The George Double Use

Thanks everyone who helped us out with the video shoot yesterday. And thanks everyone who came to see as play live for the first time since the last spring. Long and exhausting but such a rewarding day for us. Now we'll start putting the pieces together and hopefully end up with an awesomo music video by the end of January.

- jyrki

Woohoo! Our upcoming album is FINALLY mastered, and sounds totally awesomo. Due to different things, the process has delayed, delayed ... and delayed. But now we're shifting to a higher gear, getting ready to get the album to be released at last.

We will be shooting a video at 45 Special, Oulu right after the Christmas on 28.12. and will also be playing a gig there the same night. Be sure to come and check us and the supporting act Dian out!

More updates to come.. soon!

- jyrki

Thanks to everyone who came to see us at 45, and a special thanks to the organizers! We had a really nice time!

There won't be any gigs in the near future, we are now concentrating in getting the album releases AT LAST. This more-than-year-long project is finally almost finished...

-j.

- jyrki

We've been busy this week. We spent Thursday at Charade Studio recording guitar parts and percussions with Henri and Ville. Lance and Pentti Amore were recording the vocals at Wolfbeat Studio. Thursday was niiiice, although I did feel quite exhausted recording until midnight after a hard work day. Then we had a sauna with Henri and got a couple of hours of sleep. Then to work at 7 and after the workday a bus to Oulunsalo for more recording. We had a nice time at Pentti's temporary studio at his parent's house. Drinking, hanging aroud, sauna and cool recordings as well.

Today I woke up at the floor, after a couple of hours of nice sleep and faint memories of last night. Then we continued with percussion and guitar recordings. Lance had left early in the morning for some more pressing business.

After a productive day at Oulunsalo we took the stuff to Herukka where we'll continue percussion, guitar and background vocal recordings tomorrow.

There's still lots of work to do but I'm sure the results will be more than satisfactory. Just wait and see.

- jyrki

We spent two days last weekend playing at Gloria, Oulu. Had to stay away from the QStock this year, but then again, there weren't too many super bands for me anyway. Except the Pandas of course.

Hell of a gear roading and soundchecking on Friday, four hours all together. We did the setup and soundcheck for both nights on Friday.

The Friday's gig was acoustic. We hadn't played an acoustic set for quite a while so we had four practices on the previous week.

The gig was nice, lots of people and good relaxed feeling. The place was not ideal for an acoustic set, though. Too much disco noise coming from Cabaret night club that's next door. It was quite hard to hear what we were playing but we managed. The playing time was also a bit too late for the second set. The bar closed soon after our performance, so we didn't have too much time to hang around at the bar.

I spent the night at hotel, the other gays went home, I guess.

On saturday we did some minor renovation stuff at Ville's place and then had a sauna at my place with Henri, Matti the sailor and Pappa. Then a bus to city and some food at 45 Special.

It was nice to play a full electric set after the Friday and we managed to get a pretty good meininki.

Thanks for everyone who showed up, the bar was pretty packed on both nights.

Now we will concentrate on finishing the album recordings and there's a gig at Hevimesta next week as well. Hope to see ya all there!

- jyrki

Hey!

We've been working hard recording our first full-length album.

Ville and Henri recorded the drums and basses some time ago with Lebu Tsernobyl (and I did some basic distorted guitars as well), then we recorded some clean guitars with Henri at my home studio.

Last week we did another session at my studio with Henri and Lebu and managed to get all the distorted guitars recorded.

At the same time, Lance and Pentti Amore (with help from Henri as well) have been recording the vocal tracks at another studio.

I must say that I'm for the first time totally satisfied with the guitar tracks and sounds. Can't wait for this album to be finished!

The vocals still need quite a lot of studio days, then some mixing and mastering but we aim on releasing a single or two this spring. The whole album should be released before the end of the year.

- jyrki