The German TV channel will broadcast a short interview with Roxette on the Disney Club’s “Die Fab. 5” today. Disney Club starts in the early morning, but the interview is likely to start at 10:00 CET.

  Editor’s note: Sorry for not being able to publish this article earlier.

A lot of things happened during TDR’s absence. Here’s our round-up:

• Room Service Tour concerts in South Africa, scheduled in late December, were cancelled after tragic events of NYC. “The prospect of going long flights with families under the current circumstances does not feel comfortable and the decision had to be made now,” Per and Marie say on their official web site.
• “Milk And Toast And Honey” single was released in the UK. Amazon UK (for example) is selling it.
• Roxette had a 1-hour live gig at Carlsberg’s promotional party on September 23rd. Only VIP guests were able to take part.
• In an Aftonbladet article, Per and Marie say that they are not interested in the USA anymore. “Room Service” album won’t be released there. They say that family is now more important to them and they’ve tired to the intense travelling that promotion requires.
• According to Expressen, Jonas Åkerlund who is better know as a music video director, is working as an art director for the Room Service Tour. He will be responsible for the visual aspect of the show. Sounds interesting, I would say…
• Famestudios, the new media company partly owned by Per, has had troubles in paying taxes and other fees, reports Hallandsposten. According to their MD Ludvig Werner, things have now changed. He also claims these problems were “more administrative than financial”. Famestudios has designed Roxette’s official web site.

Sony Entertainment Television Latin America, one of the most popular cable TV channels in Latin America, is airing a segment about Roxette. It is a regular section that airs between shows (Music news preview). The segment, which has aired quite often, lasts about three minutes and combines scenes from “The Centre of the Heart” video with parts of the “Room Service” interview from the media press kit.

Once again, the VH-1 music channel in the UK will broadcast the Roxette “Greatest Hits” program. During July, as previously stated here on TDR, VH-1 presented a greatest hits show with some of Roxette’s best videos. On August 18th, it is scheduled to be shown again.

  The videos shown include “It Must Have Been Love,” “Joyride,” “The Look,” “Dressed For Sucess,” “Listen to Your Heart,” plus “The Centre Of The Heart” and the latest one “Real Sugar”.

  “Wish I Could fly” and “Sleeping in My Car” were shown on previous GH shows on VH-1/UK

Spanish TV2 broadcast an hour-long Roxette special at 6:30 this evening. The program featured an interview and six songs performed by Per, Marie and the band. The songs were: “The Centre of the Heart,” “Real Sugar,” “Milk and Toast and Honey,” “Looking for Jane,” “Wish I could fly” and “The Look.” The program was recorded on April 4th when Roxette was in Spain doing promotion.

JOHANNESBURG - After Roxette’s recent chart success with “The Centre Of The Heart,” EMI has encouraged 5FM, South Africa’s most popular radio station, to devote an entire day to our favorite Swedish duo. South Africans can tune in this Friday, June 29th, and take part in various competitions via phone.
  For curious fans outside South Africa, they can listen to 5FM in streaming audio (the link is available on their website).

  Meanwhile, South African fans are eagerly awaiting additional information about dates and venues for the Room Service tour which, according to Per Gessle - as quoted in his local daily newspaper Hallandsposten - is headed here in December.

• 5FM

SOL Musica is a very well known Portuguese and Spanish music channel that, during June, broadcast the promotional interview with Roxette about the new album “Room Service” and about the lead single “The Centre Of The Heart”. The interview was split into six parts, interrupted by small bits of the TCOTH video. While many subscribers to The Daily Roxette may already be familiar with the content, here is a full transcription of the broadcast:

PER GESSLE: We released the last album in the spring of ’99. “Have a nice day” was the title. We were doing promotion on that one and we decided not to tour with it and got back into the studio and started to work on this album in January 2000. Prior to this we worked on the HAND album (1998). It takes about a year to do an album.

MARIE FREDRIKSSON: It feels great. It’s always a lot of fun being together cause we know each other so well. And this album “Room Service” is really… we both like it very much. It has a couple of songs that are much Roxette. It’s a mix of the old days and how we sound today. We’re looking foward to promoting the album. Read more…

“Good News” is an important magazine in Switzerland with coverage about future concerts and other entertainment news. The lastest issue – just out – has Per and Marie on the cover.

  The article inside devotes four entire pages to Roxette, as their upcoming concerts are considered to be one of the highlights this year. The magazine wrote a very positive story and in the Discography sidebar, every Roxette album is praised! In fact, this reporter has never read such positive things from a journalist about Roxette.

Cover image of “Good News” used with permission.

VH-1 Europe will present again today (June 20th) at nearly 11pm (23:00) a Greatest Hits program with the following videos: “Joyride,” “The Look,” “Dressed for Success,” “Sleeping In My Car,” “It Must Have Been Love” and “Listen to Your Heart!”

nbsp; This program was first broadcast back on June 4th, so if you missed it then, this is another chance to see it.

  “Real Sugar” has started to have airplay on VH-1 Europe, just as TCOTH did.

LISBON - Popular Saturday night talk show “Herman SIC” welcomed Roxette yesterday, who had come here to promote “Room Service”. The show was awesome, with Per and Marie performing “The Centre of the Heart” while the studio audience clapped along to the beat of the song! Both seemed to be in a happy mood and Marie in particular just rocked.

  The host of the show, Herman Jose, who had welcomed Roxette six years ago when they were promoting DBUGTTC-GH, was very friendly and invited them to take part in the rest of the show seated next to the other guests. This was unusual, as most English-speaking artists just perform and that’s it.

  Herman complimented Roxette on the new album, which he said was great. Per was asked if he could give his old Ferrari motor (that he is going to give way) to one of the other guests that had built a helicopter… but it seemed that this helicopter needed a Porsch motor instead of a Ferrari. A nice try, and everyone had a big laugh! When the host received a joke “present” from an audience member - a huge rubber penis - he asked Marie and Per whether they had such kind of shows in Sweden, so free and with such “objects”! Per replied, “Only on Wednesdays!”

  It was a very funny show, and while Per and Marie might have felt a bit lost since everyone was speaking Portuguese, they appeared to “hang in” the entire time.