When: July, 2007
Where: Turku, Finland
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| Audience |
If last year you had to escape from the hot sun in Ruisrock ferstival in Turku (Finland), this year rain and mud that occur in many summer festivals wasn’t an exception also in Ruisrock, 2007. But in spite of not so good weather conditions there were 65 000 in total who attended one of the biggest Finnish festival taking place from 6 to 8
July. There were more than 50 bands performing in the festival, like
The Flaming Lips from
America,
Billy Talent from
Canada,
The Ark from
Sweden,
The Magic Numbers and
The Pipettes from
UK, home bands
Hanoi Rocks,
Zen Café,
The Rasmus,
The Crash,
Disco Ensamble and other Finnish and foreign bands.
Dracula jumps into the audience
It’s Friday, 1 PM when the first visitors cross the territory of Ruisrock. This year Ruisrock is being opened with home, garage rock band The Flaming Sideburns, which has arrived from Helsinki. Have to say that the status of the first band is appreciable – as the audience is now arriving, the support for the band is not so big. Already the next band can’t complain about the amount of the audience. For example, The Horrors from England offers a very bright show – they terrify and at the same time amuse the audience not only with the black, woeful and for their name appropriate appearance, but also with various performances on a stage and even their eye look. Sanita, the visitor of the festival, who enjoyed The Horrors, tells that the band’s leader and the keyboardist were the most noticeable. “The soloist during their performance used many additional tools – first of all the big screws which he tried to screw in his head, then flat pliers which he plugged in the ear of the cameraman filming all this process,” remembers Sanita and adds that the leader also got down the black curtain of the left side of the stage, wrapped himself in it and like a Dracula jumped in the audience where everybody could touch him for a while, till he finished his ‘performance’ shouting: I can’t stand this any more.
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| The Horrors |
In the same day unlike
The Horrors ‘terror’ the audience could see English pop girls
The Pipettes. They didn’t just sing the songs from their last year’s album
We Are the Pipettes, but also danced a lot and talked to the audience. Afterwards you could also see home rockers
Damn Seagulls and
Lapko. There were huge cheering for American, soul music and R&B musician
John Legend which added his performance with enthusiastic piano playing.
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| The Pippettes |
The holy evening of Husky Rescue Up to this time there had been four stages in Ruisrock festival, but this year one more stage was added –Turun Sanomat (the biggest newspaper in Turku) tent where on the first day of festival there was a showcasing chance for the new and not so new Finnish indie bands. It’s worth to mention the headliners of Turun Sanomat tent on Friday. It’s the band Husky Rescue from Helsinki which has showed their music not only in their motherland, but also America, Great Britain, Ireland and other countries, besides they have just come back from the biggest music and art festival in the world – Glastonbury. Ghost Is Not Real – this is the name of their latest album; on that evening the songs of it are being played together with the singles from their first album Country Falls in a serious atmosphere to serious audience. The music of Husky Rescue is calm till the moment when it’s being suddenly interrupted by the elements of drums and guitar rock…then again music leads to calmness. They create a feeling of holy evening – there are candles on a stage in the dark tent, the band members wearing polite suits and I would like to say – they play intelligent and thought-out melodies, often offering only long instrumental gaps which in the certain moment are being interrupted by the singer’s originally gentle voice tone.
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| Husky Rescue |
On the first day the headliners of the festival is the band from the USA –
The Flaming Lips; they perform on the biggest stage. Their performance is a bright, colorful show full of the wonders of pyrotechnics.
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| The Flaming Lips |
Ola’s endless energy The next day of Ruisrock came with the biggest amount of the visitors, and people could feel it while moving from one stage to the other – it was very crowded. On the second day everybody could find his or her music style – there were metal and rock fans, rioting in front of Marillion, Zen Café, Sonata Arctica, In Flames, D’espairsRay, and aslo the fans of easier music enjoying The Magic Numbers and The Crash.
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| The Crash |
The younger audience enjoyed Finnish pop band
Sunrise Avenue which has lately attracted the audience with their hit
Fairytale Gone Bad. We also can’t forget the bright Swedes
The Ark. The band has been very active this year not only releasing their new album, but also taking part in Eurovision song contest representing
Sweden. If they didn’t succeed in Eurovision, it’s the opposite on the Ruisrock festival stage – they had a visual show added by the leader’s Ola Salo energy and attractive appearance which he changed for some three times.
The headliners of the second day were Finnish legends Hanoi Rocks which was being welcomed not only by the local audience, but there was also a guy from the USA to see them live. This was the second year when in spite of his polite age (36) he came to Ruisrock to see Hanoi Rocks.
Raincoats and wellies
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