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22.01.2012 The official start of the Imaginaerum tour
The official start of the Imaginaerum tour with 4000+ people at the Gibson amphitheater, LA.
Setlist:
- Finlandia (Jean Sibelius cover)
- Storytime
- Wish I Had an Angel
- Amaranth (With long outro)
- Scaretale
- The Siren (With Arabesque and Tutankhamen samples)
- Slow, Love, Slow
- I Want My Tears Back (with Troy Donockley)
- The Crow, the Owl and the Dove (with Troy Donockley)
- The Islander (with Troy Donockley) (Acoustic Version)
- Nemo (with Troy Donockley) (Acoustic Version)
- Last of the Wilds (with Troy Donockley)
- Planet Hell (With Stargazers and Gethsemane samples)
- Song of Myself
- Last Ride of the Day
- Encore:
- The Poet and the Pendulum
- Over the Hills and Far Away (Gary Moore cover) (with Troy Donockley)
- Imaginaerum
Source: Facebook
21.01.2012 EMMA-award for Imaginaerum
Nightwish received an EMMA award for the most selling album in Finland 2011.
What makes this extra special is the fact that it did so in just four weeks!
Again, we can nothing but bow before the loyalty and enthusiasm of our fantastic fans! THANK YOU!!
Source: Nightwish.com
11.01.2012 New single "The Crow, The Owl And The Dove"
New single "The Crow, The Owl And The Dove" is now on presale at the Nightwish-Shop! Along with the title song you will also get a previously unreleased song "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (Theme from movie "The Piano")! Only at the Nightwish-Shop you can choose to order a bundle that includes an exclusive t-shirt!
-Nightwish shop
26.12.2011 Stobe Harju about the movie
Dear friends of Nightwish and the Imaginaerum movie.
This must be the hardest update I had to write because of my principal "hands on" work is getting less frequent. For that, I feel emptier than ever.
As most of you may know, we finished the director's cut for the film. Everyone involved in the screening sessions were very happy and gave precious feedback that made the director's cut. I can say this now, we are very, very, very happy with the cut. There are many people who deserve our appreciation, they are fellow directors, co-writers, actors and producers. There is still editing required for the visual effects to make us stay in the budget. This phase eventually makes the film and is crucial to the success of the final movie. Again, we are living exciting times .
Now, filmmaking is mostly about letting go. Besides the editing, I had to say farewell to my very good friend and the editor of the film, Mathieu Bélanger, and his fantastic family who joined me in Finland for couple months. The heart and soul Mathieu put into this film cannot be described by words and I'm sure, our paths will cross in the future and in another project.
Now, the film is in the good hands of another friend of mine Joshua Sherrett, his Workshop and the great team of Vision Global in Montreal. Their visual effects and their early concept sketches have blown us away several times already, and finally, they get to show us the meaning of the word "magic". Believe me when I say we've seen some pretty exciting stuff so far.
As my work continues with them it also continues with Petri Alanko and the soundtrack he's producing with Tuomas. It's miraculous how these guys can pull off something completely different but at the same time similar with the Imaginaerum album songs. Well, it must be the 350 tracks per song on the album that give that possibility for the variations. Those crazy bastards.
It's just a matter of time when we have got something new and special to show you. We hope it's quick because we can't wait either.
Meanwhile, the great people working on Imaginaerum would like to thank you all and wish you a magical Christmas and imaginative New Year! May your dreams come true.
Stobe Harju - The Director, Imaginaerum (Helsinki, Finland 18th Dec, 2011)
This must be the hardest update I had to write because of my principal "hands on" work is getting less frequent. For that, I feel emptier than ever.
As most of you may know, we finished the director's cut for the film. Everyone involved in the screening sessions were very happy and gave precious feedback that made the director's cut. I can say this now, we are very, very, very happy with the cut. There are many people who deserve our appreciation, they are fellow directors, co-writers, actors and producers. There is still editing required for the visual effects to make us stay in the budget. This phase eventually makes the film and is crucial to the success of the final movie. Again, we are living exciting times .
Now, filmmaking is mostly about letting go. Besides the editing, I had to say farewell to my very good friend and the editor of the film, Mathieu Bélanger, and his fantastic family who joined me in Finland for couple months. The heart and soul Mathieu put into this film cannot be described by words and I'm sure, our paths will cross in the future and in another project.
Now, the film is in the good hands of another friend of mine Joshua Sherrett, his Workshop and the great team of Vision Global in Montreal. Their visual effects and their early concept sketches have blown us away several times already, and finally, they get to show us the meaning of the word "magic". Believe me when I say we've seen some pretty exciting stuff so far.
As my work continues with them it also continues with Petri Alanko and the soundtrack he's producing with Tuomas. It's miraculous how these guys can pull off something completely different but at the same time similar with the Imaginaerum album songs. Well, it must be the 350 tracks per song on the album that give that possibility for the variations. Those crazy bastards.
It's just a matter of time when we have got something new and special to show you. We hope it's quick because we can't wait either.
Meanwhile, the great people working on Imaginaerum would like to thank you all and wish you a magical Christmas and imaginative New Year! May your dreams come true.
Stobe Harju - The Director, Imaginaerum (Helsinki, Finland 18th Dec, 2011)
Source: Nightwish.com
18.12.2011 Imaginaerum #13 in Slovenia
Nightwish's new album "Imaginaerum" reached very good chart positions all over Europe, despite heavy competition in the Christmas season.
Many thanks to all the fans for your support!
- Finland: #1
- Sweden: #3
- Switzerland: #3
- Germany: #6
- Austria: #9
- Slovenia: #13
- Ireland Indie: #15
- Czech: #16
- Norway: #17
- Poland: #18
- Hungary: #21
- Holland: #24 (Holland Indie: #12)
- Italy: #32
- France: #33
- Portugal: #33
- Belgium Flanders: #44
- Spain: #49
- Belgium: #51
- Denmark: #55
- Belgium Wallonia: #64
- UK: #69 (UK Rock: #3; UK Indie: #7)
Source: Nightwish.com
05.12.2011 Imaginaerum in Slovenia
Imaginaerum is in Slovenia. Order your Imaginaerum album at iTunes or buy CD in store.
01.12.2011 NIGHTWISH - Imaginaerum signing session in Helsinki
NIGHTWISH - Imaginaerum signing session, Helsinki 30.11.2011 part 1
NIGHTWISH - Imaginaerum signing session, Helsinki 30.11.2011 part 2
Source: Youtube
30.11.2011 Anette from the rehearsals
Hi all!
So, I thought its time to write a little thing about our rehearsals over here in Helsinki and what we have been up to the last week.
Last thursday we went to our rehearsal place already in the morning and it was really nice to get in front of the microphone again and hearing what the guys had done the days before. We have some nice things planned and its always interesting to hear if it works out and yeah, it did. Singing the songs from Imaginaerum live for the first time was interesting and it's always this weird thing that songs I thought would be easy to sing live can be a bit tricky, while the ones I thought would be hard went really easy. This is something that happens every time and some songs seem to come alive even more in the rehearsing space.
This first day we practised for many hours and it takes some time to get into the songs so the day after we all sounded even better. I felt how we all started to get more and more into every song and leaving that day behind me felt very rewarding and anticipating of the rehearsals yesterday when our dear Troy joined us and made our group complete. For me, personally, Troy gives me calmness and positiveness and everything feels so fun, the music flows and we just had so fun together all day.
Yesterday was the last rehearsing day for this time and even if I long to go home to my dear boys at home, I already long for our rehearsals in january cause I leave Helsinki with a sense of joy and knowledge that next year will be wonderful and fun together with these guys and with the music I love to sing.
Today Imaginaerum was released and its so nice to finally have the album out!
Enjoy December and these last days of 2011 - 2012 is soon here!
Anette
So, I thought its time to write a little thing about our rehearsals over here in Helsinki and what we have been up to the last week.
Last thursday we went to our rehearsal place already in the morning and it was really nice to get in front of the microphone again and hearing what the guys had done the days before. We have some nice things planned and its always interesting to hear if it works out and yeah, it did. Singing the songs from Imaginaerum live for the first time was interesting and it's always this weird thing that songs I thought would be easy to sing live can be a bit tricky, while the ones I thought would be hard went really easy. This is something that happens every time and some songs seem to come alive even more in the rehearsing space.
This first day we practised for many hours and it takes some time to get into the songs so the day after we all sounded even better. I felt how we all started to get more and more into every song and leaving that day behind me felt very rewarding and anticipating of the rehearsals yesterday when our dear Troy joined us and made our group complete. For me, personally, Troy gives me calmness and positiveness and everything feels so fun, the music flows and we just had so fun together all day.
Yesterday was the last rehearsing day for this time and even if I long to go home to my dear boys at home, I already long for our rehearsals in january cause I leave Helsinki with a sense of joy and knowledge that next year will be wonderful and fun together with these guys and with the music I love to sing.
Today Imaginaerum was released and its so nice to finally have the album out!
Enjoy December and these last days of 2011 - 2012 is soon here!
Anette
Source: Nightwish facebook
26.11.2011 About Imaginaerum
In this video, all five band members say a few sentences about the upcoming album.
It also features some orchestral teasers as well as a first glance at the album's booklet art.
Source: Nightwish.com