B | P | reach
Visited St. Petersburgh, nice town. Always terrible to be in a country where you don’t understand a word, and they even have different kind of letters so it’s very easy to be totally lost. Well I wasn’t since I was taken care of, thanks for them. I had a quite thight schelude… I start from the beginning.
I went there on friday, with this kind of small buss, you know, maybe 13 people or so. Luckily on the same buss came young couple from which the man spoke some russian. He helped me a bit with the immigration(?) stuff, you know, this kind of paper you have to fill, who you’re, when you enter the country, when you’re going to leave and so on. This form was only in russian so I didn’t understand any of it, but he kindly translated it to me.
In St.Pete I found Olga quite easily, and she took me to theatre and to see the piece’s of that evening. She also hosted me and it was very nice to have a own room with freshly made bed.
On saturday I hanged out and walked a bit. I met Noora and Katja in the town (Olga kindly provided me a map) and we ate some fastfood dinner. Katja new where the theatre was (it was different plae than on friday) and she took us there. Noora had rehearse time around 18. Performances were scheluded to start at 20.30 and we had time for technical stuff 20 minutes per performer, starting on 18. Well we went there at six. It was a huge building. The only stage we found was full of young girls doing discodance or whatever you call it nowdays? hiphop,street,whatnot. So we thought that we’re on a wrong place but it turned out that the place was right, they just hadn’t finished their dance competition in time (yes, every child had a number on them). So we wait, and we wait a bit more, and the problem was that I wanted to catch the night bus which was leaving around 22, and it didn’t seem like it was going to happen since their dance competition kept going on and on. So finally I suggested to Marina, who was the main organizer, that I do my piece in the lobby and first. Of course she agreed and this way people performing on stage got some more time to check their technical stuff.
The performance itself went quite nicely, I’m sure it could have gone better, but also a lot worse. I made it my bus and spent the night traveling back to helsinki.
All and all I noticed that I worry too much, well I knew this already. And that I don’t really like that much travelling. Still, I’ll be happy to go there again, but with much looser schelude. If I go I’ll have three days off after my performance so even if timetables don’t keep, I don’t have to hurry and worry anywhere.
Breach came across and I wonder how the hell I haven’t really heard them before. Right now I’m listening through the third album (not their third, but third for me) and they sound good. Earlier on there was something that reminded me of Entombed’s “wolverine blues” and that cannot be bad. I feel that there has been a lot of same kind of bands lately, but Breach been around already from 90′s and they’re gone already in beginning of 00′s so were they ahead of their time? Or maybe everybody else is just late.
from “friction” – Curfew
from “it’s me god” – Bloodlines
from “venom” – Diablo
from “kollapse” – lost crew
First rehearsals today. It went on quite nicely although I still feel that dancetheatre holds great challenges for me and I just hope I can cope it. But the workgroup seems to be very nice.
Contra is finally here and it’s a double album, but both albums are around 30 minutes long. So the actual music could have fitted into one album easily? Is there something that I haven’t noticed? Can be. It can also be that Once We Were wanted to really divide the album on different sides more concretely than just stating it in cd sleeve. Their lay out is superb btw. And I also got “winter kept us warm” which sound really brilliant too.
Neither of the cd has their mp3 single Repulsion. Which I understand, but since Repulsion is truly great piece of work I add it here, You can still find it in tenderversions site, so go there and download also the artwork.
Once We Were – Repulsion
And through last.fm found Ben Frost and the samples in his myspace site sounds really quite nice. Have to check into his work more.
My mobile listening pleasure has been Ulver’s “blood inside”. Truly a Great album.
