A WEEKEND REPORT FROM THE PROMISED LAND OF JYVÄSKYLÄ:
we arrived at jyrock on friday evening, drove up to jussi's place, left our sleeping bags and things at his flat and walked back to ilokivi to see some of the wonderful bands playing there. paavoharju played their lovely folky weird music to a packed upstairs room, rubik kicked ass downstairs and alamaailman vasarat made a wonderful klezmer racket. we trudged back to jussi's flat in the rain looking forward to the next evening..
on saturday, we left for pieksämäki at around two in the afternoon to fetch our drums, bass and guitaramp, kindly delivered in a van by another band from helsinki, strong, who had a show up there the same night. unfortunately, we had accidentally taken one of their guitars, which we only realised once their guitarist called us and asked to have it back. much shifting of all our equipment into one car at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere ensued, and while andrei and i turned back east, sampo drove our gear to jyväskylä in a rush as we were already late for soundchecks. sampo et al had already set up the drums onstage for the other bands to use as we got back (after spending about twenty minutes lost on the other side of jyväskylä), and we sat upstairs having lunch while felix zenger did his soundcheck.
we went on stage at quarter past nine, and started our set while sampo fiercely projected hardcore porn at the wall behind us. some little problems came up, but they usually do, so no worries there. we met some nice people afterwards, and spent the rest of the evening watching bands (marissa nadler! kaukolampi/puranen/nykänen! RISTO!!), and sitting in the back room listening to the guys from paavoharju tell us some very strange stories. all in all, the whole weekend was one of the best experiences i've had at a rock festival. our neverending gratitude to jyrock, to jussi for the place to sleep, to sampo and andrei for filming the show, and everybody who came to the event.
here are some links:
photos by mikko niemelä
photos by henri lassander
and photos by henri järvenpää
puimuri has a video-interview with the organiser of the festival juha luomala, and some festival-footage too
and finally, desibeli has a finnish language review of saturday night at jyrock here.
we arrived at jyrock on friday evening, drove up to jussi's place, left our sleeping bags and things at his flat and walked back to ilokivi to see some of the wonderful bands playing there. paavoharju played their lovely folky weird music to a packed upstairs room, rubik kicked ass downstairs and alamaailman vasarat made a wonderful klezmer racket. we trudged back to jussi's flat in the rain looking forward to the next evening..
on saturday, we left for pieksämäki at around two in the afternoon to fetch our drums, bass and guitaramp, kindly delivered in a van by another band from helsinki, strong, who had a show up there the same night. unfortunately, we had accidentally taken one of their guitars, which we only realised once their guitarist called us and asked to have it back. much shifting of all our equipment into one car at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere ensued, and while andrei and i turned back east, sampo drove our gear to jyväskylä in a rush as we were already late for soundchecks. sampo et al had already set up the drums onstage for the other bands to use as we got back (after spending about twenty minutes lost on the other side of jyväskylä), and we sat upstairs having lunch while felix zenger did his soundcheck.
we went on stage at quarter past nine, and started our set while sampo fiercely projected hardcore porn at the wall behind us. some little problems came up, but they usually do, so no worries there. we met some nice people afterwards, and spent the rest of the evening watching bands (marissa nadler! kaukolampi/puranen/nykänen! RISTO!!), and sitting in the back room listening to the guys from paavoharju tell us some very strange stories. all in all, the whole weekend was one of the best experiences i've had at a rock festival. our neverending gratitude to jyrock, to jussi for the place to sleep, to sampo and andrei for filming the show, and everybody who came to the event.
here are some links:
photos by mikko niemelä
photos by henri lassander
and photos by henri järvenpää
puimuri has a video-interview with the organiser of the festival juha luomala, and some festival-footage too
and finally, desibeli has a finnish language review of saturday night at jyrock here.
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