“I’m not for either side,” he told the press. The PM’s quote itself was fairly innocuous.
Despite the band’s unprecedented success, Tarja had unexpectedly been fired by the rest of the band following what should have been a triumphant end-of-tour gig in Helsinki. No, it was their messy split with singer Tarja Turunen, the classically trained soprano who helped bring Tuomas’s ornate visions to life, that prompted him to speak out. The PM, Matti Vanhanen, was an enthusiastic metal fan, but it wasn’t Nightwish’s music that had caught his attention. It was 2005, and their most recent album, Once, was on its way to selling more than 2 million copies worldwide (and at a cost of more than €1,000,000 to make, including videos, it’s a good job it did). Tuomas knew his band had become truly famous when the Prime Minster of Finland started giving his opinion. Outside, the streets of Finland’s third-largest city look like they’ve been taken over by an invading army ahead of tomorrow’s show one clad head-to-toe in black and sporting t-shirts emblazoned with his band’s logo. We’re sitting in a darkened room in a hotel off Tampere’s main shopping drag. “I would say I’m the leader of the pack,” he says in a deep, measured voice. It might even be Troy Donockley, the band’s honorary Brit, who combines the role of multi-instrumentalist and court jester.īut no, it’s the man with the measured baritone speaking voice and the floor-length black dust coat lurking quietly on the fringes of the group who runs the show. Or it might be fork-bearded bassist and co-vocalist Marco Hietala, who permanently looks like he should be beating a large drum on a Viking longboat as it sails across the North Sea to raid some unfortunate hamlet near Sunderland. You might go for Floor Jansen, the statuesque Dutch singer who officially joined the band before 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful and who everyone else can’t help but seem to orbit. If you were asked to pick out the leader of Nightwish from a police lineup, it’s unlikely that you’d choose Tuomas Holopainen. Or, as the couple on the beach would have it: “Holy shit.” “Here we are now, after 20 years and all the ups and downs, doing these kinds of shows. “We’re country boys from Finland,” says Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboard player, musical mastermind and king of understatement who’s steered Nightwish from the backwaters of the Northern European symphonic metal ghetto into the wide open seas of international success. Since they formed almost 20 years ago in the sleepy town of Kitee, eastern Finland, they’ve done more than any other group to turn symphonic metal from a cult concern into a worldwide commercial juggernaut. Already today, they’ve had their photos taken by a pair of middle-aged women in a hotel lobby, been congratulated on their achievements by the owners of the oldest sauna in Finland, and been watched from afar by a group of dog-walkers near an old observation tower deep in the woods.īut then that’s life when you’re the most successful band Finland’s ever produced.
Either that or they’ve learned to take it in their stride. “Can we get their autographs?”īy the lake, the six members of Nightwish – and it is definitely them – appear oblivious to the attentions of these two unlikely fans as they line up for a photoshoot. The band was a bit disappointed with the video, because they found it to be a bit too complex.“Holy shit,” he reiterates, just to make sure. The video for this song tells a sad love story in reverse, it's a mix between the scenes and the band playing in a disused warehouse. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Video Edit Mix).In addition to it being a single, part of the edited version was used in a Chinese broadcast on CCTV-4. The videos are "Over the Hills and Far Away", "Bless the Child", and a 30-minute interview.
YOUTUBE NIGHTWISH EVER DREAM PLUS
There is too a limited DVD plus of the single which includes three DVD videotracks in addition to the audio content. The normal release includes the title track and the two songs, "Lagoon" and "The Wayfarer", which have not been released in Germany before. There are two versions of the single, each having a slightly different track list. It was also the first song bassist/vocalist Marko Hietala worked on after he joined the band replacing Sami Vänskä. It is one of two songs which were filmed from the Century Child album, with other one being "End of All Hope". " Bless the Child" is the seventh single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released as the second single from their album Century Child. 2002 single by Nightwish "Bless the Child"
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