who said...

... you won´t find beautiful women on a country gig in Finland? Who ever it was, hereby proven wrong. Some of the finally recovered shots from the gig at Bar Olotila in May here. Copyright by Anni H. Thanks.

Ha! Evidence of All-U smiling! The band was finally doing something right - or his mind just wandered off...

As U can see behind T-Rox here, Country & Westerinen is also putting big time effort on visualising the show (thanks VJ Yohoney). Screen is also used for the audience to see better. Not because we would be too far, but the opposite. So the actual screen image of the band is smaller than the live performance. Clever, huh!? (pat.pend) Our batterista superior H. Nash also caught on the film for the first time there on the bottom right corner.

By the time we got ourselves organised for the after show picture, H. Nash was already playing another gig somewhere else. Actually what happened was that we played the second set without him. The next band he had to play with on the other side of town - the better paying one - had to start their gig earlier than informed. Terrible stress this music business can cause to people...

And naturally there was the issue of tearing the set down and going on the road again. Our four wheeler truck was driven back to headquarters by Pakula the Manager, who by the way managed to collect a reasonable donation from the audience to support our future manoeuvres. Something like 70 euros it was. Thank U all.
Country & Westerinen invests the sum on the best interest of mankind. Thank U Kaitsu from Bar Olotila for nice treatment and the lovely refreshments.

More bloggers - going multilingual?

Why it was in the first place I started to write this blog in English? Dunno. At that moment it just became as naturally as the country music thing out of me. It was not, and it still is not that simple, trying to digest a whole culture and perform its treasures with a reasonable amount of credibility. Some might call the outcome blasphemy. Just might.

To bring more perspective to this exploration I have invited the rest of the band to share their views here. This may take place in Finnish, Swedish (Ruff-Es mother tongue) or who knows on which language.

Let´s see what happens.

SaM

Best Finnish music ever?

Tuesday night gig came & went. Fun it was, as usual. Janne F who booked us for the gig (and about 20 other artists to a variety of bars and clubs that festival night) was there to listen to the first set. He happened to overhear a blond, seemingly enthusiastic lady complimenting our output as "the best Finnish music she has ever heard".
Eh... We are grateful and humble to recieve this sort of appreciation, but if anybody knows the lady, would you kindly hint her, that Country and Westerinen plays a music style which is as American as it can get.

Couple of pics taken by Er-No here. Not too good quality (cell phone cam) but catching the moment all right.

TUESDAY-NIGHT RODEO OF LOVE

Hello friends,


Just a reminder of the gig. Tuesday night will also be the world premiere for BoondockStrat - wonderful guitar made by AaHiiJ. Pictures of which will follow somewhere in the future. The gig starts at 9.30 p.m.

Welcome!