Vote for Lauri at MTV EMA

Lauri @ Radio Aalto

Lauri is nominated in the Best Finnish Act category at the MTV EMA Awards. You can vote for him by clicking here, and selecting the category.

No Fear by Hayseed Dixie & ‘Kiss of the Week’

Lauri in Anna Magazine

In about a 2-3 weeks old edition of the Finnish magazine called Anna, Lauri has been given the ‘Kiss of the Week’ for the 80′s sounding Heavy pop song, and a second one for quitting drinking because of his son.

Someone was also kind enough to share the Hayseed Dixie cover of No Fear on YouTube about which Aki has been talking previously and also linked an article from Iltalehti. You can listen to the song below.

The Rasmus Facebook Updates

Aki was nice enough to share some Finnish Spring feeling, give an insight on Finnish landscapes and also wish the fans Happy Easter (a late one ) with pictures.

Mooooo!

Country side of Finland

Hyvää pääsiäistä!

Lauri @ Maria Show

Lauri @ Maria Show

As you all know Lauri has been guest yesterday at Nelonen’s Maria Veitolan Show. You can find the video here for a week more, and here is uploaded on YouTube, thanks to Oana/PMMP&TheRasmus Forum. Sum up of the interview can be found below.

-at first even at EMMA he thought that his project is going the wrong way and break, he thought of it as being a quite dangerous challenge; when he was 30 he bought some ‘man shoes’ that were white but he has never used them so far, they are there waiting for the right day to be used; he was the one who always rebelled against electronic music around The Rasmus; he was the one to make a music video for The Rasmus with teddy suits but the rest of the guys didn’t really liked the idea; he didn’t got any wrinkles and he isn’t really worried about them just yet, but he thinks he is kind of tired baby looking; then they show them how they imagined him looking when he is old and he tells it’s looking like a japan sensei; he is now a superstar and will never get a general man again but he doesn’t even wish for it, and he’s not suffering at all of being a super star; he’s one of those few Finnish musicians who has made a lot of money only by music and he tells that it’s because he has been wise about organizing things, then he’s asked if he has a treasurer but he only asks ‘what is that?’; he’s never understood those who collected paintings and such but he’s slowly getting the feeling of it; he has quit smoking 2 years ago just for fun and thinks that things now look different from the way they did the touring like: party, drinking and such and wanted to break up with that.

Some small updates about the guys

Almost the whole month passed by without any news from the guys, though we thought to tell you this and that, that we have managed to find out during the weeks.

Poland (Juwenalia, 6th May) gig have been confirmed by Playground Music Scandinavia, though there are not yet official sources that the guys have again contract with this record company.

Furthermore, they are working hard on their new album, so we don’t have to worry about not having anything from them pretty soon. They have made recently 2 brand new demos too, and are continuously recording in their studio in Helsinki, Dynasty.

Interview with Lauri On Air with Mika

(C) Mika Kankaanpää

Lauri have been invited to the Laulutekijäklubi by Mika Kankaanpää and he have been giving an interview and also took a picture with a guitar from the studio of the host.

Here you can listen to the interview by scrolling down the page until you see the player and there you can see Lauri 1, Lauri 2, Lauri 3 and Lauri 4, meaning there are 4 parts of the interview so don’t forget to switch them when one is over Interview is in Finnish.