2008

15.8. 2008 Tampere, Indie Knockout, Kirjastotalon puisto w/ On Volcano, Frivolvol, Endrive

2009

31.1. Tampere, Huuma

17.2. Jyväskylä, Lutakko w/ novembersoundsbetter

18.2. Helsinki, Semifinal w/ Lighthouse Project, Sixtus

19.2. Tampere, Vastavirta w/ Lighthouse Project, Sixtus

20.2. Turku, TVO w/ Lighthouse Project, Sixtus, Rites Of The Youth

21.2. Pori, Baarikaappi w/ Lighthouse Project, Sixtus,

27.2. Helsinki, Oranssi w/ Goon, St. Brenda

7.3. Oulu, Ykän Pub w/ Vene, The Enemy Pilot

26.3. Helsinki, Lepakkomies w/ Life Giving Waters, The Enemy Pilot

15.4. Tampere, Vastavirta w/ Another Sinking Ships, The Enemy Pilot

30.4. Tampere, Kirjastotalon Puisto Wappukonsertti

1.5. Helsinki, Semifinal w/ Hero Dishonest, The Enemy Pilot

14.5. Tampere, Yo- talo w/ Another Sinking Ship, Vinokäyrä

20.5. Helsinki, Dubrovnik w/ Radar, The Lariots

6.6. Kokemäki, Vastavirtarock w/ Cause For Effect, Rex Willer etc..

26.6. Turku, Klubi Summer In The City Festival w/ Meleeh, Rubik, Frivolvol, Immanu El, Last Days Of April etc…

24.9. St. Petersburg (RUS) Zhelezny Lev w/ Aurora, Nervion, Rocket Power

25.9. Pskov (RUS), TIR- Club

26.9. Riga (Lt) Clup Depo w/ Evade, Crocodile Steve, ГТО, Place Of Fear

27.9. Tallinn (EST), Follow Your Dreams Studios

9.10. Helsinki, Oranssi w/ The Knob, The Enemy Pilot

22.10. Helsinki, Henry’s Pub w/ Ghost Brigade, The Enemy Pilot

14.11. Helsinki, Semifinal w/ Abduktio, St. Hood

Finnish border was quick, but the Russian one… uuuh. They kept us there 4 hours, just because of some useless papers weren’t filled exactly right! And of course none of the officers spoke finnish or english. grrrreat.

Well, we had to drove onehundredinglass to St. Petersburg, we picked Dima (our promotor) up somewhere at St. Petersburgs rush. He guided us to a venue called Zelezniy Lev bar, which was pretty small but nice place. So we took our stuff in, watched an antifa- movie and two bands shows before us (both where pretty good!), we played our show, which went ok i think, took our stuff out and left to our accommodation place.

Next day we had some time to walk around St. Petersburg before we headed our killer-van to 300 km (6 hours) south to Pskov. F.ex. we managed to see some bears at the St. Pete’s centre .. yep.. that’s possible only in Russia.

St. Petersburg

A show in Pskov was in a place called TIR- club and we were the only band playing there. So we had a lot of time to do a decent sound check and damn there was a good sounds at a stage! Honestly i can say, we have never had better stage sounds! So it was very nice to play there though place was pretty big and there was maybe 40-50 people. At least we saw some moshpit and berrypickin there and after the show Polemarch draw their first autographs /../ .. to a harsh and adult russian men!

Couple of hours sleep at the stage next to the drum set that night …aaah. In the morning we started driving to Riga at 7 am. First hours felt like driving at the landscapes of Lord of the Rings, just waiting some headless riders to come and get us.

This time border-hassles went well, though our car was the only one why they brought a x-ray truck there…. But the officers were very nice this time. They just wondered why we are having so little amount of vodka with us though we are coming from RUSSIA!

Next show was at Clup Depo in Riga. It seemed like every finnish rock band has already been there. LApko and Disco Ensemble- stickers were everywhere at the venue. There were 5 bands playing that night. We played as fourth. The last band was some kind of cheap latvian version of Floggin Molly. And the bands before us… i can say nothing.. cause i didn’t listen them so well.

Riga

Riga                                                                                                photos by Ewa

I took some 8 h sleep at our hostel and woke up very refreshing. Other guys had some Rigan nightlife research till 5:30 am that night.

Sooo, sunday 27.9. we headed to Tallinn, Estonia where we had a show at Follow your Dreams studio (rehearsal room). The place was full. Everyone didn’t fit in but during our set, it felt like half of the crowd just disappeared somewhere
Luckily we heard that they had to make it to the last bus…. so necessarily it wasn’t because of our playing… but who knows Anyway it seemed that we started playing too late. So, it was a very nice place for us to play and everything seemed very ok, but it left a little bit a bad taste in my mouth after all. Definitely the weakest show from us on a tour. Maybe because of exhaustion and awful guitar-sounds.
After the show, a girl who spoke only russian gave us a good place to sleep nearby the venue.

Tallinn photo by Skot

Monday we chilled at Tallinn etc. and took a ferry to home.

So, as a whole, our first little russian & baltic tour was very nice, should i say an instructive experience. Shows were good, it was nice to hang out with the guys those days, got some new friends on the road and things like that.

Cant wait to get back on the road (abroad) again!

np. ZZ-TOP – greatest hits

No thanks to:

- russian border-officers
- russian roads
- junkies in Tallinn who tried to steal our stuff
- a parking place guard in tallinn’s harbor’s guarded parking place, who just read newspapers at his little box, while junkies are breaking windows from a car next to our car.
- estonian police
- tallinn’s bus timetable system
- hesburger

Big thanks to:

- Dima
- Dima’s friends who gave us a place to sleep.. and their blind kitty
- Ewa for pictures
- Henri K. the salesman
- Serko, Skot and a girl who gave us a place to sleep
- a gentleman who called a police to a harbor’s parking place

-s-

24.9. St Petersburg

25.9. Pskov

26.9. Riga

(27.9. TBA Estonia)

So come to those shows and bring all your friends with you!!

1. red tape and a black box
2. the moon was our compass
3. a static future

mail us polemarchband@gmail.com if you want a copy

We would like to have them out on a vinyl but let’s see how the things will go.

Some quality pics from this weekend…

Tim likes Andy’s closet…

Elliott Smith also featured in one of our new songs..

-S-

Valtteri has a new apartment.. (…pool & sauna & everything cool!) So go visit him! He’ll have a housewarmingparty on xx.xx. xx o’clock.

Cheers

Sauli//

- We made a booking contract (for shows in Finland) with Myhouse Booking Agency.

- We made really nice posters. Keep your eyes open.

- We have some shows confirmed:

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- We have written alot of new songs and we are planning to record some of them soon ..  beginning next month (march) Yiii!  So we have a summer release ’09 in our minds. Prepare!

There’s information on our myspace site ( www.myspace.com/polemarchmusic) for how to make an order from us.

We are so anxious to wait to play these and some new songs live.

Ugh

I’d suggest you also download the song so we get plays on last.fm.

Download from here: http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=112811

Enjoy.

The lyrics (by Tim, Sauli came up with the song title):

Roaming through a barren wasteland
a road paved with self-betrayal and deceit.
Throught the ruins of lost innocence
the shipwreck of burnt-out youth culture.

Join the party, our celebration
of plastic smiles and plastic passion.
Stylish haircuts to masquerade
the void of real content.

Mayday! Mayday! We’re crashing down!
This place is collapsing from its own weight!
Pretty numb bodies twitching around
to the rythm of deception…

Kings and queens… Thieves and whores…
Celebrate… The decadence.

Soulless mass-produced fashion zombies
dancing to the death rattle of individualism
This is the soundtrack of our youth
taken away and sold.

So we sing and dance to the same old songs again.
this is the soundtrack to our youth
taken away and sold.

But now, we can only sit and wait…