It´s always worth to give gigs a try that happen somewhat outside Helsinki center. For example Tikkurila – and you might know this one from travelling to Ankkarock- or Myötätuuli-festival – to be reached by train in about 20 min. The small but cool venue is a renovated factory near the railway station, right next to the river, which ... more/mehr
2007-10-28
Elenium, Reversion
Hellcity
On Monday evenings Helsinki resembles rather a ghost town than a capital of a whole country. Busses and trams are as empty as Paris Hilton´s head, there are only a few tourists wandering around on their shortest way back to the hotel and even in Kallio, the cheap drinking district, the sidewalks have been rolled up a long time ago. ... more/mehr
2008-09-13
Eläkeläiset | Bruno Punani
Hamburg
„A Farewell to Humppa Tour 2013“, already the name of this tour makes fans quiet nervous. Will the crazy pensioners really quit? Onni Waris gave the all clear, during an interview we did beforehand with him. Eläkeläiset is planning to please us, by humpping the stages, for 20 more years.
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2013-05-06
Emergenza - Step 1, round 5
Köln / Cologne
Once more I visited the Underground in Cologne, and once more it´s all about the Emergenza Festival. With one difference to the week before: this time it´s about the progress to the next round in the competition, therefore the bands had nicely tried to get as many as possible of their own fans to attend. The audience was relaxed ... more/mehr
2013-01-25
Emergenza Festival : INFECTION
Hamburg
The Emergenza-Festival – worldwide the biggest contest-festival for newcomer-bands in Northern Germany – runs over a couple of weeks through a lot of preliminary rounds until the final in which the happy winners will be elected. On 21st of February the show started which satisfied by a remarkable level with much joy of playing rock ... more/mehr