The Mission - Iconcrash Tour Blog

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2010-11-30T12:00:00.000-08:00

Here's some short update from the tour we did. (in finish)

For now on check out the doomsday disco blog to read and see more!!

End of tour

2010-11-20T22:35:00.000-08:00

Hello!

What a great tour we did with the swedish rockers Royal Republic.
Somewhere in the middle of crazyness and traveling we managed to put up
great shows. These shows were the firstones
with our new synth guru Arttu.
Everything went as planned. Can't wait for next shows to come. Gladly we're
heading to studio to start album recording.
That means a little gap to touring,

but you can see and read what's happening with us in our new studio blog that
can be found via following link:

http://thedoomsdaydisco.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for supporting us in Turku, Jyväskylä and Helsinki.
We love you all!!!

-Matti

Theft City Rock 2010

2010-06-10T23:50:00.001-07:00

Moi!
1st Iconcrash festival performance of the summer.
There was some moments I'm going to list here.

-Weather: rain
-Mine and Riku's fishing trip: never happened, though we had our fishing gear with us.
-A new way to express U-turn by Oze: Ugandas
-Riitta's world famous breakfast: Riitta sure knows how to make scrambled eggs, she puts lots of salami in it to make it extra good!

until next time...

Grand Casino

2010-05-13T14:15:00.000-07:00

We played an acoustic mini set at Grand Casino with Matti and Riku.

1. The Lovers
2. Never Ever
3. Everlasting

The event was pretty damn interesting actually. There was another artist called Joonas who was a really nice guy from Tampere, two comedians and a guy with some kinda bike who apparently won some kinda x-factor or talent show or something. We missed his performance because we were so busy acting James Bond at the casino...
I won 0.07 euros from some machine and that was it. To be honest I didn´t even understand how it worked.
Lots of weird images were rolling after i touched random buttons... I so rule with gambling.
well anyway we enjoyed our time there a lot and we are planning to go there again in two weeks when we go out to celebrate the album release finally. Let´s see how that nite will turn out.

-jaani-

tämmöinen luonnehdinta löytyi ihmeellisestä internetistä:
Iconcrash esiintyi akustisesti kolmen miehen voimin. Pari kitaraa, basso ja solisti Jaani Peuhun kiihkeästi varioiva ääni hurmasivat Fennia-salongin laitapöytiin saakka kumisten. Radiokuuntelijat eivät ole voineet jäädä paitsi tästä deep-rockin sielukkuudesta, mutta livenä Everlasting tunkeutui päätösnumerossa niin syvälle, että komiikkaillan viimeisetkin naurut pysähtyivät hyväntuulisina hymyillen kuuntelemaan Iconcrashin autuaan maagista kauneutta.

SEINÄJOKI

2010-05-10T02:47:00.000-07:00

Banzai!

What a great journey! Have you ever kept a brake in paussi-paikka? I personally recommend it, such a nice coutry style coffeehuose.
We heard couple of stories about abandoned coffeehouses we saw on the way, and boy they freaked me out!!! horrible, horrible things can happen in such a lovely places. Especially this one place nearby a place called "blacklake"....stay away from there, I tell you.

In bar 15 the staff was super nice and I wish we'll meet soon again. Greetings to you all!!
I hope we'll get back to seinäjoki really soon!

Tomorrow we'll be playing in Grand Casino Helsinki, see you there.
(I didn't take any behind the scenes pictures from seinäjoki so I uploaded a pic from eggboxfoam)
-Matti

NOSTURI

2010-04-15T00:27:00.000-07:00

photography by Kaylin Idora

PICS FROM ESTONIA

2010-03-09T12:31:00.000-08:00

Photos by Kristel Sergo

ESTONIA

2010-02-22T22:30:00.000-08:00

So here's what happened:

Ferryness, Randomness, Putiness, Bozouness, ...and some banzai moments from Jaani.
(*if google or dictionary doesn't provide answers to what some of these words mean, come to Trashfest III and I'll tell you)

Anyway...the first gig went by the book, and everything happened for a reason. Since we got off stage pretty early we decided to celebrate. And you might think that the only way to celebrate in rocknroll is to get wasted so bad that your own mother wouldn't recognize you. Yeah!!!!....well....we had other things in mind. We headed back to our hotel to watch the olympic games!!!! how cool is that!

The next day became more interesting...
Our old tourmanager Johnny White came over to see us and apologized for his behaviour last time in Russia. It didn't go well. He was so drunk he couldn't speak. He just sounded pretty much like a pussycat. As we had to let him go after the Russian tour, this time we had to make sure that he wouldn't bother us anymore. We wish him well and good life.

We couldn't survive this trip without our mixing engineer and helping hand Benni

Banzai! -Matti#4
Oh my oh my what a trip... There is just something that makes me feel really happy when I am in Estonia. It must be their random petrol stations, even though nowadays they are getting more boring and corporate just like it happened in Finland. All the little ones disappear and all the new ones look exactly the same. Same products and same fake smiles. In Estonia you can still find those little ones, and it is guaranteed that you don´t need to suffer for the fake smiles....or basically any kinda smile.

Gigs were ok but the one in Tartu was one of the best in ages. So relaxed and random, and that relaxed feeling is partly because of the other band playing there. Recycle Bin, great band and super nice guys.

The only bad thing in Tartu was Mr. White´s appearance. No idea how he found his way to the venue in that bad condition and I certainly wished he would have never found his way there. His half eaten russian chocolates and few empty vodka bottles didn´t make our feelings for him any warm and when he decided to fill my pedal case with his vomit (for the second time!) it was pretty clear that he wasn´t going to join us on our way back to Tallinn the next day.
I will give a picture of his swollen face to security guys at Nosturi to make sure my pedals will be vomit-free and we can get ready for the gig without his drunken dirty talking on the background.

Godspeed Johnny. but please for fuck´s sake stay away from us....
-jaani-

...No "hevisigns" in sight

2009-10-25T00:33:00.000-07:00

Hello!
Now that we're back from Russia and had so much fun there, we headed right away to play shows in Finland. We had touching moments in Orimattila where we reached the levels that can't be put to words. Yesterday we crashed our system to Tampere. It was special night and we enjoyed it a lot.

Meanwhile drop by iTunes store to buy our digital singles!! ...nice

-Matti#4

RUSSIA PART II

2009-10-02T07:56:00.000-07:00

Hello. so we played in Moscow last night and today we've been already in St.Petersburg and now we're in Pskov. Last night in Moscow was perfect. So if you must know how we're doing, and can't come to check us out, we're doing extremely fine!(exept 1 x foodpoisoning, 1xslight heartdisrhytmia, 1xlung malfunction) We look forward to our show tonight. Meanwhile we enjoy the Russian hospitality and fight with our tourmanager who finally showed up. The great reveal was that our tourmanager Johnny White is pretty fucked up. You'll see the interview later.

Result of the bandname competition during the bustrip was. 1.Jaani 2.Anu 3.Riku 4.Matti (Oze was sleeping)

yours truly,

Sir Matheus Von Iconero

RUSSIA PART I

2009-10-01T01:14:00.000-07:00

Greetings from Russia! We arrived to moscow this morning and now we're getting ready for the big show tonight. (Video material from the horrors of last night will be provided for you later) ....Coffee tastes great. Icons are pretty and red-eyed dog lovers.

-matti

The case of Anu.

2009-07-18T11:58:00.000-07:00

We will have a replacement synth lady (Mila) on next week gigs, because Anu has turned into a statue and we sold it to Estonian National Museum. We accidentally gave false information about her whereabouts in Iconcrash Twitter account and Anu isn't actually going to take part in a samba competition in India and neither is she going to a black mass in Lithuania. We are very sorry for this untrue info but you guys must understand that we kinda panicked because of this Anu's sudden turning into a statue accident.

Teary eyed Jaani and Riku-Niilo (the Minister of random fishes)

Sticker Chart

2009-07-02T23:42:00.000-07:00

Sticker Chart:

1.Jaani
2.Ose
3.Riku-Niilo
4.Matti
5.Anu

Everlasting unplugged

2009-05-05T16:25:00.000-07:00

Here it is:

Moimoi.
-j

Live @ Ne Salmiset (MTV3) 4.5.2009

2009-05-04T15:46:00.000-07:00

MOI!!!
You can watch our first ever acoustic live there:

http://www.katsomo.fi/?treeId=323

Haven't seen it yet because my connection sucks ass, but hopefully I will see it tomorrow. My dad said it sounded ok and Matti was very excited but Matti is always excited and my dad is basically my dad so his job is to love our stuff of course. Let's see....
-jaani-

More pics from Gloria

2009-03-31T13:52:00.000-07:00

(c) Kaylin Idora

Two reviews I have found:

http://desibeli.net/juttu/1737 (suomeksi)
http://tempelores.com/?p=597 (in english)

Live pics from Gloria 21.3.09

2009-03-24T16:31:00.000-07:00

Live @ Gloria 210309

Soundchecking and killing time

(c) Kerkko Ulmanen

Next gig

2009-03-19T13:22:00.000-07:00

Ok here we go now!!!!!

2009-03-17T16:57:00.001-07:00

Here are some pics from our first rehearsals for upcoming shows and these were also the first ones with Riku-Niilo on bass. We had to start rehearsing in studio with pro Tools system this time because the album is so electronic that it would have been impossible to just go to our rehearsing space at Nosturi and start rocking those songs like AC:DC... Nope... Lots of hours in studio figuring out how we can perform the songs live and who plays what and stuff like that. I think you will understand when you hear the album someday.

RANDOMiconPRACTISEschedule.......
..somebody's late...this time Riku-Niilo...
First 30 Minutes total nonsense.
+Rock jam
13:30-13:35 Lovers/Ocean
-----------------------
14:31---->heaven's map
comments from the artist:
"fucking good" -Riku-Niilo
"Fuck yes" -Jaani
------------------break-----------------
Oze&Jaani to Neste!
15:00---->Everlasting+Strange
15:30 Unexpected break.....synths are down!
---------->the end......??