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Kimmo

Kimmo

About Me

Freelancer photographer. Journalist (SUE indierockpunkmetalzine - interviews, gig and record reviews, and various other magazines). DJ Thunder, Never Surrender Club, http://www.neversurrenderclub.tk/ Music and movie fan. Daytime work in local post terminal.

My Interests

Photographing, movies, bands, gigs, rock festivals (Sweden Rock Festival, Ruisrock, Down By The Laituri etc.), nature, sea, girls, partys, cats, travelling (Iceland, Ã…land, the archipelago of Turku, Estonia & the other Baltic countries, Sweden etc).

I'd like to meet:

Maybe I'd like to meet some old friends from the past and great new people. I've already met many of my old musical heroes like Ronnie James Dio (Dio, Rainbow, Black Sabbath), Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), Joey de Maio (Manowar), Klaus Meine (Scorpions), Udo Dirkscheiner (UDO, Accept) and almost every great Finnish band from Stratovarius to Hanoi Rocks.

Music:

Mostly I like 70's & 80's hard rock and heavy metal. Bands like Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Uriah Heep, AC/DC, Whitesnake, Kiss, Manowar, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Accept, Deep Purple, Dio,(80's) Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, Krokus, Saxon, Tarot, MSG, Thin Lizzy, (80's) Gary Moore, Ted Nugent, Peer Günt, Helloween, Guns N' Roses, Quiet Riot, Zero Nine, Loudness, UFO, Savatage, UDO, Alice Cooper, (80's) Queensryche, Aerosmith, Rose Tattoo, Y&T, (80's) Metallica, Dokken, Ironcross, Twisted Sister, Girlschool, Europe, Pretty Maids, Thor, Oz, D.A.D., Helix, REO Speedwagon, Warlock, TNT, Circus Of Power, The Cult, Def Leppard etc. Some speed & thrash metal bands like Anthrax, Sodom, Venom etc. Southern rock (Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd etc.) Also "new" bands like Hammerfall, Dream Evil, Kilpi, Stratovarius, Nightwish, Firewind, Sentenced, Altaria, Wolf, Lordi, Thunderstone, Korpiklaani, Axel Rudi Pell... there's hundreds of them. I also like glam/trash/punk & new wave bands like Hanoi Rocks, Smack, The 69 Eyes, Backyard Babies, Ramones etc. 70's glamrock (Slade, The Sweet etc.) Good traditional old stuff like Beatles, Roky Erickson, Rolling Stones, Hurriganes etc. Finnish languance rock, bands like Pelle Miljoona, Tehosekoitin, Miljoonasade, Juice Leskinen etc. And old Finnish 70's hits ("Finnhits"). Perkele.

Movies:

The Shining, U-Turn, Highlander, Rosemary's Baby, the Machinist, Intermission, Children Of Men, Jaws, 12 Monkeys, 28 Days Later, Death And The Maiden, Conan The Barbarian, The Pianist, The Man Who Wasn't There, Magnolia, Papillon, Fargo, Predator, Mystic River, Lord Of The Rings (1,2,3), Evil Dead (1,2,3), Saw, Halloween, Dog Soldiers, The Station Agent, Der untergang, Leon, Lost In Translation, Bad Taste, Braindead, Clockwork Orange, Jäniksen vuosi, Katsastus, Uuno Turhapurot, Ponterosa etc.

Television:

Documentary and nature films, Lost, Prison Break, Oz, Jackass, CSI etc.

Books:

Mostly documentary books and biographies.

Heroes:

No particular heroes but I respect for example Ronnie James Dio. Cheers to Tomi Putaansuu (Mr. Lordi) - dream came true. Now it snows in Hell!