Ruisrock Bounces Back

Last year the festival on the southwest coast at Turku had a three-day crowd of 71,000, which was at the upper end of its recent average, but this year that figure rocketed to 93,000.

Ruisrock’s Mikko Niemelä attributed the success to a July 4-6 line-up that included David Guetta, Lily Allen, and the first live show ever by Studio Killers.

Eslewhere in Finland, Tuska Open Air Metal Festival organiser Niklas Nuppola was happy to see the event record 24,000 visitors over three festivals days.

“2013 was 25 000, so we’re OK with that. Pretty much staying on the same level,” he said.

The acts at Tuska June 27-29 included Dimmu Borgir, Children Of Bodom, Satyricon, Bring Me The Horizon, Neurosis, Carcass, Stone, Church Of The Dead, and Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals.

In the last two years the country’s Provinssirock Festival in Seinäjoki has drawn in its horns after big budget entertainment wasn’t matched by big profits.

This year the event scaled down from three days and did 10,000 on the first and 13,000 on the second.

The June 27-28 lineup included The Prodigy, Rudimental, M.I.A, Nonono, and Dropkick Murphys.