It was nice to play again in Logo and see some familiar faces in the audience. Even tough it was again bit hard to get our equipment inside the venue ‘cause of road construction next to it.
Yesterday we started 1200km long way to Budapest. We had private accommodation in Hamburg and it was great to have some sleep before this long trip. Niina from Finnbands joined to our crew too and started to organize our interview schedules and merchandise. She’s big help for us because of tight time table on venues.
We traveled whole day through Germany and Czech watching sunny landscapes. Some necessary stops during the day but more or less driving. I think it was something over midnight when we decided to have a hotel room somewhere. First two were full but we found cheap and just perfect place to sleep for a while.
We get up from bed around 10:00am this morning. Fast shower and on the road again. “Trance Rantanen” (our driver got quite many nicknames already) started engine and our way to Hungary continued. Some breakfast after crossing the Slovakian border and Queen DVD on our PS3. So far seems that it’s great day ahead us. I think we’re now on near Hungary border and there’s under 200km to Budapest. Should I open a beer now?
“Lazing on a Sunday afternoon”
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Tour Bus Diaries pt. 2
Yesterday we had our first gig of this tour. Day started quite nicely after 8 hour sleep, relaxing and couple of beers last night. When I woke up I headed to Vince’s hotel room and there he was cutting Markku’s hair and beard. Our technician have now a brand new look taken from Lemmy Kilmister.
When we left from hotel room we went straight to our venue and parked our car there. We had enough time to do some shopping and finally we found ourselves drinking beer outside some local bar. Sun was shining and we had great time to hang out in Berlin.
When it was time to load in our equipment to venue, everything happened quite fast. We met some of the guys from Deep Insight for the first time and get to know each other. Great guys and we already had great time during load in and sound check. We decided to use my drums there and DI’s guitar and bass cabinets to make things work out faster in change between bands. Markku liked my new higher pitch drum tune and it was easy to mix the sound because of that.
Around 9:45 pm was our time to jump on the stage. It was very hot to play there and I think it was hot in audience too. We mixed up our new and old songs in our setlist and I think it worked pretty well. Maybe same setlist today or chancing one or two songs. Let see. We don’t usually plan these things =)
Now we’re sitting in our car and heading to Hamburg. There’s 20,5 degrees of Celsius outside and no clouds in sight. Let what happens today and where we’ll find ourselves tomorrow. If you happen to be in Hamburg you’re more than welcome to see the show. CU there!
When we left from hotel room we went straight to our venue and parked our car there. We had enough time to do some shopping and finally we found ourselves drinking beer outside some local bar. Sun was shining and we had great time to hang out in Berlin.
When it was time to load in our equipment to venue, everything happened quite fast. We met some of the guys from Deep Insight for the first time and get to know each other. Great guys and we already had great time during load in and sound check. We decided to use my drums there and DI’s guitar and bass cabinets to make things work out faster in change between bands. Markku liked my new higher pitch drum tune and it was easy to mix the sound because of that.
Around 9:45 pm was our time to jump on the stage. It was very hot to play there and I think it was hot in audience too. We mixed up our new and old songs in our setlist and I think it worked pretty well. Maybe same setlist today or chancing one or two songs. Let see. We don’t usually plan these things =)
Now we’re sitting in our car and heading to Hamburg. There’s 20,5 degrees of Celsius outside and no clouds in sight. Let what happens today and where we’ll find ourselves tomorrow. If you happen to be in Hamburg you’re more than welcome to see the show. CU there!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tour Bus Diaries pt.1
It’s something around 7:45 am local time and we’re driving through Denmark right now. Yesterday we started our journey 5:00 am Finnish time so we’ve been sitting one whole day in our car so far. This time we’ve got new driver, “Ransu” with us and I think he’s got lot to learn about us. He really don’t know yet how annoying people we can be while sitting hours in a tour bus and having most extraordinary conversations with each other.
While I’m writing this blog text up to this laptop, our car navigation system tells me that we’re arriving to Berlin approximately 1:30pm today. Then we’ll have rest of the day free time and we‘re ‘bout to chill a bit. You know… something good food and maybe couple of beers. But we’re open minded so if you have some party goin’ on, make sure we get the invitation ;)
Maybe it’s time to introduce our crew now:
As I said, this time we got new driver with us. During yesterday, he already get his new nickname and is called “Ransu” ever after. Likes it or not, he got name of the dog from Finnish TV show called “Pikku Kakkonen”.
Maybe some of you’ll remember Markku behind our mixing table on last Central European tour? He’s here again. So lots of bad jokes and even more bad stories and ideas up to come. You don’t even want to know… just buy him a shot of Jägermeister and you’ll get new friend =)
And that’s it. Only two crew members besides band. Niina from finnbands.com will join our crew in Hamburg and then we’ll have one local language speaking person included. Also Rowan from our booking agency is traveling with Deep Insight. He’ll handle tour management and working as Deep Insight’s technical person.
That’s it for now. I need to find WLAN connection somewhere and get this text online. See You on tour and let’s have a paaarty!
While I’m writing this blog text up to this laptop, our car navigation system tells me that we’re arriving to Berlin approximately 1:30pm today. Then we’ll have rest of the day free time and we‘re ‘bout to chill a bit. You know… something good food and maybe couple of beers. But we’re open minded so if you have some party goin’ on, make sure we get the invitation ;)
Maybe it’s time to introduce our crew now:
As I said, this time we got new driver with us. During yesterday, he already get his new nickname and is called “Ransu” ever after. Likes it or not, he got name of the dog from Finnish TV show called “Pikku Kakkonen”.
Maybe some of you’ll remember Markku behind our mixing table on last Central European tour? He’s here again. So lots of bad jokes and even more bad stories and ideas up to come. You don’t even want to know… just buy him a shot of Jägermeister and you’ll get new friend =)
And that’s it. Only two crew members besides band. Niina from finnbands.com will join our crew in Hamburg and then we’ll have one local language speaking person included. Also Rowan from our booking agency is traveling with Deep Insight. He’ll handle tour management and working as Deep Insight’s technical person.
That’s it for now. I need to find WLAN connection somewhere and get this text online. See You on tour and let’s have a paaarty!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
European Tour starts soon April 23rd - May 3rd!
White Flame - Tour Bus Diaries Tour 09!
Few days and the White Flame’s tour bus starts driving ahead to Central-Europe! There will be helluva road trip through the Sweden to the sunny (hopefully!) Germany and onwards to Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France. Altogether there will be over 7500km the sitting in the car. Well, that’s the shit part of it, but I guess that there’s a much FUN to come. The new album Tour Bus Diaries is out in the Europe and the band is pretty good mood at the moment. We started our tour 2 weeks ago, and the new song seems to rock very hard. Somehow we catch the live feeling with ‘em quite quickly which is good ‘cause older songs had have time to stuck’d in your mind longer time. So I think that there will be good mix to Yesterday’s News songs and TBD songs! Too much good shit to play and we’re able to play only about 40 minutes sets ‘cause of timetable. :)
And I noticed that the weather have been great in the Central-Europe, so I really really madly deeply hope that it still continues few weeks ‘cause in Finland it’s a little different.. God damn’d I want to feel that summer shine! And another nice thing is that there’s the Ice-Hockey world championship ’09 running in the Switzerland at the same time that we arrive the country, so five hockey-maniacs might get crazy. :)
We’ll do seven shows with the Deep Insight, the Finnish emo-rockers who will release Their new album very soon and two shows with the local heroes. Here’s the venues where You can catch us, so don’t miss the Tour Bus Diaries –Tour, we really want to entertain you and rock your world! C U in next two weeks!
~Anthon~
23.04.2009, (GER) Berlin, K17
- With: Deep Insight
- Ticket pre-sale: www.ticketonline.com
24.04.2009, (GER) Hamburg, Logo
- With: Deep Insight
- Ticket pre-sale: www.ticketmaster.de
26.04.2009, (HUN) Budapest, Dürer Kert
- With: Deep Insight
27.04.2009, (AUT) Vienna, Chelsea
- With: Deep Insight
- Ticket pre-sale: www.oeticket.com
28.04.2009, (SUI) Zurich, Dynamo
- With: TBA
30.04.2009, (SUI) Uster, Rock City
- With: Deep Insight
01.05.2009, (SUI) Biel, Etage @ St. Gervais
- With: Deep Insight
02.05.2009, (GER) Crailsheim, Jugendzentrum Crailsheim
- With: Deep Insight
03.05.2009, (FRA) Paris, La Mecanique Ondulatoire
- With: High School Motherfuckers
Few days and the White Flame’s tour bus starts driving ahead to Central-Europe! There will be helluva road trip through the Sweden to the sunny (hopefully!) Germany and onwards to Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France. Altogether there will be over 7500km the sitting in the car. Well, that’s the shit part of it, but I guess that there’s a much FUN to come. The new album Tour Bus Diaries is out in the Europe and the band is pretty good mood at the moment. We started our tour 2 weeks ago, and the new song seems to rock very hard. Somehow we catch the live feeling with ‘em quite quickly which is good ‘cause older songs had have time to stuck’d in your mind longer time. So I think that there will be good mix to Yesterday’s News songs and TBD songs! Too much good shit to play and we’re able to play only about 40 minutes sets ‘cause of timetable. :)
And I noticed that the weather have been great in the Central-Europe, so I really really madly deeply hope that it still continues few weeks ‘cause in Finland it’s a little different.. God damn’d I want to feel that summer shine! And another nice thing is that there’s the Ice-Hockey world championship ’09 running in the Switzerland at the same time that we arrive the country, so five hockey-maniacs might get crazy. :)
We’ll do seven shows with the Deep Insight, the Finnish emo-rockers who will release Their new album very soon and two shows with the local heroes. Here’s the venues where You can catch us, so don’t miss the Tour Bus Diaries –Tour, we really want to entertain you and rock your world! C U in next two weeks!
~Anthon~
23.04.2009, (GER) Berlin, K17
- With: Deep Insight
- Ticket pre-sale: www.ticketonline.com
24.04.2009, (GER) Hamburg, Logo
- With: Deep Insight
- Ticket pre-sale: www.ticketmaster.de
26.04.2009, (HUN) Budapest, Dürer Kert
- With: Deep Insight
27.04.2009, (AUT) Vienna, Chelsea
- With: Deep Insight
- Ticket pre-sale: www.oeticket.com
28.04.2009, (SUI) Zurich, Dynamo
- With: TBA
30.04.2009, (SUI) Uster, Rock City
- With: Deep Insight
01.05.2009, (SUI) Biel, Etage @ St. Gervais
- With: Deep Insight
02.05.2009, (GER) Crailsheim, Jugendzentrum Crailsheim
- With: Deep Insight
03.05.2009, (FRA) Paris, La Mecanique Ondulatoire
- With: High School Motherfuckers
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