Live @ Culture Container, Berlin (July 2014)

Last Exit Honigschleuder. Mäkkelä teilt sich mit.

Is mal wieder Sommer geworden und gemerkt habe ich es erst an dem Wochenende mit den Auftritten in Berlin und auf dem famosen TFF in Rudolstadt. War ziemlich warm. Letzteres ein wirklich ausgesprochen schönes Festival nur leider für per Auto anreisende Musiker ziemlich kostspielig. Innenstadtangelegenheit mit ziemlich sparsamem Parkplatzangebot. Dafür jede Menge Feuerwehreinfahrten. Teure Einfahrten. Sei's drum. Der Grund dieser Mail ist ein anderer. Bevor sowas ähnliches wie eine kurze Sommer-Starre einzutreten im Begriff ist wird es noch einen Mäkkelä Solo-Auftritt im Rahmen eines kleinen aber sehr, sehr feinen Festivals geben. Da alle anderen auftretenden Acts wirklich ausgesprochen gut sind versteige ich mich hier das Ding allerwärmstens zu empfehlen.

Kommenden Freitag (übermorgen) in München. Kunstpavillon im alten Botanischen Garden. Das fLOWRES-Festival.

Alle wichtigen Informationen dazu unter den beiden folgenden Links.

Geht hin! Ist gut!

Mäkkelä


http://www.wasgehtheuteab.de/muenchen/82450-Die-Honigschleuder-party-im-fLOWRES-am-25-07-2014

https://www.facebook.com/events/295217237319123/?ref=22



Ach ja. Hier im Blog stehts noch nicht. Höchste Zeit vielleicht auch dafür. Die letztjährige auf 300 Stück limitierte 7" ep "Single Of The Year" ist mittlerweile (während meiner Tour dort) auch in Finnland veröffentlicht worden. Allerdings mit einer anderen B-Seite und einem andersfarbigen Cover.

Tracklist Version Finnland: A1 Crisis, A2 The Great Escape, B1 Tramontana, B2 Good Friday
Tracklist Version Deutschland:  Tracklist: A1 Crisis, A2 The Great Escape, B1 Reason, B2 Highway Song

Hier mal beide Varianten zum gucken. Erhältlich auf meinen Konzerten, auf http://maekkelae.bandcamp.com/ oder - zumindest theoretisch - im Plattenladen Deiner Wahl.

Hiljaiset Levyt (FIN).

9pm Records (D). Limited Edition.

Bis dann mal die Tage bei einem der Konzerte....

Mäkkelä

www.maekkelae.com

Leaving for the sunny shores of England.

I do deeply regret me being a bit on the slow side with keeping the tour blog. I would really love to say I'm a lazy bastard which is the reason for not being more relieable with spreading my tour dates, writing newsletters and stuff. The terrifying truth is: i completely lost track of it because of playing too many gigs recently. And honestly: I'm not touring Catalonia and waste my precious time sitting somewhere writing if I can be eating delicious food instead. Not to mention the red wine. Sorry for being that selfish.

Well, but then again rather late than never. Setting out for a little UK tour tomorrow which includes first time gigs in Yorkshire and  even further up north.

Here are all the dates, more regular updates on gigs, new releases and life in general can be found on my facebook site, website and occasionally the tourblog.

A quick one before logging out: there is a new 7" ep (four tracks) out on 9pm Records (available primarily on my gigs titled "Single Of The Year") and Dec 18 will see the launch of a music video directed by yong German actor/director Tim Steinheimer. Might be worth checking Maekkelae's facebook around that date. They'll put it up on vimeo around that time. So the least I can do is to unveil a moment of the exhausting workdays with that video thingy....
Luv,
Maekkelae

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29/11/13 UK-Hertford, Corn Exchange (Mäkkelä solo)
30/11/13 UK, St Albans, Empire Records (afternoon recordstore gig/Mäkkelä solo)
30/11/13 UK-Hitchin, The Victoria (Mäkkelä solo + The Trailer Trash Orchestra)
01/12/13 UK-Leeds, Full Circle (Mäkkelä solo)
02/12/13 UK-Newcastle, The Bridge Folk Club’s open mic (Mäkkelä solo)
03/12/13 UK-Sheffield, The Greystones (Mäkkelä solo + Derrin Nauendorf & Band)
04/12/13 UK-St Albans, The Boot (Mäkkelä solo)
05/12/13 UK-Wakefield, Esquires Coffee House (Mäkkelä solo)
18/12/13 D-Nuernberg, MuZ Club (Mäkkelä feat. Isi + Phil Shoenfelt & Pavel Cingl) Official German record release show & video launch party!

Single Of The Year-Tour 2013 - Part I

Woke up this morning after what I'd call the best sleep I had in a couple of days. Much needed indeed as the flu I managed to catch right in timefor the first tour gig decided to feel very comfortable in my body.

Now this is Berlin and it welcomed us in exactly the way I expected it to in mid-October. When driving into town it was pouring down, it was dark and double bass player Isi and me couldn't have been more knackered at the end of the third day on tour.
Still I got a feel it's been worth it. The first show in my favourite Hamburg place, the Nachthafen, turned out a real blinder. Looked empty first, filled up then to what I'd call a packed place and ended with a pretty punkrocky encore which rounded out an almost perfect gig. A lovely moment was when Justin of The Galantiers and his wife Gaby (did I get that right?) did a 30 min slot in the middle of the evening playing Galantiers songs on acoustic guitar and violin. Brillant! Didn't get to bed early that night...

Second day.

The always wonderful Prinz Willy in Kiel. Again a well attended evening with the usual, very attentive audience there. Very different to Hamburg. If Hamburg was Rock'n'Roll this one got closer to a traditional folk club feel. Really good show again and a nightcap with our host at the nearby Club 68. Good talks there and to bed fairly early this time. A surprise was the local press being around for the gig the first time ever. An interested young lady who never heard of a band called The Clash. I assume it's a sign of me being a bit older than her. But then again... how can someone not know.... well, she'll find out. Been down to the sea front for a cuppa the next day before leaving. Loved it.

Kiel. Baywatch.

Bassist looking at the sea.

Single Of The Year...

Here we are... Just a few weeks 'til my new and in fact very first vinyl 7" will be released on 9pm Records. That feels good. Almost as good as putting on that cute little thing and listen to what has been recorded not very long ago in the heat of a Finnish summer in klate May this year. I have to honestly say: it's different. Different to just insert a piece of plastic in a slot. Not sure if a thing can have something like...uhm...soul? Well, anyway if it does -  speaking of records - the one that gets closest is probably a 7". Or maybe I'm just getting to excited about the whole thing.

Apart from this I have to say the songs are not too bad. I quite like them. Give it a go! I put up the first of those four songs on soundcloud. That's here:

Crisis

Tomorrow will be the last hometown gig (at Hemdendienst in Nuremberg) for a couple of months as a try-out for the tour I'm just about to play with the amazing double bass player Isi Roessler. Also it's going to be the last gig under the name Mäkkelä's Trash Lounge. The "Trash Lounge" will be history from this next Sunday on. To celebrate this little change I will do a special DJ set after our gig putting on a whacky mix of my favourite off-the-wall records. So be prepared for an eclectic mix of Taiwanese love songs, Finnish lofi-blues and Christian pop songs from Papua New Guinea.

For those of you who don't live in Germany there is some interesting news too. From 31 Oct until 8 Nov I'll be touring with my Anglo German Low Stars compadre Grae J. Wall in Catalonia. This will be FUN! In capital letters. Early December there'll be a two week stint in the UK before finally taking some time out around x-mas. The dates are still being worked on but I hope I can soon announce them here. The UK tour is very likely to happen from 26 Nov until 8 December. Let's see how this turns out then.

BTW: the download code you'll get with the purchase of the 7" includes a bonus track. A wonderful x-mas carol written by Mr. Grae J. Wall. Enjoy!

Here are the tourdates. Those will be regularly updated on my website www.maekkelae.com. Have a look there if you're losing track...

21/09/13 D-Nuernberg, Hemdendienst (MÄKKELÄ’S TRASH LOUNGE)
10/10/13 D-Hamburg, Nachthafen (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
11/10/13 D-Kiel, Prinz Willy (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
13/10/13 D-Berlin, Ma Thilda (w/ Roy Wilde & Golda Heart)
15/10/13 D-Berlin, Madame Claude (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
18/10/13 CZ-Prague, Blaze Zizkov (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
21/10/13 A-Salzburg, Denkmal (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
23/10/13 D-Karlsruhe, Konzerttagebuch (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
02/11/13 E-Banyoles, Ca La Flora (Mäkkelä & Grae J. Wall)
13/11/13 D-Wuerzburg, Kellerperle (Mäkkelä solo)
15/11/13 D-Weissenburg, O’Keys Irish Pub (Mäkkelä feat. Isi)
11/12/13 D-Köln, Kulturcafe Lichtung (Mäkkelä solo + On Foot)

18/12/13 D-Nuernberg, MuZ Club (Mäkkelä feat. Isi + Phil Shoenfelt & Pavel Cingl)
21/02/14 D-Frauenau, Gasthaus Gistl (w/ SILVERDOLLS)
22/02/14 D-Deggendorf, Bergkeller (w/ SILVERDOLLS)