FOREIGN ***********: I had to cross out the underground part of todays entry because Eppu Normaali havent been underground since the late 70s. Theyre the biggest-selling Finnish artists in music history. Yes, even bigger than Hanoi Rocks, Children of Bodom and emeffin Lordi, emeffers. Sure, they struggled in the beginning like everyone else, as you can tell by the marvelous floral print jumpsuits theyre voguing in the photo below. But after shedding their punk rock origins in songs like Jee Jee and going the slightest bit mainstream its been all Savonian caviar and hovineitojensa thatll do just about anything in authentic saunas. Like the best of us, theyre named after a Mel Brooks joke: Eppu Normaali is a loose translation of Igors Abby Normal pun from Young Frankenstein. That should get you in the door. Thats why I sign hotel registers Lorenzo St. DuBois. That rubber-faced genetic mutation of Bob Geldof, Javier Bardem and, well, Marty Feldman is Martti Syrjä, lead singer of Eppu Normaali, and when the band hit a creative dry patch and took the 90s off he turned to the bottle. Normally I wouldnt go into that detail of a musicians private life, but in this case it led me to a Finnish-language newspaper article which I had Google translate into English for me, resulting in several turns of phrase Id like us all to start using on a daily basis: (Continued on the blog) ow.ly/CmqQc
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:30:29 +0000
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