Paikat hellänä

On Saturday, October 25, we played in our home town. Well, at least Hittis, Juho and myself live there. We were booked to play at Hellä, a heavy metal night club, as a part of Lost In Music festival or whatever that was. I've seen some gigs at Hellä and for some reason none of them have been really big successes. This time there were four bands all together including for example Kiuas so we expected a lot more from this show, although each band had to cut their sets down to only 40 minutes.

Since this was a home town show and we were not going to do the soundcheck we had no actual plan when to arrive or anything. When I walked in some time after 21 Hittis was the only one of us in there. The backstage had only beer which I don't drink anymore, but the bands were getting other beverages from the bar with cheaper prices so the beer only policy was not a problem. The evening before the showtime went quite smoothly. Everyone arrived on time and we hit the stage as the second last band before Kiuas.

Technically the show wasn't that good. I had no decent monitor and had to share with Juho which wasn't good for either one and after two songs or so Kauno got no sound out of his stack anymore, although the preamp sound still went to FOH so the audience heard him. He just didn't hear himself. The amp, cab and the cables were alright next week at the rehearsals. Puzzling. The set itself was short and fast. We dropped some of the slower, mellow stuff and just kicked ass the whole 40 minutes. The place was really crowded as well and they were loud so it was a really good show for us. I just hope that because of the Lost In Music thing there were also some Finnish promoters who saw that on a good night we actually do kick some serious ass! Which wasn't necessarily the case next weekend...