinan TV is going to show an interview of Roxette on Sunday. Per and Marie were interviewed in Cannes last weekend for the TV show Versus. It will be shown at 11 PM Argentinan time (that’s 2 AM GMT).

Roxette will also visit Hit40 (TV2) in Norway on February 2 and Musikbyrån (SVT1) in Sweden on February 3.

The Official Fan Club has published the schedule of Roxette’s promotional tour. Here it goes:

January

• 26-27 Hamburg
  
• 28 Cologne
  
• 29-30 Brussels
  

February

• 1 Sweden
  
• 3 Napoli
  
• 4 Milan
  
• 10-11 Sweden
  
• 12-13 Helsinki
  
  TV recordings: Dynamo on Friday and Miss Finland on Saturday
  
• 15 Sweden
  
  Grammis gala, Roxette will perform “Wish I Could Fly” live
  
• 16 Italy
  
• 17-19 Vienna
  
• 20 Cologne
  
• 22-26 Germany and italy
  
• 27-28 London
  

March

• 1-2 Amsterdam
  
• 5 Oslo
  
• 6 Zürich
  
• 7-12 England
  
• 13 Frankfurt
  
• 17 Madrid
  
• 20-21 London
  
• 23-28 Japan
  
• 29 Sweden
  

April

• PR in South America or South Africa. DECISION ABOUT TOUR.
  

May

• More PR in Southeast Asia
  

Interesting news on yesterday’s Svenska Dagbladet: Roxette has bought 51 per cent of the Swedish pop group Ace of Base on Monday. The article wasn’t very clear and they didn’t e.g. tell how this deal will be done in practice. Roxette, as we all know, isn’t just one company, but perhaps Ace of Base is and thus Roxette was able to buy 51 % of the stock.

However, this whole thing sounds like an April fool and it isn’t even April now. The most peculiar thing is that next to the article is a strange pie chart (titled “Cash-flow”) without any explanations. And, has anyone ever heard of credit rating company PoorStandards?

Aftonbladet has again an article on Roxette. This time it’s about the promotion hassle which is going to start soon. “The worst thing I know are the long flights”, says Per. “But the higher you are in the music business the better hotels you get. Four Seasons in New York. Hyatt in Buenos Aires, Carlton in Cannes. And Bristol in Paris, one of the coolest hotels there is.”

Per and Marie think that nowadays one has to do promotion and tour around the world to get the albums sold. “If Elvis Presley would come back today, he would also have to do promotional work”, says Per.

• Aftonbladet’s Swedish article

A 30-sec clip from the new video is available at fan club’s site. They also have some new pictures. Don’t forget to check out the info on the new membership options.

According to Rox Britannia there might be an official single release in South Africa in April/May. I told earlier that the single would only be released as a radio promo.

The official Roxette site www.haveaniceday.nu has been updated. The site features now a biography of Roxette and new graphics.

Here are some more dates from EMI Electrola’s site:

• February 20: Interaktiv Spezial (VIVA)
  
• March 5: Jam Special Bits (VIVA)
  
• March 7: Jam Special (VIVA)
  

Rox Britannia has some information on the German TV show Verstehen Sie Spaß (ARD, March 13) and how to get to see Roxette at the show. EMI Electrola tells on their web site that “Wish I Could Fly” and “It Must Have Been Love” are going to be shown.

Roxette was presented yesterday on the TV news broadcast of TV2, Norway’s biggest commercial TV station. A clip of “Wish I Could Fly” video with Marie rolling around in a bed was shown. Marie and Per were also interviewed and, according to our reader from Norway, the interview was from the same session where their Christmas greeting (available on fan club’s site) was recorded.

Roxette has reached #3 at Norway’s official radio chart Hit40.no. “Wish I Could Fly” entered the chart last week at #26, and now “the Norwegian radiostations are playing them as never before (or at least in a long time)”.

A 30-sec streaming video clip of “Wish I Could Fly” is now online at www.haveaniceday.nu. Several readers have reported problems with the video. Its quality seems to be very poor.

• www.haveaniceday.nu