NIGHTWISH Keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen And Author Don Rosa Discuss The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck Project; Video Online

November 7, 2013, 10 years ago

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Finland's YLE recently caught up with NIGHTWISH keyboardist/mastermind Tuomas Holopainen to discuss his new musical project based on the comic book series by Don Rosa, The Lide And Times Of Scrooge McDuck:

Nightwish will release Showtime, Storytime, which features the band's 2013 Wacken Open Air performance, on November 29th as a Ltd. 2Blu-ray + 2CD DIGI, Ltd. 2DVD + 2CD DIGI, Ltd. 2CD DIGI, 2LP (coloured) in gatefold and an exclusive Nuclear Blast Mailorder Edition.

Showtime, Storytime will be shown at Tennis Palace in Helsinki, Finland on November 28th. Members of the band, as well as director Ville Laadli will be on hand for the showing. Tickets on sale starting at 10 AM on November 8th via Finnkino.fi, and Finnkino cinema complex theatres.

The third trailer supporting the release can be viewed below with the above quote kicking off the three-minute clip:

Check out two previously-released trailers below:

Showtime, Storytime contains the entire Nightwish headliner show, played at this years’ legendary Wacken Open Air – the world’s biggest heavy metal festival. The live show in the front of 85,000 screaming metalheads was directed by Ville Lipiäinen, filmed with seventeen cameras and has a total duration of 85 minutes.

The second disc consists of 120-minute tour documentary Please Learn The Setlist in 48 Hours – also directed by Ville Lipiäinen - with no short of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute Nightwish Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. On top of this there are two music clips: ‘I Want My Tears Back’ (Live at Hartwall Arena) and ‘Ghost Love Score’ (Live in Buenos Aires).

The Wacken Open Air appearance was the first of the three final shows of the band’s Imaginaerum World Tour 2013, which saw the Norsemen and their Dutch amazon Floor Jansen (REVAMP) playing of 104 concerts in 34 different countries with total audience of over 1.5 million fans around the globe.

Mastermind and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen states: “Our darling flying Dutchwoman, Floor Jansen, has been nothing but incredible during her time in Nightwish on this tour, so this is a perfect opportunity to immortalize the current vibe of the band on film! “

The setlist reads as follows (DVD1):

'Dark Chest Of Wonders'

'Wish I Had An Angel'

'She Is My Sin'

'Ghost River'

' Ever Dream'

'Storytime'

'I Want My Tears Back'

'Nemo'

'Last Of The Wilds'

'Bless The Child'

'Romanticide'

'Amaranth'

'Ghost Love Score'

'Song Of Myself'

'Last Ride Of The Day'

'Outro (Imaginaerum)'

Check out 'Storytime' clip from the release below:

For more details visit Nightwish.com.



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