Johanna Kurkela in Seinäjoki

This last weekend I have been in Seinäjoki to attend Johanna Kurkela´s concert. It was a really nice concert, and the venue was also really cosy. You could choose your seats free and there where also couches and tables.

The venue

   

If you´re interested you can check up some songs of her.

Here are my favourites:

- Rakkauslaulu
- Minä Rakastan Elämää
- Jossain Mestän Takana
- Sun Särkyä Anna Mä En
- Tuo Se Mulle
- Ainutlaatuinen

Here´s a little video of Johanna performing "Minä Rakastan Elämää":

Helsinki II

Well, on sunday before driving back up to north, we did a longer walk through the city and the harbour. It was such a beautiful weather, a bit windy and cold, but still sunny. =)

Here some photos:

Helsinki & Tampere

So let´s start with my trip to Helsinki. This time my friend and me drove by my car, cause it´s cheaper to go by car than by train or bus and it´s actually much more comfortable since you can start driving whenenver you want and don´t need to look for the schedule.

Anyway, we drove to Tampere and went to Tampere-talo at first, then we drove to another friend of mine, where we had a sleep-over and on Saturday we drove more 1,5 hours to Helsinki where we visited more friends of mine and where I got another tattoo. =) I´ll post photos of the tattoo tomorrow.

After that we went to the Sunrise Avenue concert, which has been really amazing! So if you have the chance to visit one of their concerts, go there! It´s worth it!

Sunrise Avenue played in "The Circus" in the centre of Helsinki. It was really easy to find and if you go there by car you can park in Forum or Kamppi. They are usually not so expensive on weekends in the late evening / night. But maybe first look at the prices, they might change in some seasons.

The Circus is a really nice location, with bar and a cosy sitting area upstairs from where you can watch the whole audience downstairs and the stage of course.

The doors openend at 20:00 and the concert started at about 21:30. The waiting in front of the stage was a bit bad, especially with my new tattoo on my foot, but it was absolutely worth it!

Sunrise Avenue came on stage at 21:30 and the crowd went totally wild. There were young girls, teenagers, but also adults and older persons so it was totally mixed, which was really nice.

The band was into their music and enjoyed every second of playing. You could really see that.

They played all of my favourite Sunrise Avenue songs, which are:

- Fairytale Gone Bad

- Hollywood Hills

- I Don´t Dance

- Forever Yours

I don´t really remember the setlist of that evening, but I Don´t Dance, Fairytale Gone Bad and Forever Yours they played quite in the beginning of the show and Hollywood Hills was the last song I think.

Thanks to Sunrise Avenue for this great gig!

Back...

I´m back after some weeks with a lot of trips, travelling and so on...

I have been in Germany for some days, at Sunrise Avenue´s concert in Helsinki, at Johanna Kurkela´s concert in Seinäjoki, visiting a very good friend of mine in Pännäinen and I have been busy all the time.

But now I have time to write about those trips and I hope you´ll enjoy to read!

Imaginaerum

So a fast update to Nightwish´s new album IMAGINAERUM.
At first they have changed the title of the album and the movie from Imaginarium to Imaginaerum.

The first single is called STORYTIME and will be released on the 9th of November 2011.

The album will be released in Finland on the
30th of November 2011 and in other countries in Europe on the 2nd of December 2011.

The movie will be released somewhere in the first half of next year, so sometime around summer 2012 and it´ll have it´s premiere also at that time. Nightwish has planned to release the movie on DVD and maybe it can be also seen in some cinemas.

At the moment no tourdates are released exept two ones in Gibson Amphitheater and on 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise in January 2012.



This is the tracklist of IMAGINAERUM:

1. Taikatalvi
2. Storytime
3. Ghost River
4. Slow, Love, Slow
5. I Want My Tears Back
6. Scaretale
7. Arabesque
8. Turn Loose The Mermaids
9. Rest Calm
10. The Crow, The Owl And The Dove
11. Last Ride Of The Day
12. Song Of Myself
13. Imaginaerum






More informations about every single song you can find on Nightwish´s website in Track-by-Track Teasers
for the new album.
You can find there also a description from Tuomas about the new album and the album cover and here you can pre-order the album Imaginaerum and the single Storytime. =)

Good night!

Little summer trip :)

I have made a little trip some weeks ago to a lake, which is aprox. 5 minutes driving away from my flat. It´s so great there and I have taken a lot of photos, but here are just the "most beautiful" ones. ;)

I walked around the lake and I was sitting on a big stone for some minutes to enjoy the sun and relax a bit and I have taken this right photo from that place. :)

It´s really good to walk around a lake or in the forest to relax and to get your head free from everything.

This little trip took about 1,5 hours, so not too long, but absolutely enough for me to relax. It was such a beautiful weather that I had to go out! Since this summer hasn´t been so warm and sunny this year, you have to enjoy every single sunny day!

IMAGINARIUM´s release in 2011

Nightwish´s album "Imaginarium" will be released already in December 2011! These are good news since they have planned to release it in 2012.

Original message from Nightwish:

"Imaginarium will be released already at the end of this year!
More info about the schedule, track list and first single release coming up in a few weeks. Stay tuned!"

Their movie will be released in the first half of 2012.

Here you can find a little piece of the 11th song of Imaginarium. This is a Mix from DJ Orkidea which is used for the entrance of the baseball team Kiteen Pallo. This song is based on the main riff and chorus of track 11 on Imaginarium.

Moving to Finland - Final

And there it is... the final shield which tells us we will be soon in Finland... finally. :)

Unfortunately we hadn´t spent any time in Helsinki, because we drove straight down from the ferry up to my new living place.

We drove about 7 hours to North.

The scenery was very beautiful, but as I said, we were just sitting in the car and driving... but for sightseeing we would have been too tired. ;)

This last photo I like very special. To drive over a bridge and a lake...


The first three days we have spent in a hotel there since in my new flat there has been no bed, couch,... nothing. We needed to fix everything and that took time. ;)

Moving to Finland III

From Warsow we drove again about 12 hours to Riga, Latvia. I have felt so sorry for my cats, cause they had to stay of course so long in the car. Of course they have gotten food and water and I gave them the possibility to go out, when we made a break, but they were afraid of the noises that they wanted to stay in their boxes at that time.

The left photo shows my cat Kiran, which is about 1,5 years, the right photo shows my cat Vivi, which is just 4 months. ;) Both have been most of the time really calm and quiet and slept almost the whole way. :) I´m very proud of them! :)

Riga has been also a really nice city, but there we had again a problem in the hotel, which was also Radisson Blue. I really like Radisson Blue, but this time we just hadn´t much luck. ;) But the hotel was very nice anyway! Our car was just too high for the garage of the hotel, so we needed to find another solution and it ended up that a really nice guy from the reception of the hotel gave us the possibility to park our car in the "personal parking area" of the hotel. Thanks a lot for that!

I haven´t taken so many photos of Riga unfortunately, cause we have been even more tired than we were in Warsow, so we just went to a restaurant there and I took some photos while passing by at some buildings.

But Riga is also a visit worth! :)

Moving to Finland II

So the trip was actually a very looong trip. From my hometown we drove about 5 hours to Frankfurt Oder and spent one night there in a little and really nice hotel. On the next day we drove from there to Warsow, Poland which took us about 10 hours. We have been so tired that I unfortunately haven´t taken so many photos of Warsow, what is quite bad because it´s a really beautiful city! But here are some at least:

We drove so long to Warsow and as we arrived there, so many things happened, we haven´t expected. At first we wanted to get bencin at the gas station. But we couldn´t pay with Euros!??! Poland is in the European Union, they have their own currancy, but usually they should accept Euros. Anyway, we had to pay with Mastercard. Then we arrived in the hotel and checked-in and had to get all the things for my cats in my hotel room. That means, the cat toilet, the sand for the cat toilet, food and so on and of course my own luggage. It was so embarassing to walk through the hotel lobby with all that stuff...

But it was my decision to take the cats with me to Finland, what I haven´t regretted yet, so I had to handle with that.

This second photo was by the way taken from the window of my hotel room. I had a really nice view from there!

After some minutes relaxing in our hotel rooms, we went out of the hotel and went to a little restaurant on the other side of the street. It was a greek restaurant and the food was so yummie and cheap! :)

The funny thing was that this little restaurant accepted Euros! And the gas station we went before and also our hotel we stayed for one night didn´t accept Euros. I didn´t understand that a Radisson Blue Hotel doesn´t accept Euros, since it´s really big and famous hotel, which exists mostly in every big city and where a lot of international people are staying for some nights.

This third photo was taken also by me when I walked through Warsow for some time. ;)

I walked through Warsow because I wanted to see this building from a closer point, since I just have seen it from the restaurant we have been eating. ;)