Category: Reviews

Bob Dylan at Veikkaus Arena, Helsinki

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I saw Bob Dylan in concert for only the second time on Thursday, October 16, 2025, in Helsinki, on show #1 (we were first, baby!) of the Fall 2025 Rough and Rowdy Ways tour.

It’s ironic that, despite having lived half my life in Minnesota, I never saw Dylan in the US. Both my Dylan concert experiences have been in Finland.

By way of a smooth transition, Dylan’s last performance before heading to Finland to start his European tour was a 23-minute, five-song set at Farm Aid in Minnesota on September 20th.

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NITS at the Savoy, Helsinki

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Despite being a lifelong music geek, I wasn’t familiar with the Dutch band NITS until this past year. It’s not like the band has been hiding under a rock for the fifty years of their existence, and I’m not ignorant…

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Nick Cave at Musiikkitalo, Helsinki

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I vividly recall Nick Cave’s tour stop in Helsinki on the “Conversations with Nick Cave” tour in 2019. Not just because I was one of the lucky few selected to sit on stage with the performer during the first of his two-night…

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Review | The Ugly One: an actual German comedy

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All well and good, the Guthrie’s glitzy production of Guys And Dolls; and it’s good that they’ve scheduled (rescheduled actually) Shakespeare’s masterful history cycle; and it’s wonderful that in Three Little Birds CTC put together a show based on music…

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