This year the honorable status of Saturday’s main act befell on The Darkness, who’ve already visited Finland earlier this year.

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Viikate was just what the 24-hour party people needed to shake off their Sunday morning hang over. This energetic quartet proved to be at the right place at the right time, being the opening act of the YleX-stage on Sunday.

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Swedish Entombed is said to be best when playing live and they didn’t betray these expectations in Ilosaari either.

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Timo Tuovinen is responsible for the backstage area of Ilosaarirock’s main stage.

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Well, piercings this extreme are not exactly possible due to circumstances, but Otto has decorated the skins of festival audience with many other piercings and tattoos for ten years already.

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If there’s a perfect place for Ville Härkönen & Velvet, it must a be summer festival. It’s a perfect match for Härkönen’s velvety voice and Velvet’s country-flavoured sound.

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Lemi, the home town of särä, has given the guys from Stam1na t-shirts bearing the logo of the town, and not in vain, for Lemi has a good reason to be proud of these guys. Stam1na played it big and brash, and bowed to nobody.

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The Saturday evening at Rentolava (The Chill Out Stage) ended with an exceptional gig: a fantastic sound system came ashore at Lintulahti.

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The guys from Happoradio have often laughed at the fact that a lot of people have never heard the name Happoradio, although their songs get a lot of air time on the radio.

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Long before H hour the front of the main stage is crowded by Mokoma fans, eagerly waiting for their idols. So how did the band’s first gig at the biggest stage in Ilosaarirock go?

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