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About Me

Since the very beginning, from the early demo-tapes to this date, Brightboy has been the evil twin, that never asks before committing, and do things fast...Really fast!The band was formed in 2004, found a shape in early 2005 and since then has been moving forward like a freight train. Brightboy got signed to Helsinki Music Company at the end of 2005 and released their first single "1989" early 2006. First album "Love For The Streets" was released in June 2006, followed by a choir of critical praises, heavy radio- and TV-rotation for the 'hit' single "Vanity Fair" and loads of publicity. All's good, right? Hell no!Brightboy has always been a band, that's essence is grounded on evolution. The band noticed a lot of meaningful details and entities on the simple, clean and pumping disco-"rock" sound of the first album that they wanted to do a bit differently. Once again with just a short phase of time passed, Brightboy started committing before asking anyone's permission.Their will came alive in October 2007 as Brightboy released their second, "in the shadow of trance formers". This time they added more shades and more colour to create vast contrasts and a larger scale of emotions to their music. ITSOTF contains a consept-story of a bright boy, a decadent figure of our time, trying to reach success and then trying to cope with it. The sound evolved to something more organic and more rough, revealing the balls in Brightboy. But one thing remained, and that is great Brightboy songs, and once again, the critics dropped to their knees before the album, radio and TV rotate hard, again lots of publicity, great shows all around Finland and more and more people following band's every move. All's good, right? Still not, we have to keep moving on. And what may come next, we never know.Just before the release of ITSOTF, Brightboy's long-term bass player Henri Lidsle left the band and was replaced by the same guy who signed the band to HMC, Jesse Valo. Today Brightboy is without a question one of the hottest live acts in Finland and with a new, ever so strong line-up, the past has been just a beginning, a scratch on the surface of something that's bound to rise up 'til the skyline!

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Member Since: 3/17/2006
Band Website: brightboy.fi/en
Band Members: Vox & Guitar: Antti Westman
Guitar: Ville Moilanen
Bass: Jesse Valo
Drums: Eero Alasuutari
Keyboards: Sami Suova
Sounds Like: Vanity Fair
Record Label: Helsinki Music Company
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

season ending, season greetings

Hey everybody! Sorry that I haven't got the effort to write a thing in a while, we've been doing a lot of shows lately and just having a lot of fun doing them! So now that it is the end of the year fo...
Posted by Brightboy on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:14:00 PST

Thank you’s...

...go to everyone who attended our show in Nosturi yesterday, it was most definitely one of the best nights of the whole year! Also cheers and love to the wonderful people of Rubik and The Dash! To be...
Posted by Brightboy on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:43:00 PST

A little word-play

There's been a certain trend that contains in almost every review we've had the pleasure reading these past couple of weeks. A trend that is not so nice to notice. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complain...
Posted by Brightboy on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:22:00 PST

HELSINKI LIVE 17.11.!!!

Hey all! How you been? We're doing great, thanks for asking! The album is out, some of you already have it, some of you don't, but don't worry, just keep buying the damn thing, it's worth every penny!...
Posted by Brightboy on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:41:00 PST

cherry poppin’ and a new song for you

We played our first gig with Jesse last Friday in Vaasa. Guess what, it was a fucking blast! And we got his cherry popped! Sounds strange, doesn't it? The audience was good, the show was good and so o...
Posted by Brightboy on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:59:00 PST

Pre-ordering ’trance formers’

...is really simple. Check out this link to -> Levykauppa X and get the album shipped to where ever in the world!...
Posted by Brightboy on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:51:00 PST

NEW SONG! DAMN IT’S FINE!

Nice to notice that more and more people are reading this crap of a blog, as I might call it. And as a thank you for that, I got a new song for you to hear. It's the double-A side from the 7" single. ...
Posted by Brightboy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:07:00 PST

Bass player

It has been decided that the bass player's role for the remaining shows of 2007 is taken care by Jesse Valo. We did our first practice with Jesse yesterday and everything went really well. As every br...
Posted by Brightboy on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:09:00 PST

don’t worry ’bout nothing!

We've been acting a bit slow lately with the new myspace-layout and getting a new song to the player plus a whole lot of other things, 'cause of the things that have been going on past couple of weeks...
Posted by Brightboy on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:34:00 PST

music video and some sad news

We shot a video for wheels of misfortune on Sunday. It was a long day, both physically and mentally. It was almost a 16-hour day for us and waaay much longer for the crew. No pain, no gain. But I'm 10...
Posted by Brightboy on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:37:00 PST