Tomorrow in Turku

Thank you people of Jyrock for last weekend and the cool festival! I found one picture from the band gig here. And thanks to the attentive and kind audience in Oulu on last Thursday.

Tomorrow 21.4. I am taking the gang to Turku. We'll be playing at Klubi with Kiki Pau.
(Photo by www.christophbuckstegen.de)

On The Road Again

We are leaving Helsinki today and driving up north for some six hours to stay with Arttu the bass man tonight. Half of the crew is still in the grips of serious spring virus, so it will be an unusually calm and zen-like trip I believe.

Thursday 15.4. we'll be playing in Oulu (Nuclear Nightclub).
On Friday 16.4. we'll be at the Jyrock festival in Jyväskylä.
On Saturday 17.4. I will stay in Jyrock and play a solo show (that's where I promised the new song).

I promise to try and update the blog while touring in Finland. Maybe some pictures too of the snow situation in April. Up North we go!

Coffee Break/Social Media Time

I want to keep blogging even though I cannot constantly announce news here. I'm not a newsagent, and the blog isn't a newsstand, so there should be no problem...(I'm reassuring myself here)

It's sometimes difficult to decide what is important enough (or proper) to write here, because I am not on tour right now (although I will be on a mini one next week) and I don't have an easy label for this phase.

I'm writing songs. It is a fluid time of various activities and non-activities all of which amount to music at some point. But not directly. I have time to have a cough for five weeks straight. I have time to watch a movie in the middle of the day. I have time to organize my closet. I email. I read. I cook and sneeze a lot. I write my diary, update the movie blog I'm one half of. I surf the net and read other blogs and check Twitter and Facebook a little too often. I meet friends at odd hours and drink espresso.

Amongst this routine I write songs. It's exhilarating, lonely and makes me feel possibly the happiest I can be – in short instances. It's frustrating too. Can you believe that having this time actually makes me feel guilty? Am I utilizing it right or am I just lazy?

In any case, next week I'll be playing at least one new song at the solo concert on Saturday 17th of April in Jyrock.

I have been following Penelope Trunk's blog for a while now. She inspires me to become a better blogger. I can't remember how I found her but she has given some good advice on blogging in the midst of her entertaining and intelligent way of telling about her personal life. I have her bookmarked, which is rare in my computer life. (I'm hoping the advice is sinking in slowly)

I would also like to take part in this webinar A Musician's Roadmap to Social Media Success
and become an expert on Twittering and Myspacing (I suck right now!) but it costs 400 dollars and I'm defending my not enrolling with DIY-pride.

Please, follow me on Twitter! I'm soon going to invest in a phone that can access the internet so I can twitter from the most uncomfortable places like the rest of the world.

Live Dates

Here are next week's live show dates again:

15.4. OULU Nuclear Nightclub
16.4. JYVÄSKYLÄ Jyrock
17.4. JYVÄSKYLÄ Jyrock (SOLO)

then the following week:
21.4. TURKU Klubi

I can't wait to get to play again! And this will be your chance to buy Better Than Wages on VINYL and American Apparel wife-beaters and boyfriend-beaters with the coolest logo – summer is coming, you know.