Party Crasher Tour 2009

Party Crasher Tour

European tour by Per Gessle
Associated album	Party Crasher
Start date	16 April 2009
End date	10 May 2009
Legs	1
No. of shows	15
Per Gessle concert chronology

Party Crasher tour 2009 is a club European tour by Per Gessle in support of his studio solo album Party Crasher. The tour was held in Europe from 16 April, till 10 May 2009. Along with the songs from the aforementioned CD, Gessle and his band played tracks by Roxette and from Gessle's solo albums like The World According to Gessle, Son of a Plumber, etc.

For Gessle's fans, as well as for Roxette's ones, this tour was important, because Marie Fredriksson joined Per on stage in Amsterdam and in Stockholm, which brought about the reunion of Roxette. This was confirmed when a press release stated they were to perform later in 2009 at the "Night of the Proms" series in Europe in October–December 2009.

On 28 March 2009, Helena Josefsson told on her official site, that her husband Martinique will play as support act during the tour. Before the tour started, three weeks rehearsals were held in Stockholm. Per also asked his fans at The Daily Roxette portal, which 3 songs would they like him to perform live. Thus, he wanted to choose some tracks he has never played live, which his fans would like to hear.

Two days before the tour started, on 14 April 2009, in Stockholm's Tyrol club, a promo concert was held for the band members' friends and the EMI officials.

Some of the material recorded from the tour was released as an album, Gessle over Europe.^[1]

Tour dates

Musicians

• Per Gessle — lead vocal, guitars, harmonica
• Clarence Ofwerman — keyboards
• Pelle Alsing — drums
• Christoffer Lundquist — guitars, backing-vocals
• Helena Josefsson — vocal, percussion
• Magnus Borjesson — bass-guitar, backing-vocals
• Marie Fredriksson — lead vocal (only in Amsterdam on 4 May and Stockholm on 10 May), for the songs "It must have been love" & "The Look")^[2]

Playlist

1. "Dressed for Success"
2. "Drowning in Wonderful Thoughts about Her"
3. "Stupid"
4. "The Party Pleaser"
5. "Wish I Could Fly"
6. "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
7. "7 Twenty 7"
8. "I Have a Party In My Head (I Hope It Never Ends)"
9. "Late, Later on"
10. "Listen to Your Heart"
11. "Do You Wanna Be My Baby?"
12. "Opportunity Nox"

    band presentation

13. "Doesn’t Make Sense"
14. "Church of Your Heart"
15. "Dangerous"
16. "Joyride"

    extra

17. "C’mon"
18. "Are you an Old Hippie, Sir?"
19. "The Look"
20. "It Must Have Been Love"

    extra-extra

21. "Hey Mr. DJ (Won't You Play Another Love Song)" (Only in Gent (1st one), London and Stockholm)
22. "(I’m Not Your) Steppin' Stone"
23. "Sleeping in My Car" (beginning from Cologne)
24. "Queen of Rain"

Newspaper reviews

• Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter writes a positive review about the first show of the tour in Tavastia club in Helsinki, Finland. Reporter Nils Hansson writes that according to the set list, Roxette must be back very very soon.^[3]
• Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet gave the first show 3 out of 5,^[4] as well as Expressen.^[5]
• After concert in Halmstad, the Swedish newspaper Hallandsposten called Gessle and his music "a symbol of summer in Sweden".^[6]

External links

• Per Gessle's official site
• Martinique Josefsson's tour blog
• Official info about the tour
• Per Gessle @ Music Web Navigator
• Pictures @ RexFeatures

References