The 2024 edition of Helsinki’s Odysseus Festival will take place on July 19-20 at the Culture Factory Korjaamo. The two-day festival has an impressive and eclectic line-up, including Norwegian duo Lost Girls formed by Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden, trumpeter Verneri Pohjola performing material from his new Monkey Mind album with his quartet, Swedish-Australian Ghosted… Read More Odysseus festival 2024
If you’re one of those people who plan your life several months ahead and you already know you’re going to be in Helsinki on April 4th 2018, I have a tip for you! Put that date down as the day when you’re going to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor at The Circus. Why? Well, because… Read More Godspeed You! Black Emperor to return to Helsinki in 2018
Verandan, the new musical project of songwriter Ville Hopponen, celebrated the release of their self-titled debut EP on Saturday with an excellent show at bar loose in Helsinki.… Read More Live: Verandan, Helsinki 10/14/2017
With soaked hair dripping down across his face, his black buttoned up shirt already drenched in sweat, George Clarke appears on stage with a feral look in his eyes. Like he’s sizing up the opposition and ready to attack. It’s late summer in Helsinki and an unexpected heat-wave has been hanging over the city the whole day.… Read More Deafheaven live at Tavastia, Helsinki 8/22/2016
Helsinki’s annual Flow Festival has added more big names to its already impressive line-up. The festival, which is held at Helsinki’s industrial area of Suvilahti, on 8-10 August 2014. New names on the list include UK rockers The Horrors, Brooklyn’s Real Estate and Boston-based dream/goth folk singer, Marissa Nadler (a personal must-see). Nadler, who released… Read More Marissa Nadler, Real Estate among new additions to Flow Festival
Seeing Godspeed You! Black Emperor live is something that never existed in my realm of thought. They existed only as a myth to me, like some Canadian apocalypse predicting cult. Then all of a sudden a comeback is announced, tour dates are being set, Finland is on the list and I died and went to… Read More Godspeed You! Black Emperor Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki 17.1.2011
Known for their love of amplifiers and not bowing down to decibel restrictions, Sunn O))) didn’t disappoint. Attila came across as enigmatic and possessed. He seemed to be executing some medieval ritual, vividly casting some Eastern European curse on us with mystical hand gestures.
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