Bad news

It seems that my account back at koti.mbnet has been taken down for reasons unknown to me. I believe I won't be posting any mp3's for a while (unless I get off my ass and find another place to upload them), but I'm going to keep running this blog and coming up with something every now and then. So, G.A.S.O.L.I.N.E ain't dead, nor in a coma (like certain blogs, *ahem*Somethingilearnedtoday*ahem*), it's just pining for the fjords.

Kohu 63 promo vid

A promo video for "Poliisit on verisii persereikii" ("Cops Are Bloody Assholes, literally), they year is 1987 and the video effects as bad as you'd expect. Rockin' tune, though.

Päät - Jet Set 7" (1979)

Päät ("The Heads") were an early finnish punk band, their most well known song being the feminist anthem "Rotat". Their first, more punk rock line-up was fronted by vocalist Pivo Rosenqvist. She dropped out of the band somewhere in 1979, and the second line-up was more "new wave" than punk. Anyway, they were one of the few finnish punk bands with a female vocalist (Rutto is the only one I can remember, in addition to Päät). This is their first single, released in 1979 on Love records.
Jet Set
Ime kosteutta

Lama live @ Iltatähti (1982)

Lama performing "Tänään Kotona" on a finnish TV show called Iltatähti in 1982. What can I say, this band was just fucking incredible.

Itsenäisyyspäivä - Independence Day

Even though I feel like I'm slowly canonizing this tradition of uploading "Itsenäisyspäivä" by Mellakka on independence day, I'll do it again. At least the damn blog gets updated. And hey, they air the movie "Tuntematon sotilas" by Edvin Laine on every independence day, so hooray for traditions! Enjoy! ENJOY!
Mellakka - Itsenäisyyspäivä

R.I.P. Jakke Hallikainen & Pete "Räkä" Malmi

It's been a sad week. The founder and vocalist of Briard (the first punk band in Finland to release a record), Pete "Räkä" Malmi died on Sunday and the founder, guitarist and (post-split w/Cadgers) vocalist of Kaaos, Jakke Hallikainen, died on Wednesday. Two absolute legends of finnish punk and hardcore lost in a couple of days. Sad, but true.
Briard - I Want Ya Back
Kaaos - Et Sä Voi Olla Vapaa

Widows - Overscrupulous 7"

This is Widows' first single, released in 1979. Widows were one of the few finnish old school punk bands who sang in english and they were very significant in creating the punk scene in Helsinki in places like Kill City and Lepakko. They also did two great singles more and one LP before vocalist Jacky Ix's brushes with the law made the band call it quits in 1981. Great band, shame that most of their material is pretty hard to find nowadays. Poko rekords released "Complete Widows" in 1996, but it seems to be out of print again. Well, here's their debut single.
Overscrupulous
Age Doesn't Mean a Thing / The Famous Five