Hateful Chains

Another Leaf Turned, Time to Move on

Ok, so now I'll tell you what happened. of course you have already seen it on Instagram and facebook: We didn't make it to round three in Emergenza. Our drummer thought it was maybe even a good thing, thinking about all those competitions that lead to nothing, really. I personally would've gladly taken the chance to play live for a third time in this happening, but maybe it wasn't meant to be. 

We were placed on a Thursday night, which ate away the possible audience. Although all of us did the tiresome work of shouting about it on social media and then contacting all friends and colleagues, asking them to come, only a handful showed up in the end. It's just that working people don't have the juice to go see a band on a regular week day, and that band being something they already saw a month ago. So that's it. 

But whatever the audience, we had a blast. No technical issues or anything, everything worked out smoothly. And the new guy knew his way around bass! Happy to have him in this group. Happy also to announce that this wasn't the last time to hear about us: May 18th is the next show in Turku!

The reason I didn't write sooner about this was that the very next weekend What ever Works! Contemporary Music Festival took place. It has been brewing all year and taken a lot of organizing and going around, even paper work, as we now have an organisation to see over the festival arrangements. It was a huge project, not something I could have done alone by any means. 

We had three concerts in three different locations around Turku, international guests and guests from other cities, new contemporary pieces of music played for the first time and of course, a great time together. My piece, The Living Statue 2.0 was played, or sung actually, in the final concert. The biggest chunk of my time was taken by the costume I designed and made for this piece. For that not to go to waste I planned it in a way it could be used again, perhaps in a future Hateful Chains video?

Speaking of that, maybe it's time to start planning the next one. I'm thinking it should be She Smiles, our most aggressive song so far. I really want the production quality to take a big step up and that takes careful planning and some budget. Before that, however, maybe it's time to update our band photo? You know, with the new bassist? By the way, he's coming to record some basses to a new song in a few hours... So, things are progressing, time to move on and leave these competitions and other stuff behind.