My musical Mind

..with Opeth as the opening act! And there was also a band called Bigelf, but I only heard the last song from them, so can’t really say anything about their performance.

Opeth was…err… interesting. I was a bit surprised about their attitude: “The next song is difficult and we’re not sure if we are able play that”… and after song “okay, I guess it went pretty ok, what do you think?”. And the vocalist was telling stories about how he first time met Dream Theater. (more…)

Yes, after having to rehearsals with the whole band, we just smashed the other bands in the competition and made our way onto the finals that will take place on 9.10 @ Circus. That’s amazing!

We played two songs, started easily with Summer of ’69 and the second just blew out the whole Apollo club: Rebel Yell! The crowd was wild enough to convince the jury, that we need to be in the finals. And the number of female underpants on the stage was bigger than 0…

This is fun, just a day after we thought about putting up a new band, we found out that one guy from Steerco (a company that my employer just bought) expects to take part to Firmarock, a competition for “company bands”. He is pretty competent on guitar and bass, so w have a band here! What makes this interesting, is that there’s not so much time for rehearsals, as the event will take place on 11.9….

I recently put an announcement in http://muusikoiden.net/wanted that I’m looking for a band. To my surprise, there seems to be a hell lot of bands without keyboard player in southern Finland! I’m counting the replies now in literally dozens, maybe exceeding 50 any time now!

The replies have come from a variety of different bands, ranging from 60′s soul to neo-classical progressive metal and everything in between. Well, that’s not so surprising considering my announcement and musical background, I’m realy an allrounder. I’ll have a busy autumn checking them out and choosing with who to continue working seriously.

Happily I was asked to play keyboards for a demo tape with band Ambercrape. This is still work in progress, but first song with my playing is available at myspace.com/ambercrape.

There are still some to come. So stay tuned!

Airut is sleeping. And my musical mind is yearning for activity. It has been way too long when I last wrote a song. Or was playing live. Or had a traditional rehearsals. Or… actually anything!

Matti and Toni from Airut are kinda feeling the same. We have had some discussions on a side project (actually, we have had those a few years now…) . But now that Airut is not taking that much our time, it would be a wonderful time to produce something new. We’ll see.

In the meantime, if you happen to need a keyboardist / backing guitar player, let me know!

… in foreseeable future. Some of the guys are not that interested in hitting the road so we’ll write a few new songs and maybe record a new album. Or something. Time will tell.

Airut‘s debut album is finally out! Order your own copy at Levyvirasto.