Category: Interviews

  • Sonata Arctica – 05/08/2007

    Tony Kakko and Elias Viljanen By: Sabine van Gameren  �   A lot of things going on for Sonata Arctica, Touring all over the world with   their latest release Unia. Tempelores prepared some questions for them.

  • Rubik – 04/08/2007

    Artturi Taira and Samuli Pöyhönen – 04/08/2007 By: Sabine van Gameren Those who have read the review from Ankkarock, will probably remember this band. Rubik took some time to answer our questions.

  • Poets of the Fall – 05/08/2007

    Marko By: Sabine van Gameren Poets of the fall… one of the best pop/rock bands in Finland. Are they ready for the rest of the world? We asked them questions like these…

  • 04-08-2007 Schollenpop

    Date: 04-08-2007, Zuider-strand, Netherlands By: Elvira Visser   Schollenpop is one of those festivals that have something special. This festival   is a free festival on a superb location, the beach. Located on the beach the   festival attracts most people when the sun shines. As this was one of the first   actual sun days…

  • 02-08-2007 Tunes of Dawn

    Support: Electric Monk; Venue: Factory,  Helsinki(Finland) By: Nina Mende Factory is probably the tiniest club I’ve ever been to and should be called garage rather than factory. the stage is so little, the light was super bad and the sound…. and the club just seemed to be the home of chaos itself… a really dirty…

  • 02-08-2007 Megaphone

    Date: 02-08-2007,Support: Hollow Heart Semifinal, Helsinki(Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren Hollow heart was about to open this night. In semifinal, which is a little brother from Helsinki’s most famous venue Tavastia. When Hollow started of with a long electronic part, I was really pleased. Sounded quite ok. Too bad that after this intro, the keys became so less…

  • Velcra – Hadal

    Release date: 30-05-2007, Label: Underarts By: Sabine van Gameren Velcra started as a typical mix between nu-metal and Industrial. This Finnish band might be not that well known in Europe, but that might change with the latest release. With their new album Hadal they seem to have made some changes from what they have done…

  • 28-07-2007 Stonehenge

    Location: Steenwijk (Netherlands) By: Wouter van de Kamp Due to circumstances I wasn’t able to make it to the first band and was about to miss the first part of the second band. The first band didnt have my personal interest and the second one turned out to have cancelled their gig due to vocal…

  • 24, 26-07-2007 Trail of Tears

    Support:Scenario II By: Elvira Visser Sometimes it is good to get a first impression of a band by seeing them live. Some bands however you need to hear before you see them. I think with these 2 bands you just have to see them to get the best impression. For me this was the first…

  • 27-07-2007 Detonation

    Support: Massive Assault; Venue:Acu, Utrecht (NL) By: Wouter van de Kamp  

  • Alura – Alura

    Release date: 2006 By: Wouter van de Kamp This young Dutch poprockband was founded in September 2006. Meanwhile they won Taaipop 2007 and they released their selftitled EP in June 2007. After that, they played, not quite without merit, on the Uitmarkt (Amsterdam) and the Pepperfestival (Hoorn). But now to their music.

  • 21,22-07-2007 Ian Parker

    Date: 21,22-07-2007, Arrow Blues Festival 2007 By: Elvira Visser I went to see Ian Parker not because I heard his music but because I read in the paper that he got an award for best performer at this blues festival last year. So something you should see. After putting his gear on stage I was…