Provinssirock 2011

Just came back from an 8 day long trip to Seinäjoki, where I was working for this year's Provinssirock. I got to be a part of building - and disassembling - Finland's biggest festival stage yet. It sure was an experience all right.

The main stage.

I also got to see some great shows there. I really enjoyed watching Jenni Vartiainen's pop tunes (and Jenni herself, 'cause that woman's got some sex appeal. DAMN!) and Graveyard kicking with their 70's groove. I suggest you go to a record shop, find their newest album Hisingen Blues, and listen to it as soon as possible.

Jenni Vartiainen.

Tomorrow we're gonna record some demos of our new songs. Very excited about that.

- Juska

Graduation parties, old friends & good times

Yesterday I went to a couple of graduation parties. My two cousins graduated from vocational school - one as a practical nurse, the other as a tailor. The party was held at my grandmother's place in Toivakka, where all my cousins and I used to spend all our summers as a small kid. It's a place with lots of very good memories.  I really enjoyed spending time there with my family, since I rarely get to see them nowadays. 

After that I went to my hometown Joutsa to celebrate my best friend Antti's graduation. He's got himself a profession now too, as an electrician. The graduation party was full of his relatives and friends. It was great to see all those people too, I've always liked Antti's family a lot and it's always cool to see people you go way back with. 

Today I went to a couple more graduation parties here in Jyväskylä. Santeri and Jesper graduated from high school with great papers. The food at both parties was great too. Thanks, families Suominen and Perälä!

Tonight has some pretty big plans too. My workplace has a party to celebrate the end of a good season at the house and the start of summer and I'm going there.

This weekend is full of people. Friends, old and new. Sadly, one friend lost, too..

Rest In Peace, Elvis Rantalainen. May your afterlife be full of tasty bones to chew and rabbits to run after.

- Juska

Writing in progress

Just got back from rehearsals. New songs kick ass.

Lutakko Liekeissä!

We're playing at this year's Lutakko Liekeissä -festival. That's pretty awesome. The new site's also in a somewhat publishing-shape. Still working on the domain name.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Lama play at Tavastia. Can't wait! Their set at Lutakko last week was something you could call a mindblowing experience. Definitely one of the best finnish punkbands EVER. Check it out for yourselves:

- Juska

New site & blog

I've been fighting with blogger for the last few days now. New site's starting to get together. It may not be all fine and fancy, but I find it more suitable to us than a mere page on Facebook, a lame-ass MySpace-page or a Bandcamp-profile that has nothing but songs in it. Hopefully this thing is good for you guys too. I'm gonna keep updating our stuff on the main page and use this one more as a blog, where I and the other TR guys can write what we want, when we want. So make sure to keep an eye on this one too if you're interested.

We don't have a lot of shows coming up right now, focusing on writing new stuff, but it would be cool to play some shows during the summer. Hopefully something will come up.

School's almost over, go skate!
- Juska