SunriseAve ITALY

Show must go on – Tour start ....from Sunrise Avenue diary

Flight 97 in year 2007. I'm flying to Stockholm with Sami, Jukka, Raul, Riku and the management duet Mikko & Bob. Today is the tour start.

This is the thing we have all been waiting for a long long time. We've been playing around Europe for a few years and finally now we step in the bus to spend a few months on the road. When you do the fly in – fly out shows and festivals, it can actually be a lot hared with all the flights and stuff. Usually you must fly in the day before to be there in time to do all the interviews and checks for the show and then you must wake up the next day to get the plane to the next city or home.

Now I will have a shower after the show, have a glass of wine and eat my stomach full and fall asleep with a movie. The next morning (or afternoon…) I will wake up from my own bed in the tour bus not knowing where I am. And of course there's promotion and stuff to be made but during these weeks, the show for you guys and girlies comes first. The rest if there's time.

The tech crew Karri & MP (Backline), Gorilla-Mikko (FOH), Aki (lights) and Tuomas (Monitors) are already in Stockholm putting the stage and stuff together with the local crew. Aki told me to bring this shaver to so I could shave his head ;)

The journey starts from Stockholm, then to Gothenburg and Malmö. Then one day off and to Oslo. I guess we will spend the day off somewhere in Norway. I have never been there and we have this ski jumping thing we might do at Holmenkollen. On Monday we start the Continental European part of the shows.

We feel really lucky being involved in something like this. I'm sure the trip will be hard and we will be tested big time, but it'll sure mostly be a lot of fun. I hope we will have some time and energy to write songs with Jukka on the way. I even brought my new (Olav Loef Hand made) "songwriting guitar" with me. Now it's definitely the time to erase all the past, especially the unnecessary shit, from our minds to give you the best on stage.

Rock you soon!

Samu, Raul, Jukka, Sami, Riku and the (shaved) crew

PS: Thanx for everybody for voting at the MTV thing. The fight goes on…;=)

GUYS THE ITALIAN FAN CLUB WISH U THE BEST!!!! ;)