FLOW FESTIVAL BOOKLET

F F L O L FLOOW W W SUVILAHTI , HELSINKI

14-16.08.2015

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A true genius or everything the genre should stand against? From the very first steps of his dubstep career, Sonny Moore, a.k.a. Skrillex, has gained a huge amount of fans – and enemies.

SKRILLEX (US)

The year 2014 will be remembered as the point of history when things for Skrillex changed. The artist is going through a metamorphosis.

Witnessing a Skrillex gig one can never now what’s coming up. But one thing is for certain: these explosive performances have consisted of converting non-believers to raging Skrillex fandom at the most surprising sites.

Most recently, in Glastonbury. Now at Flow Festival.

Jessie Ware rose to fame with her 2012 album “Devotion”.

Her take on soul and R&B coloured with dubstep is known from such hits as Wildest Moments and Running.

New album “Tough Love” to be released later this year!

JESSIE WARE (UK)

Swedish electropop artist Jenny Wilson’s fourth album Demand The Impossible was released last autumn. The record pleased both fans and critics and now Wilson is the recent winner of Swedish Grammis awards, for the best album, best music production and best video together with Daniel Wirtberg with the video Autobiography.

JENNY WILSON (SE)

SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC GROUP (FI) One of the biggest Finnish groups

known for its catchy folk-pop-rock songs brush their americana with 80sinspired synth pop through the release of the widely praised album “Terminal 2” early this year. This August in Suvilahti, Scandinavian Music Group will perform a special and strongly visual “T2” show – for the eyes and ears of Flow Festival 2014 visitor only.

Singer Sarah Kivi teams up with producer Non Personin (Niclas Kristiansson) to create whole knitting together a strong rhythmic fabric of bass lines and electronic soundscape.

SARAH KIVI & NON-ORCHESTRA (FI)

ASTRID SWAN (FI) Having released her latest, minimalistically blooming album “Astrid4” last year’s October, the dramatic Finnish singer-songwriter presents the audience a truly rare 2014 appearance at Flow Festival.

SAINT LUCIA (ZA) The atmospheric quality of Jean-Philip Grobler’s Brooklyn-based electro-pop project is powerful, with the musician’s global travels and history of secret hideaways effortlessly passed onto the audience through his dreamy, shimmering synths.

Strong and hard-edged minimal electronic sounds combined with silly melodies create a psychedelic trip to D.I.Y.-electrified fantasy park.

NUSLUX (FI)

EETU FLOOR & YSTÄVÄT (FI) Eetu Floor’s music combines Finnish melancholy with French lightness rising to fame with the single release of Purjehtija. This year, the Flow Festival crowd gets to enjoy material from the upcoming “Ystävät” debut album – to be released on September 5th – in advance on Flow Saturday, August 9th.

A grinding Dj duo, designer Tiia Vanhatapio & Stockholm based producer/musician Tom Hakava, that is obsessed about them classics. Weather it’s underwear or the eclectic mix of 50s–60s R’n’B, Soul, Boogaloo, Psych and good ol’ Rock and Roll. It´s not what you might expect.

CALVIN GIRLS (FI)

MIAUX Armed with a Casio and devastating song writing skills. Her music is minimal, melancholic and timeless, somewhere between Roedelius, Ruth White and electronic realisations of Baroque music.

PLAIN RIDE (FI)

Formed in 2004, Plain Ride have gone a long way from the stripped-down folkrock expression of their early years to the dark beauty of their latest album Skeleton Kites.

The band’s effortless groove and Janne Westerlund’s hoarse vocals gets both the more meditative tunes and hypnotic boogie songs lifted into higher spheres.

His style being referred as “blue wave” and“slacker rock”, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist rose from obscurity as Makeout Videotape.

MAC DEMARCO (CA)

RÖYKSOPP AND ROBIN DO IT AGAIN 2014 (NO/SE) The Norwegian two-headed electro monster teams up with international pop star Robyn and her gritty R&B combined with sunny Swedish pop.

Röyksopp and Robyn are currently touring sold out arenas in the USA, getting media attention e.g. from their performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The joint project will take on Flow on Sunday August 10th in the Lumia Blue Tent, where the trio offers a two­hour futuristic show livened up with lasers.

HIGH WOLF (FR)

The creative audio project of Spencer Clark. The sounds examine esoteric and spiritual concepts through hypnotic layers of rhythm and melody.

MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS (US)

In between Herzog’s Aguirre and Levi Strauss’ Sad Tropics, mysterious and psychoactive, High Wolf’s music mixes cosmic loops, fuzzy guitars, droney synths, mystic vocals and tribal percussions, inspired by primitive and ritual music as well as adventurous modern music.

Guided by the saxophonist’s intensity of purpose. Parker’s work, spanning for over 30 years, has been widely acknowledged as “one of the music’s greatest living instrumentalists” (The Times) and “one of the world’s finest ensemble improvisers” (The Wire).

EVAN PARKER (UK)

MAAN (BE)

Two Flemish engineer students who don’t only love their sciences cold. Their debut LP ‘Manifold’ harks back to the misanthropic aesthetics of Belgium’s wave era.

SOUND & FURY (FI)

Peeps of the late, great Edward Vesala.

The Paris-based Japanese musician / sound artist plays with different forms of water – drops, waves and bubbles.

TOMOKO SAUVAGE (JP/FR)

GETTING THERE

The festival area is located near by the centre of Helsinki, easily accessible by public transport, bike or by foot.

Street address: Parrukatu, 00540 Helsinki, FI We suggest the use of public transportation or bicycling in coming to the festival. The festival area and its immediate surroundings feature no parking space for cars. Flow Festival includes a guarded bicycle parking area free of charge, which is located by the main entrance.

The bicycle parking area’s bike repair spot is open as follows

Fri 2 pm – 9 pm

Sat 2 pm – 9 pm

Sun 2 pm – 9 pm

Public transportation in Helsinki The closest stations and stops: Metro – Sörnäinen Bus – Suvilahti and Sörnäinen (M) Tram – Käenkuja For more detailed information on public transportation, please visit the Helsinki city journey planner by HSL. Visit Helsinki public transportation.

To order a taxi, call 0100 0700.

Airport Helsinki-Vantaa Airport is located 11 miles north from Helsinki. The easiest way to travel from the airport to downtown Helsinki is by bus. You can take Finnair City Bus or bus number 615 by day and number 620 by night.

ENVIRON MENT

We seek for sustainable solutions The furniture and decorations are gathered from recycled, long lasting materials that can be reused. The festival area has an artificial turf that is used for many years

We serve responsible food We prefer high class, vegetarian, organic and local food.

We want to take the environment and sustainable development into consideration in everything we do, in planning the festival as well as actualizing it, during, and after it.

In this way we make sure we are creating an event entirety that is enjoyable for everyone along with being socially responsible.

We encourage to use eco-friendly transport

We actively encourage the festival crowd to favour environmentally friendly modes of transport to the festival and away. Our festival does not offer parking space for private cars, but encourages people arriving to the festival to use public transport or bicycles.

Near the festival area, there is a free and guarded bicycle parking area, where the crowd can bring their bikes. It’s also possible to walk to a city festival.

On top of taking notice of how people get to the festival, we also take into consideration the pollution caused by the travel of our performers and subcontractors. We work together with local subcontractors and Nordic event organizers to make sure that the travel between places of performance is reasonable.

We compensate festival’s carbon emissions A part of our environmental programme is to calculate festival’s carbon footprint with Pöyry Energy Consulting Offset.

We compensate carbon emissions into sustainable WWF Gold Standard energy projects annually.

Electricity from waste- and residue-based renewable diesel Due to the constant changes being made to the Suvilahti area, organizers are unable to design new and permanent electric grids for the Flow Festival site, and efficient energy solutions are hard to come by. Because only a part of Flow’s electricity needs can be fulfilled using wind power, the festival’s power output has to be complemented – now and in the future – with generators running on diesel.

Neste Oil is supporting Flow’s ecological goals by providing 100 percent renewable NEXBTL diesel for use in the festival’s generators. We only utilize the wastebased and fully renewable diesel from Neste’s Porvoo facility, and in this way we also wish to encourage Neste Oil to further refine their use of sustainable materials and to cut down on their use of palm oil.

The fuel used in Suvilahti is completely free of palm oil. Neste Oil is providing the Flow Festival with renewable diesel produced from non-edible foodstuffs and waste, which will help to reduce greenhouse industry of this kind does not compete with food production.

We create greener events Being part of Green Events Project, co-ordinated by the Helsinki City Environment Centre, we develop the management of environmental issues of events. Events have a notable environmental impact, which can be minimized by changing the way of doing things. We can minimize environmental impact through our activity by environmental communication and education.

We clean and recycle The amount of waste created by the festival has been minimized during each year of our activity. The restaurants at Flow, for example, use biodegrading cutlery and all the waste is recycled.

The festival crowd is encouraged to return empty bottles and cans to the recycling depots by collecting a refundable amount at the time of purchase, which is refunded when the bottles/cans are returned.

Recycling guides help the festival audience to sort the waste, and recycling is optimized by adding the number of recycling depots. We also give specific recycling instructions to all our subcontractors and employees.

The cleaning of the festival area is conducted by over 200 people so that it will be returned to its usual state as quickly as possible, and so that the waste will not accumulate to the close by areas. In 2013 out of all the waste created at the festival 95% was recycled.

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