Table hockey

It's been a relaxing week. We took a week off from studio and I went to visit Copenhagen, Denmark. Nice city but I caught cold which is always a little turn off. Anyway, last week in studio was fantastic. We got lots of things done, all the bass tracks and lots of guitar as well. The first single is done thoroughly, it's gonna be mixed and mastered during next week. Awesome! Cannot wait it to be released.


Played some good old table hockey in studio

On Friday we had a show in Helsinki. There was this thing called "Night of the arts" where we had a gig in the magnificent Molly Malone's during the night. Think we performed bad ass as usual.

At the moment I'm trying to get rid of being sick. Sick and tired of being sick and tired. You know. We have a show in Pohja on Saturday and on Sunday I'm heading back to studio to continue with singing and some guitar tracks. Gonna be fun!

pete

Rantarock-98

After a night at home we headed to Hanko to play an acoustic show with Heikki. It was a nice night, Hanko is a beautiful city during the summer so you cannot complain. We played one new song there as well, just tried out a bit you know. Or maybe you don't. We had our accommodation in a huge apartment which was a cool place. In the yard there was this own club-building as you can see below.


The club of all the clubs, Kärppä-klubi

Had to wake up pretty early in the morning so we couldn't hang out at the club but hopefully during the next time! We drove over 7 hours to get to Kokkola where we are at the moment. Jonas (our producer) has a nice new studio here. Me likes. Heikki is now continuing bass playing what he started yesterday evening and things look really promising. I'm trying to figure out all the lyrics to get back in the mood where I was during the writing process.

We have a feeling going on that this album sounds like Rantarock-98. Party music or something. It just gives vibes. Good vibes.

Yesterday evening after we quit the recordings for the day we played a tournament together as a 2-member squad in PES. Pro Evolution Soccer as you all surely know. International Cup, 5-star level with Finland and we went to the Semi-Finals. France was too tough, we lost 2-1. Tonight the goal is to go to the finals and during this week we are going for the gold. Lovin' the game!

pete

Visiting home

Just got back from the show we had in Porvoo tonight. Actually it was during the day and I think it was awesomeness! Smak was there as well, hopefully we'll be doing some shows together later on. And as I recall, we are.

During the morning I got the basic guitar tracks done. It went fluently. Here's the setup we used with a lot of songs. Some vintage stuff as well. Cannot even remember all of the amps we tried. But it sounded good, that's the main point!

Rectifier-THE shit

During the afternoon a dude called Puke stopped by to play some Rhodes and Hammond. He is one of the studio dudes so it was easy to get him to play on some tunes!

Rhodes


Puke

Now it's time to go to bed. We have an acoustic show with Heikki tomorrow in Hanko. After that we are heading to Kokkola to another studio. Must get the first single done during next week.

Later,

pete

Visitor's day

Today we had our record company people visiting us and listening to where we are spending their money at. Of course we asked them to sing a part in one song we have. Nick and Pekka are both amazing musicians so it took like five minutes to get the part done. Four of us singing at the same time, Nick, Pekka, Jonas & me. Heikki recording. Pure greatness!


Nick, Pekka & Jonas

Clarkkent visited here as well. The band you all should know. They listened to one song and the first comment was that it sounded like a game. Pure madness. Heikki was practising his new instrument. That's classy, isn't it?


Heikki


Anyway today has been a good one as well. I've been playing some basic guitar tracks and it's going smoothly for now. I have been practicing a bit before the sessions started. That's it. Now off to see a DVD and sleep.

pete

This morning started well. I needed to kickstart my heart to get back on shape. Actually not but I thought it would be a great way to start off every morning. With good old electricity.

It's some sort of recording equipment but looks fancy

Yesterday evening something unexpectable happened when Heikki dropped a computer table on his toe. We are sure that it's broken. From two different places. Man it looks ugly now.


The toe right after the accident

Yeah, today has been really good because Anton is still on the wheel. We got "Sleep With The Enemy" recorded right in the morning. After that songs called "Ocean", "No Zen For Me Today", "Johnny & Maria", "Die, Honey, Die!", "Last Summer" & "Corporate Clones vs. Celebrating Clowns". Now there's only one more song left that needs drumming. It's called "Yesterday I Quit Drinking, Today I Made My Comeback". The whole song is pure insanity. Cannot really predict the outcome..

Bob Rock

Ladies and gents, here we go again!

It's time to start talk talk talking about the recordings of our second album. As you might know, this blog is probably going to consist more about various other subjects than actual recordings. But anyway, nice to keep you updated where we're heading this time.

Our first album was kinda rock/pop-album with indie-touch on it. This time it's gonna be a bit different. Maybe more like pop/rock. Or Bob/Rock would be also a good way to describe this music. But yeah, not that much of the fat guitar on it, something new. Something that we are on to now. Not forgetting the melodic good mood-stuff with killer choruses. That's the way the dinner should be served!

Because we needed "the big sound" on drums we decided to go to a studio which has a pretty spacious place to play as you can see below. Record company money talks this way:

Anton beating shit out of those drums


Our "drum machine" on this album is a dude called Anton Laurila. Lot of you might know him from various other projects but man, he can play drums! Besides that, he's a really nice guy as we've known him for a while now. Anton is our session drummer and might be playing some piano as well. We'll see when the recordings will move on.


Anton and our producer Jonas having a break

Today we got four drum tracks recorded and now we're done for today. Songs that go with titles "Death Was Here", "Farewell My Love", "Inside Out" & "Wonderboy" are now done. We also started to record a track called "Sleep With The Enemy" but it's not finished yet. Tomorrow it is.

pete