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The Look Competition
Open: December 16 - January 6 2012
Prize: Signed Roxette Album and Singles!!!
BE THE BEST BEAT THE REST, SING WITH THE ROXETTE SINGBOX AND COMPETE FOR FAN-TASTIC PRIZES.

To enter the competition simply share your score from singing "The Look" in Roxette Singbox for iPhone on Roxette's Facebook during the competition period.

Prizes

    Signed Charm School vinyl album
    Signed Way Out single
    Signed She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio) single

In a charity auction on Tradera you can win an Ultimate Roxette Kit containing:

10 Per Gessle guitar picks
A set of Pelle Alsing's drumsticks
A signed by Per copy of Charm School
1 tote bag with the Roxette Room Service logo
3 Roxette pins
1 gray Charm School T-shirt (L)
1 black Charm School tank top (M)
1 tour poster from 2011
1 tour poster from Join the Joyride, Stockholm 1992

The profits go directly to Musikhjälpen's charity, this time being the right for girls to attend school.

The auction closes tomorrow, December 17 at 15.20 CET.

Edit: The auction ended at 7000 SEK ($1050).

Here is a special Christmas greeting from Marie and Per:

2011 turned out to be something very special indeed. We don’t really know where to start! The ”She’s Got Nothing On”-single that made it all the way to the-4th-most-played-song-in-the-world for a couple of weeks? The Charm School album that felt like the perfect comeback for this young couple? Or The World Tour that kicked off in February? Oh yeah, let’s start there!

No one expected this kind of reception we got from you guys, we couldn’t even dream of filling huge arenas again. Almost 800,000 people came to the shows this year. That’s an awful lot of tickets!

And you know, we say it again and again, nothing would have been possible without the support, friendship, love + affection we get on a daily basis from YOU; The Rox Aficionados all over the world!!! You make things so much easier.

We certainly hope we’ll meet all of you again in 2012. Looks like this tour will have another 65 shows to go before the finale in October. New cities + new countries are in the can as well as some jolly returns to favourite places.

And, hey, as we’re writing this... we’re just wrapping up the recordings of the new T2 – Tourism 2-album. It feels like we’re having a splendid one coming up, recorded while touring, filled with the positive energy from you + from the superb bunch of musicians we’re blessed to work with.
We la-la-la-la-love it! Have a feeling you’re gonna love it too!

So, folks…..have a wonderful xmas + a mighty 2012.

Cheers,
Marie + Per

2011 has been an amazing year for Roxette with a fantastic world tour and the great success of the new album Charm School. During the first nine months of their world tour they have played to over 800,000 fans at 79 concerts in 31 countries. Next year Roxette will continue to tour in venues throughout Australia, Europe, Asia, South America and South Africa.

Due to the overwhelming response Roxette received when they visited South America earlier this year, Roxette has decided to return and in April 2012. The band will play in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Brazil. Tickets will be released soon.

Roxette’s album Charm School was released by EMI earlier this year. Charm School has reached the No. 1 spot in several countries. In March next year a new album called T2- Tourism 2 will be released worldwide.

3.3 Jakarta, Indoor Tennis Stadium (Indonesia)
6.3 Singapore, Singapore Indoor Stadium (Singapore)
8.3 Hong Kong, Convention Center (Hong Kong)

17.4 Quito, Coliseo Ruminahui (Ecuador)
19.4 Bogota, Parque Simon Bolivar (Colombia)
21.4 Lima, Explanada Estadio Monumental (Peru)
24.4 Buenos Aires, Luna Park (Argentina)
26.4 Neuquen, Ruca Che (Argentina)
28.4 Mar del Plata, Polideportivo (Argentina)
30.4 Rosario, Metropolitano (Argentina)
3.5 Cordoba, Orfeo (Argentina)
5.5 Asuncion, Yacht Club (Paraguay)
8.5 Curitiba, Teatro Positivo (Brazil)
10.5 Sao Paulo, Credicard Hall (Brazil)
12.5 Rio de Janeiro,  Citibank Hall (Brazil)
15.5 Brasilia, Nilson Nelson (Brazil)
18.5 Recife, Chevrolet Hall (Brazil)

According to the site Nu.nl, Roxette will perform at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam June 29. Tickets are to go on sale Friday. The site also mentions that Roxette is on tour to promote the new album "Speak Now"...

Edit: The site has now changed the new album to "Charm School." The venue's website (Heineken Music Hall) confirms the show in their agenda. Tickets will go one sale this Friday at 09:00 on www.livenation.nl.