It’s so cool that all the journalists and folks always assume that rock bands
live this sex & drugs & rock & roll life and they’re super
disappointed when I say we just had one glass of wine last night and then we
went to bed. Boring?? Actually Sami & Raul didn’t have wine at all. Good
boys! Honestly, if you start drinking and partying after every event, you don’t
survive in the business. I love the after parties after the last show on the
tour or after the last show of the Voice Of, but the rest you should try to
enjoy life and the experiences pretty sober. One glass of wine in the evening is
only good for your soul. But that’s another thing ;)
When I get home tonight, I will take my kettle bells and do my training
outdoors. I love the feeling when it’s only +5 in the evening and you do your
workout at the backyard. I always seem to listen to the music from the Finnish
group “My First Band.” Maybe the boys give me adrenaline with their great
tunes… Or maybe it’s the fact that Heikki, their keyboard player, is in
better shape than I am and I get the blood taste from that… Damn you Heikki!
I did my second German talk show on Wednesday at the Markus Lanz talk show
and I still must say it’s super hard following the conversation. At the voice of
Germany I don’t have a translator for the show, but at these talks hows I must
get some language help. Yesterday they spoke about politics and stuff so I must
say it would have been tough even in Finnish, even though I am into politics. I
also joined the Stephan Raab show a few weeks ago and that was easier. Stephan
actually spoke English to me in the show and that was a nice surprise.
My German is getting better, slowly, but still if the topicis far away from
the Voice of concept, it’s super hard to follow the conversation. There was a
lady in the plane when we flew to Hamburg this week and she came to me super
excited talking about the Voice of shows and our new album too. After she had
blasted for about two minutes I had to tell her that I didn’t get anything she
said… I felt so bad for her and she felt bad too. Obviously when people see me
doing my little German on the TV show, they forgetthat especially if you talk
fast, I fall off the conversation. My brain is a bit slower than normal folks’
brain. But anyways, I think it’s so cool to learn the language bit by bit. I
will always speak it wrong, though. The grammar is just so damn tough, but who
cares.
I’ve been promoting the new album pretty much alone the last months and it
was very cool having the guys with me at the show finally. We haven’t actually
even seen each other that much the last 4-6 months, but maybe that’s cool since
we’re gonna spend most of 2014 together looking at all the touring plans. I must
say I was amazed when I saw the ticket sales a few days ago. I heard that
already, in Stuttgart (GER), Vienna (AUT) and Zurich (SUI) the show would be
moved to a bigger place because of the huge sales. WoW! Checkout our website for
details. It’s gonna beee soooooo cool!!!!!!!
Since there are good things happening around us, we will definitely put even
more gas into tour planning and making it the biggest and the best Sunrise
Avenue show ever. I was just planning the set list for the tour and I had a few
new ideas on top of all the new things we have already planned. I really hope
the production guys can make these plans work. There will be no flying elephants
or stuff though. Or should there be..?
I have been super busy since the summer with the Voice Of –recordings,
learning German, album production, promotion and stuff and I honestly could have
had more time to work with my talents from the TV show. I am super lucky having
my co-coach Brix in Berlin doing a great job as the second papa of the team. We
were able to organize the first song writing sessions forsome of the talents
before the live shows start, so there will actually be some chances for some of
the talents to get in touch with the international song writing and even some
stuff from famous Nashville ;)
We land in Helsinki in a moment so I better close my laptopnow. My new
baby car <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 is waiting at the airport garage
(thank you again BMW <3 ) and I will take Sami home. Wroooom <3
Take care and hugs everyone,
Samu
PS. For some reason FaceBook has lost some space bar hits on my blogs as soon
as I post them, so let's see if it helped when I copied the text through
notepad...
live this sex & drugs & rock & roll life and they’re super
disappointed when I say we just had one glass of wine last night and then we
went to bed. Boring?? Actually Sami & Raul didn’t have wine at all. Good
boys! Honestly, if you start drinking and partying after every event, you don’t
survive in the business. I love the after parties after the last show on the
tour or after the last show of the Voice Of, but the rest you should try to
enjoy life and the experiences pretty sober. One glass of wine in the evening is
only good for your soul. But that’s another thing ;)
When I get home tonight, I will take my kettle bells and do my training
outdoors. I love the feeling when it’s only +5 in the evening and you do your
workout at the backyard. I always seem to listen to the music from the Finnish
group “My First Band.” Maybe the boys give me adrenaline with their great
tunes… Or maybe it’s the fact that Heikki, their keyboard player, is in
better shape than I am and I get the blood taste from that… Damn you Heikki!
I did my second German talk show on Wednesday at the Markus Lanz talk show
and I still must say it’s super hard following the conversation. At the voice of
Germany I don’t have a translator for the show, but at these talks hows I must
get some language help. Yesterday they spoke about politics and stuff so I must
say it would have been tough even in Finnish, even though I am into politics. I
also joined the Stephan Raab show a few weeks ago and that was easier. Stephan
actually spoke English to me in the show and that was a nice surprise.
My German is getting better, slowly, but still if the topicis far away from
the Voice of concept, it’s super hard to follow the conversation. There was a
lady in the plane when we flew to Hamburg this week and she came to me super
excited talking about the Voice of shows and our new album too. After she had
blasted for about two minutes I had to tell her that I didn’t get anything she
said… I felt so bad for her and she felt bad too. Obviously when people see me
doing my little German on the TV show, they forgetthat especially if you talk
fast, I fall off the conversation. My brain is a bit slower than normal folks’
brain. But anyways, I think it’s so cool to learn the language bit by bit. I
will always speak it wrong, though. The grammar is just so damn tough, but who
cares.
I’ve been promoting the new album pretty much alone the last months and it
was very cool having the guys with me at the show finally. We haven’t actually
even seen each other that much the last 4-6 months, but maybe that’s cool since
we’re gonna spend most of 2014 together looking at all the touring plans. I must
say I was amazed when I saw the ticket sales a few days ago. I heard that
already, in Stuttgart (GER), Vienna (AUT) and Zurich (SUI) the show would be
moved to a bigger place because of the huge sales. WoW! Checkout our website for
details. It’s gonna beee soooooo cool!!!!!!!
Since there are good things happening around us, we will definitely put even
more gas into tour planning and making it the biggest and the best Sunrise
Avenue show ever. I was just planning the set list for the tour and I had a few
new ideas on top of all the new things we have already planned. I really hope
the production guys can make these plans work. There will be no flying elephants
or stuff though. Or should there be..?
I have been super busy since the summer with the Voice Of –recordings,
learning German, album production, promotion and stuff and I honestly could have
had more time to work with my talents from the TV show. I am super lucky having
my co-coach Brix in Berlin doing a great job as the second papa of the team. We
were able to organize the first song writing sessions forsome of the talents
before the live shows start, so there will actually be some chances for some of
the talents to get in touch with the international song writing and even some
stuff from famous Nashville ;)
We land in Helsinki in a moment so I better close my laptopnow. My new
baby car <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 is waiting at the airport garage
(thank you again BMW <3 ) and I will take Sami home. Wroooom <3
Take care and hugs everyone,
Samu
PS. For some reason FaceBook has lost some space bar hits on my blogs as soon
as I post them, so let's see if it helped when I copied the text through
notepad...