It seems that the Holland have all the best and coolest gig venues, The Effenaar club in Einhoven is amazing indeed, Big new house with two separate clubs and our tour trek played on the bigger one. It was first time visit Eindhoven for all of us and luckily we had some time-off to wander on the city, nice and tidy city with lots and lots of bicycles.
So, we killed there also! The best venue and a bunch of freezed metal-zombiez in the crowd. The most quiet crowd on this tour, even there were lots of metlhedz at present. Though we also played maybe the laziest show so far...
The venue was so big that we did some Spinal Tap moves and almost got lost several times. "Hellooo Cleveland" indeed - Huge stairs (1000000 steps really), a band competition downstairs with tens of bands, lots of rooms an' backstages in many floors and coffee for everyone. Thats Holland for you!
After the gig it was quiet "parties" goin as there were some hangoveric athmosphere with us. So it was just sitting on the tourbus and watching some Black Sabbath live footage. Dio was better than mr. metalgod Halford on Sabbath...
RRRööööh!
-[the og]-
tiistai 30. syyskuuta 2008
maanantai 29. syyskuuta 2008
HOLLAND / BELGIUM / GERMANY
Haarlem's Patronaat venue was one of the best venues we´ve ever played - everything was fucking A, the local crew was too nice and helpful, catering and food was really really good and the venue stage and backstage were big and cool indeed. So, nice debut in Holland. Oh yeah, and the gig was good too and there were many people packed already for our show. We even took one more old song to the setlist for the gig and did the good ol' "Perfumed Garden" and the crowd seemed to like it, again as always with that song. Don't really know why we play that song so rarely. Toni also had some tae-kwon-do thaiboxing again with Karl from Nile.
Belphegor changed to Severe Torture since this gig, nice to get some fresh sweat to the line-up! They´re doing the rest of the tour. At the end of the evening there was some beer accidents as we and ST had drinken all the beer of the tour tech crew, and they were angry... Of course the Finnish guys were the first ones to doubt.
Vosselaar, Belgium was next in line and the nights venue was the famous Biebob club, in the middle of nowhere at some normal sub-urban. The food was really good homemade shicken with potatoes, so the bellys were full for the gig! We found the already earlier recommended Metal Zone record store from the right next door from the Biebob. So, as we had heard, the store was really good and we all did some shopping there. The theme of the evening was adult oriented AOR music - Kansas, Journey, Queen, Toto, Ozric Tentacles etc.. True and evil stuff u know!
Well, we still tried to kept also our metal roots and bought new albums of Haunted, Enslaved and Burst...
The audience of Biebob seemed to be the laziest so far and most people were watching our gig far away. "Typical Belgish crowd" said the guy from Severe Torture as the same kind of audience action continued on their gig. After the gig we did some pub sightseeing.
Then we headed to Essen, Germany to play at Essen Death Fest 7 festival-kind-of-thing at Turock club. The night was already also sold-out in advance, 800 people and Behemoth, Vomitory and Grind Inc. The German days were started with the breakfast including the basic WURST und BROT, what could be better way to prepare for the gig. Essen gig was really good and the crowd was big, so after the gig we decided to activate some serious beer-action and we
had some beering with our fellow neighbours, Vomitory from Sweden.
Next back to Holland aayee!
-[O' Gangstas!]-
Belphegor changed to Severe Torture since this gig, nice to get some fresh sweat to the line-up! They´re doing the rest of the tour. At the end of the evening there was some beer accidents as we and ST had drinken all the beer of the tour tech crew, and they were angry... Of course the Finnish guys were the first ones to doubt.
Vosselaar, Belgium was next in line and the nights venue was the famous Biebob club, in the middle of nowhere at some normal sub-urban. The food was really good homemade shicken with potatoes, so the bellys were full for the gig! We found the already earlier recommended Metal Zone record store from the right next door from the Biebob. So, as we had heard, the store was really good and we all did some shopping there. The theme of the evening was adult oriented AOR music - Kansas, Journey, Queen, Toto, Ozric Tentacles etc.. True and evil stuff u know!
Well, we still tried to kept also our metal roots and bought new albums of Haunted, Enslaved and Burst...
The audience of Biebob seemed to be the laziest so far and most people were watching our gig far away. "Typical Belgish crowd" said the guy from Severe Torture as the same kind of audience action continued on their gig. After the gig we did some pub sightseeing.
Then we headed to Essen, Germany to play at Essen Death Fest 7 festival-kind-of-thing at Turock club. The night was already also sold-out in advance, 800 people and Behemoth, Vomitory and Grind Inc. The German days were started with the breakfast including the basic WURST und BROT, what could be better way to prepare for the gig. Essen gig was really good and the crowd was big, so after the gig we decided to activate some serious beer-action and we
had some beering with our fellow neighbours, Vomitory from Sweden.
Next back to Holland aayee!
-[O' Gangstas!]-
torstai 25. syyskuuta 2008
First day-off!
We used our one and only day-off driving away from UK, as fast as we could, haha.
SeaFrance sailed us away from the island via Dover - Calais route. French shop clerks at the ship didn´t allowed us to change the UK coins to paper money in the ship, because they "hadn´t got any time" to calculate the big amount of coins we had from the merch money etc.. So, we decided then to buy some cases of beer with those coins and the clerk then counted the coins after all, heh.
We drove one day via UK, france, belgium and Holland, so it was a nice sight-seeing of the motorways and gas-stations of the different countries. Holland and Belgium won the round.
At the evening we drove to Haarlem city centre, where our next gig will be and finally we had some time to wander in the pub, without playing some metal stuff. And the beer was good, again. And cheap! Hail to Holland!
Next gig is at Haarlem in big Patronaat venue, looking forward to do the Holland debut there!
Cheeerzz!
-[ OG crew ]-
SeaFrance sailed us away from the island via Dover - Calais route. French shop clerks at the ship didn´t allowed us to change the UK coins to paper money in the ship, because they "hadn´t got any time" to calculate the big amount of coins we had from the merch money etc.. So, we decided then to buy some cases of beer with those coins and the clerk then counted the coins after all, heh.
We drove one day via UK, france, belgium and Holland, so it was a nice sight-seeing of the motorways and gas-stations of the different countries. Holland and Belgium won the round.
At the evening we drove to Haarlem city centre, where our next gig will be and finally we had some time to wander in the pub, without playing some metal stuff. And the beer was good, again. And cheap! Hail to Holland!
Next gig is at Haarlem in big Patronaat venue, looking forward to do the Holland debut there!
Cheeerzz!
-[ OG crew ]-
tiistai 23. syyskuuta 2008
Wolverhampton - Nottingham
WOLVERHAMPTON & the victory!
Wolverhampton Civic Hall was THE amazing race indeed - A really big and luxorious venue and a big crowd of metalheads and headbangers already packed to see our opening. we played definitely our best show so far on this tour and the audience seemed to like it, Thanks & salutes Wolwes!
After the gig we had some showering action (!!!) and nice time-off to take beers, meet business people & chill out with the other bands. We visited the Wolverhampton centre with them in search of the food and the sacred pint.
After this gig our tour line-up divided for one gig as Nile et all were heading to Ireland and we decided still to stay on the isle of the showers without pressure & the greasiest breakfast. Next in line was Nottingham, Junktion 7 venue, where we headlined the "Shadowfest" event and met our old fellas from the Ragebreed agency. We had our own gig here and we played some new stuff we´ve never played live before, like "Distant Light Highway"..
We also had some nice tourism time to walk on the city and we also visited the best goddamn chinese buffet ever in Nottingham and almost killed ourselves over-eating...
Tomorrow morning to ship, over the canal and on the way to the HOLLAND!
Cheers & beers!
-[the O-riginal G's]-
Wolverhampton Civic Hall was THE amazing race indeed - A really big and luxorious venue and a big crowd of metalheads and headbangers already packed to see our opening. we played definitely our best show so far on this tour and the audience seemed to like it, Thanks & salutes Wolwes!
After the gig we had some showering action (!!!) and nice time-off to take beers, meet business people & chill out with the other bands. We visited the Wolverhampton centre with them in search of the food and the sacred pint.
After this gig our tour line-up divided for one gig as Nile et all were heading to Ireland and we decided still to stay on the isle of the showers without pressure & the greasiest breakfast. Next in line was Nottingham, Junktion 7 venue, where we headlined the "Shadowfest" event and met our old fellas from the Ragebreed agency. We had our own gig here and we played some new stuff we´ve never played live before, like "Distant Light Highway"..
We also had some nice tourism time to walk on the city and we also visited the best goddamn chinese buffet ever in Nottingham and almost killed ourselves over-eating...
Tomorrow morning to ship, over the canal and on the way to the HOLLAND!
Cheers & beers!
-[the O-riginal G's]-
London-Peterborough-Leeds
Hey hey hey...
We're back! Three gigs are now done. London, Peterborough and Leeds. And it's been GOOD! The venues have been full of metalheads and the atmosphere high! We don't want to compare but Leeds took the first price concerning the metal-mood, Good for you Leedsies!
In the first gig of the tour we had some starting problems and Jukka was hit in the face by guitar neck, we had some blood on the dancefloor there on the stage... We met some nice Candlelight people also in London Underworld and did some interviews etc.
On the P'boro gig in "The Park" club there was a nice combination between Metal gig in upstairs of the club and hot trance parties in downstairs. Lots of nice looking dancing girlies with colourful bikinis and VERY little bit of clothes on. So, we metalheads little bit went to the gig afterparty downstairs and had some party dancing.
Nothin much special has happened, except metal movements (=neck injuries), gas-stations and british junk food.
Tonight is the Wolverhampton's turn to feel the Redshift in themselves! This is also the biggest venue on the tour, Wolves Civic a ka Wulfrun Hall. A nice looking hall indeed. At the moment Toni and Karl Sanders of Nile are having a Thaiboxing meets Tae-Kwon-Do match..
We have kept our sanity but there is still a long way to go. All the guys are at peace with themselves and the outside reality.
Oh yeah, and today is the REDSHIFT day - European release date of the album! Hophop to the recordstore folks!
Let the Redshift continue to punish all sinners!
Gas and peace!
-[the OG's]-
We're back! Three gigs are now done. London, Peterborough and Leeds. And it's been GOOD! The venues have been full of metalheads and the atmosphere high! We don't want to compare but Leeds took the first price concerning the metal-mood, Good for you Leedsies!
In the first gig of the tour we had some starting problems and Jukka was hit in the face by guitar neck, we had some blood on the dancefloor there on the stage... We met some nice Candlelight people also in London Underworld and did some interviews etc.
On the P'boro gig in "The Park" club there was a nice combination between Metal gig in upstairs of the club and hot trance parties in downstairs. Lots of nice looking dancing girlies with colourful bikinis and VERY little bit of clothes on. So, we metalheads little bit went to the gig afterparty downstairs and had some party dancing.
Nothin much special has happened, except metal movements (=neck injuries), gas-stations and british junk food.
Tonight is the Wolverhampton's turn to feel the Redshift in themselves! This is also the biggest venue on the tour, Wolves Civic a ka Wulfrun Hall. A nice looking hall indeed. At the moment Toni and Karl Sanders of Nile are having a Thaiboxing meets Tae-Kwon-Do match..
We have kept our sanity but there is still a long way to go. All the guys are at peace with themselves and the outside reality.
Oh yeah, and today is the REDSHIFT day - European release date of the album! Hophop to the recordstore folks!
Let the Redshift continue to punish all sinners!
Gas and peace!
-[the OG's]-
perjantai 19. syyskuuta 2008
Chapter 2 - The landing
Hell-o again!!
The amazingly interesting OG-tourblog continues. After the tiresome sea voyage
we arrived to the land of the rising sausage producing factories (Germany).
Immediately we started the long caravan trip across Germany, Holland, Belgium and France.
Of course we were as fast as finnish teenager. So we drove like maniacs and in 15-hours
(including some sleepytime, chilling-out in college trousers and the shipping-time) we arrived to Calais port, France and paid ourselves sick to get our asses to the ferry (a big OG-THANK YOU- goes to P&O ferries for doubling the ferry fee!) and finally to the UK.
A lot of sleep, lots of driving in the wrong side of the road (uk-weirdos...) and a lot of drinking
different kinds of ointments (coffee...etc.). We also visited the Canterbury town, known for
the "legendary" Pasolini movie "Canterbury Tales" and saw the Cliffs Of Dover "famous" from the song of Eric Johnson. A lil bit tourism activities between the wheels!
To-day is our tours first show at the already in advance sold-out Underworld in Camden Town London and we meet and pick up there also the missing three Original Gangstas! It´s about time again to get rocking on stage from the car....
ROCK ON!
Enough for now. More updates will arrive.
Ass and War!
-[OG-Crew]-
The amazingly interesting OG-tourblog continues. After the tiresome sea voyage
we arrived to the land of the rising sausage producing factories (Germany).
Immediately we started the long caravan trip across Germany, Holland, Belgium and France.
Of course we were as fast as finnish teenager. So we drove like maniacs and in 15-hours
(including some sleepytime, chilling-out in college trousers and the shipping-time) we arrived to Calais port, France and paid ourselves sick to get our asses to the ferry (a big OG-THANK YOU- goes to P&O ferries for doubling the ferry fee!) and finally to the UK.
A lot of sleep, lots of driving in the wrong side of the road (uk-weirdos...) and a lot of drinking
different kinds of ointments (coffee...etc.). We also visited the Canterbury town, known for
the "legendary" Pasolini movie "Canterbury Tales" and saw the Cliffs Of Dover "famous" from the song of Eric Johnson. A lil bit tourism activities between the wheels!
To-day is our tours first show at the already in advance sold-out Underworld in Camden Town London and we meet and pick up there also the missing three Original Gangstas! It´s about time again to get rocking on stage from the car....
ROCK ON!
Enough for now. More updates will arrive.
Ass and War!
-[OG-Crew]-
keskiviikko 17. syyskuuta 2008
The startingment
day 1 - the Beginning (of the end....)
The day has come for camp OG to start the European touring fiesta in support of the up-coming
"The Redshift" album. We´ll be heading out to the highway with the Nile yankees and with Grave Swedes, and
Belphegor and Severe Torture will appear on some of the gigs.
The plan is to get Aapo, Jukka, Markus and Harri to UK via water and road, and old men Jarmo and Kalke (OG FOH
engineer in this tour) and Toni "the touring bassist" Mäki will fly with the wings of luxury to UK.
After packing, Aapo, Markus and Harri started the journey from OG-camp. First part of driving was to make
it to the Helsinki, to the ferry and to meet Jukka there. After searching for Jukka for ages they found him in the gutter,
dragged him out of there and were set to go.
The boat-trip from Hellsinki to Rostock was insanely quiet. There were only a few people aboard, mainly old people and Russians,
a higlight of the sea voyage was the houseband who took control of club atmosphere. Also their fans were so insane that one of them sang
volga in russian. HOW COOL IS THAT!!!
Enough for now. More updates will arrive.
PEACE AND WAR!
-OG-CREW-
The day has come for camp OG to start the European touring fiesta in support of the up-coming
"The Redshift" album. We´ll be heading out to the highway with the Nile yankees and with Grave Swedes, and
Belphegor and Severe Torture will appear on some of the gigs.
The plan is to get Aapo, Jukka, Markus and Harri to UK via water and road, and old men Jarmo and Kalke (OG FOH
engineer in this tour) and Toni "the touring bassist" Mäki will fly with the wings of luxury to UK.
After packing, Aapo, Markus and Harri started the journey from OG-camp. First part of driving was to make
it to the Helsinki, to the ferry and to meet Jukka there. After searching for Jukka for ages they found him in the gutter,
dragged him out of there and were set to go.
The boat-trip from Hellsinki to Rostock was insanely quiet. There were only a few people aboard, mainly old people and Russians,
a higlight of the sea voyage was the houseband who took control of club atmosphere. Also their fans were so insane that one of them sang
volga in russian. HOW COOL IS THAT!!!
Enough for now. More updates will arrive.
PEACE AND WAR!
-OG-CREW-
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