The best attempts on her second album, N.B., come close: “I wanna have your babies” is a similarly joy- and tuneful confession of feelings, and the opening track “How do […]
Gruff Rhys: Candylion
Main roles are cast to the acostic guitars, Beatles-esque drums and Rhys' distinctively nasal and always low-key vocals, but the essence of Candylion lies in the details, the carefully placed […]
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
The prasising reviews and the soaring sales are hardly a surprise, and the Monkeys were indeed aware of the positive prejudice that was to welcome their next move. „We knew […]
Make mine a half
Remember in one of my first columns I warned you to enjoy each day at a time and try not to look too far into the glittering future? Well, here […]
The divine divide
For an English thespian, the so-called graveyard contracts still in use in many Finnish theatres are simply beyond their comprehension. An increasing number work as freelancers, but many theatres still […]
All our lines are busy…
Why, why, why? Tell me why! Why do we have to go through this torture every time we call a customer service number of a big company or institution? If […]
Monkey business
Within the film or show business in general, actors are often considered a different breed. They look like normal people but behave differently. Many of them seem to fast-forward their […]
No pain, no gain
Ink on your skin. Long ago, tattoos stopped being a taboo. They are no longer a sign of a criminal, a tough biker or a sailor. This body art went […]
OUR LAND! – Photographs from Finland
2007 is the year of a big celebration! Finland has its 90th anniversary of national independence this December. Over the past decades, Finland has experienced an unprecedented rate of economic, […]
An ecological performance
Relativity is a performance that combines three different art disciplines to create something new, unique, improvised and unexpected. Electronic music, video and dance are the ingredients. But Relativity is not […]
Four decades of provocation
You were born in a small countryside town, Somero. How was it to grow up there? During my first ten years I was often sick, and because of that my […]
Exploitation in the grindhouse
{mosimage} Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino present a double feature of sex, violence, sleazy characters, zombies, freaks and bizarre plots. Death Proof and Planet Terror now on dvd. Once again […]
Cinema bathed by the midnight sunlight
Sodankylä is the lucky place where the Midnight Sun Film Festival is held. The 22nd festival once again presents a great selection of films and filmmakers and is perhaps the […]
Another shot on the rocks
The second coming of rockers Hanoi Rocks has lasted already six years. That’s as long as the classic period of the band lasted in the eighties. Obviously, these last six […]
Sounds good! Get your earplugs in!
Appropriately in this metal-mad country, the first events are loud and proud of it. Sauna Open Air Metal (7-9 June) in Tampere’s Eteläpuisto kicks the season off with a big […]