Happy birthday Janne!

To celebrate the 146th birthday of our main man Jean Sibelius, we decided to upload a little blast from the past for your enjoyment.

grievances

Thanks for everybody who showed up on our gigs this past weekend. The sound was downright awful on both nights but that's just the usual outcome of not having our own engineer. I just can't help but wonder why the undoubtedly professional mixing dude at Klubi thought that we should sound like blatantly overcompressed Pantera locked in a hall of slushy reverb?

To put the whining aside, there's also some good news to share. Svart Records is releasing our 7" single in early 2012. But more of that later.

Two shows coming up in November!

Mesmer is teaming up with The New Tigers and On Volcano! The dates are:

Friday 18.11. (w/ The New Tigers) at Klubi, Turku
Saturday 19.11. (w/ On Volcano) at Semifinal, Helsinki

We're playing a couple of new songs from our forthcoming 7" EP, that is still in the works.

Club Liberte 30.9.2011

We're doing a show at Club Liberte on Friday 30.9.

See you there!

Sessions at Stereotype

Thank you Eino and Oskar. It was a blast!

studio sessions coming

The past couple of weeks have been busy time for us. We've been messing with new material and trying to reinvent ourselves soundwise. The results will be heard before the end of the year. It's way too early to go into details, but there's a new Mesmer release coming, that's for sure.

Next week we're going to lay down some tracks at Stereotype studio in Helsinki. We'll let you know how it turns out.

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Looose

We had a friggin' good time playing at Loose last Friday. The new songs worked like a charm and the mood was as warm as it was sweaty. Yay!!

It was great to have Sini playing her sax with us for the first time on stage. And those visuals did seem to do their trick as well. Thank you Kenneth, Werner and Benjamin for not suing our asses.

And thank you all for showing up!

New date for Klubi/Turku

The substitutive date for the cancelled gig is Wednesday 13.4. That applies to Kap Kap as well. The evening will be kicked off by an Austrian band called Palindrome at 20:30 sharp.

Hope to see you there!

a bummer

Our gig at Klubi/Turku is cancelled due to an injury. We're really disappointed with this sudden turn of events. Sorry folks.

A substitutive gig will be announced soon.

Two gigs coming up!

We'll be playing with Kap Kap at Klubi in Turku on Wednesday 16.3, and at Loose in Helsinki on April Fools' Day. It's been a while since we've played in either of these cities, so it will be an understatement to say we're eager to get back on the stage!

Besides the new songs we've been rehearsing during the winter, we have a special surprise in our sleeves. Be prepared for an unforgiving assault on all five senses!!

Pimeä Pohjois-Savo

We're doing a show at a three-day festival called Pimeä Pohjois-Savo on Saturday 15.1. The festival will take place at Kuopio's very own Henry's Pub, and the lineup will include Finnish indie staples like Aavikko, Magenta Skycode and Kap Kap. We've had quite a long break in gigging, so this will be an exciting thing for us, that's for sure.