On the way to Tampere

”Tina, now that I think, you look a bit like Lady Gaga!”

Our trip so far has been grrrreat! There were just a few people at On the Rocks but we played pretty well. Now we're on our way to Tampere. Joni is hungry, Miikka is drinking cider (editor's note: pretty gay) , Jukka and Antti on the front seat are eating Pipari and I feel like dancing. We haven't really had time to sink into the deep sea of Tumu, so our upcoming tour documentary doesn't seem very interesting... YET! But as we get to Nummirock, we'll surely get some awesome video material.

We had a little problem yesterday with our backdrop. The freakin' redneck idiot (editor's note: Joni would call him Portugalin sotalaiva) who made the backdrop hadn't sent us the certificate about the backdrop being fire resistant and we weren't allowed to put it up. We called the dude and he informed that he was on a vacation: ”Nothing I can (will) do”. FUCK YOU! After we told the guy we would return the backdrop, because without the certificate it would be useless, he told us not to fuck with him. But we won: he finally sent us an SMS that we could use on the first hand, and promised to send THE CERTIFICATE by e-mail the following day. Today we got the e-mail: not an official certificate. After a few phone calls to some other firm we were promised that we will get an official certificate on Monday.

We are eagerly waiting to get to Nummirock. The guys want to poop in the lake.

(Editor's note: Tonight we will feast!)

Written by Her Lady GaGaness Tina
Edited by His Lordship H

Wokipanuu & Nuutelii pre-tour check

Next Wednesday we start our long waited ”Wokipanuu & Nuutelii” minitour that covers three cities: Helsinki, Tampere and Nummijärvi (thou I’m not sure if it’s even a city, probably not). In Helsinki we are supporting Dreamtale, and on midsummer’s eve we play at Nummirock. Therefore, we need to practice. Shit.

Thursday’s practice starts well: Something smells. And not like shit, since that’s nothing special. Something burns. Yes, Jukka’s dear Hartke is done. Great. So the practice continues without Hartke. After a while we take a break and notice that we’re in a hurry to leave, so Thursday was a very useful day. At least we were able to arrange our new song which now sounds freakin’ awesome!

Next rehearsal was on Saturday already at twelve. Jukka, who looks like an angry vonductor, has of course been too lazy to fix his bass cabinet. The day was really fun and during lunch we came up with an awesome new sport: Freestyle masonry. It definetely is a sport, but also very difficult to explain. You just have to throw plaster and bricks or something.

In the evening Antti, Miikka and Tina went out to check Kotka’s nightlife. Some Antti’s friends were playing guitar in a park so we got an awesome concert. After that we went to see some schlager cover band that was playing in front of some bar and the place was packed with middle aged people. Awesome boogie!

On Sunday the practicing continued again at twelve and also Jukka had fixed his bass cabinet. After we had made sure that our playing sounds completely terrible, we decided to go to our favorite bar in Kotka. Well, actually we have not practiced at all, this picture tells more than one thousand words.

Written by Tina
Edited by H

p.s. This midsummer tumu will be strong.