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9 ––12 JA N UA RY 2 0 13
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This year’s edition of Eurosonic
Noorderslag has the focus on Finland. The festival will feature 17
Finnish artists including LCMDF,
Sin Cos Tan, Lau Nau, Phantom,
Rubik, Disco Ensemble and many
other interesting up and coming
bands. Playing around 30 gigs in
Groningen during the festival, these
17 acts are a sample of the exciting diversity that is Finnish music.
At Oosterpoort, you can come and
meet the Finns at our “All Eyes on
Finland” -lounge, located in the
very heart of the conference center.
“We are so excited to have this
many Finnish acts performing at
Eurosonic. They have great international potential and we have done
a lot of work with our partners to
make sure it doesn’t go unnoticed.
This is a great opportunity for Finland and we’re sure that Eurosonic
will be a significant stepping stone
for the artists’ careers”, says Tuomo
Tähtinen, the Executive Director of
Music Finland.
Music Finland would like to wish you
all a fabulous time in Groningen,
and we hope to see you at the gigs
of Finnish artists. Don’t forget to
keep your eyes open when walking
around Groningen during this year’s
Eurosonic – you may come across a
Finnish band or two playing a popup gig where you least expect it!
22.15 –23.00
De Spieghel
(Peperstraat 11)
THURSDAY
Eva & Manu
WEDNESDAY
21.00 –21.45
USVA
(Munnekeholm 10)
Eva and Manu play soft, slightly jazzy folk music
that should appeal to audiences on both sides of
the Atlantic Ocean. Their values are solidly in the
aware middle class: earthy and politically green.
Eva and Manu met in 2009 while studying
at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. A
year later they moved to France. The call of
the road proved irresistible and soon they
were ensconced in a van and driving around
Europe – and playing music.
www.travelinmusic.net
CO N TAC T
Jouni Perämaa / Warner Music Finland
jouni.peramaa@warnermusic.com
2 2. 30 –23 . 15
Huize Maas
(Vismarkt 52)
Thursday
Death Hawks
Wednesday
2 3 . 4 5 – 00 . 3 0
De Spieghel
(Peperstraat 11)
Death Hawks is a timeless band. Its references,
or at least the most obvious ones, come from a
variety of sources from the blues to psychedelia,
early heavy metal to krautrock, but there is no way
you can call the sound pure retro.
Death Hawks was put together in the spring of
2010 to arrange and record songs by singer Teemu
Markkula, but it soon metamorphosed into a real
band. The band’s intense live shows, with their
psychedelic meanderings and in-your-face boogie
soon created an organic hype around the band.
www.deathhawks.com
CO N TAC T
Esa Tontti / Gaea
esa.tontti@gaea.fi
French Films
Wednesday
2 3 . 3 0 –0 0 . 0 0
Vera
(Oosterstraat 44)
Thursday
2 2 . 5 0 –2 3 . 3 5
Muziekschool
(Sint Jansstraat 7)
First off, don’t spend time wondering about the
name. This band has nothing to do with France or
cinema. It does have a lot to do with surf music,
garage rock and the poppier side of Joy Division and New Order. And hooks catchy enough
to land a shark.
Working with simple, honest tools – jangly guitars
and vocal harmonies – French Films are enjoying
a meteoric rise. They notched up 100 live shows
around Europe and Japan within six months of
releasing their debut album, an unprecedented
feat for a Finnish band.
soundcloud.com/french-films
CO N TAC T
Esa Tontti / Gaea
esa.tontti@gaea.fi
French Films
is one of the
European
Border Breakers
Awards 2013
winners
Wednesday
Friday
2 3 . 4 5 – 00 . 3 0
Simplon
(Boterdiep 69)
Phantom
0 0 . 3 0 – 01 . 1 5
De Spieghel
(Peperstraat 11)
The story behind Phantom is exciting. Two music
lovers, Tommi Koskinen and Hanna Toivonen, meet,
start writing together and garner international attention, even though they’ve written a mere four
songs. The duo’s melancholy sound comes partially
from the same place as someone like the Swedish
band Niki & The Dove.
Phantom was actually born when Toivonen went
to Austin for the SXSW 2012 event as a mobile
industry representative. Phantom ended up performing five times at the event, even though
they were supposed to play just one show. At this
point even The xx has namechecked the band
on their Tumblr.
www.wearephantom.com
CO N TAC T
Tommi Koskinen
tommi@audiodraft.com
thursday
Don Johnson
Big Band
2 0 . 0 0 – 20 . 4 5
Grand Theatre
(Grote
Markt 35)
The Helsinki-based quartet released their debut
album, Support de Microphones, on their own in
2000. The hip hop boom on the early-2000s propelled the world’s smallest big band to the top
of the charts and platinum sales with Breaking
Daylight (2003). The sound of the band has continually expanded to harvest hues from pop, funk,
jazz, progressive rock, dance music, easy listening
– and everything else under the sun.
Tommy Lindgren’s hyperkinetic rapping has become the band’s most recognizable element and
visiting vocalists as well as instrumentalist have
given the audience more points of entry into to
DJBB universe. DJBB has established its position
as one of the most loved names in Finnish music.
2012.donjohnsonbigband.com
CO N TAC T
Juha Ruusunen / Live Nation
juha.ruusunen@livenation.fi
LCMDF
Thursday
2 2 . 1 5 – 23 .0 0
Huize Maas
(Vismarkt 52)
Where most of the indie-electro groups fronted by
women that were all the rage in 2006, from CSS to
New Young Pony Club, have disappeared into the
mists of history, LCMDF has managed the tricky
task of renewal and retained its vitality. After the
triumph of their debut album Love & Nature, the
band has immersed itself even deeper into the
1990s – the influence of the recently resurgent
seapunk esthetic is clearly apparent in the band’s
new style.
The Guardian described LCMDF as ”a delirious mix
of electro, punk and pure pop.”
www.lcmdf.com
LCMDF
is the EBU
C ontact
Kalle Lundgren Smith
kalle@pitchandsmith.com
choice for
Eurosonic
2013
Thursday
Michael
Monroe
23.00 –23.45
Grand Theatre
(Grote Markt 35)
Michael Monroe´s 80’s glam rock band Hanoi Rocks
had a huge influence on Axl Rose and the rest of
the original Guns ‘n Roses. Michael Monroe is a
bona fide rock legend.
Michael Monroe started a new band, in the mid2000s, carrying his own name and to the surprise
of some, it has become the most popular project
he’s been involved in for a quarter of a century.
As a live performer Monroe is better than ever,
Classic Rock Magazine chose his latest album
Sensory Overdrive, released in early-2011, as
Album of the Year
www.michaelmonroe.com
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Virpi Immonen / Backstage Alliance
virpi.immonen@backstagealliance.com
Mesak ft.
Claws Costeau
Thursday
23. 45 – 0 0. 30
Platform Theatre,
Patio
Skweee’s origins lie in Sweden and Finland. The
word comes from ‘to squeeze out’, referring to
squeezing out the best sounds of vintage synthesizers and other machines. In combination with funk,
R&B and soul, the sound has been incorporated
into dubstep by cutting edge artists like Hudson
Mohawke who uses skweee in his sets. Label-owner
Mesak is a musician and DJ, one of the best known
skweee’ers in the world. Mesak will be accompanied
by the main man in the Turku Skweee business,
Claws Costeau.
www.facebook.com/hugebass
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Tatu Metsätähti
hugebass@gmail.com
Thursday
Siinai
0 1 . 1 5 –02 . 0 0
Vera
(Oosterstraat 44)
Siinai’s instrumental music rewards the patient
listener. It’s easy to see it as marginal, but its beating heart could mesmerize an arena full of people
into an epic trance. The band makes a big, unified
sound where no one steps on anyone’s toes. The
band’s debut was a critical success and a tour (and
album) with Moonface throughout much of Europe
and North America cemented their reputation as a
first-rank live act that, at its best, offers audiences
something resembling an out-of-body experience.
siinai.tumblr.com
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Jonas Verwijnen / Kaiku Studios
jonas@kaikustudios.com
Acid Symphony
Orchestra
Friday
2 0 . 0 0 – 20 . 4 5
Stadsschouwburg
(Turfsingel 86)
Right after the All Eyes on Finland party at Stadsschouwburg, the stage will be occupied by one of the
world’s most interesting orchestras, Acid Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Jori Hulkkonen. There
won’t be cellos or bassoons on stage, because this
orchestra is ten serious blokes, all with a Roland
TB 303 on their lap.
acidsymphonyorchestra.com
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Jori Hulkkonen
jori@jorihulkkonen.com
Friday
Lau Nau
2 0 . 4 5 – 21 . 3 0
Grand Theatre
(Grote Markt 35)
Lau Nau’s music brings to mind dusty attics, rainy
fishing villages and fir forests. It’s not tied to the
21st century or any geographic location. Naukkarinen is a unique musician and finding points of
comparison for her is pretty much impossible.
Lau Nau is an ensemble personified by musician
Laura Naukkarinen. The fragile music released
under the Lau Nau moniker is a balancing act
between folk and avant-garde. Due to its unique
nature, Naukkarinen releases her music through
the internationally respected Finnish independent
label Fonal Records.
www.launau.com
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Sami Sänpäkkilä / Fonal Records
sami@fonal.com
Friday
Rubik
2 1 . 3 0 –22 . 1 5
Grand Theatre
(Grote Markt 35)
This is the second time for heart-on-their-sleeve
art rockers Rubik at Eurosonic and there are good
reasons for it. Rubik has been called the Finnish
Radiohead because of their emotional lyrics and
sounds, but the differences are probably greater
than the similarities. Their indie rock is full of
catchy choruses and energetic, dynamic beats.
Artturi Taira’s voice is completely unique and after
ten years and three albums Rubik is a very experienced band with highly emotional live shows.
www.rubikband.net
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Ville Kilpeläinen / Fullsteam
ville@fullsteam.fi
Friday
Pertti Kurikan
nimipäivät
2 2 . 1 5 – 23 . 0 0
Vindicat
(Grote
Markt 27)
Pertti Kurikan nimipäivät invests their music with
criticism, hate, hopes, coming from their own starting point and perspective, but they’re all familiar
to all people regardless of how many chromosomes
they have and what their health is like.
Pertti Kurikan nimipäivät is a punk band consisting of four mentally handicapped musicians who
met each other at a cultural workshop by Lyhty
association in 2009. The band is named after the
guitarist Pertti Kurikka, who writes the band’s music and works on the lyrics together with vocalist
Kari Aalto. A documentary film about the band,
The Punk Syndrome (www.kovasikajuttu.fi) was
released in 2012, to a rapturous reception.
Punk Syndrome will be screened at Forumimages
(Hereplein 73) on Friday at 18.00.
www.kovasikajuttu.fi
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Teuvo Merkkiniemi / Lyhty ry
teuvo.merkkiniemi@lyhty.net
2 2. 15 – 2 3 . 00
News Café
(Waagplein 5)
Sin Cos Tan
Friday
Remember all those sci-fi books and movies about
cyborgs with hearts, spaceships with implanted
human brains and all that? For the aural version
of that, check out the new Finnish duo Sin Cos Tan.
Interfacing here are emotions and electronics,
melodies and beats, chilliness and warmth, dance
and thought, among other tantalising dualities.
Sin Cos Tan is the new band from legendary producer and DJ Jori Hulkkonen and Villa Nah’s Juho
Paalosmaa. Having worked together previously on
Villa Nah’s superb debut album Origin and on the
track ‘Re: Last Year’ from Hulkkonen’s own Man
From Earth solo record, a further artistic union was
almost inevitable.
www.facebook.com/homeofsincostant
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Jori Hulkkonen
jori@jorihulkkonen.com
Disco Ensemble
Friday
2 3 . 0 0 – 23 . 4 5
Machinefabriek
Disco Ensemble is all about the energy. Their wild,
rough and sweaty gigs are naturally the best environment to truly experience that feeling, but they
do manage to capture it on their recordings, too.
Disco Ensemble was formed in a little town called
Ulvila in western Finland in 1996. It can be loosely
characterized as a rock band that plays post-hardcore. Their breakthrough album was First Aid Kit
in 2005. Since then the band has toured central
Europe extensively and regularly. In Finland, it has
been a part of the Fullsteam Records roster from
the very beginning. Internationally the band has
worked with Sony and Universal.
discoensemble.com
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Juha Kyyrö / Fullsteam
juha@fullsteam.fi
Friday
Satellite
Stories
0 0 .1 5 – 01 . 0 0
Muziekschool
(Sint Jansstraat 7)
Satellite Stories had been mentioned a few times
as the great promise of 2012. That was not just
because of the young age of these four blond Finns.
They grew up in a small town near the Arctic Circle
and now they play as if the sunny season had just
begun and the darker colder days were almost
forgotten.
satellitestories.com
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Michael MacDonald / Michael Mac Management
info@michael-mac.com
Huoratron
Friday
0 1 . 1 5 – 02 . 0 0
Huize Maas
(Vismarkt 52)
Huoratron is in his own world, composing deep,
hard, bashing techno beats that aim straight for
the listener’s soul. His live shows are all about
interaction with the audience. There is a great
energy flowing from the audience to the stage
and vice versa.
There’s a good reason why bpm:tv gave a consumer
warning for Huoratron’s latest album: “The bass on
this album has been clinically proven to cause a full
and debilitating mind-and-body addiction to electro.” This is something you really have to see and
feel for yourself: don’t miss it, it’s an experience.
www.huoratron.com
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Dougie A. Bohay / Last Gang Entertainment
doug@lastgangentertainment.com
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1
De Spieghel
(Peperstraat 11)
2
Grand Theatre
(Grote Markt 35)
3
Huize Maas
(Vismarkt 52)
4
Machinefabriek
5
Muziekschool
(Sint Jansstraat 7)
6
News Café
(Waagplein 5)
7
Platform Theatre
(Patio)
8
Simplon
(Boterdiep 69)
9
Stadsschouwburg
(Turfsingel 86)
10
USVA
(Munnekeholm 10)
11
Vera
(Oosterstraat 44)
12
Vindicat
(Grote Markt 27)
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Contact
M U S I C F I N L A N D S TA F F
Sami Häikiö
Head of International
+358 (0)40 7690 717
sami.haikio@musicfinland.fi
Andy Prinkkilä
Project Manager
(artists, lounge, production)
+358 (0)50 480 4764
andy-prinkkila@musicfinland.fi
Jani Sipilä
Communications manager
(press and PR)
+358 (0)50 5430 388
jani.sipila@musicfinland.fi
I N CO - O P E RAT I O N W I T H
Tina Jukarainen
Communications Assistant
(All eyes on Finland Pop-Up Tour)
+358 (0)40 7537 556
tina.jukarainen@musicfinland.fi
Jan-Henrik Stecker
Financial Assistant
(friend in need)
jan-henrik.stecker@musicfinland.fi
Tuomo Tähtinen
Executive Director
+358 (0)44 069 8000
tuomo.tahtinen@musicfinland.fi
P R CO - O P E R AT I O N W I T H
T H E R O C K I N G FAC TO R Y
Christian Hald Buhl
The Rocking Factory
+49 15 15 25 8 34 34
buhl@therockingfactory.eu