TURISAS Violinist Checks In From The Road

TURISAS "rebel violinist" Olli Vänskä is keeping an ongoing tour diary for www.shutterblast.net founder (and reliable BW&BK source) Audrey Dujardin during the band's current road trip with DRAGONFORCE. Following is Vänskä's latest entry:

September 29, 2008
"Sitting in a hotel room near Cardiff. It's a day off - meaning there's no show tonight. The past shows have been good, except that there are still some tech problems that will hopefully be solved before the next gig. Also, we've been talking about our live show structure: we've had this violin solo spectacle in the middle of our support set and it still hasn't found the exact form. We'll see if we're gonna keep it or save it to longer headliner sets.

I'm tired. We stayed up late with Nygård and some crew guys, had some beers, listened to Alamaailman Vasarat, a weird Finnish cello/saxophone/horns klezmer punk band and marvelled the miracles of one guy's sandal + bottle-opener combo. It was awesome. I eventually woke up in the afternoon when the whole bus was empty and the driver was kicking me up so that he could lock the bus and go to have sushi. The rest of the day I spent in shower, listening to Satyricon. I wonder if the pizza I ordered will ever make it here - the guy at the other end hung up the first call and then when I called back to check the situation, he didn't have a clue who I was. Weird.

Enough for now. I will completely ignore the webmaster's request of the topics to be covered, maybe writing about those in a few days. Tomorrow Cardiff, after that Nottingham!"

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