Oct 31st, 2009- Helsinki, Finland

17:25 We are lost in Helsinki. Driving around for the last 20 mins.. We will have to call Santtu to help us find the way. Seems the directions using the Michelin site are not very accurate.

20:41 Mikko and Sami from Hidria Spacefolk were sitting in the bar when we arrived. So cool to see them. They have to go talk to the guy who will do the editing of the film for their DVD but will come back for the gig later. Our soundcheck was pretty long and the drums did not arrive until like 19. One of my extension bars died and it seems there are not extras anywhere, so no blacklight and not Yamaha CS-10 tonight. Mogens, Juba and I went out for some chinese food. Had the Kung Pa chicken and it was really good. NOt that greasy. Fuck.. I have to stay awake for another 12 hrs and drive to Turku after the gig tonight. I am not looking forward to this. I hope that the TL guys will not start too late. 10:00. They are setting up to do a multitrack recording. This should be interesting. I hope it turns out well.

22:30 TL are playing and sound amazing. They are a super cool band. The place is like half full now as well and it seems more and more are coming all the time. I can't wait to play now.

Ville from Taipuva L..

02:00 I am not that happy that we had to stop playing at 01:00. I was told 01:30. We only got to play like 75 mins as it took a long time to change the stage out and Esko, the keyboard player has a big set up and he just left and went to smoke and did not come back for like 20 mins. Not cool. Anyway, the crowd was amazing. Both mogens and I had a bad synth night. He had not signal from his nord modular when the show started and had to get help from the sound guy. I was on the floor in front of the stage as there was no room for me and was blasted from sebastians guitar and the PA so it was really hard to hear myself. The rest of the band was sounding killer. We freaked them out a bit my starting with a country number! We played with Taneli, the drummer from Taipuva. He was very good but not really our style. He changes the rhythm and beat too often and this throws people around. Still a very good drummer. Jukka suited us better, I think. The view of the gig was really mixed. Mattias and Nick thought it was better than Lahti, while the rest did not agree....

Overall a pretty interesting concert....