Written by Herra Honkonen on Monday, February 27th, 2006
Tweet Yesterday the morning came all too fast. The mounting exhaustion made me sleep like the dead even though we were in a train, and getting up was very difficult. There seems to be a water heater in every Russian train car and you can get coffee and tea for free. The instacoffee made my […]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Sunday, February 26th, 2006
Tweet I woke up at relatively early in the morning to the lovely squaking sound of Mr. Vuorensola grinding his heels against the tent matress he was sleeping on. I heard later that he had passed out in the other room and deposited by Mr. Haapanen and our hosts to the floor. Not an easy […]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Friday, February 24th, 2006
Tweet All right, we are live on the net. You can see the Military Days festival from our webcam and audio stream is provided by Radio Ubik. The program will last from 19 to 22 Finnish time (GMT 2). We will start playing in approximately 21:00 Finnish time, maybe a bit earlier.
Written by Herra Honkonen on Friday, February 24th, 2006
Tweet This day had to be experienced to be believed. It could have started better, though, since it is clear that I still can’t sleep in a train. I spent two hours trying to find a comfortable way to sleep in the train chair. When I found a position when my head stopped nodding and […]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Tweet The long walk and bus trip of the previous day knocked out the whole band pretty efficiently. We got up at about noon, when we were thinking of leaving to downtown. Apparently there had been some communication breakdown, since our hosts were nowhere to be seen. We basically lazed around for a couple of […]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Tweet Our trip started on Tuesday morning, when all of us met in front of Lasipalatsi in Helsinki. Mr. Vuorensola arrived from a movie project related meeting, Mr. Haapanen and I dropped in by a taxi. Finding the St. Petersburg busses was easy, since Ilmari spotted them when going to get keys to his apartment, […]
Written by Herra Honkonen on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Tweet The last half a year or so has been busy for Älymystö. We have been on tour in the Baltic, published our first full-length album Atomgrad and currently we are getting ready for our Russian mini-tour. On Tuesday morning we will head off to St. Petersburg and Moscow, where we will play with such […]
