I just love the fact that many swedish words are similar to Finnish, just with the exeption of the letter "i" at the end of every word. I have made jokes for many years about this fact, just put the letter "i" efter any Swedish word and it becomes a Finnish word, hehe. Of course that's not true, but just for the fun of it. On our way to Oulu we passed a small community called Ii (you read it right, two "i"). That made me laugh my pants off as i was just thinking of my i-theory again :-)

Anyway, we finally arrived in a rainy Oulu, a city where we played about two years ago at the Q-Stock Festival. The stage in this venue was a bit too small for our new stage set-up so we had to adjust it a bit. It worked in the end, but i feel a bit sorry for our support band on the Finnish shows (Black Light Dicipline), who had difficluties to fit on stage.

I had great expectations for this show... and...
...I knew it! It seems like we can always count on the Finnish Painheads! Oulu was great, and felt like the perfect start of the Finnish shows. It felt so good, so we actualy threw in some more stuff on the setlist that wasn't there on the other shows.. Every memory i have from past shows in Finland are great, so i have a really good feeling about Kuopio, Jyväskylä and Helsinki.

Next stop is Kuopio. As far as i know, we have not been there before, so it will be very interesting to see if there are any Painheads there.


My i-theory is confirmed. In just one picture there's grilli, kioski, apteekki :-)


Mattias Hedberg, our fantastic light engineer and stage designer behind his desk.


All guitars and basses on the tour


Side view of the stage with all special light designs and LED's