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@ Vaasa, Club Garage

The venue was really cool. The hotel, restaurant and the club were all in the same building! Had really nice hotel rooms that our boss-guy Thomas had arranged for us!

Had a warm up act this time. I think they called themselves Metaphor? They seemed a little shy and new to the stage, but nevertheless rocked well. Good luck to them! At least they had good rock n roll spirit, after the gig they all got really, really wasted. The singer pissed on the clubs' wall, got dragged out in a headlock and thrown out by the bouncer.

The gig was pretty standard stuff again, exept for some weird ghosts in the machines. First of all, the fluorescent light caused some serious buzzing to my guitar, so we had to do the check with the stage lights on. Tuukkas wireless unit was colliding with some other wireless unit, so he had to skip it and use a wire instead.

Then during the gig, the power went out randomly on my pedal board, the mic switch on my guitar wasn't functioning very well, Janica almost stepped on my cast while she was running around the stage, Tuukka blew a fuse in his poweramp etc. But the gig went well still, luckily Tuukkas power amp has two channels, so the show continued almost seamlessly. I just had to kick around my pedals and flick the mic switch a bit extra if they started to fuck with me. So no serious problems.

Janica went Spinal Tap on us once again. She welcomed the audience with "Hello Oulu!" and started chanting "Oulu! Oulu! Oulu!", trying to get the crowd in with the chant. The only problem is that we were in Vaasa. This same thing happened in Tampere too, on the Deathstars tour. "Hello Turku!!" and the audience is confused and thinks we're fucking with them. Heheh, funny.

After the show, we took our yesterdays backstage booty to our hotel cabins, drank long drinks and watched Team America. It was a good day in Oulu... ehm... Vaasa.