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Bar Loose, Helsinki – March 9th 2023

Weekdays are a struggle for sure. That's why we're extra thankful to everyone who came out and partied with us tonight at Bar Loose in downtown Helsinki!

On Monday we were informed Motion…

So the funnest thing about playing shows is meeting new people. No big secret there. It gets especially fun though if you meet parts of your audience on the street days before the show walking home from band rehearsals. I'm…

These structures probably look the same wherever you go in the world. Somewhere between a cheap motel and a road side diner, these one story buildings sprung up everywhere in Finland in the 70’s and 80’s. And because we didn’t…

There's something magic about the Night of the Arts in Helsinki. The whole town's abuzz with every conceivable artist putting their craft on show and if the weather plays along like yesterday, there's not a lot of places I'd rather…

Admittedly it's kind of counter-intuitive, but the fact is that while on Friday we made our biggest and most important release with our debut album 'The Hurt & The Humour' fact is that playing live with this full band…

Pic by Lisa. Note Tuukka's Christmas sweater!

Bringing your own kids to gigs always leads to two things: total anarchy and therefor, most likely, a good time. So mine and Tuukka’s girls (no boys in this exclusive club!) decided…

So the last stops on the mini solo tour were a public toilet and a bar. And that's not a diss against Turku where the WaterLoo, a former public toilet, is located. Although upon arrival Dr. Dan and I…

Leg two of "Le Tour de Solo" washed me away to the lovely countries of Estonia and Latvia, specifically the cities of Tallinn and Riga. After last year's Christmas Bash at Dubrovnik and the Pub Pete show in March…

You know it's going to be a good gig when someone just walks up to you four hours before we're meant to go on stage while you're patrolling the area and asks for your latest EP because said someone's…

Wow, so there's a lot of cool indie/underground-sy – whatever you wanna call stuff that's not the Flow or Weekend – festivals in Helsinki! Hadn't heard of the Isle of Sheep (Bäääää!) festival before until a friend of mine…

So – Night of the Arts, south tip of the Töölönlahti Bay in Helsinki – talk about being back EXACTLY where we started from last year. But were we though? And yeah, before I get into a meandering analysis…

All photos © Nani Annette

Rain? Sure, it looked like it for the best part of the day heading up to our gig. But we've yet to play an outdoors show in the pouring rain! And we didn't start…

Ha! Don't you just love the World Cup?! I love watching players and countries go at it that I usually don't see as often, football that happens outside the limelight of, say, the Champions League or qualifiers here in…

Wow, so that went well!

Getting a slot at Semifinal was a big deal, and with the help of the other acts (the blissfully mesmerizing Ulla Kolla and Mr. Cool himself Antero Kerkkä) we managed to draw a…

Aaaah, festival season!
There's literally nothing better than summer, sun, a whole bunch of tables and booths set up seemingly at random and a couple of stages with different kinds of music. Now that'd be your average kind of festival…

Okay, so starting work at 5am, playing a gig at 10.30pm, being home at something like 3am and starting the next shift only two hours later – Tuukka wins "Soldier of the Day" hands down. I mean, somebody pin a…

Photo by Lisa Tirkkonen.

Spring has hit our shores. The days are longer and the sun warms your face while in the shadows you can still feel the last chills of winter subsiding. So what better way than to…

Wow! So that actually WAS the best pizza in town at Linko. At least the best I've had in this lovely hometown of ours. Karza only ranked it amongst his Top5 though. Said the best he's had was somewhere in…

Back at it and this time without the boys.

So my first gig with the SW Agency was at Pub Pete – a venue you can and want to get absolutely hammered at – and it was without the…

January, 20th, 2018

So, I guess when an evening begins with strangers asking us if there's music tonight when they see us loading into the venue and decide to change their plans in order to see us although they've…

With this second leg of our tour promoting the 'Beggar Princess' EP we wanted to try something that I haven't heard too many bands try over here: playing coffee houses the way bands do in the States regularly. It's such…

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Man, it's been a couple of mad weeks in the world of The Fisherman & The Sea! I would never even have dared to hope for all the attention that all you people who came to the…

Seven years after writing the first batch of songs for The Fisherman & The Sea I had decided on 22 songs to record – well, 21 to be exact since this was February-March this year – and one song hadn't…