Last blog 2006

Hiya!

Back again....Christmas is behind and all the food is eaten etc. I hope you all had a peacful vacation.
The gig at Semifinal went really well and it was great to have Bryn and Tipe singing songs that I've done with them before but never with Miri and Harri. Kasper was great on the keys and will definitely play with us again in the future.
If I remember correctly the set list went like this,
1.Check up from the neck up
2.Falling off a drunken horse
3.Confession time
4.P.P.R
5.The Hunter (Bryn)
6.Cortez the Killer (Bryn)
7.Shapes of things (Bryn)
8.Home
9.We play the game
10.P.O.P
11.Riding Free
12. Wishing well (Tipe)
13. Fly like an eagle (Tipe)
14. Voyager (Tipe)
15. Rock'n roll hoochie coo (Tipe)
16. All I want to be
17. Chechered flag
18. Hush
Encore Highway star (Tipe)

With the jams and everything we played for a total of two hours.I have some video footage that will be posted soon as well.

Now I'll sit down and relax until January 18th, when I go on tour with Jarmo Nikku, Miri Miettinen, Jari Heino and Igi Kosanowitc. We're touring as Granfelt / Nikku Guitar Fest. I hope it will be as much fun as Semifinal was! Mostly covers like Allman Brothers, Dereck Trucks Band, Gov'tMule etc. :-)
The tour dates for Granfelt / Nikku Guitar Fest. are (January)
18th Jazzbar (Jyväskylä)
19th London Pub (Mikkeli)
20th Old Cock (Lappeenranta)
25th Henry's Pub (Tampere)
26th On the Rock's (Helsinki)
27th No:1 (Tammisaari)

BGB will do some gigs in Northern Finland mid February and another German tour at the end of March. Dates will be posted soon.

I'd like to thank Miri, Harri, Pete and new recruit Jukka "Beavis" Oja for a great year. I think we took a serious step forward and 2007 can only be better!
Thanks also to Micke Kanervo, Ralf & Co at KBN, Pasi Kuusjarvi at Dex Viihde, Christian & Irene at Hypertension Music, Anne & Marjut at Bonnier Amigo.
Most of all thanks to YOU! for coming to the shows and supporting us. All your great comments and emails mean a lot to us.

I wish you all a great beginning to the new year!
C U out there!

Ben

Well, tonights the last gig of 2006!

We've rehearsed 2 days with Kasper M?rtenson (keyboards). Bryn jones and Tipe Johnson came in and did their songs once so we sort of know what we're doing :-)
I feel that this will be a very special gig since it was very interesting to have keyboards on so many songs...I like it sooo much!
I don't need to tell anyone how much I like Bryns and Tipes singing...they're both about as good as you can get as a singer, honest!

I'll be back hopefully tomorrow with a gig report!

Cheers,

Ben

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Back home!

After a week of playing with my son, sorting out business stuff and getting used to being home I'm back at the blog.

We had a good tour and the future looks good too! We'll be back in Germany in March so stay tuned for new dates soon.
We met a lot of nice people and played at new venues, thanks to everyone especially the new promotors!

Here's a link to some funky pschycedelic pictures from Bretten http://www.altes-rathaus-bretten.de/20.0.html
More pictures will be up soon and I will also put up reviews etc soon.

A BIG thank you to Miri and Harri who in my opinion played better than ever before! It is very enjoyable to see and hear their solo spots develop to something special everynight. As a band I think we are in top form now so I can't wait to do the next gigs here in Finland soon.

C U all,

Ben

PS. thanks also for all the mails, keep them coming because they mean a lot to us!