Popkalaset

Hi everyone,

It's been a week full of events and my body is a bit tired. I've met a lot of new and inspiring people and many have offered me help in some way or another.
Tomorrow I'm going on a 5 day singing course in Complete Vocal Technique. I'm really looking forward to it. It's been alot of work and I haven't had as much time for singing as I would have wanted and now I get to sing many hours a day for a week!
On Saturday I have a gig at Popkalaset in Tammisaari. It's throgh a competition they organized at Radio X3M where they picked out 6 out of 30 bands. Would be great to see you in the audience!
I also want to thank everyone who's been voting for me in the Hitlantis competitions. I really appreciate it. The band who won the competition and gets to do a warm-up gig for Bon Jovi is Block Buster. They're really awesome, check them out!

Cheers,

Jessica

Three gigs and little sleep

Hi everyone,

The show on Friday was a bit delayed so I didn't start to sing until 2 am. I almost fell asleep on the couch in the backstage room but kept myself awake with some energy drinks.
The band "Block Buster" that played before me was absolutely great. The guys were all under 18, but boy did they know how to rock! I recommend to check out their music.
I was glad to see many people in the audience. The feeling was great and the show went well. At least until the guitar stopped working for a verse or two, but it wasn't a biggy.
I got to bend around 6 in the morning. When I woke up a few hours later I sounded like an old man who's been drinking too much Whiskey and smoking too many cigars. I figured that the only thing that would wake up my voice was some painful jogging in the park.
I didn't really drink anything the night before but it truly felt like a bad hangover.
After some stretching and voice massage I was ready to hit the road for the next gig in Karjaa.
The show went even better than the one before. The reason was probably that I was so tired I didn't feel nervous and it made it easy to relax and go with the flow. We played together with a band called Opaque Buff, a bunch of crazy rockers. It was very inspiring to see them perform and the singer was all over the place.

Cheers,
 Jessica

Ps. The pictures are from the gig in Tavastia

Gig in Bäkkäri tomorrow!

Hi everyone,

Had a gig in Tavastia yesterday. I was a bit worried about how my voice was going to behave after my thorat infection, but it went well. It wasn't many people in the audience, but than it didn't really matter. As long as there is one person in the audience it's enough, you can always learn something new.
Tomorrow I have a gig at Bäkkäri in Helsinki. We're playing quite late and there should be a lot of people. Feels great!

Cheers,

Jessica

Ps. Here's some video material from my live gig in Tavastia

http://vimeo.com/24528617

Music video shootings

Hi everyone,

This time it only took 10 hours to shoot the last parts of the music video. I was a bit nervous for the first scene where I'm driving a motorbike into the picture (Honda of course). It's always a bit tricky in the beginning when you haven't been driving for a year. It's the same with kitesurfing, it takes a day or so.
Usually I start the season on a parking spot and go through the basics just to make sure I still remember everything. I didn't have time to do that before the shooting so I was a bit scared I would damage my friends bike. Fortunately it all went really well
The other scenes also went smoothly. Jyrki 69, who is playing one of the main characters arrived after a few hours. It was very easy to act with him and he did a great job.
Afterwards we all went out celebrating which resulted in a quite a bad head ache next morning, but it was deffinately worth it. I met a lot of new interesting people including a songwriter who wants to help me writing songs. On Wednesday I have a gig in Tavastia at 18:00, hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Jessica

Ps. I'll put up pictures as soon as I get some.

Snake on the radio

 Hi everyone,

Went on a radio interview yesterday on The Voice. They asked me to bring Squischy along and so I did after making sure he was in a "good mood". Snakes are a bit different than dogs and cats. You can't control them or command them to do things, you just have to follow their body language and respect their nature if you want to stay on the safe side.
I never had a problem with Squischy since he happens to have a very kind personality but it's always a risk to bring him along to a photo or video shoot. If he would happen to be hungry or stressed there's nothing to do but to leave him at home.
I had a lot of fun at the interview, especially since the Oku who was interviewing me, had promised the listeners to have Squischy around his shoulders. He was shaking quite a lot and I couldn't help but finding it very amuzing.

Cheers,

Jessica

Interview at Voice tomorrow at 19:00!

Hi everyone,

Had a great singing session today even though I probably sounded like a mix between Lordi and Janis Joplin. Got a flu a couple of days ago, I guess it's because a lack of sleep and the long shooting day last weekend.
Tomorrow I'm having an interview at Radio Voice at 7pm. They want me to bring my snake with me which is quite interesting since he can't speak. I told them not to have any cats and dogs around.

Cheers,

Jessica

Filming, fire and blood

Hi everyone,

Had a quite insane weekend. Filmed a part of my music video on Saturday and it turned into a 22 hour long day. The night before I only had three hours sleep, so I'm still feeling a bit out of rythm.
In the end the shooting went really well but it wasn't with out obstacles.
 Jyrki 69, who's playing a part in the music video was coming at 16 pm and we had a lot of scenes to get done before that, so we were kind of in a hurry.
 The first thing that happened was that the fire alarm went off because of the smoking machine. I was trying to focus on what I was supposed to do but it was a bit hard when I knew a 1000 euro bill could mess up the budget.
 After the small delay it caused, it didn't take long before my sister called me and told me my dad was in the hospital because he managed to hit his head and had to get some stitches and stuff (he's fine now).
I couldn't deny feeling a bit stressed and unfocused, so I decided to use that energy in my performance instead of trying to push it away. It was worked quite well, but the obstacles didn't end.
 Soon my mom called me and told me my grandmother and uncle also had to get stitches because, just like dad, they managed to hit their heads too.
The situation started to feel quite unreal and ridiculous and by the time my stunt friend accidently cut his wrist open and soon had stitches as well, I couldn't anything but laugh to myself.
 Soon he was back and we could continue the shooting. We finished just before Jyrki showed up. He was nice to work with, did a great job and also gave me some good music advice.
 After he left we still had some scenes to do and at 11 pm I was finally home. I felt so happy that the shooting went great even though it had been challenging so I decided to go out and celebrate and didn't get home until 4 am.
I've been taking it easy for two days now but tomorrow the hard work starts again. Have an interview coming up on Voice, the next music video shooting on Saturday and a gig at Tavastia next Wednesday.   Things are rolling and life is great!

Cheers,

Jessica Wolff


Ps. I'll put up some more pictures soon