Former NIGHTWISH members Tarja Turunen and Marko Hietala reunited on stage for a powerful performance of NIGHTWISH classic “Wish I Had An Angel” in Tallinn, Estonia on February 23 as part of their joint “Living The Dream Together Tour.” Fan-filmed video footage from the performance can be seen below.
Marko and Tarja teamed up last year for the duet single “Left On Mars,” earning praise from across the board.
In a previous interview with El Planeta Del Rock earlier this month, Marko was asked about the potential for him and Turunen to launch a new project together, to which he responded: “I won’t close that option off. We haven’t talked about it, putting up a group together or anything like that. But at the moment, it seems that we’ve got a different kind of connection than it was [in the] past. Because then the camps were really divided already when I stepped into [NIGHTWISH]. And it was hard to find the truth of things, because a lot of it was like a managerial turf war where we got told certain things by one side and told certain things by the other side and lots of confusion — blah, blah, blah — and in the end, yeah, what we already realized a few years back when we were all together there doing the Christmas shows in Finland that after all the hassle has died and the noise has died and everything, you still find out that you lost a friend. And that was the main [reason] why we are basically doing this together again.”
Marko left NIGHTWISH in January 2021 explaining in a statement that he hadn’t “been able to feel validated by this life for a quite a few years now.” He has since been replaced by session bassist Jukka Koskinen (WINTERSUN), who made his live debut with NIGHTWISH in May 2021 at the band’s two interactive experiences.
Turunen was fired from NIGHTWISH at the end of the band’s 2005 tour. Tuomas Holopainen and the other band members informed Turunen in an open letter that the band did not want to work with her any more, accusing her of diva-like behaviour and greed: “To you, unfortunately, business, money, and things that have nothing to do with emotions have become much more important.”
Source: metaladdicts.com
