Just before Christmas Helsinki got ready for a doses of great hard rock coming from the neighbouring country Sweden. As headliners, a living legend: Europe! I still remember being just […]
Concert review: Reckless Love & Santa Cruz at Nosturi. 08.09.2012
Helsinki suffered a night of good old glam rock with the presence for first time of the band from Kuopio, Reckless Love, at Nosturi, one of the most famous concert […]
Roskilde: Scandinavian Festival in Hot Summer
Written by Elena Paraschiv Summer is already here and festivals of every kind are rising like mushrooms after the rain. Once the first ray of the summer sun hits the […]
Concert review: Motley Crüe at Kaisaniemi (Helsinki). 07/06/2012
Legendary American rock band Motley Crüe visited Helsinki and FREE! Magazine had to be there to let you know how it went! Personally, I had a special motivation to see […]
Concert Review. Rammstein at Hartwall Areena. Helsinki. 15/02/2012
Sometimes you go to a gig and you feel that you did not get what was worthy the ticket. This is not the case with Rammstein. The Germans visited Finland […]
Concert Review: Deep Purple at Hartwall Areena. Helsinki. 07/12/2011
Deep Purple visited the Finnish capital performing together with the Frankfurt Philarmonich Orchestra, a pre-Christmas gift that no real rock fan could miss! I had seen the band some years […]
Rihanna – On the Beach Helsinki 15.08.2011
American super star Rihanna visited Helsinki for the joy of thousands of fans, many of who had already enjoyed a long weekend of good music at Flow festival in the […]
Review: Foo Fighters concert. Helsinki. Kalasatama. 26/06/2011
The first and only time I had seen Foo Fighters in concert, I was not pleased. It happened at Provinssirock in 2008. We had had a few too many beers […]
Review Gogol Bordello concert in Helsinki at Kulttuuritalo. 12/06/2010
There is no doubt that Gogol Bordello has been able to gather a good legion of fans during last years, due in great part to the charisma of their vocalist […]
Review Tuska festival 2010
Text by Maila-Kaarina The first day of the biggest metal festival of Finland came out and all those who attended had to be ready for something really big: 34 bands, […]
Review Greenday Helsinki concert. 9 June, 2010.
Going for first time to see Greenday live was a kind of sentimental experience for me. Greenday and Offspring were those bands that introduced me and my friends to punk […]
Review AC/DC. Tampere concert. 1 June, 2010
AC/DC was basically the biggest band in the world that I still had not had the chance to see live. So it was a double pleasure when I could finally […]
Review Efterklang concert in Tallinn – 08/04/2010
Efterklang is a generous band. Before even starting their set at Von Krahl, they showered their love of Tallinn upon the audience, instantly putting everyone at ease. The tension that […]