Five stylish men in black jam in a tent. The audience cheers. But what is this? They’re playing… jazz!

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Max Hagen, the music editor for Time Out magazine’s St Petersburg edition, is visiting Ilosaarirock for the 4th or 5th time.
His first visit to Ilosaari in 2002 was because of Suede.
“I was looking at their tour dates, but there was nothing appropriate in Russia. Then I noticed Ilosaarirock. It was only eight hours away from St Petersburg by bus,” he explains.

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I started day 2 of Ilosaarirock again with strolling around the festival site and having a look around.

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First of all, I just want to add that the glam rockers from the Darkness finally managed what I was looking and waiting for all yesterday - they made the crowd dancing and jumping around.

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Sunday’s opening act Eläkeläiset got the honour of being announced by North Carelias small great man Jaakko Teppo himself. The feeling of a great humppa feast hung in the air, making it just a question of time before the crowd went bananas.
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One of the best things common to all the performers at the truck stage is their enthusiasm for performing. There’s absolutely no chance of seeing tired and bored stars, who are bribed to play something on stage.

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Katatonia shares a special relationship with Finland. When they founded Katatonia in 1991, Anders Nyström and Jonas Renkse (formerly known as Blakkheim and Lord Seth, respectively) probably did not guess that their most loyal fans would be found in the neighboring country in the east.

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The duty of the stage manager is, humbly, to make everything work in the backstage area.This means precise control over the entity: presence, organising and scheduling, but the most important thing is the right attitude.

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Alamaailman Vasarat makes you feel like you have somehow accidentally ended up in Emil Kusturica’s movie “Underground” - appropriately the group defines their sound as fictious folk music (or alternatively as kebab-kosher-jazz-film-traffic-punk-music - there must be at least as many definitions as there are listeners.)

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DJPP & Co waked up the hungover festival folk on Sunday morning at Rentolava (The Chill Out Stage).

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