Better late than never ;P
26.2. - Turku Klubi
The trip went nice. Basic load in, soundcheck etc. As usual, for supporting bands, soundcheck time was sparse, but no problem. The gig went well, exept for a minor case of riff dementia confusion in one new song, "Promise Me", but that didn't stop us. It's ok since the song is new, so we can almost get away with some improvisation as nobody exept us know how the song is supposed to go... ;P
After the gig most of us went partying. Tuukka and our session bass player for the tour, Elmeri, went out to party. I won't go into details, but the end result was a whole lot of shirtless def leppard karaoke, a passed out bass player, spillt urine on the hotel walls (yes, SPILLT... don't ask), somebody stole my leather jacket and somehow Tuukka had found Deathstars singer Andreas' military hat-stageprop. Hmm. Ok. Good times tho'! Rokatessa roiskuu ;)
The next morning Elmeri had the worst hangover ever. As we exited the hotel, he had a a chunky and discolored rendezvous with yesterdays dinner.When we arrived at the venue to collect our gear and move on to Tampere, suddenly Klubis door was swarmed with blaring sirens and a bunch of firetrucks and firefighters running around. My first thought was "oh fuck no not again, this time I won't jump!!". Luckily, it was only a false alarm, no fire in the venue. It was just steam that looked like smoke to someone, someone who called the fire department...
27.2. - Tampere Klubi
That day soundcheck-time was even more sparse. We didn't get a soundcheck at all, only a quick line check before the show. But no worries, in the end we played what was probably the best show we've ever played! Tickets were sold out! People lining up on the street as early as 3-4 hours before the doors open! Fucking great! The crowd was awesome!! And the venue had (as usually) VERY good food for the band! 10+
Fear of Dominations driver fell in the backstage, twisted and broke his ankle! Ouch! Now there were two guys with crutches... We called up our ex-bassplayer Ari (it was his birthday) and sang happy birthday to him! Then afterparty to Inferno with all the guys and girls from the bands. Went to bed around six in the morning.
28.2. - Helsinki Tavastia
Had loads of time to soundcheck. Really nice house crew. First time I hear a stagemanager complain how LOW the volume is on the amps! "Goddamn turn 'em up, we're not a bunch of pigeon fuckers here! Fuck! In the days of Albert Järvinen (Hurriganes) we'd crank up the stacks so hard that your sideburns would shiver like autum leaves in the wind!". Thats the spirit!
Usually sound techs want minimal stage volume, so they can tinker the sounds on the board and get everything through the PA;s with minimal stage bleed. That "hush hush" obsession can be really irritating sometimes, so it was cool to finally have an old school kind of guy with a rock n roll attitude.
The gig went awesome! Great lights, great sound, great everything! After the gig we went to bar bäkkäri for the afterparty, and then to royal onnela for the afterpartys afterparty, had loads of fun!
After that we went for a late night snack at the MC Donalds right around the corner. There a drunken, well known finnish male ex-pornstar expressed his opinions on how tabloid wanker slash common asshole Timo T.A. Mikkonen ruins a town called Mäntsäläs' reputation and how I could get a whole lot of pussy showing off my cast to girls. Ok great :)
All in all it was an amazing tour! The guys from Deathstars we're extremely laid back and fun to work with! Professional musicians and above all great guys! A big thanks to Deathstars and Fear of Domination, it was great working with you guys (and girl)!
Here's some pictures from the Tavastia gig!:
METALSCOPE
/Jonas
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