8raita presents: Ryan Boldt Finland Tour 6.5 – 9.5.2015

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Something pretty amazing is happening next week. Canadian songwriter Ryan Boldt will be touring in Finland. Ryan Boldt released a great solo album last fall and he is also the front man of The Deep Dark Woods. His band colleague Clayton Linthicum will play with him on these Finnish dates. A huge thanks to 8raita and Fredrik Johansson for bringing Ryan & Clayton to Finland.

Ryan Boldt Finland Tour:

May 6/2015 – Elmun Baari, Helsinki
May 7/2015 – Swamp Music, Tampere (In-store)
May 7/2015 – Telakka, Tampere
May 8/2015 – 8raita, Turku (In-store)
May 8/2015 – Bar Kuka, Turku
May 9/2015 – Bar Edgar, Loimaa

You can’t go wrong with any of the Ryan Boldt and The Deep Dark Woods releases. My own biggest favourite is The Place I Left Behind which was the album of the year 2011 on this little blog and like I’ve said many times, I still rate it as the best album that has been released during this current decade. Here are some samples from Ryan Boldt / The Deep Dark Woods album.

Love Is Pleasin’ from Ryan Boldt’s solo album Broadside Ballads (2014).

18th of December from The Deep Dark Woods album Jubilee (2013)

Sugar Mama from The Deep Dark Woods album The Place I Left Behind.

And a bit of live action as well.

The Deep Dark Woods singing Red, Red Rose (from Jubilee, 2014)

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Ryan Boldt at Bandcamp
The Deep Dark Woods Website
8raita Website

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Salaliitto – Virhe (single / music video)

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Major news! Salaliitto just released the first singe / music video from their forthcoming album. I’ve seen this band play live several times and I’m extremely confident that this album will be amazing. They are still looking for a label to release it. If I had a record label and/or money, I would sign them immediately. Unfortunately I don’t, but you know what to do, if you want to get one of those onechord.net’s imaginary culture awards. Sign Salaliitto and release their debut full-length. This one below is the lead single Virhe from the forthcoming album. There are a couple of equally excellent b-sides on their Soundcloud.

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Salaliitto Tour Schedule (so far confirmed dates, more to come):

24.4. Klubi, Turku
25.4. Musta Kynnys, Jyväskylä
8.5. Tapper’s Inn, Sauvo
24.7. H2Ö-festivaali, Turku
22.8. Rytmiraide, Kurikka

Salaliitto at Facebook

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Small Houses (US) Finland Tour 17.4. – 25.4.2015 (with Ochre Room)

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Major news event on the One Chord To Another scale. Small Houses aka Jeremy Quentin will be touring in Finland very soon. This is his second Finland tour. Last time Jeremy played here in 2013 and I loved the Turku concerts that I saw back then. Therefore it’s easy to say that these concerts are going to be fabulous and well worth attending. There was some talk of an Helsinki concert, but perhaps that didn’t work out, because it’s not on the schedule. So if you want to book a marvellous singer-songwriter to play in Helsinki or somewhere else in Finland between 18th and 23rd of April that actually might be possible. Just like last time, one of Finland’s finest bands Ochre Room will share the stage with Small Houses on these Finland dates.

Small Houses also have a great new album out called Still Talk; Second City, which has been sitting on that album of the month spot in the right column for couple of months now. Partly because I’ve been too lazy, busy, ill to change it and partly because it’s so damn good that it could just as well stay there for the rest of the year. Here are couple of tunes from the new album. Seventeen In Roselore and Staggers and Rise.

And here’s the whole euro tour schedule as it currently stands on the FB event. I’m not sure are additions possible, so better follow Small Houses at Facebook to make sure you don’t miss anything.

April 17 – Bar Kuka – Turku, Finland
April 18 – 8raita – Turku, Finland
April 24 – Hometown – Salo, Finland
April 25 – Herwood – Tampere, Finland

April 29 – Landet – Stockholm, Sweden
May 2 – Holy Moly – Gothenberg, Sweden
May 5 – freundlich+kompetent Bar – Hamburg, Germany
May 6 – TBA – Berlin, Germany
May 7 – House Concert – Nuremberg, Germany
May 9 – Hauskonzerte.com – Munich, Germany
May 13 – Die Schneiderei – Zuerich, Switzerland
May 14 – House Concert – Zuerich, Switzerland
May 18 – Monotonag – Winterthur, Switzerland
May 20 – House Concert – Utrecht, Netherlands
May 21 – Radio – Rotterdam, Netherlands
May 22 – PX – Volendam, Netherlands
May 23 – Wishful Music – Groningen, Netherlands
May 24 – InDeBuurt – Zwolle, Switzerland
May 25 – Prive HKC – Klazienaveen, Netherlands
May 28 – Karton – Bremen, Germany
May 29 – Hasenschaukel – Hamburg, Germany
May 30 – Songwriters@Heart – Copenhagen, Denmark
June 4 – The Green Note – London, England

Small Houses Website

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Flavour of the Month: Skip Zone + Marty the Random Guy 2.4.2015

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This blog is pretty much on hold at the moment. I will probably continue writing after the Easter holidays. Before that we have a new Flavour of The Month event taking place Thursday 2.4.2015 at Pikku-Torre, Turku. Skip Zone and Marty the Random Guy will share the stage. See you there.

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FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH esittää:
Skip Zone
Marty The Random Guy

+ FOTM DJ team
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
to 2.4. 2015 klo 21-03
VAPAA PÄÄSY

Huhtikuun Flavour of the Month -iltaa vietetään poikkeuksellisesti pääsiäisen takia (kiiras)torstaina 2.4.
Illan pääesiintyjäksi on kutsuttu FOTM-debyyttinsä tekevä helsinkiläinen Skip Zone. Yhtyeen musiikilliset vaikutteet (alt. country, 60-70-lukujen ”kosminen americana” ja muutamissa arvosteluissa vilahtaneet Ryan Adams, The Jayhawks ja alkuaikojen Wilco) ovat lähellä Flavour of the Monthin syvintä olemusta, joten on aikakin saada ryhmä Pikku-Torren lavalle.

Lämmittelyt hoitaa monissa musaliemissä Turun seudulla keitetty Marty The Random Guy. Soolomateriaalissaan niin ikään amerikkalaisen juurimusiikin erilaisia virtauksia yhdistelevä Marty säestää itseään yleensä monipuolisesti mm. itse rakentamillaan sikarilaatikkokitaroilla, joista osa lienee keikoilla myös myynnissä!

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