To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Älymystö, we will perform live in Club Infektio @ Darkside, Helsinki in 28th of January 2012. Most likely it will be the only chance to see us live for a while again, so remember to book the date to your calendar.

More info TBA.

So, things remain to be rather silent for Älymystö, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t play live in different projects. In this summer I toured as a member of NEGA, a shapeshifter-project founded by Mr. Pilvari Pirtola around 10 years ago. My time is too short to fill you in with all the details, but we played in 2+ Year Anniversary of Servataguse Muusika @ Tallinn, Estonia & 4th Kuucvaals industrial festival @ Lielauce, Latvia. This time NEGA was Mr. Pilvari, Mr. Paalanen & me – and to maximize the live effort, the tour also included solo performances of both NOSFE & TAPHEAD in both locations (for me, one show per event was enough and I decided to be just merrily drunk, enjoy the events and catch the latest news from all my Baltic friends). All in all, it was the best weekend of this summer for me, so a huge thank you for everyone involved.

So, here’s a video from our 22th of July live show at Kuucvaals. The sound quality isn’t perfect, but that will be fixed later on as the whole show will be released as mp3s on a certain web-label. Stay tuned for that.

The stream should be online around 21:30(+2 GTM), and the first show is scheduled to start at 22.00.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Älymysto-live

Live Video streaming by Ustream

21:00 DJ
22:00 Oorchach
23:00 Älymystö
00:00 Vilkduja

As some of you might have noticed, things seem to have been relatively silent for Älymystö lately. The reason for that is simple: all of us have been more or less busy with our personal lifes. Especially Mr. Vuorensola, who has been focusing on directing the Iron Sky movie, which is now in production phase, due to be released to theatrical distribution world-wide in early 2012.

However, I managed to steal a couple of days from his time and as a result Älymystö will perform live at 26th of February 2011 in Dog’s Home, Tampere, along with Vilkduja and Oorchach. The show will present you some new goodies along with the more traditional pieces of our live set.

In other news, the 12″-split vinyl release of 19:38:00 has been post-poned until further notice. To tell you the truth we don’t know much more about it either, from our part the material has been ready for release for well over a year now. All inquiries about that matter should be directed to Skithund Records. Regardless of the fate of vinyl release, we are planning to release a CD version of our side of 19:38:00 with some added bonuses somewhere in the future.

So, here are finally some photos from our gig in Kuudes Linja. Thanks for everybody who came to see us, the beautiful girls of Burlesque Polaire, and of course to the friendly staff of the club!

We just got a word that the material for the vinyl split we are doing for Skithund Records is on it’s way to be mastered for the vinyl and then off to the press. Things are happening!

In any case, here are some photos. First of all, our practice session (the full photoset in Flickr)

…and here is the gig evening (the full photoset in Flickr). Unfortunately we don’t have the permission to publish the Burlesque Polaire photos just yet.

So, tomorrow (that’s Thursday the 28th of May) we’ll finally be hitting the stage at Kuudes Linja and we’re happy to tell you the other performers of the evening will be the lovely Burlesque Polaire.

Guys in gasmasks and girls in corsets sounds very appropriate to me. Hope to see you there!

In case you’ve been missing seeing us play live lately, you’re in luck: we’ll be playing at Torture Torstai on 28th of May at Kuudes Linja. We’ll be playing a lot of material from the upcoming vinyl, and we’ll have an expanded lineup with Lin on cello.

The resident DJ’s are Proteus, aQi and ErilaZ, and there might be other fun stuff going on as well, but more on that as things develop.

Tickets are 8 euros. Bring friends. We like friends.

I go by the name “zombah” in the DJ list.

In other news, the guys keep on telling me how to improve the tracks in our upcoming vinyl, so I guess the release is again postponed. But we are still hoping to get it finally released later this year.

…and I used to think I’m the perfectionist in this band :).

This weekend the Latvian industrial community Sturm invades Tampere, Turku and Helsinki in co-operation with Vainohulluus. Today the bands Rosewater, Strops and Gas of Latvia will perform in Tampere’s Vastavirtaclubi, tomorrow in Turku’s Klubi and finally on Sunday in Helsinki at Kuudes linja, accompanied by Tres.

Don’t forget to tune in to Radio Ubik tonight for a live webcast from Vastavirta.

Phew, ’twas a busy week.

Many thanks for two successful gigs (especially the one in Helsinki ROCKED) to Kirdec, NoCore, Swaeg, Dana and all other involved. On a personal note, in Helsinki I discovered the wonder of attaching packing tape onto guitar strings. Will have to remember that in the future.

And yes, the t-shirts are available on our shows. They’re funky. Available in nearly all sizes, too. Even ladyfit! (Ladyfits? Hmm. No, I don’t think so.)

Onward.