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Looks good now! 👍 But still I need to return my NW fan badge, this was a terrible score lol!

I see what you're getting at, it was perhaps a risky move for them and it could have backfired badly, but I wasn't there at the time and I don't know if they got lots of shit for taking part in Eurovision. If they did, it doesn't appear to have led to long-term damage, perhaps they even managed to widen their appeal beyond the usual metal crowd by doing that. In any case, it's true that at such a young age successful artists are often fragile emotionally and hardships could lead to break-ups or depression... Like for instance, firing Sami was a difficult thing to do for Tuomas, and he went and disbanded Nightwish before someone talked some sense into him. But at the same time, taking risks has also paid off for them in ways that we cannot always calculate. As for the Tarja split, I think it came as a necessity not a choice, at least the way they explained it. After a while, no amount of discussion, negotiation or compromises could make them work together smoothly, and it all had become toxic for everyone involved. I'm not saying that it couldn't have been avoided, had a number of decisions been different, but by 2005 there were probably too many years and too many bad decisions to be able to put things back and to recover innocence lost.

I'm late this week, had a crazy week-end without much time to sit down and spend time on the computer. Anyway, let's see how I do this time. Okay looking at the answers, I'm pretty bad! 😆 #10 is confusing though, because he probably played with more than 3 bands.

Marko is definitely returning to the stage in 2022. 😮

Jinek does have some silly questions though. 🙄

Do you think this has damaged their credibility as a metal band?

Wow this musical science is well beyond my pay grade! But interesting nonetheless, this is the first thing I hear of harmonic series. I don't get how say a pinched string can vibrate with different frequencies at the same time, but my physics notions are very basic.

Great playing! I'm no expert, but I can tell you've played before! 😄 So you're a multi-instrumentalist, with the drums and piano playing... Kind of heavy-Troy 😁

Nightwish playing Pinkpop in 2022? Isn't that a very mainstream event? 😮

Interesting story behind this one. I can't say I love the song, but it fits the required format for the contest. I don't remember what was the thought process behind the band applying for Eurovision, I would need to re-read the biography. Was it the label pushing for it, was it a "let's do this to piss them off" decision while they were all drunk... Anyway I guess it has paid off in some way, just like Floor showing up on Beste Zangers -- getting non-metal folks engaged.

Sounds good, yeah the pictures need to be hosted elsewhere (flickr for instance) for you to post them here.

I wasn't ready for this! 😁 It's balls to the wall metal, and the musicians seem very talented. They're very popular with reactors lately, though until now I hadn't listened to their stuff. And what kind of guitar have you bought? 😲

Too bad, thanks for trying! 👍

Thanks, there's no hurry!

Thanks for the offer! 👍 I do have a request if you have time for that, my search mojo in Finnish is no good, do you know if the original 2008 voice.fi article about this singer is still available online?

It's fun to try and imagine what Nightwish could have become with another singer! I wish there were more demos available from those auditions.

Sani (Saija Aartela) (of Aikakone) Wikipedia (Finnish translation) Thanks to @Ocean Soul for this one! 👍 I can't find the original report right now, but several sources mention that Voice Music News reported in 2008 that Sani was possibly the runner-up for singing with Nightwish. Also: This last article sounds very much like an opportunistic sales pitch, given that it was published on October 2, 2012 right after Anette left the band. 🙄 Anywyay, here's a sample from her material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EQNvCi4jRI

Great stuff, thank you! I didn't know about #3, and I see there are a few Finnish articles about this so I'm going to update my list with this new info! 👍 About #6, I answered without reading the question properly. 😆 🤘

An interview with Martijn Westerholt and Robin La Joy Westerholt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-akIQb6W6Y There's a bit of talk about how Martijn got in touch with Johanna (and Tuomas) and Troy.

Thanks again! Looking forward to the answers! Especially #3.

I didn't live that buildup to the EMFB release because I (re-)discovered the band shortly after the release. But boy it's still an album that has a special place in my heart because it's the first I bought and the only one I really listened to for a long while -- that and Showtime Storytime of course! 😁 And of course I was very partial to Floor as a singer and for a long while it was the only original material with her, so all the more reason to love it. Although I really appreciate all of the tracks, my guilty pleasures are some of the more conventional feel-good songs like "Alpenglow" and "Edema Ruh", I love them to pieces. There goes my metal cred, if I had any.

Something different today, Julia Nilon reacting to Scaretale 😲 Great reaction, you must watch it to understand. 🧛‍♂️

It works, as long as one creates a free account. 👍 Single! Looking forward to see what style she will choose for her solo album. I expect a softer side of Floor, more Beste Zangers than Northward or reVamp. But except for saying that it won't be like what she already does, Floor gave very little clues! Edit: Wow, it's weird seeing Julia, Elizabeth, Rebecca and those other reactors on Dutch TV!

An interview on TV this time, in Suomi with English subtitles. Her book is now released, but I don't know if the English version is ready yet.

A new interview with Tarja, on Chaoszine. Some highlights: The idea for the book came originally from the book publisher, not Tarja. The focus of the book is her solo career, not the Nightwish years. As mentioned elsewhere, in the book Tarja talks about the stroke she has a couple of years ago, from which she has recovered fully.