Chaos Within
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Gladenfold Biography It must have been some rainy day, probably we were drinking our home- made alcohol under a bridge once again. Not any other atmosphere, but that sort of, can give birth to those legendary thoughts: what would it be like to play together in a group, with only friends and own musical inspiration. To row by the river of feelings and colour the shore with imagination. There we were, under a bridge drinking for our future, Esko and I. Later on, we managed to persuade some friends to join us. Some of them had been playing their instruments already before, some not. However, we learned quickly and had our first gig in May of 2003 at"Relax"-student fair in Turku. Our temporary name was "Rotta", and line-up like
** Vocals/Drums: Esko Itälä
** Vocals/Synths: Jenna Suominen
** Bass: Lauri Itälä
** Guitars: Lauri Kiviranta
** Guitars: Anssi Lautjärvi
Actually we played our only song, "Nocturnal Bless", very well, but it was the technics that let us down: I wasn't able to turn on the distortion to my guitar, so I played the whole song clean. Also Jenna's microphone was far too low and when we saw a video of the show afterwards we couldn't hear much of her.
Soon Lauri Kiviranta decided to leave us. Esko grabbed his guitar and Lauri Itälä was passed the drumsticks. We left "Nocturnal Bless" to rest for some time, and begun composing new songs. But we needed a new bassplayer and a synthguy. Esko knew few cool guys and asked Lassi Laine and Ville Intovuori to join the band. The guys agreed and so we had reached our final line-up!
Until now we had had rehearsals at our schools' (Puolalanmäki and Luostarinvuori high schools and TSYK) band lairs but finally we got fed up with short playing times and using equipment that is not our own. Fortunately we had a chance to repair one of Esko's cellar rooms to our rehearsal place. The brand new home of yet nameless band inspired us to invent a good name for us.
"Gladenfold" was the unanimous winner of a huge amount of interesting ideas. It's tuneful and artistic, but it still gives a brutal chance to be growled in choir after the midnight, when we're heading home from the bridge.
Rock.
28.3.2005 in Turku
-Anssi-