Zagreb & Klagenfurt

October 15, at the backstage in Klagenfurt, Austria, 15:30

The show yesterday was a good one. The venue basically sucked but it was still ok. There was just not enough space for anything. Bands, crew, gear or audience. While setting up we decided to leave all the cases and the extra drum set outside. Until it started to rain. Which meant that the drums soon filled half of the dressing room etc.

The place was sold out and there were many fans outside without a ticket. The capacity was 600. The two previous times we've been to Zagreb we played at Boogaloo that holds maybe 900 people and we've had there 7-800 people basically on our own and now we even had another band pulling people in. So this venue felt like a stupid idea to begin with. Later I accidentally bumped into the local promoter who had booked the previous Boogaloo shows. He explained me why this show wasn't there and it all comes down to the same stupid reason that we see so often. Personal relationships. Some people just can not work with some other people.

We did pretty much the same set that we've been doing the whole tour, but again with some minor changes. "Metsämies" was out and "Palovana" was back in. I have to admit that it didn't go that well. I can't remember the last time we have played that. The show sounded better than the previous ones for one clear reason. Juho and myself have been listening to some of Jonne's solos being really out of tune but then his playing being in tune otherwise. I suspected the day before after the show that there is something wrong with the guitar, the fine tuning basically. They checked it yesterday and that was indeed the case. The guitar is guilty. So yesterday was played with the spare and it sounded better immediately. Still have to check if the reason is just the fine tuning or if the neck is faulty.

Today we're playing in a youth club run by the Austrian Communist Party. I am in so wrong place right now.