I said I'm back backity hac-a haca-daga sacc-a. I never really figured out what the hell Tidjan sings in the beginning of Microphoneayee, but it's something like that. An Immortal message to the lyric loving masses in any case.
A tough weekend behind us, but before I get into the sweet vibes of Lappeenranta and Alavus, (or A la Bush, as we like to call it due to some unpleasant experiences we had years ago involving Alavus and a certain form of body hair) I'll rewind back a week and take you to a small journey from the legendary Tavastia to the even more legendary Sininen Majatalo (Blue Tavern) in Iisvesi, Suonenjoki.
Tavastia was great. We had such a great time there. Our best Tavastia gig ever, and one of the best shows so far on the new tour (Which has BTW been named: It would have been easier and clever to jus die- Tour 2006) We honestly didnt expect all that much people cuz Lordi, the monster who won the eurovision song contest a week earlier was performing that same evening, and drew a crowd of 80 000 people (us finns went absolutely bananas for his victory), but luckily he stopped arround 10 pm, so there was alot of people out, and we got a good share. Tavastia was pleasantly packed and even more important, it was a great crowd. They made us feel wellcome and we played our asses of. (and put them back on later, cuz u really cant live without an ass, now can u...)
After the gig we did some backstage tutuksi, cuz we would head of towards Suonenjoki right after our shit was packed it the bus-a-bus. At this time our dear friend Marzi Nyman (who in addition of being probably the nicest dude on the universe, is also an exeptional musician, a true genious) was lured to join us on our road trip to Suonenjoki. The long negotiation went as follows:

Tatu: "Marzi, why dont you join us on our trip to suonenjoki?"
Marzi: "OK."

So he went with us. The next episode was at a gas station about 20kilometers up the road from Helsinki. Some members of the band decided that it would be a good idea to get naked and run arround the bus, while the driver was pumping gas into the tank. Then some of these before mentioned people made aquaintence with nature by literally jumping in to a tree near by, still naked. And then one of the beforementioned people got in to heavy duty car repairing by jumping naked on top of an abandonned car. Now everything was totally fine until he or she (really tough to guess which....) slipped and jumped through the back window of the car. Now that obviously will result in loss of blod and that it did. Even though we were extremely lucky not to damage any major vains, there was a fair amount of blod on the pavement. The sober part of the crew did a great job in fixing the patient. First they sunk the guy in alcohol externally (internally he was allrealy very soaked...) and cleaned out the wounds and patched him up. He survived and the party went on.
We arrived in suonenjoki at arround 9 in the morning and it was a beautifull sight for our red eyes: The gig was organized by a family who own a gorgeus "summer camp-motel-kinda-thing" by a lake. The complecs consisted of only a fiew old lovely buildings and two saunas. The stage was built right there on the yard by the lake, and it was mindblowingly nice. Finland at its best. We swam in the lake, went to the sauna, ate great food and enjoyed the hospitality of the family.
The gig went great too. Me and Marzi put together a supporting act: we covered our faces with rubber spiders and pretended to be Lordi. We looked less like lordi, and more like fucking stupid, but we had a laugh and so did the audience. Or at least two peopple in the audience did. Marzi also joined in on the KWAN gig and threw in some guitar magic of his. It was cool.

Oh god, so much to tell, so litle time.

Ill get back to you people soon.
love
-t/K