Children Of Bodom, 8.4.2010, Pakkahuone, Tampere

Children Of Bodomin julkaistessa KOLME keikkaa Suomeen, joka on erittäin harvinaista nyky-päivänä, minä ja kaveri-porukkamme olimme heti mukana koko kiertueella. Keikka kaupungit olivat Tampere, Oulu sekä Vuokatti.
Järjestelyt hoituivat lopulta vähän jyrkkien mutkien kautta voittoon, ja ei päässyt väsymyskään sen kummemmin voittamaan meitä.

Kiertue siis starttasi torstaina, 8.4. Tampereen Pakkahuoneelta. Olimme tottakai hyvissä ajoin jonottamassa jo keskiviikkona iltana.
Me jonotamme tietenkin syystä päästä eturiviin, mutten tiedä onko yhtä suuri syy se, että me tykkäämme jonottaa. Kuinka sairasta se on, että tykkää jonottaa pakkasessa marraskuussa? :D (tuo oli vain esimerkki, nythän oli suht' lämmin kun oli huhtikuu.). Meille siinä on kyse yksinkertaisesti hauskasta oleilusta ystävien kanssa, saattaa sitä jopa unohtua joskus että miksi me istutaan siellä tien poskilla, katujen varsilla. No, kukin tyylillään, vai miten se meni? ;)

Pakkahuoneelle ISOT KIITOKSET järjestelyistä. Keikka oli siis S / K-18, ja valmiiksi jo tiedettiin siellä olevan anniskelu-alue. Meitä täysi-ikäisiä lykästi koska alue oli jaettu aidalla, eli vasemmalle puolelle jäi alaikäiset ja oikealle yläikäiset. Tämä ei välttämättä sopinut kaikille, koska tietenkään jos olit alaikäinen, et päässyt sinne Jannen ja Roopen puolelle. Aita meni aika sopivasti keskeltä kahtia, eli kun meidän porukka siihen oikealle puolelle asettautui, niin oltiin siinä välillä Alexi-Janne-Roope. Minun mielestä ainakin tämmöinen järjestely on todella kätevää! Varsinkin, kun ei tarvitse niin kummoisesti eturivi-paikasta taistella innokkaiden alaikäisten fanien kanssa, pääsee vähän helpommalla heh. Muutamat muutkin klubit/keikka-salit voisivat mielestäni ottaa tästä oppia, eipähän tarvitse heitellä örveltäviä kännisiä pois lasten seasta, ja eipähän tarvitse kenenkään kuunnella lasten vinkumista. So simple :D Se myönnettäköön, että alaikäisten puolella oli jokseenkin riehakkaampi meno, kun taas tällä K-18 puolella liikkeet rupesi hidastumaan loppua kohden. No mutta ainakin meillä oli ihan hurjan hauskaa ja eikös se ole pääasia ;D

Mutta sitten asiaan. Edellisestä keikasta oli herra ties kuinka kauan ja oltiin aika täpinöissämme. Samana päivänä keikan kanssa oli myös herra Alexi Laihon syntymäpäivä. Me muistimme herraa tötterö-hatuilla, torvilla sekä ISOILLA rintsikoilla :D Tyyli ennen kaikkea, vai mitä?
(Ja saatiin mekin, (ja loppujen lopuksi se mun käsiin lensi) lahja Alexilta - hänen ihanan hikinen paitansa ... söpöä :'D)

Janne meni sitten koeajamaan Alexin rintsikat, heh :D

Children of Bodom announced a THREE gig for Finland, which is pretty unusual now days, 'cause they're very big band everywhere. I and my 'cob'-friends (:D) we're ''in'' the tour immediately, we buy tickets for all three shws. The towns were Tampere, Oulu and Vuokatti. If you had a time to check those towns at map, you can see, they're not very close each other.

Finally all things went well, and yes, we saw them three times and no, the tiredness won't win us ... very much.

So, the tour start thursday, 8.4. from Tampere. We we're in queue already in wednesday night, and of course first ones ;D

We always like to be in the queue/waiting for the gigs/concerts very early, of course the big reason is that, we wanna get our place in front row but I guess nowdays as big reason is also that, we like to wait. We like to have fun and stupid things in a line, we like to spend time even it's november and fucking cold. (This is just a example, now was april, so pretty warm.).

Sometimes we almost forget, why we're sitting in the streets/etc. Well, everyone has her/his own hobby, so, this is what we like to do! Right ;)

I wanna give BIG THANKS to the Pakkahuone! The gig was ALL AGES / K-18 (age limit), and we know that there will be 'bar'-side for adults. We adults were really lucky bastards, because the area were ''shared'' with fence, so to the left side stay for ''children'' and the right side left for adults. It was nice, because you didn't have to fight so much for your place in the front row. And the fence were pretty much in the middle of the area, so when I and my friends get into the front row, I was almost the rint of Alexi, and last one of us were front of Roope. So, it's not bad either to be front of Alexi-Janne-Roope, heh.

I think so that some of the other clubs should organize these age limit/k-18 gigs like this, is very good! Because, then you don't need to be carrying some drunken bastards who's bullying kids or then we adults don't wanna hear ANYTHING stupid things from kids, haha.
But I have to say, that the kids-side in this gig, were little bit more wilder than the adults side, because when you can buy beer/etc during the whole gig, you can see how someones moves get more slower ... and slower :D But we have lots of fun! That's the most important thing ;D

Well, back in business. The last gig was sometime in 2009, so there were pretty long time, when we saw those guys last time. Also this Tampere gig day was Alexi's birthday ;) We remembered this cute, talented little man with our b-day hats and 'tube' and also wih HUGE BRA :D
(He also give a present for us (or, finally it's fly to me) - his wet t-shirt ... how charming :D)

Janne STEAL poor Alexi's bra ... but those fit for him too ;)

And the band are (if someone don't know yet!) :

Alexi Laiho, vocals and guitar

Janne Wirman, keyboard and backing vocals

Henkka T Blacksmith, bass and backing vocals

Roope Latvala, guitar and backing vocals

Jaska Raatikainen, drums

(sorry for the shitty photo!)

Setti-lista oli kaikilla keikoilla sama, mutta eipä päässyt kyllästyttämään, kun joukossa oli muutama todella yllättävä veto, mm. Kissing the Shadows !

Kaikkia biisejä en nyt varmasti muista, mutta suurimman osan.

Set-list were the same, in all gigs, but it weren't boring, hell no, because there was some pretty big surprises, like for example Kissing the Shadows !

I bet I can't remember all songs, which played, but almost all ... or I hope so.

Setti-lista / set-list (they're not in 'order') :

Hate Me!

Silent Night, Bodom Night

Hate Crew Deathroll (this was pretty beginning, and it weird, it should be the last song!)

Downfall

Angels Don't Kill

In Your Face

Needled 24/7

Bodom Beach Terror

Chokehold

Blooddrunk

Smile Pretty For The Devil

Kissing the Shadows

Keikka oli kyllä aivan paras ja todella hauska, kyllä pidettiin hauskaa koko rahan edestä ja rahoilleen sai vastinetta!

Keikan jälkeen ei ollut paljon aikaa jäädä lorvimaan mihinkään, nimittäin edessä oli ajo Ouluun sekä 2/3 matkasta kuskin hereillä pitäminen + tour diaryn teko ... Nopeasti käytiin Alexin juttusilla, josta ei kun tupaten täynnä olleeseen autoon ja nokka kohti Oulua!

The gig was so AWESOME and we have so much fun! Even the ticket was pretty expensive, you totally get lots of good music and funny things for those money, what you put into a ticket!

After the gig we haven't very much time to hang out, we quickly have a chat with Alexi and then to the car and way to go to Oulu!

Big thanks goes to my lovely friends and of course, for the boys, Children Of Bodom! ;)

Check out the websites :

http://www.cobhc.com/

www.myspace.com/childrenofbodom

Kukkona Tunkiolla - band contest / Shadow Will Follow, 7.4.2010, Jack The Rooster, Tampere

Tampereella järjestetyssä Kukkona Tunkiolla - bändi kilpailussa esiintyi bändi nimeltä Shadow Will Follow, joka soittaa rock/metallia. Itse tutustuin bändiin ja bändiläisiin ensimmäisen kerran, kun olivat lämppäämässä Amoralia syyskuussa 2009 Tampereen Klubilla.

Vaikka meillä oli alkamassa kolmen päivän kiertue tämän illan jälkeen (tästä myöhemmin), niin koska paikalla oleminen oli yksi ääni, raahattiin tottakai itsemme paikalle :) Hyvän musiikin puolesta on aina hienoa toimia ja tietenkin tukea kaverien bändiä.
Vaikka tutuissani on paljon muusikkoja, niin en silti viitsi ns. promota 'paskoja' bändejä, vain sellaisia mistä itse tykkään. Shadow Will Follow:ssa yhdistyy monen lempi-bändini elementit ja silti he kuulostavat ihan omalta itseltään. Minusta on hyvä, jos sekä kuuntelijat että bändi pystyy itse sanomaan vaikutteitaan, mutta suoranaista vertailu kohdetta ei ole.
On todella hyvä, jos bändi kuulostaa joltain aivan uudelta ja mielenkiintoiselta, kuten SWF.

Shadow Will Follow on ollut jo monessa mukana tämänkin kilpailun jäljiltä, mm. Radio Rock Starba 2010-kisassa sekä musavideo-kilpailussa.
Uusin julkaisu on "Songs of Separation" - demo cd, jonka voin vain suositella ostamaan. Hinta ei lompakkoa vararikkoon vie ja samalla tuet bändin toimintaa!
Myös MySpace-sivuilla tuoreita biisejä sekä mm. yksi omista ehdottomista lemppareista, ''Reach for the Silence''!

Suora lainaus bändin MySpace-sivuilta, Shadow Will Follow:n tarinasta voit lukea tämän postauksen lopusta englanniksi.

In Tampere were Kukkona Tunkiolla - band contest, where played band called by Shadow Will Follow, who play rock/metal music. I get know this band, when they were support to Amoral, in september 2009, at Klubi, Tampere.

Even we know, that we have a pretty hard three days tour to coming (more about this later!), we wanted to go give our 'vote' to the band, because the idea was ; one person/one vote. Of course we were there :) It is always nice to support good music and friends.

Even I have pretty much music-dudes in my friends, I don't wanna promote any 'shitty'-band, only those, who I really like. In Shadow Will Follow are lots of elements of my favorite bands but still they sound themselves. You can say (and they can say) who's is they're ''idols'', but you can't say straight, that they're like them, you got the point. Or I hope so :D
It's always good to sound fresh and new, and rock'n'roll!


Shadow Will Follow has been here and there, doing lots of things, after this contest, for example Radio Rock Starba 2010-competition and music video-competition.

They have also announced "Songs of Separation" - demo cd, which you can buy, even you're not living in Finland. It wont cost much and you will support for a GOOD band!
(More details about "Songs of Separation"-demo cd -> http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=467494427&blogId=535906892 )
Also in MySpace is pretty new songs and also older ones. Check them out, there's also one of my ultimate favorite "Reach for the Silence" !


There's also little 'borrow' of Shadow Will Follow's story, in the end of this post. It's from SWF's MySpace-site.

" This is a story of one man's passion that later became an ambition for six guys. A story, yet with no end in sight, that hopefully will be told for generations to come. This is the story of Shadow Will Follow.

In 2008, lead guitarist and composer Mikael decided to put an end to his misery. And don't get us wrong my children, we're not talking about suicide, we're talking about reincarnation! Mikael knew exactly what his goal was, but didn't quite know how to achieve it. Luckily he had many musically talented friends he had known since childhood, and building the foundation for the band later known as Shadow Will Follow was a very natural process. Jaska "Jacob P" and Samuli "Schubert" had been jamming with Mikael along the years, but these three had never before really thought about starting a real hard working band together.

They didn't have to seek far for a drummer, because already the first candidate impressed Mikael and the others with his talent and chilled, yet spartan personality. The first rehearsals went well and everything just clicked, so Timo was in and it was time to start looking for a singer. Although there were a few others hoping to fill the vocalist's spot, Mikael felt Jouni as a sort of a soulmate and saw the hiding potential and charisma through the slightly restless first appearance. Jouni joined the band, but something was still missing. No man can handle too much, so it was only natural to bring in another guitarist as well. And the one for that job was Vellu. Besides the obvious skills, Vellu later showed that he is also more than capable to organize band related matters.

Shadow Will Follow started out as Ninth Question. It sounded mysterious, but Mikael never explained anyone what it meant. Anyway, the name didn't quite fit in with the whole package, so they thought about it and decided to drop it. It was obvious that the new name should go hand in hand with the band's appearance as well as the music and lyrics. So finally Jouni came up with Shadow Will Follow... The name says it all: You can try to run away from your past, but it'll always be there to remind you of its existence. "

Check out the websites :

www.myspace.com/shadowwillfollow

You can also find the band for example IRC-galleria etc. :)