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Pietro 'Roxette in Vienna' (Ungheria)  |
Roxette - Room Service Tour - 2 Novembre, 2001 - Vienna, Austria
Il tour ungherese è cominciato da Budapest alle 11:30. Dopo aver fermato
soltanto una volta, siamo arrivati in Vienna presso le 15:30. Poiché non siamo
riusciti a trovare posto per parcheggiare la macchina, abbiamo chiesto agli
uomini della sicurezza di fronte al Stadthalle se potevamo lasciare la macchina
in qualche posto. Poiché c'erano degli spazi vuoti nel posto dove parcheggiano i
camioni del tour e la macchina dei Roxette, la nostra macchina fermò accanto a
uno dei camioni.
Quando siamo usciti dal pullman, c'erano almeno un paio di tifosi aspettando di
fronte l'entrata principale dello stadio. Delle poche persone del gruppo
ungherese andarono a cercare un posto dove... ehm, poter orinare. Quando sono
tornati, ci hanno detto che infatti c'era un ingresso "secreto" allo Stadthalle.
Siamo andati lì, di modo che non aspettiamo ore fuori nel freddo - poiché quella
ingresso stava dentro il hall, con riscaldamento e delle cose. A quel momento,
era veramente un po' incredibile che siamo stati riusciti a trovare quel
ingresso. E giacché eravamo dentro lo stadio, siamo riusciti a sentire la prova
audio: i Roxette suonavano Dangerous, The Centre Of The Heart, Milk And Toast
And Honey e Crush On You per finire la sistemazione dell'audio. Quelle canzoni
già suonavano stupende...
Alle 18:30 siamo permessi di andare, così ci lanciamo dentro il Halle D, dove
c'era il concerto. Siccome il nostro ingresso era più vicino a Halle D (e
c'erano soltanto 50 tifosi o qualcosa nell'ingresso), siamo entrati prima. Lo
scenario aveva una piccola passerella, molti tifosi ungheresi (per fortuna
incluso io) si sono procurati la prima fila. I miei gomiti erano sulla
inferriata che separa l'uditorio e la passerella.
Il gruppo secondario era Alyssa, una ragazza con delle canzoni orecchiabili - e
quelle meglio dimenticare. Quando ha finito, sono susseguiti dei pochi minuti di
pausa, i quali, in quel momento, sembravano di essere eterni. Finalmente, le
luci si sono accese e i Roxette hanno cominciato a suonare...
Crush On You - Simply the perfect song for opening the concert. It
sounded so powerful, with more guitars than on the album. At the background
there was a huge screen (some say it was the biggest screen on the tour so far)
that covered almost the whole wall of the stadium. During Crush On You, flashing
words from the lyrics of the song appeared on the screen. Marie sang the refrain
a little bit different, but a lot better than on the album.
Dressed For Success - Starting with the powerful "yea yea yea", Marie did
a great job performing the song. Although they messed the lyrics up a bit (they
both said "Look Sharp!" at the wrong time... but they were sweet. Marie, at the
end of the song, banged down the black leather coat she was wearing during the
first two songs. Then, Roxette greeted the audience.
Listen To Your Heart - Marie sang a few lines in a different way then on
the album. Again, she was so great.
Waiting For The Rain - Another song, which sounds a lot better performed
live.
Real Sugar - One of the best moments of the show. Earlier Per said that
this song couldn't be performed live 'cause it's a typical album track. The song
hasn't been on the setlist for a long time. Fortunately he changed his mind and
made an excellent performance of Real Sugar. Meanwhile on the screen Ray, the
guitarist puppet from the video appeared and was making stupid faces all through
the song. He was so funny!
It Must Have Been Love - The Hungarian group brought a bunch of flowers,
red roses, to Marie. When she was singing IMHBL ipn the catwalk, the girl next
to me handed the flowers to Marie. Marie was very nice, when she took the
flowers, she realised that I wanted to make a photo. She was waiting for me to
set up my camera! When I made the picture, she said a thank you for the flower.
She seemed to be very happy.
The Centre Of The Heart - THE song that's completely different when
played live. Lot of guitars, very powerful performance. On the screen they were
showing some scenes that didn't make it to the video for this song...
Stars - Uh, maybe this is THE song that's completely different when
played live. Synthesizers, guitars, drums...everything. What a power song!
You Don't Understand Me - The only song when Per wasn't playing the
guitar but on synthesizer. Marie was on the catwalk during the whole song. On
the screen there were the animal puppets from Per Gessle's I Want You To Know
video. Actually they looked very stupid...
Fading Like A Flower - Acoustic performance, the band left the stage,
Marie and Per came out to the end of the catwalk and sang the song together with
only one acoustic guitar. They continued with
Spending My Time - Performed in the same way as FLAF.
Dangerous - They started playing the song in the dark and suddenly the
all the flash lights were turned on. This wasn't a good joke for my eyes since I
couldn't see a thing for a while and then my eyes started tearing. But it got
better by the end of the song.
Sleeping In My Car - It ROCKED! Marie changed a refrain a bit, she sang "staying
in the backseat of my car making love to you" and then, looked at the audience
and started to point at people saying "and to you", "and to you", etc. I almost
fainted when she looked at me and said: "and to you".
Milk And Toast And Honey - Beautiful.
Wish I Could Fly - Was different from the album version, more like a
blues song. I like it very much.
-Band presentation- They introduced the band. When a musician was
introduced, a picture of him was shown on the screen - as he was arrested and
photoed by the police (with a criminal record number). Jonas Isacsson had the
funniest picture.
The Big L - Sounded so great!
Joyride - During the song, 5 HUGE balloons were let into the audience.
People where playing with them like little kids :-) A couple times the balloons
got up to the catwalk - but Marie kicked them back to the audience. She could
make a perfect football player...
Little Girl - The band left the stage, all lights were turned off. Marie
entered, lit a small lamp and sang Little Girl while playing on the piano on one
side of the stage. When she finished, she turned off the light. Per, on the
other end of the stage lit his own small lamp and started playing
Crash! Boom! Bang! - Soon, the band also came in and joined the song,
which they didn't finish the way they do on the album but started playing
Anyone - Beautiful.
Hotblooed - The most powerful moments of the show. It really really
rocked, Marie was like woooaaaa.
The Look - Also sounded great and fresh. During the song, billions of
little pieces of paper were blown to the audience - imitating snow. What a
feeling! Marie was walking around the catwalk and greeted the fans in the first
row by shaking hands with them. She shook hands with me!!! (Her hands are sooo
smooth!)
Queen Of Rain - The goodbye song. After the song, Roxette said goodbye
and emphasized that love was the most important thing in life. They left the
stage and they wrote a line on the screen: "Do what you want but harm no one".
They left this sentence on the screen. The audience was very grateful and went
mad when they came back to perform a bonus song,
Church Of Your Heart - Marie and Per, together with the band, were
standing in one line in the front of the stage, singing this song. A fantastic
ending to the show.
That night Marie really stole the show. She was fantastic. In many interviews
she said that eye-to-eye contacts with the fans were very important to her. This
is true, she was looking at the audience all the time - she was looking at me
many times! The Hungarian fans took a flag with the words "Hello you fool,
Hungary loves you" (in Swedish). They both read it (Per read it even twice, he
looked very funny standing at the end of the catwalk, playing the guitars and
trying to read what's written on that Hungarian flag) and smiled.
When the show was over we started going home and we arrived in Budapest at 3:00
AM. It was a fantastic night...
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