St Petersburg, Russia

(Photos (©) by Linda Iliste)

Our manager and a driver picked us up in Helsinki and drove us to St Petersburg. We were delayed on the border between Finland and Russia, and were two hours late for our appointment with our fan-club in St Petersburg.

But the people were patient, and we were warmly welcomed on arrival. After two hours of chatting and drinking, we went bar hopping in St Petersburg with our new amazing friends.

(Photo (©) by Linda Iliste)

Helsinki, Finland

The first gig of the tour went down at a rock club in downtown Helsinki named Bar Loose.

In a generous backstage lounge sporting posters of Iggy Pop we found a fridge filled with Finnish beer. That managed to compensate the fact that they had misspelled our name on the billboard outside.

The crowd was great, and our host Toni even more so. We now have ample reasons to come back to Finland.

In the airport

...aaaand we're off.

With no sleep, high expectations, and good spirits, the band made it to the airport in the middle of the night. We checked in our instruments - everyone except Hallgrímur, who ordered an extra flight seat for his cello (imagine that: the cello gets its own on-board entertainment system!) - went through security, and had a beer to mark the occasion.

Man, we are really excited about this. While Jón, Daniel and Hallgrímur went away to shop presents for our manager Maria, the rest of us decided to post the first video blog.
Enjoy:



Tourblog 1 from Arstidir the Band on Vimeo.

Tonight we have a gig in Helsinki at a bar called Bar Loose. Here is the facebook event.
Cheers!