Thought I’d give you guys a small time tip on a relatively new music video from Tarja Turunen, the former vocalist of Nightwish.

Check this thing out, the compositions, and the lovely frames, aah, the cinematography, the very blue feeling is amazing, the editing! Even the story is somewhat touching – and it is all very musicvideo’esque! Check.

( Tarja Turunen – I feel immortal )

The song is taken from her brand new disc called “What Lies Beneath” which was released yesterday..

Need more spechs and techs? No? You’ll get it anyway.. The video was recorded/captured on/in/at (prepositions suck) Iceland and obviously Tarja loved the place and even said that this would be the greatest video she has ever been a part of.. The thing is directed by Jörn Heitmann, a dude who has directed at least three videos for Rammstein, twenty-four million videos for super bands, many numbers over there, and here, and loads of other measurements as well – nice work Jörn – thumbs up!

Think of his stage name possibilities – The Jorn Hate Man!

// Tage – The Goth Queen?

I’m about to go on air again, I got a call from a very nice lady over at Yle Radio Vega today. They want me as a guest on the “Tonträffen”-show.. Awesome.

I’m invited to talk about my work with artists plus, and this is grand, I get to choose 4 different songs to be played during my 35 minutes of fame.. And these have to be songs by Finlandssvenska artists that have had some kind of impact on me through the years, sounds like I’m a grandad on steroids.. What to pick, who to lick?

So, this is all good. The show will not be live, we’ll record the thing next Monday in Helsinki – lookin’ forward! And yes, I’ll let you know when to tune in as soon as I get the facts..

And then, all of a sudden, a weird thought caught me on the sofa. A thing no one has pondered upon before. A fact that’ll change the way you view the world. Why does two of the biggest tv-shows ever have the same name? Check it out folks…

( OC & OZ )

Any other nonsense to report on my good me? No. I’m such an ass.

// Tage – The next big thing on TV, The OR..? No? How bout’ The OT – The final minutes, a sitcom on NHL’s most dangerous overtime goals?

The thing I’m here to mention this fabulous night is that I will be showing my lens to several stand-up comedians again, during the Helsinki Comedy Festival 2010 which starts in a week or so.. Yes. This is great news. I love to shoot stand-up. And now I get to do it for a whole night again! This time I’ll be at Bio Rex in Helsinki framing some cool pixels for André Wickström, Anders Helenius, Lasse Nilsen and Jack Björklund..

This is all going down during the “på svenska” part of the 5-day comedy festival held entirely in Helsinki at several different venues. Gonna be awesome! You should check out the event, yes..? Clicker..

—>>> Helsinki Comedy Festival 2010

And you should also get some tickets for the show and come see these fabulous performers..! And why not, yes, I’ll post some clips with some of these funny fellas. Laugh.

( André Wickström – Parlamentet )

( Anders Helenius – Humorsmedjan )

( Lasse Nilsen – Sthlm Live )

( Jack Björklund )

And that’s it folks. Wish me luck.

// Tage – Ha-Ha

( André Linman about his hair – Available in Full HD )

Hope you enjoyed this piece of interview, hopefully it helped you guys understand things and riddles about André’s hair!

If it didn’t, let us know.. Your questions shall be answered, in one way or another – maybe I’ll call in the hair-man himself to scribble down some answers?

// Tage – The Hair Maker

( Out with the sound walls )

Well.. This very event occured this very evening when I decided to go help out my fellow mates in Sturm und Drang with some cleaning duties.. They were going to have “a big cleaning day” at their band camp.. Everything out in the yard – biggy time clean – everything carried inside again… The general plan right.

But not everything went according to plan.. This is the story of a somewhat epic failure inside the world of cleaning men without guitars and picks..

( The session begins )

At first everything went quite ok, except for loads of stuff.. The Sturm und Drang cleaning session had at this point of the evening already been in the works a matter of hours and nothing had really happened.. Why? Cause the brooms and the band got off to a bad start when our beloved André Linman arrived about 4 hours late..

But hey, that’s ok.. So the boys grabbed the bull by it’s penis and everything begun like nothing has ever begun before – the average feeling was awesome, let’s clean this motherfucker! (They seemed to say..)

( Filling the yard with tech gear )

I should probably mention that the Sturm und Drang training site is a rather big place, and it’s filled with loads and loads of gear, wires, racks, packs and grey dildos. So it’s not exactly a one-man-job to take out all this trash for a big clean up..

( What? )

( Ah, crap.. Got the finger again.. )

And yes, as the cleaning sessions went along there were suddenly loads of stuff that the average man would call “trash” in front of us in large black plastic bags.. And how to deal with trash in bags..?

You should definitely take notes on this one.. I’m not gonna mention any names or places, I’ll let the pics do the talking…

( Taking out the trash pt. 1 )

( Taking out the trash pt.2 )

( Taking out the trash pt.3 )

Yes. Now that we’ve gone through that part I can continue the novel..

As we got back from our secret trash dumping adventure I saw things with my own eyes that shouldn’t be witnessed by anyone or anything.. The “Dynghåle” was suddenly revealed before me.. “Dynghåle” may not be found on the Google translator, but it roughly means, “The shit hole”.. Yes. Check it out..

( The Dynghåle )

Yes. When most of the stuff was carried out from the training site the “Dynghåle” was revealed.. Well placed under everything..

I starred into the hole for a while, and I think I saw Osama Bin Laden giving me a big fuck you, so I closed the door and I sure think that the “dynghåle” will never be shown to this world again, so be sure to glance at the shot until you can smell it.. Stare while you can, cause this is fucking exclusive shit!

I think we released a grudge of some kind when we opened the port of the “dynghåle”, cause from this moment on, things started to go wrong..

( The Nimbus 2000 fuck off? )

Yes. It all started when Calle went bananas with the vacuum cleaner and pulled off a Harry fucking Potter on everyone.. Where is the quidditch ball motherfuckers? Yes. After his banana race with the vacuum cleaner it stopped working. Bummer.. And then Jeppe got an SMS from God..

( The SMS from God )

Yes, wanna know what it said? “Hey motherfuckers, taste my penis juice!”.. And then came the raaaaaaaain! (Not intended Iron Maiden lyrics rip-off)..

Yes. It started to rain. And all the gear was still out in the yard. And as I said, there was not only one guitar.. No no. Hurry the fuck up boys.. Get all the stuff inside.. And at this point, all of the cleaning that this training site had seen was Calle’s Harry Potter spoofs! Go figure!

( Staring at the rain… )

The rain came down like my neighbour’s grandma, but there is always time for a smoke right..?

( Yes. It Rained. )

Jeppe tried to save all the gear from our mighty God’s ejaculation.. Just look at the man, look at his arms, they’re working like no man has worked before.. Look at the man I say! This is dedication!

( Must save everything from the rain )

But yes.. Alex thought that he’d stop the rain and get all the gear carried inside again simply by boozing away the problems.. And it worked!

( The savior )

After a zip of wine Alex noticed that the booze is not helping him to get the guitars away from the rain after all.. So he grabbed a pair of heavy metal gloves and got to it! Work..!

( The howling Jenni Vartiainen )

But, hey.. André suddenly got a very nice idea.. “We must show people that we like to carry our gear in the rain, smile pretty for the camera assholes, come on, gather around Calle, Alex, grab something so that it looks like your working your ass off!”.. And this is the result…

( Ah, the hard work, gotta love it! )

And everything went according to plan.. Except for the fact that we got nothing cleaned, not a single step forward in the cleaning process.. I’d say that the place looked nicer when we got there 5 hours earlier!

Cheers folks – hope you enjoyed my small time Sturm und Drang novel! More to come…

// Tage – The Cleaner

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“Nyt Walkalone on juuri julkaissut musiikkikanavakelpoisen videon Echoes-biisistään ja tekee paraikaa debyyttilevyään omakustannepohjalta.”

( Rumba )

Yes. This is what it says in the latest issue of the Finnish Rock/Pop magazine called Rumba. They have acctuelly written about our latest music video “Walkalone – Echoes”. Quite fabulous news for The Tage and Ramedus!

And what does it all mean? Use the google translator and thou shall get a translation that’ll look something like “..cows like to silver and gold of Englands dream, score Messi score, you baby red, cunt”. Maybe.

( Rumba again )

So, this was all good! Haven’t seen the video yet? Check it out why don’t ya…

( Walkalone – Echoes )

Have a good one people!

// Tage – Rumbaholic

I’m back from a few days without any connection to the world wide web, and you know what? No you don’t. Yes?

I found some unedited pics on my desktop from the Coredust video premier gig held in early April this year at Painobaari in Helsinki.. Yes. This made me full of joy so I decided to put some old Coredust live pics together for your eyes to feast upon.. Feast my tiny minions, feast.

( Esa – Coredust )

( The howlin’ Esa – Coredust )

( Sakke – Coredust )

( Esa – Coredust )

Yes. And that’s that. You might as well check out their website while your on the webby move yes? Clicker-dicker on the following checker for a rock time – The Coredust website…

// Tage – Coretage

Yes. I might add, before I even start, that the following writings on my wall are entirely true, and by true, I mean true (mild Simpsons reference with a twist)..

Yes well. I’m gonna be a teacher this fall, at least for a couple of days… This is awesome news you guys. I’m gonna educate some eager students over at Prakticum’s “Further education” facility on how to use a camera and some basics in editing shots. Awesome.

Some dudes and ladies are about to get Tage’d? What? Yes. The wisdom of Tage is about to spread.. Soon there will be all kinds of websites out there.. Laura – Singing for the stars, Joseph – writing for the stars, Ludacris – marketing the stars, Dr.Bombay – headlining the stars, Kimmo – selling the stars, Kari – pissing into stars, Juha – I like to stare (that didn’t work) and even Esmeralda – gazing at the stars.. Think of it! Man oh man.

The program to which I have been asked as an educator is called “Visuell marknadsföring”, go translate – monkey see, monkey do.. (Visual marketing, I dunno…). And yes, this is all good. Maybe you should attend this lovely and witty school so you can get your very own Tage-education!

“And over here there shoulda been a shot of me holding an apple. But since I’m having/I’ve had “computer/editing/everything electric-issues” for a couple of weeks, there won’t be a pic.. Soon oh soon I’ll be shooting, blogging and v-logging like a mad man again – soon..”

So, stay tuned for updates, did I tell you that I was asked to teach “camera” to a group of students? Maybe I left that out – or did I? Peace out fuckers.

// Tage – Some shit about Alice Cooper

( The Furu at the Popkalaset 2010 in J-City )

You might wonder why there are so few shots from this show, well, I have the answers babe. It was all because of a very harsh rain.. It poured elephants and monkies. The rain was ruthless. So ruthless that I took “mitt pick o pack” and drove home.. Hopefully I can still please you with these frames..

This is Fredrik Furu performing with his awesome band at Popkalaset 2010 in J-City. Check em’ out folks.

( Fredrik Furu with band at the Popkalaset 2010 in J-City )

Have a great Sunday truckers! And why not stop by the Furu site?

//Tage – The rainmaker

Only yesterday I got everything booked, steady and ready for my journey to Amsterdam – The Tage is about to go check out the IBC Amsterdam 2010 thingy..

Yes. IBC what? (One might ask..) Well, IBC stands for International Broadcasting Convention, it’s a very large happening held every year in Amsterdam with around 50 000 visitors, and all the motherfucking companies in the world will be there to present to me the “what’s hot and what’s not’s”. The thing lasts for about a week and I’m gonna be there for 3 days I believe..

I myself have decided to drool for about 3 days over Canon’s new and upcoming stuff while I’m not minding anything or anyone else.. Drool like a stuffed animal in Kenya. Drool like whatever.. Drool aka driveling or slobbering. You know, drool! I’ll be travelling with my good tech-spec friend Stefano Mountainforce, and I believe that he will be drooling like a monkey on Crystal Meth over the Avid tables..

The thing is going down in a couple of weeks and I hope that I can present to you some nice shots from this very media-technical journey..!

While I’m waiting for the days to pass, you might check out the IBC site..

Cheers!

//Tage – The Amsterdam Dude