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Monthly Archive: August 2004

  • Aki Hakala and Lauri Ylönen

    Hungarian Gold

    The Rasmus received Gold Discs for the “Dead Letters” album in Budapest.
    They also played at the Sziget Festival for about 60.000 people. …read more »


    {17.08.2004}

  • Interview with The Rasmus [UK]

    Still Standing
    In the past couple of months The Rasmus have had their fair share of knocks, both verbal and physical. Big Cheese caught up with the band just days before the Carling festival and their subsequent bottling…
    I find The Rasmus in a contented mood, as well as extremely jet lagged from their journey here from the Far East, when I met them in a West London hotel. Which isn’t that much of a surprise, seeing as they recently entered the international consciousness …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • The Rasmus [Spain]

    The four fin guys from The Rasmus has not only conquer us with their music and lyrics, also Lauri hymself has stolen our heart, with that sensibility,angelical looks and proximity to their fans. Luxurious music from a unprecedented band that is leaving deep footsteps there were they walk.
    Since the apparition of “Dead Latters”, this nordic band has became one of the most important one in dark-rock, without diffenence among their crowd of fans. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • Rasmus promises of a flaky experience [Estonia]

    Maria Ulfsak talked with the guitarist and the author of many songs from The Rasmus – Pauli Rantasalmi. The band is giving a concert in Tallinn next week. The Rasmus is the most famous Finnish band. Energetic, dashing, quite dark. Next week they’re performing in Tallinn.
    Last year The Rasmus was nominated “best Nordic Act” at MTV Music Awards, the last album “Dead Letters” has sold over a million copies. The guys of a nu-goth band that has grown from a school band to the toughest word in Finnish pop music are thrilled about their frantic career. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • Finnish Invasion [Canada]

    At high school, the guys from the finnish band THE RASMUS seemed weird because they played music instead of playing hockey like all the other teenagers in their country. Today, they are celebrities in Finland and they are getting popular here too.
    The first steps of The Rasmus were back in 1994. Since then, the finnish quartet released five albums, including Dead Letters, the first to be available in North America. In past May, the guys came over in Montreal to meet the medias and perform on of their first gigs on north american lands. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • The Rasmus at Sziget Festival [Finland]

    Teenhits and harsh metal
    In the international markets The Rasmus is still leaning into a couple of hit singles.
    Budapest. In Finland there has been lots of articles and news about The Rasmus’ international succes, but it was a quite big suprise to see them playing as the main act in such a huge festival as Szigets.
    Most of the people going to Szigets are over 20 years, but because The Rasmus there were lot of teenangers in the audience on saturday night (there were almoust 70 000 people). …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • Interview with Lauri and Aki [Finland]

    Lauri Ylönen and Aki Hakala don’t save superlatives as they describe their feelings after their gig in Ankkarock. Success and playing on a giant festivals all around the Europe have been great achievements but a good gig becomes from different things.
    - I think it’s pretty useless to analyze how good the last gig was played. You can feel it inside of you, Aki analyzes.
    - We are still not the best players in the world. The most important thing is what kind of feeling and telepathy we have among us. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • Holidays in hell [UK]

    The Rasmus are about to spend their 1st bank holiday weekend in the UK. Getting them to undertstand our great bristish traditions, though, isn’t easy.

    Cricket
    Eero: I tried playing it in Australia when we were there last december. Was I any good? Well it’s quite close to this game baseball that we have in Finland. Did I learn to say ‘Owzat’? No, I just hit the ball and ran! …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • Rock band from Finland [Malaysia]

    Unless you were into metal bands like HIM and Nightwish, you probably didn’t know they made rock bands in Finland. The Rasmus are in the middle of mind-altering perception – the group has scored a big hit with the song In The Shadows enjoying regular airplay on radio stations here and across the planet. The group has been poised to be the first big export from Finland to the USA, having already conquered the charts in UK and most of Europe. The band, consisting of lead singer Lauri Ylönen, bass player Eero Heinonen, guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi and drummer Aki Hakala, …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • “Dead Letters” review [UK]

    Rasmus class act
    I dread having to listen to rock bands that sound so a like that they might as well share the same official website.
    The Rasmus looked the part and it was more due to scarcity of albums than anything else that prompted me to pop this one into the CD player.
    Boy, was I wrong about these guys. The albums, despite being straight-forward pop rock, is full of energy and catchy riffs and appealing overall sounds. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • “Dead Letters” review [Norway]

    The Rasmus
    Dead Letters
    Power pop with hit potential
    Dead Letters is a good describable presentation in power pop- and rock format, with feature melancholy. The CD is postmarked in Helsinki, and the sender is The Rasmus.
    With their fifth album, The Rasmus tries to conquer the audience outside Finland. In their homeland they have managed to get a bunch of fans. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}

  • The Rasmus [Spain]

    When they were almost 16 years old, these friends found they way in music and it was the wright one!. The Rasmus became a big seller thanks to “dead letters” and today they are rasing in the charts with “In the shadows”. Know them in detail!

    Made in Finland
    Whoever said that rock couldn’t be created in the coldest place in the world was wrong. …read more »


    {01.08.2004}
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