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Posted: January 12, 2011 in Music
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I was at Johtoääni Studios again this week recording vocals for the upcoming Overnight Sensation album, which encountered a change of plans from EP to LP.

Sounds good!

Yesterday, I nailed off a catchy as hell number entitled Jezebel’s Addiction (with a chorus to die for), and today I laid the smack down on a tune entitled Fool Like You.  We have actually recorded Fool Like You previously as a raw demo on our MySpace webpage, but we wanted to polish that song off, as it’s one of the best cuts we have.  Jezebel on the other hand reminds me vaguely of some of the better material from Buckcherry.

I believe we’ll be looking at 10 songs for the LP, with one cover and nine originals.   Stay tuned for developments!

Gotta be happy with the flow of things when you're "on"

Ode to “The King” Jack Kirby

Posted: January 3, 2011 in Comics and Art
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When I was young, my favorite comic book heroes were The Incredible Hulk and Conan The Barbarian.  I guess you could add Godzilla to that list, but he was more a monster than a hero per se.

I used to collect comic books, keeping them in plastic bags, in mint condition.  I never had the cash to score myself The Incredible Hulk #1, which is going for around 30 000 USD these days, but I did get a chance to acquaint myself with the early Hulk material via pocket book re-releases.  It was then that I stumbled on the vintage art of Jack Kirby, the “king of the comics”, as he was dubbed.

The first page from The Incredible Hulk #1, art by Jack Kirby

Kirby was the man behind most of the early Marvel Comics stuff, drawing and inking up fantastic worlds of fantasy heroes and characters that titillated the burgeoning masculine mind of strapping young lads everywhere.  Kirby was a master of his age, and in so saying, even now his work seems ageless decades later.

When I was on tour with my southern blues rock band Crossfyre in Europe this past Summer 2010, I picked up a copy of the new collected works of Kirby in Amsterdam, a serendipitous find at that.  I got bit by the art bug to draw up some stuff in the spirit of Kirby, and now as the new year is upon us, I think I’ll undertake that task and apply it to something downright Cro-magnon.

Keep your peepers peeled, I should be adding some new Kirbyish art to my Artworks link in the coming weeks, and if all things go according to plan, I will have a much wider platform for said artwork in the future with a certain musical project.

Studio sessions with Overnight Sensation

Posted: December 30, 2010 in Music
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Yesterday and today I was recording vocals for the upcoming Overnight Sensation EP, with four songs on the menu in total upcoming.

Today, I quickly nailed off a rather pop-minded tune entitled Cult Creation, and yesterday I laid down a song called Soul Gone Missin’ at Johtoääni Studios in Helsinki.  I ended up really struggling with Cult Creation, which is perhaps the most melodic track of the bunch overall, with nearly five hours of mic time today.  In comparison, I nailed Soul Gone Missin’ in about 45-minutes flat, warm-ups included.  Funny how some things just require more ante than others of the same ilk.

So what exactly does Overnight Sensation play?  We’re basically talking 80’s hard rock with an edgy attitude, like a bit of DAD, a bit of Hellacopters, a bit of Motörhead and a dash of Thin Lizzy.  That’s my take anyway.

First week of the new year I should be laying down the other two new tracks, Jezebel’s Addiction and Fool Like You.  We actually recorded Fool Like You this past year and took place in Radio Rock’s band contest in Finland, but we felt that the song needed to be fine-tuned, thus we are redoing it.

Stay tuned for more happenings and developments in the weeks to come.  Plus, come out and see us live at Hyvinkää’s Restaurant Pelikenttä with Steel Liver Society and The Sledge Messiah on February 5, 2011.

Overnight Sensation band

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