Tarja’s latest release is not a typical Tarja album. In fact it isn’t a typical rock album at all. Where Tarja’s latest album, “Colours in the Dark” is a rock album with some classical elements, “Beauty and the beat” is more of a Classical music album with some rock thrown …
Read More »Tarja & Elyose – Rock City, Nottingham – 12th February 2014
Tonight’s gig was Tarja’s first UK show outside London since leaving Nightwish. As a result I was curious to see how big a crowd would attend, and when support band Elyose took to the stage at 7pm the venue wasn’t busy – they certainly suffered from the early start, but …
Read More »Elyose – Rock City, Nottingham – 12/02/2014 Photos
French band Elyose were the support act for Tarja’s European tour including dates in London and Nottingham, and put in an excellent performance that went down very well with the crowd. Check out these photos of their performance..
Read More »Metal Female Voices Festival – Day 3 Reviewed
A superb closing day to an excellent festival. A slightly later start to the final day meant that a few sore heads could be nursed before heading back to the arena to catch another ten bands rock the crowd. First on stage were L’Endevi(7/10) from Valencia, who despite being …
Read More »Within Temptation – Paradise (What About Us?) E.P.
‘Paradise’ = noun, “a place or condition of great happiness, where everything is exactly as you would like it to be”. A description never more apt. Continuing their relentless march towards conquering the globe, Within Temptation throw out this four track E.P. ahead of next years highly …
Read More »Tarja – Colours in the dark
Finnish singer Tarja Turunen is back with her third rock/metal solo album – Colours in the dark. Tarja is the Finnish classical singer who with Nightwish changed the female fronted metal scene dramatically. No longer were female vocals limited to standard rock or metal styles (e.g. Doro or Girlschool), instead …
Read More »Tarja Turunen interview
I recently spoke to former Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen during her very brief trip to London to promote her forthcoming album – Colours in the dark. We discussed the writing process for the album, the choice of ‘Victims of ritual’ as the first single, her touring plans both with her …
Read More »Tarja – Victim of ritual (single)
Tarja’s new album, Colours in the dark, is due for release on 23rd August, but ahead of that comes the first single from the new album – ‘Victim of ritual’. The song is inspired by a well known piece of classical music, ‘Bolero’ by Maurice Ravel. You can actually hear …
Read More »METAL FEMALE VOICES FEST – Interview with co-founder Val.
With the eleventh edition looming and bands being announced as we speak, we decided to grab festival co-founder Val, to ask her about the festivals origins and how it has now developed into quite a unique event in the Metal calender. . First of all, many thanks …
Read More »Interview with Tarja Turunen
Former Nightwish singer Tarja is about to issue her first live release – Act 1. Available as a double CD or as DVD/Blu-ray its a great album that we at Planetmosh have reviewed – check out our reviews here – CD review: http://planetmosh.com/tarja-act-1-cd/ DVD review: http://planetmosh.com/tarja-act-1-dvdblu-ray/ Tarja was kind enough …
Read More »Tarja – Act 1 (DVD/Blu Ray)
Former Nightwish singer Tarja Turunen is about to release her first live CD/DVD/Blu Ray – Act 1. It was recorded at the end of March 2012 in Argentina. Planetmosh recently reviewed the CD version of Act 1 – you can read the review here – http://planetmosh.com/tarja-act-1-cd/ Now it’s the turn …
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