Here is some pictures from our tour with Deep Insight this spring. We played in Germany, Austria, Switzerland Hungary and France. We met a lot of new people and I was glad to also see some people from previous encounters both abroad and back in Finland aswell. It was fun to play all the new tunes, and we had a positive problem with so many great songs we just couldn't fit in the set every night. Thanks to everyone who was involved in putting this tour together! I hope you enjoy my pics and vids!




Look how happy we all were at the beginning of our trip. Everyone enjoying a little ol' Meister.

Here's our driver Ville. But we called him more than just that. He went by the names Trance-Rantanen, Dance-Rantanen, Mr. Late and finally Iskelmä-Rantanen.





When on the road, make sure you have enough to eat...


...and drink


Also you must remember to try to get some rest


Alltough I know you'd much rather be playing NHL



Duct Tape High School part 1


Duct Tape High School part 2


Look! We even met Conan O'brien on our trip!


It's time to meet our tournig buddies, Deep Insight. A fun bunch of lads!


First one up is their bass player Jore. He is the only guy we knew before the tour.


Here is their lead singer Jukka. He taught me a few new moves even tough he didn't recodnize them to be his. Notice the mirror - there you can see:


TERO! He's actually a guitarist, but demonstrates his ultimate drumming skills on this video.


This is Ville. He reminded me of Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters.



Johannes digged our band, but had some suggestions for the guy's hair styles: (He is a stylist, after all)


Still Julian's brother...


Dude, you look just like Johannes!!


Rowan was Deep Insight's mixing guy and backup singer. He also happens to book our gigs.


I even joined Deep Insight on the last gig to do Rock With My Band!



Indeed you are!


Little did Sammye know that his sausage was covered with plastic...


They left their mark on the bass amp...


We left our's on the bass drum


We went to see Finland - Chech Rep. in a local sports bar in Zurich and ran into a whole bunch of finns.


Typiska Turister



Have I mentioned that I also met Heikki Hietanen?


That's about it. Thanks again from the WF Crew, see you on the next one!!

Tour bus diaries pt. 4

It’s been few days since I’ve write anything. A lot has happened and we’ve played shows in Budapest, Vienna, Zürich and Uster. 

On a way to Hungary we stopped on some gas station nearby city. Guys from Deep Insight were there too and they had football with them. Of course we need to take short football match there and have some fun beside of the shows. It so great to have days that you don’t need to be in a hurry. 

Next morning after Budapest show we head to Austria, Vienna. There we were also quite early so we had some time to explore the city. I took some time to hang out with my friend living there and guys get something to eat. After that we went to venue and put our stuff ready. DI arrived a ‘bit late and our sound check was just before doors opened. Everything went fine though and we had great show in Vienna. 

Next morning we get up early and started our journey to Switzerland. We had show at the venue called Dynamo in Zürich and it seemed to be great place to play rock music. Next day we had day off and they let us hang out in dynamo band flat so we stayed in Zürich another day. Our off day plan was to find a place where to watch FIN - CZE world championship ice hockey game. We found bar called Nelson where they told us that you could watch the game like “mixed” with SWE - USA game. You know, they will show part of the both games. Well… that was all that we could get. It was great time tough and we met some Finnish people living in Austria. And after the game that bar was full of Finnish ice hockey tourists coming from the arena. You can imagine how fun it’s to party with tens of Finnish people in foreign country. And more fun ‘cause Finland won that game!

Next day we had tiny hangover and we went to sit on the sun beside the river flowing outside Dynamo. There were only like 30 kilometers to the next venue in Uster so we just wanted to hang around a bit before doing anything. We arrived to venue quite early. We had info that we could get inside there somewhere around 4pm but the guy at the venue told us that we need to wait ‘till 6pm. So we had more free time and we went to explore the streets of Uster. The show itself was great and we we’re quite energetic on the stage. There’s definitely listeners for our music style in Switzerland. 

Now we’re on the way to Biel in Switzerland. We took some breakfast with the guys of DI and played guitar in the sun. Let see what happens today and you all are welcome to see the show!

And for the Finnish people: Hauskaa Vappua!