Online now: Galleries of Walls of Jericho, The Red Chord, Humand Demise

find them under concerts!

I recently got working more with analogue camera’s. Got an instamatic, Polaroid, Agfa Clack and Olympus OM1 going. Im soon getting a Pentax probably, but Im not sure if it is working. Nice to try out!
I have not really developed the films yet, but I will do that soon. Im not sure if I am going to upload them, because most of them will be used in my surrealism projects.

I ve recently bought an Cullmann lamp… in the second hand store. It’s really oldschool. If you read the back you will see that you can’t put it on any longer than 5 minutes, because then it will overheat. I ve had it on for about 20 seconds to see if it worked and I wanted to close the metal doors of it to put it away again I noticed they were already to hot to touch. hehe well, interesting object for my collection at least.

Yesterday evening I went to Walls of Jericho in de kelder, Amersfoort. Was really interesting. but hmmm these guys did not shower that week!! as soon as they entered the stage there was this horrible scent of sweaty guys that don’t bother to shower every once and a while and deodorant is sth they hadnt heard of either I guess. after the gig I hung around int he venue for a while for a drink, but left before any of theguys showed theirselves in public afterwards. hehe, sorry… next time maybe. On the schedule is: The Foreshadowing. I look really forward to see them. It was definitely one of the best albums I reviewed and they were on my Want-to-see-live list for a long time. Of course they come with Lacuna Coil. I really don’t like their music, but I can’t say they have a wrong taste in music, because they always tour with bands I like so much that I can’t skip on it. So still… Kudos for Lacuna Coil :p

The festival madness is totally open now. Loads of festivals going on and hell lot of traveling. I should write some more, but with all the facebook, twitter blah I m busy LOL
maybe in a couple of days I tell more about Cologne and our parking problems there.

Last week I already uploaded the fortarock, but forgot to tell you… ooops.

And now I just uploaded the gallery of Amphi Festival. :)

I am back from Finland for about a week now, but I was busy with the photo’s and reviews etc…
work goes first ;)
Anyway… My Birthday was great, me and Elvira went to Virgin Oil early because we were suppose to interview For The Imperium. In front of the door I saw Tommi and Tommi from Wankers of the Zoo Crew. So we had a little chitchat. after that we did the interview and went eating.
I wanted to be in Virgin Oil a bit after the opening, because it is not nice if any guests come early and miss out on me. First came Mikko and later Antto surprised me with showing up. Two guys called to tell me they could not come but we met later :D
Gigs were nice, I had a nice evening!! Thanks all!!! And because Tommi told the audience about my birthday when I was photographing their set I got people walking after me to the toilet to wish me a happy birthday. :p

The day after we went shopping and in the evening we went to Dantes.. Good as always, though it was pretty empty. Ok for us, we just wanted a drink or two and sleep early since the day after the Tuska festival would start.
Tuska was nice! Friday was a lot of stressing because I had to run all town for interviews and afterparty’s and I survived. Very cool to see that I got recognized by All That Remains. “Hey, I saw you in Amsterdam” :p
yes, true! you rocked there as well. I loved their set and I am happy that I got some great photo of their bassist smiling. Muhaha I kept that one private… just for the sake of having sth unique :D.
After I photographed Neurosis I ran to the hostel and drop some stuff I wouldnt need anymore. Then back to Virgin Oil to be there on time.. 19.30 for the interview with Black Light Discipline. The guys were still at the beach though. I somehow expected this to happen already… well ok… Let’s say I know Finns and I calculated the time a bit wider than I would have done elsewhere. I was done in time, so I walked all the way to Nosturi and just had time to grab a banana before meeting up with Kilt. who did a great and intense show.
I had to rush afterwards and I really hoped that I could see a bit of Fear of Domination but unfortunately that didnt work out. I was in time for Black Light Discipline and enjoyed them though.
After that Turmion Kätilöt played and Elvira and me danced a lot.
27th was a busy day on the festival for me… so i did not want to shoot more bands at the afterparty… which made me go and end up in Dantes, while elvira was at Tavastia for the Textures. Mikko and me were in dantes drinking and watching some bands, who’s name I cant really remember, but were quite ok. When mikko left, I stayed to talk with some other guys and so come I had a nice evening and met some nice people!
28th was the last day :( I had only two bands to photograph int hefestival so I chilled a bit ont he festival area and spoke with some people. Later Elf joined me and we made some fun shots. Afterparty of today drove me to Virgin Oil again with Black Sun Aeon who was the god damn highlight of the whole festival. Well at least they surprised me most! what a killer line up! Tuomas was one of my fave drummers already, but let’s say he jumped up in charts! damn! fucking great! After that we left quite soon, but not before we had some Fisu! :D Let’s go fishing!
I slept for maybe two hours and then I went to the airport to fly home.

how long will it take before Im back in Helsinki? not too long, I m sure!

Here some of the photo’s of my B-day (scanned polaroids):
Me and Tommi

Me and Tommi (a better pic)

Me and Tommi (the other Tommi):

Mikko and me

Antto and me:

Elvira and me:

See the festival section for the gallery of Tuska…
and stay tuned for the gallery of the afterparty shows!!!

edit 04-07: afterparty shows are also on!