Interviews conducted by Robert Williams

Video editing and photography courtesy of Sandra Torres

Fun Fun Fun Fest is an annual music festival held in Austin, Texas that caters to a wide variety of listening tastes. Now in it's sixth year as a destination festival, this fall's roster offered the rare opportunity to catch Danzig and Slayer on the same eclectic billing as Public Enemy and Ra Ra Ra Riot. So, in a nutshell, this was an attractive event if you consider yourself a beatnik, an audiophile or jack of all trades. This year's festival was moved from it's previous home of Waterloo Park to Auditorium Shores to accommodate a larger turnout.  

HARTWALL ARENA, HELSINKI

07.12 2011

REVIEW AND PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJALA 

U.K. hard rock pioneers Deep Purple have been annual visitors in Finland for a long time and this year made no exception here. The current tour “The Songs That Built Rock” includes also a Frankfurt Philharmonic Orchestra with whom the band performed a string of their biggest hits as well some rarely played gems. In fact, it’s already been six years since they released their latest studio release RAPTURE OF THE DEEP but it looks that there is still demand as they now sold almost 7000 tickets for their show for the Hartwall Arena.

with very special guests

CLUB NOSTURI, HELSINKI

04.12 2011

REPORT AND PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJALA

The British NWOBHM legends, Saxon, released their 19th studio album CALL TO ARMS in May 2011 and they have been touring heavily across the globe. Although the band had been annual visitors to Finland, they now played their first show in Helsinki in four years! The support band for this leg of tour was Canadian metal band Anvil. It seems that there’s a great demand for these classic bands in Finland as this show sold out with the 1000 person capacity reached right after tickets came on sale.  

Heidenfest 2011

11th October 2011 Kentish Town HMV Forum

 Review by Jo Blackened

Photography by Michelle Murphy