Here we go

All band: Me, myself, I and Heikki (the bass player gets a job), we´ll take some gigs sometimes in clubs and other good places.
We ´re playing, `couse we like it. The subscription from here.
(Next gig 29.6.2011 - Get your ass at K-Klubi)
Next gig: 28.7 - Hiili, Aurinkoterassi). My regards.
Get your ass at Resistori-Klubi: Next gig: 29.9.2011 .. .. !
Next gig 1.5 at Kuopio Market Square at 14.00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 28.7.12 at Piispanpuisto (at Bishop´s Park of Kuopio).
Now: I´m gonna present some of my texts in three languages  with simple accompaniment at next TEXTfirst night.
Get your ass at Henry´s pub  15.1.2013 at 22h, for my please,..and the new gig: April 16nd.
I will get my ass and quitar to Lekkeri 13.4.2013 @ Helmi's birthday party with streetpunk.
the next time you will see me in Kuopio will be 26th May 2013. there comes a gig ... at Pushkin's statue to start at 12:00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 23th November 2013 at Rupla. Starts at 14:00 -> Get your ass on there where occurs!
Nästa min spelning ska finnas på Nykterhetshuset 2014/12/04 (kl 11:00) i Kuopio. Hör du, som nya arbetarklassmusik, några bra låtar.
The Next gig will be May 1, 2014 on Kuopio Market Square's stage at 9.00.
.. and you will also see me in Kuopio on the gig-stage at the lake of Valkeinen about at fourte
en May 1, 2014.

hemmagården på onsdag, den 28:e dagen kl 21 i denna månad ->
Ro sitt röv hit och se:
The Old Union Band.
The solo-gig on the Kuopio's VR-Magazine at 8/08/2015 Saturday. There will be some kind of antifascist theme. Get your ass there at 19:00. The next gig at same place at 29/8/
den spelningen på Kuopios marknadstorget den lördag, 12 september (2015) klockan 11 framåt.
det kommer att
finnas upproret nu!
Live at BilliardCenter oct 30, 2015. The FridayBand.
scenen 6 augusti `16 på Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio.
Följande gig på scenen 12 augusti `17 vid Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio-stad.
Gig på Peräniemenkasino den 4 september 2021. Jag har startat nya soloalbumsinspelningar.

Ps. Someone did ask,
my first album The Desert Songs is sold out.
I `m sorry.
(we are working with the new material)
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record..
(Update 08.7.12: ROH Band Mark II works)
(Update 30.3.14: The Old Union Band has been formed)
(Update 30.8.15) the newly named: Fridayband.
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record (update: 15.11.2023

30 okt. 2023

Put the piss in Trump's mouth

This fine image of Donald Trump’s face wrapped around a lip-shaped urinal in a Belushi’s sports bar  - this is a symbol of Paris’ multicultural influence and modern artistic freedom.
Sure, you can see a Rolling Stones-inspired row of bright-red, lip-shaped urinals, designed by Dutch Artist Meike van Schijndel, but ...See it for yourself,
you can find this men’s toilets of Belushi’s sports bar, a popular student, tourist and expat hangout in the 10th arrondissement just a few steps from the Gare du Nord.


23 okt. 2023

The reaper arrives


”Fear”, 2023, oil on board by Kaj Stenvall.
According to DonPress the public has repeatedly talked about the deterioration of Valdimir Putin’s health against the background of oncology and a number of other diseases:
“This case of cardiac arrest seriously alarmed the president’s inner circle, despite the fact that the attending doctors had already warned that Putin was very ill and was unlikely to live until the end of autumn.”

19 okt. 2023

Lighted up.

The Night Watch is a live album (2-CD set)
by the English band King Crimson, recorded
in Amsterdam in 1973, and released in 1997.
On the onstage, Robert Fripp has always been the picture of an introvert: seated, taciturn, entirely concentrating on his guitar.

"I’ve learned to trust the music, trust the process. And it’s important that the audience should know they are as important as the musician. If the audience is present and engaged and listening, the relationship is qualitatively different."

According to New York Times Robert Fripp became a rock star without acting like a showman. 
As the guitarist and leader of King Crimson — the band he founded in 1969 — Fripp, 77, has written music that’s visceral, but also complex and ambitious, seizing the vanguard of progressive rock yet reaching a broad audience.
In a rare interview, the guitarist explains “an entirely different trajectory.” - read it all that.
The “awful man” designation teases at Fripp’s many disgruntled former bandmates and business associates.
"I don’t think I can look back. I think the future has now shot off on an entirely different trajectory. A personal interest for me is kicking received opinion. Because if you were only seen in a certain way, there is a richness in life which is somehow closed to you."
By the way.
There was a click (September 1983, in the sauna)  "and I realized the tuning was for the guitar class".

3 okt. 2023

Here they go.

Kaj Stenvall Paintings; ”Hands Up! ”, 2023, oil.

In schools across the Russian, service in the armed forces is being glorified, “voluntary companies” of teenagers are being formed and the national curriculum is being changed to emphasize defense of the motherland.
And then:
older kids are being taught how to dig trenches, throw grenades and shoot with real ammunition.

According to CNN, Russia’s children are, in short, being prepared for war.
The militarization of Russia’s public schools has intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, driven not by a spontaneous surge of patriotic feeling, but by the government in Moscow.
Read more.