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Well it was a big trauma akin to Tarja leaving Nightwish -- and the new singer will have some resistance to overcome, especially if she doesn't already have an established credibility. To some it must feel like their parents are getting a divorce. Though I'm happy that Delain is still alive, in one form or another.

A bit of trivia: the new singer Ambre Vourvahis is actually Marco Heubaum's girlfriend -- according to Dianne van Giersbergen.

It's the full set indeed, except for Ad Astra missing at the end when the stream just went out. 😣 Here's the show on YouTube:

Pinkpop 2022-06-17 Fire Storm in a Glass (Northward) Dangerous Game (cover, with Henk Poort) Sweet Curse (ReVamp, with Henk Poort) Face Your Demons (After Forever) Winner (cover) Euphoria (cover) Storm Energize Me (After Forever) Oblivion (cover) Let It Go (cover) Wolf and Dog (ReVamp) The Phantom of the Opera (cover, with Henk Poort) Here's the best version I could find on YouTube: Random comments: Bearded Henk is 50% more metal. Evil-Henk. This would have been the perfect chance to have Henk perform The Phantom with Nightwish for a change, especially since Marko is gone. I guess that the band didn't want to rehearse the Phantom for just one show. I have to get used to seeing Floor dressed in pink. Stilettos? I thought she had given up on heels! 😁 Is it me or did Floor rocks it way more than in previous solo shows? She even growled on Face Your Demons! 🤘 She's also speaking like 3 times faster in Dutch than any other language! 🤣

Ok I'm at least able to catch some of the show during my lunch break. From what I can hear the sound is good and the camera work solid. I hope this turns up on YouTube later so I can catch up with what I missed. Shoemaker... 👀 I could never tell that Floor just sang a whole show of her own just a couple of hours earlier! 😮

It does work! Why do they have to do this on a day I'm working, lol! 😆 https://www.npostart.nl/live/npo-2-extra

More details about Pinkpop streaming. Can't tell if this will work outside the Netherlands though. 🤔 https://www-gids-tv.translate.goog/artikel/20077/pinkpop-2022-live-op-tv-en-online-zo-kijk-en-luister-je-naar-het-festival?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

I don't know how this works, but apparently some Pinkpop performances will be live-streamed on Dutch TV/radio. I don't know if this includes Floor and/or Nightwish? https://www-pinkpop-nl.translate.goog/2022/volg-pinkpop-2022-live-bij-de-npo-via-radio-tv-en-online/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Not unexpectedly, a German tour in 2023! And a hint to further Dutch shows. 🇩🇪 - May 7 - Oberhausen | Turbinenhalle 2 🇨🇭 - May 9 - Zürich | X-TRA 🇩🇪 - May 10 - Munich | Backstage Werk 🇦🇹 - May 11 - Vienna | Simm City 🇩🇪 - May 13 - Leipzig | Haus Auensee 🇩🇪 - May 14 - Neu-Isenburg | Hugenhottenhalle 🇩🇪 - May 15 - Cologne | E-Werk 🇩🇪 - May 17 - Stuttgart | LKA Longhorn 🇩🇪 - May 18 - Berlin | Huxley's Neue Welt 🇩🇪 - May 19 - Hamburg | Sporthalle Tickets: floorjansen.com/tour Exclusive pre-sale (German shows) via Eventim right now! Tickets go on sale this Thursday June 16th 3:00 PM CET. More news for Dutchies coming soon. 😉

This is the last episode (the duets), but I can't figure out if it has subtitles. 🤔 https://odysee.com/@jenniezelf:9/Dueten-klaar:a

From Anette's FB: https://www.facebook.com/100044252388420/posts/615977713220636/ Have had a wonderful video shoot day with Patric Ullaeus for upcoming Allen/Olzon album no 2 more news about release date and singles very soon!

Note to self: tickets available June 17th. 👀 wtofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/Cev50JdvWUm/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D ⚡️ Hey Canada & USA! We will play three exclusive headline shows in October! October 4, 2022 - Skyway Theater, Minneapolis (MN) October 8, 2022 - The Agora Theater, Cleveland (OH) October 13, 2022 - M-Telus, Montreal (QC) Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 17, 10:00AM ⏰.

It seems like it's been a long time since the last proper band interview... Anyway here's Floor in Swedish media: Nightwish: "We love the world we live in" The symphony metal band Nightwish has undergone many changes and conflicts during its 26 years since its inception and has also become Finland's largest music export. TT met the singer Floor Jansen at the festival Sweden Rock. 10 June 2022 https://www.gp.se/kultur/kultur-nöje/nightwish-vi-älskar-världen-vi-bor-i-1.74584847 It is cloudy on the second day of the rock festival when Dutch Floor Jansen gives an audience in the backstage area and remembers when she last visited Norway. Then as a singer in the band After Forever. - I remember that it was my first time in Sweden. But it was hot that year, really hot. Then there was a girl who bought me a drink at the bar but I did not understand that she liked me and wanted to flirt, says Floor Jansen with a laugh. Nightwish was formed in 1996 but had a major international impact in the early 00's. Now they have just embarked on a long world tour after the pandemic. Floor Jansen compares it to getting on a bike again after many years. Something that sits in the spinal cord. - I really missed it. I need both home life and artist life. Both me and my husband (Hannes van Dahl who is the drummer in the metal band Sabaton reds note) have really tried to focus on what we could do, instead of what we could not. Like writing music and all that, but there is nothing that can replace going out and playing for an audience. "Let's festival!" Jansen says that the start of the tour began a week earlier at a festival in Finland. It was bad weather but nothing disturbed the band. - When we arrived, it rained a lot, of course. It was ten degrees, everyone had rubber boots and there was mud everywhere. Then we were back and felt "let's festival", says Jansen. After the tour, which is expected to continue until June 2023, Nightwish plans to record his tenth studio album. - This will be the third of the albums I have been on that fit together thematically. I'm really looking forward to starting working on the songs and getting to know them and seeing how everyone in the band gets to add their own creativity and sound. Heavier sound Floor Jansen wants to keep much of the new album concept secret. She admits that the new record will be in the heavier direction, but promises not to lose the typical Nightwish sound. The band's lyrics and themes were initially inspired by gothic and fantasy, including themes from JRR Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". But the latest albums "Endless forms most beautiful" and "Human II Nature" have had a different character, says Floor Jansen. - It's not fantasy with elves and dwarves, it's much more about love for the real world, but where you can almost imagine a fantasy world because everything is as fantastic as it is. We simply love the world we live in. But more scientifically and biologically than spiritually, says Jansen. Floor Jansen is Nightwish's third singer since the band started and other members have also been replaced over the years, which has led to some conflicts that have been reflected in the media. Jansen, who is also planning a solo album in 2023, says that it is difficult to have a band for so long without any problems. - Music is more important than all the drama around. At the end of the day, that's what we stand for. An honesty to be true to the music.

And here's the link:

Epica streaming in 13 days from Hellfest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9lGCrcH1g

They must be preparing for the June private show Martijn mentioned earlier on, sort of a warm up for the new band and singer. Also, I appreciate the generally positive moderation on Delain socials -- example below. Nightwish moderation is often very passive-aggressive! 😆

Thanks for the update @Moondance, I've been crazy busy at work! 🤘 I'm talking the liberty of adding YouTube links to your setlist! 😁 Not sure why, Floor speaking Swedish between songs is unsettling! The fire and smoke at the end of GLS is something else!

A gut reaction to Dead Boy's Poem -- I can't help but agree with people who think this song is a masterpiece. 😁 MerchantOfAlba - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4RU7drqtHs

Johannes Oerding's Anfassen by Floor: https://odysee.com/@jenniezelf:9/Floor-Jansen---Anfassen-2-met-subs:2 🤘

Delain news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoJCHHMcAM EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!! We will be playing at ProgPower USA in 2023!!! We are so looking forward to returning to the ProgPower stage and we can't wait to see you there! Along with that, we are currently working on putting a couple of tours together so we will have some tour dates to announce in the coming months. Also, last week we promised to give you the date of the first single which will also be the revealing of the singer. We finally have it and the date is... drumroll please... AUGUST 9TH!!!

I watched the documentary, it's nicely done and it's a offers a rare opportunity to find out more about Floor's family and friends. Lots of ground covered many times already but this was made for an audience new to Floor. Perhaps it's a translation issue, Floor mentions never having singed a Nightwish song before flying to the USA to save the Imaginaerum tour in 2012, but we know of at least She Is My Sin sang on stage with After Forever. Just a little nitpick!