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Velvert

About Me

Doing things on our own up our own tree round our way in Helsinki. Currently looking for a drummer (contact [email protected] if you're interested). ----- We're inspired by John Squire, Maradona & Leo Messi, Albert Camus, Montgomery Clift, Joe Calzaghe and the like. The closest to perfection we've got so far was our 2008 EP Lonely Face. We will top that in the future. Always in it, always on it, always want it. -Jussi / Velvert

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2007
Band Members: Jussi Laamo (vocals, guitars, additional instruments), V-P Kuosmanen (guitars), Antti Weiland (bass), Jaakko Hannuniemi (drums 2004-2009)
Influences: Bands/artists 1) that start with a C: Chapterhouse, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers, The Clash, Clifters, Patsy Cline, Cody Chesnutt, Come Inside, The Coral, The Cure. 2) that start with a D: David & the Citizens, Death In Vegas, the Decemberists, DJ Shadow, Doves 3) E: Echo & the Bunnymen, Efterklang, the Electric Soft Parade, El Perro Del Mar, Explosions In the Sky
Sounds Like: good music.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Latest sessions

Lalllaalllaa,Three brand new songs up any minute now: Marlon, Stormy Winter and (den nya monsterhitten) Bring It All Home. Recorded once again in Harju with Juha Kapiainen. Jukka Vakio plays drums on ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:07:00 GMT

New song

There's a new song "Step Inside" on the player. Timo Miettinen sang a backing vocal track, our voices blend rather nicely, I think. Have a listen or two! The recording took place at Harju. If you have...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:27:00 GMT

Last night

Or well, the night before that: Once again the PMK-spectacle was a succes, and at least Timo considered it to be the best we've had so far. Good people, good beer, good you name it. Velvert played The...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:48:00 GMT

First review of Lonely Face

Desibeli.net gave Lonely Face 4/5. In short (the review is actually quite short) they wrote that it's worth waiting for good things such as our EP, and that those who enjoy 90's guitar music will like...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 12:35:00 GMT

Lonely Face for sale!

In Helsinki the CD can be bought from Stupido Shop. I guess it's hidden somewhere so you'll have to ask for it, but there it is. EDIT: Also Keltainen Jäänsärkijä and Popparienkeli have our EP availabl...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:44:00 GMT

Media coverage

We were given a few centimeters of space in a Finnish music-paper called Rumba this week. They introduce three up-coming bands in all their issues, and now it was our turn to be one of them. The main ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 05:39:00 GMT

News of the morning

Martin Carr is back! As Martin Carr! Obviously the tracks are very good, go and have a listen at his myspace. This morning the page looked similar to ours, but I don't know if that's going to change. ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:21:00 GMT

New EP to be released

The release-date for Lonely Face EP will be 10.4. That day we will be playing at Liberte and the CD can be bought there and then. I’d say it’s 98 % certain. The tracks included are still: ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:05:00 GMT

So here we are

Pihlajanmäki, there’s no way to figure that one out. Before the gig they had karaoke on full volume, and today when I went to pick up our gear.. "Gideon, 41." Bingo! It seemed a bit pointless, r...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:23:00 GMT

Kievari -> Bar 71 (15.3)

Noniin, kun keikat buukataan ite niin tiedetään ketä syyttää. Seuraava keikka, 15.3 lauantaina, onkin Bar 71:ssä osoitteessa Meripihkatie 1 (Pihlajanmäki) EI siis Kievarissa. Tämä olisi epäilemättä ol...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:40:00 GMT