The 'Songs to Unchain Hidden Hopes' tour is now over. Our last show at Semifinal was probably the best show that we've ever played and so, we're all feeling very pleased. We got to see lots of new interesting people and awesome places. Big thanks to everyone who participated and supported us during the tour, you people mean the world to us. Now it is time to rest couple of days and then start writing and recording new Edward material. Again, we will open a new blog about the demo sessions and how we're doing during summer, so keep visiting our website to get the lastest info. Have a great summer, we'll meet again very soon!
Here's a nice 30 Seconds to Mars cover song for all of you. For pictures, visit our website's Media page.
Over and out,
Leo
maanantai 31. toukokuuta 2010
perjantai 28. toukokuuta 2010
Heading to CityBear's and HARRI's Hometown
We all felt like this would be the craziest gig ever, when we started our beloved ED mobile's engine and headed to Savonlinna. We have few friends of ours (CityBear and HARRI), who are originally from Savonlinna, but nowadays they live in Southern Finland near us. Via these guys, we got to know their old friends from Savonlinna and it certainly didn't take that long time to notice that all of those guys are totally insane, when it comes to partying.
Once we arrived to our destination, CityBear and HARRI were already there. Actually, they've had been there for two or three days already, without any good excuse. Quickly, we dropped our stuff to CityBear's old man's apartment and drove downtown to do soundcheck. The soundcheck took like 3 hours, because gig place's mixing engineer didn't seem to be in a hurry. Not at all. Getting one microphone working took like 15 minutes and then the guy went for a smoke. That break took another 15 minutes. Nice. While we were on the stage trying to get our volumes right, we couldn't see the mixing engineer anywhere, we only heard his voice coming from somewhere far, far away. After scratching our heads for a while we noticed a small window (or more like a small, square hole) on checkroom's wall: the guy was mixing and shouting at us from the freaking checkroom! After the soundcheck we were on our way out and I asked the engineer (as a joke) if he was also a doorman in the evening, because the mixer was in the checkroom. He just stared at me and didn't say a thing.
Then we found ourselves watching a beautiful sunset on a beach. It was a great weather and there were lots of CityBear's and HARRI's friends around us. Me and Mikkis decided to play a few songs unplugged to warm up our voices before the show. At first everything went fine, but after about 5 songs one drunken girl shouted at us to play some Popeda, Yö or Klamydia. We decided to pack our guitars and head back to the bar.
When we got back to the gig place, we noticed a familiar face in front of the place: The fucking engineer was the doorman! With a big grin on my face we entered the place.
When we asked about the night's schedules (when we were supposed to play), answer was: "Let's see after 1 am". Fuck that's late. So, we decided to kill time the way we knew best. :) First band to perform was called Fallcrew. It was their second gig ever, but they played very well. When clock was about 1.30 am, it was our turn to play. The gig went just fine, but since it was so late, everybody in the bar were quite drunk or had already left the place.
After the gig we went ourside to catch a taxi. That wasn't so easy. It took about 1,5 hours for the first car to arrive. The clock was about 4 am, but still we decided to go for an after party. I stayed up for like two hours and then went to sleep, but some of us didn't sleep at all that night. They had too much fun with our host's drivable lawn mower.
Here are few photos from Savonlinna:
-Leo
Once we arrived to our destination, CityBear and HARRI were already there. Actually, they've had been there for two or three days already, without any good excuse. Quickly, we dropped our stuff to CityBear's old man's apartment and drove downtown to do soundcheck. The soundcheck took like 3 hours, because gig place's mixing engineer didn't seem to be in a hurry. Not at all. Getting one microphone working took like 15 minutes and then the guy went for a smoke. That break took another 15 minutes. Nice. While we were on the stage trying to get our volumes right, we couldn't see the mixing engineer anywhere, we only heard his voice coming from somewhere far, far away. After scratching our heads for a while we noticed a small window (or more like a small, square hole) on checkroom's wall: the guy was mixing and shouting at us from the freaking checkroom! After the soundcheck we were on our way out and I asked the engineer (as a joke) if he was also a doorman in the evening, because the mixer was in the checkroom. He just stared at me and didn't say a thing.
Then we found ourselves watching a beautiful sunset on a beach. It was a great weather and there were lots of CityBear's and HARRI's friends around us. Me and Mikkis decided to play a few songs unplugged to warm up our voices before the show. At first everything went fine, but after about 5 songs one drunken girl shouted at us to play some Popeda, Yö or Klamydia. We decided to pack our guitars and head back to the bar.
When we got back to the gig place, we noticed a familiar face in front of the place: The fucking engineer was the doorman! With a big grin on my face we entered the place.
When we asked about the night's schedules (when we were supposed to play), answer was: "Let's see after 1 am". Fuck that's late. So, we decided to kill time the way we knew best. :) First band to perform was called Fallcrew. It was their second gig ever, but they played very well. When clock was about 1.30 am, it was our turn to play. The gig went just fine, but since it was so late, everybody in the bar were quite drunk or had already left the place.
After the gig we went ourside to catch a taxi. That wasn't so easy. It took about 1,5 hours for the first car to arrive. The clock was about 4 am, but still we decided to go for an after party. I stayed up for like two hours and then went to sleep, but some of us didn't sleep at all that night. They had too much fun with our host's drivable lawn mower.
Here are few photos from Savonlinna:
-Leo
maanantai 10. toukokuuta 2010
Strange Places, Weird Journeys
After On the Rocks' gig we headed to Harjavalta, a ghost town, where none of us had never visited before. With a little help from our navigator, soap bubbles and Baobab of course, we managed to find the gig place.
Once we parked our car, everyone was more or less scared of what was going on. There were 5 to 10 middle aged drunkies fighting and grilling sausages at the same time. For some reason, they had a grill on the terrace. We all felt like 'if you wanna get your ass kicked, this is the place to be'. They kept fighting while we were carrying our stuff inside. At some point, Mikkis was coming out of the place and saw one drunken dude hitting another straight to the guy's face, which made him collapse in a blink of an eye. While making soundcheck, the drunkies kept asking us the most bizarre questions and hanging May Day balloons to my microphone stand. We were just too afraid to take 'em off.
Then it was time to eat some fast food again. We found our way to the nearest grill to have a healty snack with bacon.
After watching the fighting about two hours it was time to play some acoustic rock music. People seemed to enjoy our music a lot and we had some inevitable hugs during the set. We played about one hour and twenty minutes and then it was time for the second band to play their set. While watching their performance I had a nice little chat with one dude from the bar. The conversation was basically his monology about how great singer I was. It is always nice to have compliments, but this one just kept going on and on and on. I basically said 'thanks' like 100 times in ten minutes. Finally, after maybe 45 minutes, the other band finished their set and we could head back home. Once we left the place, we saw a girl throwing a guy through a window. What a lovely place it was.
On the 1st of May, we drove to Lohja for another acoustic performance. We had our Swedish reinforcement with us: Mr. Marcus from Stockholm. The place was much better than what we had in Harjavalta and there wasn't any fighting or what so ever going on. In fact, the feeling was so good that I sold our CD to some guy for 20 euros before we had even played.
The gig went fine, although some of us were a bit 'tired', because it was May Day. After the show we drove back to Hellsinki to celebrate like 'normal' people did that weekend.
Next Wednesday we had a bit stranger gig: a show at school in Espoo. Students had a party going on and we were supposed to be the climax of it. Before the show some nice girls brought us slices of mocha cake and some soda, which was nice.
If we had some doubts regarding this gig, they were all forgotten once we started to play. There were about 40 screaming teenagers in front of the stage. Probably the best crowd we ever had. Big thanks to everyone who participated and made us feel good!
Here are few videos from the gig:
On Friday, the 7th of May we drove to Jyväskylä for some more rock 'n' roll action. Our gig place was notoriously called 'Red Neck', but fortunately it was a place with warm atmosphere and nice staff. Red Neck's stage's roof was quite low and it was covered with a metallic web, which made my hair stuck there many times during the gig. The performance went just fine and after the show we got to know a roadie from a legendary Finnish punk band 'Klamydia'. Roadie Kosonen, we salute you!
The next day we headed to Kuopio, a place where you shouldn't drive a car. Our gig place was like 100 meters from our hotel, but still we needed to drive around two or three blocks of houses to get there, because there are just too many one-way streets there. The gig place 'Ravintola Rock' had very nice staff and everything seemed to work like a charm. But after the show something unusual happened. We were just hanging out at backstage when suddenly one barmaid showed up and asked us to quickly go outside. The barmaid was holding a napkin in front of her mouth and there were tears running down her cheeks. Some rocket scientist had launched a pepper spray bomb right in the middle of the bar's dance floor. The bomb's smoke was spreading fast and everyone ran outside coughing ja rubbing their eyes. Fortunately, at least a few of us were at backstage, when it happened and the smoke didn't have such a big effect on us. About 20 minutes later we got back in to grab our jackets, but the bar stayed closed.
Next weekend we're playing in Savonlinna and that is going to be one hell of a night, because there are just so many crazy people coming to see us. :) Hopefully we'll see the mysterious man called 'HARRI' too...
Until next week,
Leo
Once we parked our car, everyone was more or less scared of what was going on. There were 5 to 10 middle aged drunkies fighting and grilling sausages at the same time. For some reason, they had a grill on the terrace. We all felt like 'if you wanna get your ass kicked, this is the place to be'. They kept fighting while we were carrying our stuff inside. At some point, Mikkis was coming out of the place and saw one drunken dude hitting another straight to the guy's face, which made him collapse in a blink of an eye. While making soundcheck, the drunkies kept asking us the most bizarre questions and hanging May Day balloons to my microphone stand. We were just too afraid to take 'em off.
Then it was time to eat some fast food again. We found our way to the nearest grill to have a healty snack with bacon.
After watching the fighting about two hours it was time to play some acoustic rock music. People seemed to enjoy our music a lot and we had some inevitable hugs during the set. We played about one hour and twenty minutes and then it was time for the second band to play their set. While watching their performance I had a nice little chat with one dude from the bar. The conversation was basically his monology about how great singer I was. It is always nice to have compliments, but this one just kept going on and on and on. I basically said 'thanks' like 100 times in ten minutes. Finally, after maybe 45 minutes, the other band finished their set and we could head back home. Once we left the place, we saw a girl throwing a guy through a window. What a lovely place it was.
On the 1st of May, we drove to Lohja for another acoustic performance. We had our Swedish reinforcement with us: Mr. Marcus from Stockholm. The place was much better than what we had in Harjavalta and there wasn't any fighting or what so ever going on. In fact, the feeling was so good that I sold our CD to some guy for 20 euros before we had even played.
The gig went fine, although some of us were a bit 'tired', because it was May Day. After the show we drove back to Hellsinki to celebrate like 'normal' people did that weekend.
Next Wednesday we had a bit stranger gig: a show at school in Espoo. Students had a party going on and we were supposed to be the climax of it. Before the show some nice girls brought us slices of mocha cake and some soda, which was nice.
If we had some doubts regarding this gig, they were all forgotten once we started to play. There were about 40 screaming teenagers in front of the stage. Probably the best crowd we ever had. Big thanks to everyone who participated and made us feel good!
Here are few videos from the gig:
On Friday, the 7th of May we drove to Jyväskylä for some more rock 'n' roll action. Our gig place was notoriously called 'Red Neck', but fortunately it was a place with warm atmosphere and nice staff. Red Neck's stage's roof was quite low and it was covered with a metallic web, which made my hair stuck there many times during the gig. The performance went just fine and after the show we got to know a roadie from a legendary Finnish punk band 'Klamydia'. Roadie Kosonen, we salute you!
The next day we headed to Kuopio, a place where you shouldn't drive a car. Our gig place was like 100 meters from our hotel, but still we needed to drive around two or three blocks of houses to get there, because there are just too many one-way streets there. The gig place 'Ravintola Rock' had very nice staff and everything seemed to work like a charm. But after the show something unusual happened. We were just hanging out at backstage when suddenly one barmaid showed up and asked us to quickly go outside. The barmaid was holding a napkin in front of her mouth and there were tears running down her cheeks. Some rocket scientist had launched a pepper spray bomb right in the middle of the bar's dance floor. The bomb's smoke was spreading fast and everyone ran outside coughing ja rubbing their eyes. Fortunately, at least a few of us were at backstage, when it happened and the smoke didn't have such a big effect on us. About 20 minutes later we got back in to grab our jackets, but the bar stayed closed.
Next weekend we're playing in Savonlinna and that is going to be one hell of a night, because there are just so many crazy people coming to see us. :) Hopefully we'll see the mysterious man called 'HARRI' too...
Until next week,
Leo
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