At The End

Fotoshop!!!

2009-03-17T16:47:00.004+02:00

Hi friends!

I noticed that I had a fair amount of good songs, that seemed a bit too happy and disco for At The End. So I decided to start a new project for that cause. At The End is still alive and well, recording and mixing new songs that you will soon hear.

I think this is a good thing! Although it's not that "black and white", I could almost say that At The End will be covering the dark side of my head, and Fotoshop will be working on the bright side.

Check it out at www.myspace.com/iLoveFotoshop

Summer is coming! Yes it is! Still some snow, but I can feel it!

-J

Vote for us!

2008-12-24T00:13:00.003+02:00

We have the honor to be one of the ten contestants to a competition called Alkupiste. So vote us, and we'll have a chance to play in Provinssirock the biggest (?) festival in Finland. That could be fun, don't you think?

Yeah, and it's christmas... Some like it, some don't, I personally hate it. I Don't like the traditional christian aspect of it, I've never experienced the pagan origins of it, and I'm not a big fan of the commercial side of it. In fact, I would propably KILL christmas if I had the chance. And christmas carols... That's the worst part.

But I too have decided to give presents. My family members and some old friends are gonna get a cover album by me, and a song they selected in it. Thats about it. I hope they'll like it.

Have fun! Enjoy the food and the company!

Iconcrash, Joensuu 1685, and At The End, of course

2008-12-11T15:18:00.005+02:00

Jaani Peuhu played some new Iconcrash material from their upcoming album today. Sounds brilliant! I'm really looking forward to listen more. Later tonight I'll be going to a pre-christmas party to play some acoustic songs. Then to Kuudes Linja to check out Joensuu 1685. I listenned some songs at myspace. Not bad.

Next monday At The End will be playing at Liberte (Helsinki). The event is a semi-acoustic House of Love Stripped club. Maybe you should come to celebrate. We could also call it a pre-christmas party, which is an excelent reason to party any day in december.

Ladytron + Other Stuff

2008-12-01T19:38:00.003+02:00

I'm going to see Ladytron tonight... straight after work, so I have to run like the wind. Oh yeah!

In other news, I'm pretty excited, our new song The Sheep starts to sound pretty good, though different than the others. But we decided that the next release will be more about good songs, and less about the red line. Like someone said (could be me): when you are too near to the subject, you will lost your objectivity to it. Other words; I think the red line will be there, no matter what we do, because the red line is in our minds, and we can't get rid of it!

Check out the new demo

2008-11-24T15:09:00.002+02:00

There's a new song in our myspace profile. It won't be there for long (just a demo of a demo), so check it out and remember to tell us what you think of it!

Thanks for our guests at Liberte. The gig was super fun. Little bit hangoverish, but super fun. Hope to see you all next time!

Gigs and parties

2008-11-23T14:51:00.002+02:00

Feeling a bit tired now though... But the weekend went by nicely, it was nice to play, and it was super to see IAMX live in Nosturi. We went there with the whole band + few other groups.

Saturday was weird... First we we're up kinda late. I guess Reko waited fo me and Teemu for an hour or something. Then we hand some major technical difficulties when the laptop didn't want to work... That took out some heat from us.. Untill it started to work again in Liberte, and so we were ready for our concert.

My friend Jonas said it was out best gig, Tuomas said it was maybe the worst (but he always says so when he's working the lights), Jani (from our other band "Dawn Delayed") said he liked it, and her better half Sara, who also is a musician in Tv Off said she was surprised, and liked how the show progressed.

Snooooooowing!!!

Recording in Tampere, and new gigs

2008-11-10T06:01:00.003+02:00

We spent the weekend recording some pretty good stuff. We also went out for two nights. First to Ruma, then to Doris. I must say that I liked Ruma much more, since the people there were much nicer and the music was mostly better. I wish I had more friends going there next time when I'm in Tampere, for I apparently hang out with people who aren't real clubbers. Damn hippies.

But now that I learned much new stuff about my new recording epquipment, you can expect better sounds, faster speed and weird new synthethisators.

And Remember to come to see our new gigs at House Of Love Stripped (acoustic) club at Liberte, Helsinki, and at Kooma club (also in Liberte).

Halloween and the album

2008-11-05T03:50:00.003+02:00

Halloween went by nicely. Actually I didn't even notice it until I saw a devil throw up in a buss.

But let's talk about the band for a change. We're being haunted by our imaginations, and so, we are composing and recording the new album. We've had some offers from companies, good ones, but we're a bit too proud of our work, and so we're still thinking.

And if it seems that we have a good album in our hand before we sign anything... It may well be that we'll release it by ourselves. Thanks to the incredible internet!

ps. and btw: were still looking for two x-tra hands for our live set. So if you know your way with bass, guitar and/or keyboards, and like our way with our music - Let us know!

2008-10-29T02:41:00.004+02:00

I just found this official (I think) video of All I Need, by Radiohead... but I'm not sure if it's just some kind of commercial by MTV. Anyway the subject of the video is sweatshops, specifically sneaker factories. But by MTV, huh!?!?

I think it's the byproducts of globalism that we should be against of. Not just sneakers, or cheap clothes. They are only a symptom, and I don't even believe that we can individually chance the world by not buying Nike. But don't get me wrong. I just think we have to do something BIGGER.

"Fittest survives" ideologists will never join the fight against the massive exploitation program ran by the USA and it' allies (my and probably your country too), and the dumbest 30% or 40% cannot even comprehend the scale of the crime against nations. Not even if you smash their faces in it. So they will buy Nike. And I bet that those two make about 66% of the western population.

But we'll wait, oh yeah, we will wait.

And when I was reading the news the other day, I spotted this article by some economic genius I don't remember. He said that it's not a crisis that is coming. It's a catastrophe. Sooner or later, probably sooner. Maybe also the dumbest will then see. Because there is no other way to look.

Good video though. I just think this other one made by someone from a nature film is better.

Zeitgeist: Addendum Video

2008-10-22T19:04:00.001+03:00

Now this is a very hot topic this year: MONEY. And how it works.

I saw the first Zeitgeist movie some time ago, but I think this one's much better. I like the first and the second part (about the monetary system, and how it's forced to all the nations) the most. The third part about the project to "make it all better" was interesting, but I still need more facts.

Elegant Universe Video

2008-10-22T18:42:00.001+03:00

Quantum Physics, String Theory, M-Theory. Physics or philosophy? Sounds like fun? You should see this documentary. It is FUN! And very educating! Follow the link:

Elegant Universe @ Nova

Nikola Tesla Videos

2008-10-22T18:15:00.000+03:00

The Missing Secrets (part 1):

part 2, part 3, part 4

One of the greatest minds, with the greatest accomplishments. Nikola Tesla was never in it for the money, and is said to even destroyed his contract worth of billions (in order to save some industrialists [or was it bankers] from bankruptcy). He gave us electricity in the form that we use it today, wireless transmission, x-rays etc...

Some more of Tesla:

Blogs about our gigs in Russia

2008-10-22T17:35:00.000+03:00

St. Petersburg concert, autumn 2008

Oh boy, that was fun.

First thing i have to say (I know Teemu also has alot of things to share :) ) is that i was really profoundly touched by your club Achtung Baby.. I had super fun time there. The music was great and the people who wanted and could chat with (because I can't speak russian and most of the russian people didn't speak english) were really nice and warm.

The gig went good, the drinks were (almost too) good. Blins (local food - I'm not sure if that is the way it's written) were fkinda good too. Though I think they must have been kinda un-healthy :) . The most exciting part of the trip was however, getting lost on Nevsky Prospect, the big street where I spent much of my time. I wasn't that lost though. I just couldn't find the right door to my hotel, which our hostess kindly got for me. I think I must have had too much drinks at Achtung Baby... oops.

So I wondered around, met some street children at some stairway, and woke up a sleeping police (militia) at another. He said something to me in russian and went back to sleep. I said "I'm sorry, I'm lost", and he said "ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz". Then I got to the first door I was at, and tried it again, with more force from my astonishingly athletic arms, and somehow got it open. Then with some help from the reception guy (to whom I spoke to with sign language) I found the right door, and was ready to go sleep.

But first I put the television on and watched how Putin had saved the camera crew from a tiger (he's my hero). Then I had to kill some mosquitos buzzing on my face. When I woke up in the morning, Putin had apparently killed some more tigers (no wonder they're kinda rare), because he was on the telly again measuring it's teeth. I wish our president Tarja Halonen would do something similar, or at least kill a reindeer or something.

I wish to go back soon!

Jarno-Erik

St. Petersburg concert, spring 2008

A couple of weeks ago we travelled for a quick performance at Roks Club in St. Petersburg, Russia. The trip was fun and we met many interesting human beings back there, and especially because of the people we want to go to Russia again as soon as possible.

The homecoming didn't go so well though. We left St.Peterburg in a minibus (avtobus) which was filled with ten Russian passengers and us two with only one girl and one babushka who could communicate with us properly, as they spoke Finnish. It was dark already, the clock was 22:00 local time and the fog was starting to form.

When we got out of the city area and dived into darkness the car was filled with steam emerging from the twelve travellers. The driver didn't want to open the windows for some reason and just wiped the steam off when it became impossible to see through. At this moment the fog outside was also as thick as driving through a cloud of milk.

There were a couple of close shaves when a truck appeared from the fog and the driver noticed that we are driving on the wrong side of the road. Finally we arrived at the border area.

The road was quite bumpy and when we came to the no-mans-land one of the tires went flat. We stood there in pitch black night with trucks driving by 100km/h through the fog noticing us just a couple of meters before hitting us. The driver tried to change the tire, but he broke the wrench. So we waited and waited and eventually the driver got so pissed on the trip organizer babbling next to him that he decided to walk away into the darkness.

A couple of minutes later the man came back and he had a solution for the problem; we would drive back to Russia to fix the tire. So we did, and it was a ride of couple of kilometres with a flat tire. Then we waited in a lonely service station for an hour or two, watching a 80's romantic comedy starring a Russian speaking Bruce Willis, sipping on some beer and eating very strange (almost green) hot dogs. When I looked out of the window, I saw the driver going in the minibus and driving away with all our bags and stuff insine the vehicle. We were too tired to get worried at this time. And considering "this time", the clock on the wall was stuck on 01:30 am.

Later the driver came back with a new tire and we continued our mysterious trip to Finland. After three passport checks by the Russian authorities we arrived on the Finnish side of the border. We were stopped by the officer and he started a debate with the driver. After the debate a collective sigh of Russian desperation was heard inside the bus and the officer came to explain the situation to us Finlanders: "The bus is illegal, it has to return to St. Petersburg, step out of the vehicle please."

So we did and walked to the homeland with no worries except for the one question: "How do we get to Helsinki from here?"
We were told to get into some bus which was going somewhere. We followed the instructions and got a lift a couple of kilometres further, to another service station. The next thing we heard was: "Get in this bus" and again we followed the instructions, getting in another bus. The bus left towards Helsinki and we fell asleep, just to wake up again when the driver had also fell asleep on the wheel and had to quickly turn the bus to avoid hitting the car on the opposite lane.

We fell back to sleep and woke up in Klaukkala. After all we were supposed to go to Helsinki.
Show Klaukkala on a map

Eventually the bus managed to find its way to Itäkeskus and we jumped out of the god forsaken bus of eternal worries and took the slow but trustworthy Finnish subway to city centre. We had arrived after twelve hours of travelling, that's quite a lot for a car trip of:

"Time: 05h03 including 00h52 on motorways
Distance: 392km including 85km on motorways"
as stated by viamichelin.com

But as a last statement, the trip was fun and the homecoming was an adventure. We will definitely go back to Russia some day.

-tmu

Bloggin' starts 1, 2, 3, 4, NOW!

2008-10-22T17:27:00.000+03:00

That's about it. Now we're here. Didn't really like the blog in myspace, though it also will still be updated, or copied from here. Also, I will copy some old blogs from myspace to make this look a little more comfy. Thanks, and remember to visit.

J-Erik & At The End