The Whitest Boy Alive Helsinki

First time in Helsinki.
First time in Finland.

Train Factory yardVallila, HelsinkiMay 2027

Twenty years after Dreams, the band that never came to Finland is coming. One day, one yard, 1,500 tickets. Probably never again.

Get early bird €59 Limited. Only until the year ends.

Ensimmäistä kertaa Suomessa. Luultavasti viimeistä.

Never once in Finland

Berlin, since 2003

Berlin, 2003. Erlend Øye, the voice of Kings of Convenience, starts an electronic project. It turns into a four-piece that plays every sound by hand: Erlend on guitar and voice, Marcin Öz on bass, Sebastian Maschat on drums, Daniel Nentwig on Rhodes and Crumar.

Dreams comes out in 2006. Rules follows in 2009, recorded in a studio they built in Punta Burros, on Mexico's Pacific coast. In 2014 they stop playing together. In 2019 they come back.

This summer Dreams turned twenty. They took it to Potsdam, Copenhagen, Brussels and Paris. Paris sold out. In all those years they never once played Finland.

The name is about a shy, slightly naive boy from the north. Fair enough. Helsinki has a yard full of them.

Their first show in Finland. Most likely their last.

The Whitest Boy Alive on stage in Paris, August 2026 — Paris, 31 August 2026 Sold outPhoto: Yumi75020, CC BY 4.0

The band on a festival stage under stage lights — Melt!, Germany, 2012Photo: Alec Luhn, CC BY-SA 3.0

The band playing in a dark club in front of a crowd — The Scala, London, 2009Photo: Graham Rachter, CC BY-SA 2.0

Put the needle down

Opens in Spotify

Everything on Spotify Learn the words. You'll need them in May.

The day, door by door

Afternoon into night

Afternoon

Skate on the yard

HELRIDE Collective runs a skate session on the yard.

All day

Sauna world

Six saunas, warm from the start. Bring a towel.

17:00

Doors open

House music in the yard while the sun is still high.

18:00

Legend no. 1

To be announced. You know the name.

19:00

Legend no. 2

To be announced. Also a name you know.

20:30–22:00

The Whitest Boy Alive

Ninety minutes in the yard. The sun sets around half past ten.

22:00 →

Inside: the party

House music, 25+ kitchens and a Whitest Boy Alive themed night.

Hover or tap a door to look inside.

A new yard in an old train factory

Konepaja, Vallila

The red-brick Konepaja halls and their yard from above, August 2026 — Konepaja from above, August 2026Photo: Harria, CC BY-SA 4.0

Black and white photo of the railway yard and workshops in 1976 — The same works, 1976Photo: Taik, CC BY-SA 4.0

The state railways chose this spot in 1898 and opened the works in 1903. Bruno Granholm drew the red-brick halls. Most of Finland's wooden passenger coaches were built here, and in the late 1950s about 1,500 people worked inside these walls.

Repairs stopped in 2002. Today it's the Train Factory: a cinema, theatres, a market hall full of kitchens. And a brand-new inner yard that has never had a band in it.

Many firsts, one yard:

First time in Finland
First time in Helsinki
First concert in the new yard

Between Aleksis Kiven katu and Teollisuuskatu. Tram 9 to Kotkankatu or tram 3 to Linnanmäki. Pasila station is 900 m away.

What's a summer day without…

All on one ticket

Sauna

Sauna World puts six saunas on the yard. Sweat between sets, cool off with a band playing.

Skate

HELRIDE Collective hosts skateboarding on the yard during the day. Come early and watch.

After 22:00, inside

When the band is done, the night moves indoors. House music, a food court of 25+ kitchens and a Whitest Boy Alive themed party.

1,500 tickets. Then the doors close.

Early bird

Admit one Early bird

The Whitest Boy Alive, two legendary warm-up acts, six saunas, the skate session and the indoor party. All of it.

Train Factory yard · Vallila, Helsinki · May 2027

One of 1,500

Early bird is limited and only on sale until the year ends.

1 January: ~~€59~~ €74.50

Questions

Have they really never played Finland?

Twenty years, two albums, shows from Mexico City to Seoul, and not one in Finland. This is the first.

What if it rains?

The show moves inside the Train Factory halls. Same day, same ticket.

What does the ticket include?

Everything on this page: the yard, both warm-up acts, The Whitest Boy Alive, the saunas, the skate session and the party inside after 22:00. Food and drinks are sold on site.

Who is behind this?

ODD, Jonas Verwijnen and The Train Factory present and produce it together. ODD is the Helsinki non-profit behind ODDfest and ODDspace, round the corner in Vallila, so this one is personal.

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