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Pictures and text: Tony Öhberg for Finland Today

Ellie Goulding, 28, with her beautiful brown eyes and golden blonde hair grabs the mic. “I am so supershy,” she says and looks in the audience of about 12,000 at Ruisrock festival in Turku on Friday night. “This microphone will be my friend.” And indeed, they form a great couple.

And there were moments of loud gasping when she banged a few beats with the drums too, her hair swaying wildly in the air