Thursday, May 10, 2007

Studio report

Hello,

Miri and I just finnished mixing 6 live tracks from the 2006 Ashcon show for the upcoming album. The tracks are Intro Jam, Check up from the neck up, Falling off a drunken Horse, Bridge of dreams, All I want to be and Going Home.
Next we're going to record 5 studio tracks and if everything goes well then the release will be in september for Finland and Europe just in time for the next tours in Finland and Germany.

I also added a few gigs again to the gigs page, check them out!

Ben

Friday, May 04, 2007

Quick update!

Hi all,

Tonight I'm playing with Coverfreaks at On the Rocks! I forgot to mention this earlier Sorry! It'll be a good night of rock'n'roll!
Also updated the Gig page today + ther'll be more shows coming so stay tuned and get ready.

Ben

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Hello again

Hello again...long time no text! Sorry!

The last weeks have been quite hectic! We (my family) moved into a new appartment and as you all know packing, moving and unpacking is very stressfull. On top of this we had the funeral of my favourite Aunt who passed away very suddenly. On a positive side Jims doing great and I can't believe that he already 1 year old! He's walking around in our new home trying to hide my cds and chew up the TV remote, what a little prince :-)

Harri has decided to step down from the bassplayer role due to too much work with other acts. We're friends and I totally understand him + he already did a gig with us after leaving :-). This gig was the Silja Rock cruise and as Miri couldn't do this gig we had Anssi Nykänen on drums... a lot of fun was had and the gig was great!

On the subject of bassplayers, Ako Kiiski will do the gigs in Rovaniemi at the end of May and Anssi Vexby will do all the summer dates.
I'm hoping to get Anssi, Ako and Harri to play on the forth coming album since they are all great players... We're going to do 5 studiotracks and then mix 6 live tracks from ASHCON 2006.
The release is sometime in September.
I will have a serious chat with Miri regarding a new bassplayer...or maybe we should call ourselves Ben Granfelt Duo + bass player he,he
If anyone is interested or has any suggestions re. bass players drop me a mail at sprucefield@bengranfelt.com


We had a meeting with Jarmo Nikku and I will book some gigs for the summer with the Granfelt/Nikku Guitar Fest.This will be a cool summer... I mean a warm cool summer with nice gigs!
I will update some more BGB gigs also during this week so check the gigpage later on.

Cheers,

Ben