Sarcasm now off. The Swedish popstars who enjoyed a string of "pop" hits during the 90s have announced a string of tour dates, mostly in Russia at the point, but there is speculation of more touring activity to come for those that watch the "signs" .

Now the bad news for our European friends, it turns out that the band will not take part in Eurovision. Their manager, Lasse Karlsson, issued this statement on their website this week: To make some information cleared, In Swedish news papers there have been roomers the last two days about Ace of Base being a possible candidate for participating in the Swedish Eurovision song contest. This is not correct!

There�s never been any official request from SVT (Swedish Television) if the band is interested to participate for Sweden in the Eurovision song contest. So to valuate if or what the band feel about a question they never received seems kind of stupid. Same thing about question about the UK! UK or I should say BBC has never requested the band to participate for them in the Eurovision song contest.