by David de Young • • Comments Off on NITS at the Savoy, Helsinki – September 18th, 2024
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…
by David de Young • • Comments Off on Rickie Lee Jones at Tavastia Club, Helsinki (August 28th, 2024)
To do a dangerous thing with style Is what I call art. – Charles Bukowski When my concert companion asked what I thought about Rickie Lee Jones’s performance in Helsinki Wednesday night as we walked from the venue, it made…
by David de Young • • Comments Off on Nick Cave at Musiikkitalo, Helsinki (June 25th, 2024)
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…