The Party Crasher Tour - Concert Nr.9: München

29.4 München, Muffathalle

Every record company from each country can choose to promote or not an album, if they like it or not. It's more difficult now than it was 10 years... Per gets involved in this promotion very much, he finds radio stations, writes emails. But between him and the listener there are so many other people with old ideas about music industry, and it's very difficult to work with them... the record company can choose to launch a record, but if they decide to promote it or not, you can not do anything about this.... The motive for there is no concerts in the eastern Europe is that the promoters don't have a good network... Per Gessle finds very hard to launch his album in the US and he is very frustrated. He doesn't choose to not launch it. He fights for everything. But he doesn't decide. Music industry works like 10 years ago, and it should change.

This tour is too small to gain some money. It is a tour that looses money. Per Gessle looses money with this tour. If there are more concerts , more money he looses. But he wants to do this. I like how some of the Roxette songs turned out. Initially we tried to sing them in the original form, but sounded like we imitated Roxette... So we slowly started to sing them differently... The way we sang resembles the way Per writes them, he composes with the guitar. We play live, but sometimes it sound horrible because of the technologie... it's not your own men to take care of the mixing and you cannot be sure it will sound the way you want.

Christoffer Lundquist

Martinique European Tour - Concert Nr.9: München

29.4 - München, Muffathalle

On the way to München from Zürich we tried some airport yoga to loosen up a little in the neck and back. Try it, you´ll be amazed.

Backstage at tonights show in München:

Not so tired tonight and I went on stage with a smile on my face. A very listening crowd this night it seemed which made me happy. Tried some more robot-rubber moves and I think I pulled it off. Saw some waves out there tonight too and I thank you. Saw a couple staying just a little bit coser on the love song bringing my voice to a little warmer place called the heart or something whatever nothing maybe.

Great sound in my in-ear as every night but it felt extra nice tonight in some way. Many cameras out there, you almost don´t need the stage lights =) or maybe you do. Anton Corbijn visited Per tonight but I don´t think he saw my performance.I have met him once before on the photo shoot of “En händig man”. A really nice man.

Backstage:


Backstage showers:

Martinique Josefsson - Sandy Mouche

European Tour Blog

The Party Crasher Tour - Concert Nr.8: Zürich

28.4 Zürich, Kaufleuten

Back in cookin' Zürich. I have so many fond memories of this town including great concerts with Roxette over the years and this was no exception. Great crowd and a nice sloppy hard-rockin' band in a beautiful setting, very cool club. We did "Sleeping in my car" today as well and "LTYH" was just magnificent. Thanx for stopping by this overwhelming experience called the Party Crasher Tour!!!!

I am just having a blast. This is one of the most rewarding tours I've done, despite the fact that it's the only tour where I'm losing money. I think there will be more Roxette soon. I think we can still do some more records and events together. I look forward to that if it happens.

The Party Crasher album started out as Son Of A Plumber album, then I realized it was going to be very different than Son Of A Plumber so I decided to use my own name…just to confuse everyone even more. It's a different thing, maybe I'll do some more Son of a plumber, I don't know. Maybe I'll just be myself. The whole idea was to challenge myself as a writer, and start writing songs from different angles. I started with groups of baseloops. First song I wrote was "Silly Really". I realize it's more different for me than for the listener. It's a different sound and vibe to this album, which in itself is different from what we do on stage. On stage we are doing power guitar popset, which is the opposite of Party Crasher.

You have to spend time promoting and touring and I haven't done that in the international market. It's been so easy for me to work in Scandinavia. I sell my ten thousand tickets a night at home. I have a family. If you really want to crack the international market, its takes a long time, I'm not 21 anymore. I don't have any hopes that Party Crasher will be the biggest album of the year internationally. I just want to do this tour as a 50th birthday present to myself, to play my own songs that I've written in English throughout my career. That's why I'm playing a lot of Roxette stuff. I'm just having a blast doing this. This is one of the most rewarding tours I've done. It's the only tour where I'm losing money. You play in so many small clubs. The crew that I hired is expensive. All the shows have been fantastic. Prague was fantastic, and Hamburg was even better.

Every artist has to take responsibility for themselves. You can never take success for granted. We've never done that. Even if Roxette comes back, that doesn't mean we will be successful. You have to make great songs and concerts. One of my favorite artists ever is Nick Lowe, he's the most underrated pop songwriter there is. He produced Elvis Costellos early albums. But he never had a great breakthrough. Just because you write great songs, doesn't mean you are successful. It's very much up to promotion, timing, and you get support from a certain record company or marketing. If you're lucky like me, with Pretty Woman, you get a song in a movie. All these small things that get the ball rolling.

Per Gessle

Martinique EuropeanTour - Concert Nr.8: Zürich

28.4 Zürich, Kaufleuten

Metallica played here. The Red Hot Chili Peppers several times. A beautiful venue perfect for Sandy Mouche.

Maybe next time. Miss you guys. Tired.

Martinique Josefsson - Sandy Mouche

European Tour Blog

Comments by fans:

Miss Sandy Mouche, hope there’ll be a European clubtour for you guys one day…you can ask Per to babysit Mr. X backstage.

Saar Plunkett (aka Sarah den Rara),
from Alkmaar, Netherlands

Miss Sandy Mouche too. Don’t forget to play together again someday. You are a great band.

Alberto Fuente (aka Lantartida),
from Madrid, ES

Zurich was great, a fantastic performance from all of you as always… we were all laughing at the crew at the end of the evening loading Mr X’s pram in the van… we knew you had taken Mr X back to the hotel but the crew were rocking the pram pretending he was in there… not sure how many of the fans actually stood outside the back entrance last night actually there was a baby being loading into a van like that!

I took some photos of you in Zurich!

Martinique Josefsson - I'm Spiderman

I have a video as well.

Till London! Thank Helena for signing the banner… I got everyone’s signature on there now except yours! x

Alison Lowther
(aka roxerally), from Bolton, UK

The Party Crasher Tour - Concert Nr.7: Cologne

27.4 Cologne, Gloria Theatre

Hallelujah!! What have we done to deserve this??? What a gig! What a crowd! This reception is way beyond anything I can remember!!! My-gosh-almighty! Everything was purrfect from the first chord to the last. We've noticed so many familiar faces in the front row so we decided to rehearse "Sleeping in my car" at the soundcheck. It sounded OK so after "Steppin' stone" we thought we'd have a go for you guys upfront!!! Cheers, hope you liked it!!! Switz tomorrow (this tour has become a.... monster... fantastic!!!!) Tired but happy

Per Gessle

Martinique EuropeanTour - Concert Nr.7: Cologne

27.4 - Cologne, Gloria Theatre

Just got back to the hotel and feeling not as tired as yesterday. It is good to have a day off. It makes you come closer to your real fatigue. Let say you take a nap for 2h during the day, when you wake up you feel like you´ve been hit by a train and you get sad. But what the 2h actually does is getting you closer to your real fatigue and eating up a bit of it even though it doesn´t feel like it at first. Without these naps you never get rid of it. You just find a working mode that works with it and you´re always tired even though you think Aha!! today i´m not so tired…but yes you are. Take naps.

On to tonights gig then. To me it was the funniest gig so far. I was really happy on stage and I suddenly decided to try my German language skills with the audience and it worked out quite well i hope?? And then for some reason I shouted -You guys rock at the end of the show, very unplanned and very funny and very true. It happens to me when I get a kick out of something. My mind can´t control my mouth or my body so I just spinn loose and hope to land on my feet. Thank you guys that were there for putting me in this mode. I really like it myself and I left the stage with a big smile on my face =)

Cause even though you may not think I see what you are doing down there, I see everything, every little hand-wave (yes I saw you) to every lip sync I see gives me a boost and makes me better and better and more funny I think.

So thank you again for a funny evening in Cologne. You guys really ROCK!!

Martinique Josefsson - Sandy Mouche

European Tour Blog

Comments by fans:

Hej! ))) I took some pics of you, and even a video, as well as Helena’s and will upload them and send to you as soon as I return back home by 4 May.

Martinique - I hear strange things at night

I’m in Berlin now and the laptop doesn’t seem to work good…))) Thank you for the performance!!!!!!! Will write you later.. sorry…)

Ilya Volkov
-(a.k.a. Kreecher)- Roxette House

Hi Martin! Two of my photos that I reworked a bit..they’re still big, so …think of that when you open them.

Kirsten Ohlwein (aka Kiwein), DE