“Anneke: part XVIII“ by Peter Blok

Peter Blok: “Episode 18. 06/30-2017 Helsinki, Finland. It was a very busy weekend for Anneke (as well as for us). Anneke arrived in the middle of the night at the hotel in Helsinki, to go shopping that same morning for clothes. At the Tuska Festival that day, she had three gigs and she needed to extend her wardrobe. Fortunately, she was invited to do so by a shop owner in town. After the shopping she attended some interviews. The first gig of VUUR at a festival was at Tuska. It was the second public appearance of VUUR ever. After the show there was some time for a meal. But straight after that, Anneke did a solo gig in a theatre underneath the festival terrain. You could hear the heavy bombardment of basses and drums coming through the roof. During that show, for a select group of lucky winners of a ticket, she sung, for the first time during a concert, ‘Like A Stone’ from Chris Cornell, who died only seven weeks prior. Rushing back and forth behind the festival terrain, she finally ended up in the show of