New acts added to the Flow Festival line up

Bobby Womack, Frank Ocean, Richie Hawtin, Yann Tiersen, Swans, Monolake, plus others join the festival program, UK ticket sales begin.

Flow Festival, organised in Helsinki’s Suvilahti on August 8–12 2012 has announced new additions to the event’s line up. These include soul legend Bobby Womack, about to release his new album in June, the rising star of contemporary R’n'B, Frank Ocean, trail blazing techno artist Richie Hawtin, the beloved French songwriter Yann Tiersen, New York’s post-punk heroes, Swans, the mastermind of far-reaching Berlin techno, Monolake, and the seminal DJ-producer Hudson Mohawke, amongst others.

Flow will also host African groups Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou from Benin and Tamikrest from Mali. The acclaimed Austrian artist Fennesz will perform as a part of The Other Sound concept, that showcases experimental music. More artists on The Other Sound program will be published later in the spring.

Other international additions to the line-up are Korallreven (SWE), Lindstrøm (NOR) and Africa Hitech (UK/AU). New domestic artists are Huoratron, Burning Hearts and the unique trio Unela, comprising of saxophonist Jukka Perko, singer-songwriter Yona and producer Samuli Kosminen.

The ninth Flow Festival will be organised in Helsinki’s Suvilahti 8–12, 2012.

With the new announcement, Flow Festival tickets also become available in the UK via See Tickets. Four day festival passes (including the festival weekend + the Opening Concert with Bon Iver on Wednesday August 8) are available for the price of 135 GBP, whereas three day weekend passes sell for 110 GBP.

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New acts added to the Flow Festival line up

The Black Keys, Ane Brun, The War on Drugs, Nicolas Jaar, Flying Lotus, A$AP Rocky, St. Vincent, Jason Moran and The Bandwagon plus Horace Andy among those to take the stage at Flow in Helsinki next summer

Flow Festival has confirmed new acts to perform at the ninth annual edition of the event in Helsinki's Suvilahti on 8–12 August 2012. Some twenty acts, including both international and domestic names, have been added to the bill, which already includes Björk, Feist and Bon Iver. With the announcement, the remaining ticket types also go on sale at Tiketti outlets.

New international artists on the Flow Festival program include the blazing hot American rock group The Black Keys, the Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun, the Philadelphia-based indie rock band The War On Drugs, two innovators of electronic music in Flying Lotus and Nicolas Jaar, contemporary rap trailblazer A$AP Rocky, indie pop up-and-comer St. Vincent, reggae legend Horace Andy and the award-winning jazz pianist from New York, Jason Moran, who will host a very special residency over two days at the stage built for Flow in co-operation with the "Wastelands" architectural assembly.

Other acts on the Valentine's Day program release are soul star Charles Bradley And His Extraordinairies, Four Tet & Cairbou, performing a unique back-to-back DJ set together, one of the highlights of the album release year 2011, Oneohtrix Point Never, dubstep innovator Pinch, the South African dance phenomenon Shangaan Electro and the ambient duo of two composers, A Winged Victory For The Sullen.

New Finnish artists confirmed for Flow are Jukka Poika, Gracias, Siinai, Verneri Pohjola Quartet, Black Twig, Bendagram and Kuusumun Profeetta.

More acts will be added to the line up during the spring.

With the new release, the remaining Flow tickets will be released on sale, namely two-day ticket combos and single day passes for Friday and Saturday.

The ninth Flow Festival takes place in Helsinki's Suvilahti on 8–12 August 2012.

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Feist to perform at Flow Festival on Sunday August 12

More artists will be released February 14

The Canadian artist Feist will perform at Flow Festival 2012. Feist will perform at Flow during the festival's final day, Sunday 12 August. More additions to the line up will be released on Tuesday, February 14. The ninth Flow Festival will be organised in Helsinki's Suvilahti on 8–12 August 2012.

Leslie Feist (born 1976) rose to the forefront of modern pop music with her 2007 album "The Reminder". Both critics and fans lauded what was to become the talented artist's breakthrough record thanks to Feist's remarkable charisma, her sheer talent as a singer and songwriter, and the hit-filled album's depth as a musical achievement. Feist's 2011 LP "Metals" took things a step further, introducing a more organic sonic palette with added warmth, offering the perfect backdrop for one of the most talented vocalists in modern music.

On Sunday 12 August 2012, Feist will make her long overdue Finnish debut at Flow Festival.

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Flow Festival and Wastelands announce a design contest

The design spectrum at Flow Festival expands in 2012 with the "Stage" competition, organised in co-operation with Wastelands: XXXII European Architecture Students Assembly. The aim of the contest is to create a new Flow Festival venue suited for intimate performances, bringing the audience and the performer close to each other. The winning entry will be constructed at the festival site in Helsinki's Suvilahti in July during the Wastelands assembly. The stage will be utilised as one of the venues at Flow Festival 8–12 August.

The contest is open for students, postgraduates, researchers and/or equivalent non-practising professionals of the fields related to architecture, arts and design. Participating is possible for individuals or groups of 2-4 persons. The deadline for proposals is March 31. More information about the criteria, technical details and additional terms and conditions is available at www.wastelands.fi/stage. The winning entry will be announced on April 16.

Wastelands is an international two week festival of workshops, lectures, social interaction and monumental experiences organised in Helsinki on 16–29 July. The event will bring together 500 young, emerging architects and artists from nearly 50 countries around Europe and beyond. Wastelands is part of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 program.

The ninth edition of Flow Festival will be organised in Helsinki's Suvilahti on 8–12 August 2012.

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Flow Festival releases first acts and 2012 dates

Björk is the first artist confirmed for the weekend, Bon Iver stars the
Opening Concert. The ninth edition of Flow Festival takes place at
Helsinki's Suvilahti on 8?12 August, tickets go on sale Wednesday 7
December.

Flow Festival, organised at Helsinki's Suvilahti for the ninth time on
8?12 August 2012 has announced the first artists on the line up. The
Icelandic superstar Björk will make on of her rare "Biophilia" tour
appearances at Flow on Sunday, the closing day of the festival. Festival
proceedings kick off on Wednesday 8 August when Bon Iver performs at the
Opening Concert organised on site at the Blue Tent venue. Flow tickets go
on sale at the Tiketti outlets on Wednesday 7 December at 9 am. First
released on sale are the Wednesday and Sunday single day tickets, the three
day festival ticket, and the full festival pass including the Flow weekend
plus the Opening Concert.

Björk Guðmundsdóttir is one of the great pop icons of our time. The
artist, known as a visionary never taking the easy road with her projects
released her stop-stopping first album "Debut" in 1993 and has since been a
trailblazer of forward-looking pop music. Her new album "Biophilia" is a
wide-ranging multi-media experience which comprises a studio album, apps
for each song, a website, custom-made musical instruments, live shows, and
educational workshops. The "Biophilia" tour showcasing Björk's new live
spectacle touches on selected locations during the summer of 2012, one of
the being Helsinki and Flow Festival on Sunday 12 August.

Bon Iver, formed in 2007, is a United States based band led by
singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. Bon Iver has released two full-length
albums to date to critical acclaim. The debut "For Emma, Forever Ago"
showcased a group with a knack at crafting highly personal contemporary
folk-influenced indie rock characterised by Vernon's recognisable vocal
work. The self-titled sophomore album, released in June 2011, took the
band's sound a step further and Bon Iver's live performances hot on the
heels of the release have been nothing short of remarkable. Vernon also
guested on Kanye West's latest LP to memorable effect. At the Flow Opening
Concert, Bon Iver performs at the intimate Blue Tent venue on the festival
site on Wednesday 8 August.

The Flow Festival venue in 2012 will be the historic power plant area at
Helsinki's Suvilahti, the festival's home since 2007. The area itself
expands to serve the audience even better than before and the program at
Flow keeps on developing to include even more colours on its palette of
music, visual arts, cinema and seminars. "The Other Sound" concept of
experimental music at Flow will also broaden to include events on Thursday
9 August, as will the seminar program initiated in 2011. This means that
for the first time in the event's history, Flow Festival will spread over
five days in 2012.

As the ticket touting at the 2011 event was excessive, Flow and Tiketti
will introduce new guidelines for ticket purchases, namely requiring ticket
holders to be identified upon ticket purchase. This new practice aims at
enabling the availability of as many Flow Festival 2012 tickets as possible
at the standard retail price at the official ticket outlets.

Flow Festival program complete, stage schedule released

Ticket sales continue at a record-breaking rate

Flow Festival, organised this year for the eight time in Helsinki on August 12–14, has completed its program with the latest additions. This also marks the release of the stage schedule with detailed performance times to be found at the Flow website. The festival tickets continue to sell at a remarkable speed which far surpasses that of the previous years'. The three-day Flow passes have sold out, as well as all ticket types containing Saturday. There is still a small amount of FRI+SUN two-day passes and day tickets for Friday and Sunday available at Tiketti outlets.

New domestic additions in the lineup include the cosmic jazz collective Astro Can Caravan, the stars of contemporary Finnish folk sounds performing at the new Wine & Sapas venue, Sväng plus Lepistö & Lehti, and jazz great Timo Lassy presenting his saxophone-led trio in action at the same venue on Saturday.

The club program at Flow receives noteworthy additions in the lineup of the Nokia Lounge, to be situated next to the largest new Flow venue, Nokia Blue Tent. Acts performing at the Nokia Lounge feature the German star producer Motor City Drum Ensemble, Girl Unit from the UK, Spoek Mothambo from South Africa, and the Finnish hard-hitters Ionik, Yé Yé, Sharkslayer, plus the Top Billin collective.

The Flow Backyard gets additional heat from DJ Joakim Haugland from Norway's Smalltown Supersound label, the Finnish reggae heavyweights Komposti Sound System, and local DJ greats ODJ Harri, Vilunki, Kaukolampi and Tixa. Those visiting Flow's Champagne Bar will groove to DJs Poika & Hirviö, Esko Routamaa, Aromi, Käki and J-Laini, whereas The Black Tent lineup is completed with the addition of Toni Halo, Herman Prime and Katerina.

The early afternoon programming on Sunday is tailored to fit the tastes of the very youngest of music fans, as children from 0-6 years of age are free to attend Flow Festival with their parents. The Backyard program will feature children's music in both live bands and DJs between 2 pm and 6 pm.

Flow's three-day festival passes sold out in record breaking time

Most two-day combinations also reserved to capacity at the moment, the popularity of the Baltic Sea ticket a pleasant surprise

Flow Festival, organised this year for the eight time in Helsinki on August 12–14, has sold out its three-day festival passes. Combination tickets FRI+SAT and SAT+SUN are also all reserved at the outlets currently. This marks by far the earliest date Flow has sold out its weekend passes in the history of the event. Single day tickets and FRI+SUN combinations are still available at Tiketti outlets and in Helsinki at Stupido Shop. There is also a small quota of three-day passes available in the UK at See Tickets.

Another happy feature in the ticket sales in addition to the high demand has been the popularity of the Flow Festival Baltic Sea ticket. Roughly a quarter of all ticket buyers have decided to donate the additional 2 euros for work to be done for the preservation of the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea ticket, available with all ticket types, is presented in co-operation with Ben & Jerry's.

Flow Festival expects to draw a total of 48 000 visitors during its three days of operation.


The Main Partner for Flow Festival: Nokia
In Cooperation: Helsingin Sanomat / NYT, JCDecaux, Radio Helsinki, Brand Factory, Diesel, Heineken, Marimekko, RGB, UPM Timber and Viinimaa.

Flow is supported by City of Helsinki Cultural Office and Ministry of Education and Culture.

Empire of the Sun to make their Finnish debut at Flow

Other new acts added to the line up are El Guincho, Danny Krivit, Regina, Yona & Orkesteri Liikkuvat Pilvet, and the residents of Berlin's famed Berghain club

Flow Festival, organised this year for the eight time in Helsinki on August 12–14 has added more artists to its line up. There are still remaining artists to be announced in June, along with the concept for experimental music and visual arts entitled "The Other Sound".

The Australian Empire of the Sun joins the Flow line up as a fresh addition, after their triumphant spectacle of a performance at California's recent Coachella Festival. This is the first time as their futuristic electro-rock show is seen in Finland.

Other new additions are the Spanish indie-electro artist El Guincho, the New York DJ legend Danny Krivit, and the residents of Berlin's famed Berghain club Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann plus Shed Live, each of whom perform as part of the the new Voimala club Sunday afternoon series. New Finnish acts in the program are Regina and Yona & Orkesteri Liikkuvat Pilvet, both of whom are set to showcase their new material at Flow.

The sales of the Flow Festival tickets have remained busiest to date for all ticket types.

Tickets: Tiketti www.tiketti.fi, tel. +358 600-1-1616 / In the UK: See Tickets, www.seetickets.com
3 days 115 €
2 days 95 €
1 day 70 €
(+ booking fees)
Age limit 18. On Sunday 2pm–6pm chlidren of 0-6 years allowed on site with parents.

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