A Nightwish Come True
- Nightwish
I was a little hesitant about buying tickets to see Finland’s Nightwish on their current tour. The press release promoting the tour was promising to feature “rarely heard material from the earlier era,” but these weren’t the songs that had drawn me to the band. I had discovered the band after stumbling across their Showtime, Storytime video on YouTube and the newer songs from their twenty-plus year career are the ones that had made them one of my favorite bands. These are the songs I wanted to see them play.
I should have had more faith.
As advertised, the two and a half hour setlist relied heavily on material recorded before their breakthrough album “Once”. In fact, only about a third were from the current half of their catalog. However, as promised in the tour material they revisited these “old songs with some new twists.” These twists came in the form of their two newest members, singer Floor Jansen and multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley.
It was Donockley who had first drawn my interest to the band as his uilleann pipes had given the band a unique sound. On the older songs, he added depth…
