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Tuska Festival 2004, day 3

20/07/04 || Global Domination

18.07. Sunday

Woke up at Statiks’ place, K had some Whiskey for breakfast, Hannastacia, Statik and Saija had some beer. We started to watch South Park like 7 times in a row, again. Then we went to the festival around 14:00 to see Fear Factory. Talked to Nalle, Chaosbreed, for a while ( picture ).

While being backstage behind the mainstage K spots Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory, about to go on stage for the show. Statik and Hannastacia pointed out that he was about to go on stage and maybe K should wait until after the gig, which K obviously didn’t understand. Nor cared about. The security dude looked a bit worried coz it looked like K was going to follow Burton on stage. Burton didn´t mind. Thank Satan for that.

Lord K and Burton C. Bell Conversation:

K: Burton, do you have a fucken second?
Burton: Only one?
K: Well, 3 or so. I have a few things for ya.
Handing Burton the God Among Insects shirt
Burton: Thanx man.
K: Hope you’re not too fucken fat for it, it’s only a Medium.
Burton: Hahaha…
K: One more thing. Actually the main thing we wanted with these few seconds…
Burton: Ok, what?
K: This dude here, he´s our webmaster and wants to take a photo of you and me together. I hope that´s a ok with ya?
Burton: (Shakes hands with Marko) Sure thing. Let´s fucken do it. Here?
K: Sure.

(then a few minutes passes while Marko takes pics of Lord K and Burton and tries to act like a real fucken professional shooter and telling them how to pose. Fortunately they heard nothing, and pictures turned out well.)

K: Good luck with the gig, make sure to wear the shirt sometime.
Burton: Sure.

(We all thought that was bullshit, of course… Burton using the GAI-shirt… Right… Everyone who heard FF knows they have no taste in music… Kidding fuckers, chillout)

Pictures:

2 hours later… Hannastacia comes to the beer-tent saying she think she saw Burton in the shirt. She was right. Burton fucken rules from now on. We walk up to him, and he flips the finger and a laugh. K flips back and then we ask for some photos. All displayed around here somewhere. Thanx to Burton for knowing what shirts to wear . He was excited it fit as well.

Then the usual shit, going around talking to people, drinking beer, taking photos, having fun, getting drunk. K wents out to the regular festival-area to hand out shitloads of Threeman-advertisements as well as some GAI-shirts and whatnot. Now some lucky fucker is running around with the advance-cd of the coming GAI-album. Soon coming to a peer-to-peer service near you.

Anyways… Dismember arrives to the area and we shoot the shit with those guys for a while, handing out some shirts and stuff as well. Always good to see those guys.

After their gig K comes to Marko and asks if he wants to get in the pic with Matti from Dismember. Marko thinks K is fucken pulling his leg. He´s only seen Dismember twice within the last 10 years – the second time being now. So yeah, he doesn’t recognize Matti. Drunken fucker. So he thought that Matti was another giant from Sweden and was more than surprised that Matti actually was the dude he was talking to in finnish at that point. And he’s lost shitloads of weight as well. Matti that is, Statik is getting fatter than ever, hahaha…

Drunken and exhausted people

After that, it’s just drinking and walking around the beertent and the backstage before we leave the place. Well, Marko, Saija and Riikka went out to watch Dio gig for a while, hoping to hear “Holy Diver”. But since Dio didn´t play it within the first three songs, they got back to backstage with us.

Oh, we got another pic with Tarja. Well, almost. Some people pointed out the fact that our friend Riikka looked abit like Tarja, so we decided to get a picture from her and K as well. Why? Because we fucken can ( picture ).

Around half past nine we leave the area to buy ourselves some food for the evening and the next morning. We spotted a Nightwish poster on the way to the store ( picture ). Which was nice. Food was sorted fast and then we took a taxi back to Marko’s place for more beers and insanity. Oh, and South Park, unclefuckers!

Bands

Fear Factory: Killer show. The sound was more than awesome. K was satisfied with hearing only 2 songs (after all, he wasn’t spotting the fucken shirt ON stage) and then headed back to the lawn with the rest of the gang. Marko, Saija and Riikka watched something like 5 songs before they started to miss the rest of the bunch and joined them. FF played shitloads of good songs, none of the slow or even slightly nu-metal sounding stuff they did on a few albums. Marko seemed to be quite exStatik (we’re so funny, fuck you) about their gig. Good for him. Suites you, sir. K was only exstatic about Burton wearing the shirt after the gig. Hanna was extatic about jackshit… Women…

Dismember: Dismember are always good, even if they had some technical problems at this gig. K managed to take some good livephotos of the guys as you can see (Matti looking into the camera putting out his tongue is one of those). We watched like half of the gig and then concentrated on the more important part; getting more drunk.

Few pictures from their gig:

Dio: Since they didn’t play “Holy Diver” in the beginning of their show, there´s not much to tell. Obviously a good show, and it got a lot of press coverage in the local newspapers next day. Ronnie James Dio was… well, small. And we met Jami and Terhi as well. The first time we met them at the festival. How weird is that ( picture )? We wanna thank these 2 guys for sorting out a bass and the songs for the DF gig so K could go thru them once before the gig ( picture ). We love you guys.

Ending rant

There’s alot of stuff left out in this report, thanx to many reasons. Main-one being we don’t fucken remember shit. Like that K met with Kimberly from Sinergy and some cool mexican dude ( picture ) that K and Hannastacia actually hung out with at the ferrytrip to Finland. Talked to shitloads of dudes. Had a killer time. You know. For more official information about the festival, you should check the festival webpage at www.tuska-festival.fi .

We wanna thank Tony Taleva for always being super-fucken-cool. Tony is like the inventor of this festival and deserves all that’s good in life. Thanx alot for all the shirts and shit, you rule man (and thanx to Unclefucker Statik for paying for the shite).

See you next year.

Ratings, from 1 – 10

Bands: 7 – Enough of good bands to watch.

Crowd: 9 – Supporting every band that played. A sold-out festival says it all.

Personel: Full Fucken 10. No problems with them whatsoever. Very helpful with anything needed. You guys fucken rule. And then some.

Food: Only ate twice. Definitely deserves a 9. One of the spiciest shit we ever ate.

Drinks: Well, it’s beer. 10.

Area: 9. Good locations of all the stages and not a huge walking distance from stage to stage.

Transportation: 10. Taxi-drivers from Finland rule. Even if they don’t quite understand the line “I’ll suck your cock, in English… For free“. Then again, we are not sure we do either.

We thank you.

Lord K, Hanna, Saija and Marko, July 20th, 2004, signing out.

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