The venue will offer live entertainment Wednesdays through Saturdays. The first major live act was already announced last week; popular Swedish group The Ark will take the Apollo stage on the 3rd of November. In addition to special concerts, the Apollo All Stars Band will offer live music in different line-ups with special guest vocalists. […]
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In Pori, Tampere, Turku and Jyväskylä the two bands will be joined by indie group Sister Flo and in Oulu and Rovaniemi by Moses Hazy from Tornio. In Helsinki, the third group on the bill will be Sweatmaster. Through the No Torture Here! campaign the human rights organisation hopes to get wide public support for […]
At the end of October Northern Kings will release their first album, containing well-known 80s classics that have been given a heavy metal treatment. The first single from the album will be a metal version of Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero, out on the 26th of September. Other tracks on the album include […]
Finnish public funding for domestic film productions is less than half of the state subsidies in other Nordic countries. In the programme of the new government, film is mentioned as an area of focus. In June Minister of Culture Stefan Wallin hinted at an increase of 1.2 million euros for film productions. According to the […]
Dance couples from 16 European countries took part in the finals of the dance competition held on Saturday night in London. Koukkula and Väänänen, who danced a rumba routine to Carmen McRae's All In Love Is Fair and a freestyle paso doble to The Unforgiven by Apocalyptica, managed to score 132 points. Ukraine’s Ilyia Sydorenko […]
During the happening in Helsinki the band will play some of their songs in acoustic version. Later on, Hanoi Rocks will play three album release gigs at Tavastia club in Helsinki on September 14th and 15th. The first show on Saturday 15th has no age limit and starts early at 7 pm Related: Another […]
‘Everything was done in good spirits and we thank the guys for an unbelievably great and fun seven years and wish them all the best in their private endeavors‘, according to a statement by the band. The split came at a very inconvenient time, however. Thunderstone was just preparing for their European tour with Swedish […]
The Judas Priest guitarist happened to be in Finland and went to Salo to meet the young band from Vaasa. He then decided to join André, Calle, Jeppe, Alexander and Henkka on stage to play the legendary British metal band’s classic hit Breaking the Law. During the joint performance history was made: it was the […]
Other highlights this year include Musta Jää by Finnish director Petri Kotwica, 2 Days in Paris a romantic comedy directed by and starring Julie Delpy, and Canadian director David Cronenberg’s latest film Eastern Promises. The closing film this year will be the eagerly awaited Du levande (You, the Living) by Swedish director Roy Andersson (A […]
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Sport 2.0
{mosimage}Is it a sport? Is it a reality show? It’s Leet! A couple of years ago, a young Finnish entrepreneur Jaakko Mäki-Petäjä thought that it would be a good idea to create a new sport. But how to make people play it? Easy! Recruit teams around the world, take them to a reality TV show […]
According to DMX’s management the hip-hopper still hasn’t gotten permission to leave the United States. He was stopped at the airport when he was about to travel to Finland for the kick-off of his European tour at the beginning of the month, apparently because he had failed to attend a court session involving driving without […]
The show by the acrobats from Melbourne who performed on top of 4-metre high flexible poles was the single most watched performance in the history of the Night of the Arts. According to the police, their first performance drew an audience of 20,000 people. Their second even managed to attract about 30,000 spectators. Police taken […]
OurVision 2008 takes place during the spring of 2008. New this time is, that also musical talents from Northern America, Europe and Oceania may apply. This year’s first edition of Caisa’s song contest was won by 25-year-old Samantha Marie José Sayegh, who originates from Lebanon. On the Night of the Arts from 7 pm ‘till […]
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Are you in a game?
{mosimage} Art-theft, stake-outs and penetrating high security areas may seem like a list of television themes but you may find yourself caught in the middle of one of them without even knowing. Some may say that the era of pervasive gaming is upon us, where digital mobile technologies mean that we can interact with unseen […]
Metropol Cinema will start modestly, circulating only one copy of the film. The film (Finnish title: Ei minua kukaan rakasta; English: Not Here To Be Loved) will open on 28 September at a Finnkino cinema in Helsinki. The copy will later circulate through the rest of Finland. The company will decide later how many different […]