Tampere Johannes Blom , 24, is a music man through and through. He listens to harder rock, punk, prog and pop, as well as plays guitar humor oriented in the punk-processes.

Blom seeks to gigs once a month and in the summer a couple of at the festival. The last time he went to enjoy live music in the home place Lempäälä the end of the summer at the Puntala-rock.

Tampere familiar places are the deck room and the Club as well as the exchange ehtoisemmat clubs against the tide and underground.

over the Years, Blom has noticed that rock the clubs the audience is outdated.

– 24-year-old, I have experienced himself unusually young. Rap gig has again experienced themselves old. Somehow I feel that the job is a little bit older crowd entertainment. Of course it is affected by the economic situation, because the older generation happens to be more money, because you come to work.

blom’s comments hold true, because even twenty years ago shows visitors the average age was 23-25 years. Today it is 30 around the age.

Enthusiastic audience of colombian artist J Balvin concert at Ruisrock.Nell Fields / Yle

Blom, according to the job are also more deliberate. Entertainment is now so much that the paid for the gig took a passion, more ambitious attitude towards music.

– currently, the surface of the pop or rap artists might go see sporadic. Rock music has in recent years been left outside the mainstream, with occasional listeners becomes a bit less.

recently, traditional rock clubs have closed in Tampere and Turku. More of the venue is also closing in Helsinki. Blom considers the development as worrying.

If any venue will be taken away and not get to the farm, it affects the kind of foreign bands to get to perform. Not everyone can appear at the rink or airport.

gigs, clubs lose, although live music is growing in popularity

a gig on a visit to the rose debate the other week after a gig the day of The Circus told to stop its operations next summer. Kamppi is located in the rock caves above the construction of the new office space, which requires extensive modifications to the gig for sound insulation. These did not come to do.

Before the Circus end decision known already had two other big job the day of the disappearance of Helsinki. Hietalahti is located in the Crane will rise new apartments and located in the centre of the Virgin Oil blends hotel.

american rapper Machine Gun Kelly got The Circus audience rapturously in September. MGK’s show was sold out, so it brought the evening to Helsinki city centre 1 500 people. Nell Fields / Yle

Circus, Virgin Oil and a crane with the Helsinki lost a significant part of about a thousand pulls on the job the day of. Next summer after more than a thousand heard the venue is left in the house of Culture, and that’s not all the club-like environment. The culture house with the torch on the ice, to carry a 700 that belongs to the towing Club, 50-year-old rock sanctuary.

the club’s frontman and a long line of music influence Juhani Merimaa deeply regrets these developments, but in the same breath he pointed out that the recent rock-club of the disappearances are not a sign of life music downloads the bill.

– Live music, the demand has increased in the whole world and music business focus has increasingly shifted to live music. Concert, gig dates and festivals have all increased, Merimaa said.

– Spotify-era people are listening to more music than any previous generation. It would be strange if people went to your gigs at a time when music consumption is at its highest.

the Life of music appreciation rather than job locations in the disappearance associated with the city architecture. Traditionally, a gig the day you are born on the premises, which is not just at the moment other use. Such facilities are currently on the card in the centre of Helsinki.

And as soon as the space is a chance to get off the higher the income, the club will be output.

Two gigs a week does not generate the kind of revenue that would support the center, Merimaa said.

There is around 250 gigs a year, but, for example, the Virgin Oil gig focused, as a rule, only on weekends.

Juhani Merimaa posits three gig club’s closing to impact more on domestic life in the music supply. Foreign artists will continue to club, Merimaa believes.Henrietta Hassinen / YleKlubikeikat disappear from the inner city

the job locations of the disappearance of the urban centres is a global trend, which is repeated as in Stockholm, London and New York. Now this trend has arrived in the heart of Helsinki.

but the club yes will add. Where and when, I don’t know, Merimaa said.

Merimaa believes that the demand for yes to create a supply. Plans for the new venue has already been done, at least on paper. Alternatives is planned so Traction than summer bay. Töölö planned IFK Helsinki in the Garden project also includes concerts, but their club way is not knowledge.

the Gaze is also focused on the inner city outside. Helsinki does not have any position in the city outside of the bigger rock clubs. Such consideration has been given to, for example, the Herttoniemi. Cranes rotate Elmű got workout facilities adjacent Roihupellon industrial area.

Merimaan view job day, you should take into account in the planning, so that they would not be constantly threatened when market forces, when a neighbor who emigrated to new residents by.

– All appreciate the life of the city culture, but do not want it in their backyard. When people pay a big price in his apartment, they feel that they have some kind of right to intervene in the environment, Merimaa consider.

Singer Ariana Grande perform at Hartwall Arena 12 000-strong audience at the beginning of October.Kevin Mazur / Young people to be active consumers

the Finnish live music in clubs has been noticed during this decade that the proportion of young people in the job of the audience has been in decline. It’s not that music no longer be interested in young people, but consumption habits have changed. The young audience prefers festivals and suurkonsertteja.

a Young guy, you play an important role in. Not to go just because it’s music but it is a common experience, to say the Finnish music events network Livefans association’s executive director Salla Vallius .

the Association has launched a two-year project, which is to figure out how the young generation can be the life of popular music. The project is implemented in cooperation with the ministry of education and culture, university of the Arts Sibelius Academy, Youth Academy, as well as in Swedish children and young people to focus on the DUNK-the association with.

the Audience enjoyed the Gazelles gig last summer at Ruisrock. Next year 50 years have to be the festival is consciously focused on the scrape on stage for young audience appealing to artists. Nell Fields / Yle

Valliuksen according to the concern is that the current music consuming and streaming services top the list-thinking the control of transnational music consumption and suurtähteyteen.

Music spending will be diverted to the masses and click the number in accordance with. How this more marginal music, as well as medium and small artist in the concert business?

Now implemented in the project young people aims to get the active players in the live music consumption.

– currently, young people have ended up in a passive consumer role. Young people should get themselves involved in producing culture. Then it activates to be part of the experience. Made with young people and young people make for themselves.

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