I would do the same if I would be on the other side of the table, if you know what I mean.
“Any band who would find new guys to come in or so, you would need to have these things. Kind of an audition - obviously, of course. We had a meet-and-greet before as well, but another one where we practiced together for the first time to see how, playing-wise, the chemistry was going, and get to know each other more. Two months ago, approximately, I was in Finland practicing. “I always listened to NIGHTWISH I always liked their music a lot.
And, yeah, absolutely, I immediately, of course, said that yes, definitely I would be interested. “And, of course, obviously, when I got that phone call, I thought it was, like, ‘Woah.’ As an outsider, obviously, I couldn’t think that, especially in NIGHTWISH, I couldn’t think of it even that this sort of thing could happen. I received a phone call from the NIGHTWISH camp and was being asked if I would be interested the bass player position regarding what has happened, that Marko has left the band,” Jukka said. In a recent interview with Finland’s Kaaos TV, Koskinen talked about how he joined NIGHTWISH as a session bassist for the upcoming tour for Human. Hietala, who left band in January explaining in a statement that he hadn’t “been able to feel validated by this life for a quite a few years now.”
It was also NIGHTWISH‘s first proper concert with session bassist Jukka Koskinen‘s ( WINTERSUN), who stepped into the group as the replacement for longtime NIGHTWISH bassist/vocalist Marko Hietala. This marked band’s first fan-attended show in more than two a half years. NIGHTWISH played the Oulu show as a warm-up for its festival appearances in Finland this week: July 30 at Qstock and July 31 at Kuopiorock. The performed at Club Teatria disguised as a NIGHTWISH cover band called NEVSKI & THE PROSPECTS, although speculation about the group’s actual identity was strong enough to cause the event to sell out. NIGHTWISH played a special “secret” concert last night (Wednesday, July 28) in Oulu, Finland.
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