NEWS ARCHIVE
2004
Vote us puh-leese
December 14th 2004
MTV's
ultimate Top 100 list of the year 2004 voting is
coming to an end this weekend. Help the mummies by letting
MTV know what you really thought about their 'Don't
Hold Your Breath' song and video and vote...
(Hint: to find us click
the drop-down menu first and then type 'MU' to avoid
spending the better part of the day scrolling down the
list of candidates.)
High-level
Janneing
November 29th 2004
The lead Jannes of pop bands Mummypowder
and Office Building, Janne Lehtinen and Janne Laurila,
will play solo gigs at Bar
Loose (Helsinki) on Wednesday, 8th December, 2004.
Earlier the same day you can get a preview of things
to come on Radio
Helsinki in Aleksi Pahkala's Mahtavaa Helsinki Mahtavaa
-Show. Janne and other Mummies will also appear on YleQ's
Popstudio programme on tuesday, 7th December.
The soundtrack of your lives
November 29th 2004
Tune into Finnish Yle TV2 on wednesday 1st
December at 8PM to catch the last episode of Laura
kesäleirillä, a youth Tv-series the soundtrack
of which contains a lot of music from the 2003 Mummypowder
album 'V. Strange'. Other acts on the soundtrack include
Melrose, The Screaming Stukas and The Flaming Sideburns.
Charts frenzy: MTV,
Disco, Rock... You name it
November 26th 2004
Charting on
The Finnish Rock Hits Top 30 for a third week in
a row (this week at #24) and The
Finnish Disco Chart Top 40 for the ninth week in
a row (currently #37), the latest radio-only Mummypowder
single 'No-one There to Entertain You', out 24th September,
is surely making some waves. That's not all, though
- if you liked the previous single 'Don't Hold Your
Breath', or its hip'n'cool
video, now you can vote for it on MTV's
ultimate Top 100 list of the year 2004. The selections
will be shown on MTV Nordic the weekend of 18th and
19th of December 2004. Nevermind The Election of 2004,
here's your chance to make a difference on things that
seriously matter. Clickety click! (Hint:
to find us click the drop-down menu first and then type
'MU' to avoid spending the better part of the day scrolling
down the list of candidates.)
Mummy song
September 19th 2004
The coolest skateboard shop we ever heard
of, Melodica
Skateboards, have just released a skateboard documentary
DVD called Bird
Song. Some of the clips are accompanied by mummypowder
music from the 2003 album 'V. Strange'. Other artists
on the DVD include Treeball, Mutants and Mekhanist.
Glory from Gloria
September 5th 2004
The video for 'Don't Hold Your Breath' receives
praise from the latest issue of Glorian
koti; It gets described as a representation of the
latest in visual imagery. 'The video has attitude. The
general impressions conveyed are coolness, stiffness,
lumpiness - it's like a cut from a blunt knife.
This weird Finnish video is clearly one of the best
videos on MTV'.
Up North - ever higher!
August 19th 2004
Thanks to all the loyal fans who voted, Mummies
are now at #18 on MTV Nordic's Up North chart. What
now? Well, to stay on the chart, Mummies need your vote
this week as well! Head over to MTV
Nordic and, you guessed it, vote! Vote!
Up North - higher, higher!
July 31st 2004
Week 33 (9th to 15th August 2004) will see
the Mummy video 'Don't Hold Your Breath' among the five
weekly challengers in MTV's Up North show. Come wk 33,
you can watch the video and vote for it like crazy on
this
page. Help the mummies out, make them stars!
Update: You can now review and give your vote
to the video on
MTV's Up North page. Wheeee! Up North will be also
shown on Finnish Channel 4 on saturday at 3.25 PM and
again on monday 3.30 PM.
Inner views
July 13th 2004
In addition to latest issues
of Soundi
and Seura
magazines, Mesta.net
and Stupido.fi
have some insight into a mummy's mind.
Our friends MTV
July 9th 2004
MTV
is now playing the video for 'Don't Hold Your Breath'.
Tune in and text message for more!
Video premiere
June 5th 2004
The new Mummypowder video
for 'Don't Hold Your Breath' has been shown for the
first time on Sub
TV's Sessions Selections programme today, where
the Finnish Pop Idol Hanna Pakarinen and presenter Silvia
Modig loved the song and the video to pieces. In case
you didn't catch it, the programme will also be shown
on Sunday, 6th June.
iTunes, and so should you
May 29th 2004
Music
by Mummypowder can now be purchased (and handily previewed
as well) through Apple's iTunes
Music Store, the largest digital music online store
in the world. The second album, "V. Strange",
is available now, with the third album to follow later.
To preview you'll need the free iTunes application,
available for download (Mac or PC) here.
To purchase, you'll currently need a billing
address in the U.S., but the iTMS Europe is said to
be launched later this year.
Radio & TV
May 12th 2004
Still no reason to leave
the comfort of your home: listen to Radio
SuomiPOP on thursday, 13th May, around 5PM to hear
Janne and Staffan play live in the studio. (Remember
to vote for 'Mummypowder - Don't Hold Your Breath' here
- in the 'Oma valinta' -box at the bottom. Thanks!)
Janne will also perform live in Sub
TV's Sessions
on Saturday, 22nd May and talk about the state of English-sung
pop music in Finland with the singer of Maryland.
The new Mummy video for 'Don't Hold Your Breath' will
be shown in Selections
later this month.
V.D.O.
April 30th 2004
'Don't Hold Your Breath',
the first single from 'Consternation! Uproar!',
is about to get moving pictures on top of it and so
gets an ability to play on the magic box in the corner
of your living room. The video is directed by Onni Tappola,
who has worked on Mummy videos before.
We are electric
April 28th 2004
Too lazy to get up from
that chair and go out anymore? No worries: you can buy
and download our music from where you're sitting now!
Head to www.biisi.fi,
register, and you're good to go.
Mummy radio
April 26th 2004
Two mummies, Janne and Staffan,
play live and talk about themselves on YleX tuesday,
April 27th at 7PM www.ylex.fi,
on Radio
Helsinki at 10AM on wednesday, 28th April, and Extrem
at 6:30PM on thursday, 29th April.
The Powder Pop Revolution begins HERE
April 23rd 2004
Today's the big day for
all Mummypowder fans: the third Mummypowder album, 'Consternation!
Uproar!', is released and available in all the best
music stores as of today. One of our favourite record
stores, Stupido
Shop, freshly quoted the album as being 'the best
album of the best pop band in Finland', and Free
Record Shop, not wanting to be left behind, chose
it as their pick of the week. But what's truly
the best thing of all: just like the previous album,
this album's cheap. So no excuses, mate: go
get it while it's new.
Nyt
(17/04): **** 'Lehtinen's songs flow naturally,
and their structure is straight from the songwriter's
ABC' - Ilkka Mattila
Nöjesguiden
(4/04): ***** (out of 6) 'Excellent,
flowing indie-rock-pop album that also has sensitivity.
Mummypowder are absolutely one of the best English-singing
pop bands in Finland' - Matti Markkola
City
(3/04): ***1/2 'Traditional pop harmony well
performed'
Kaleva
(29/4/04): **** 'Conventional in form, rich
in content' -Marko Sirviö
Aamulehti/Valo
(7/5/04): **** 'This skilled and style-conscious
quartet puts a hefty amount of feeling into their songs'
-Markku Makkonen
Cosmopolitan
(6/04): 'All pieces seem to be together'
Soundi
(5/04): *** 'Mummypowder hit the jackpot with
Right This Minute' -Jari Jokirinne
Aksentti
(5/04): 'Elite' 'A deep bow is in order. Janne
Lehtinen has written great traditional pop music before,
but this time Mummypowder have made a truly fine, classical
pop album' -JV
Rumba
(#9/04): **** 'Consternation! Uproar!
seems to be the best pop release this year so far' -Tomi
Palsa
Desibeli.net
(6/04): **** 'One of the most
entertaining Finnish guitar pop records this year' -Ilkka
Valpasvuo
Rockmusica.net
(6/04): *** 'To put it straight, the opening
track is the best Finnish song of the year, a perfectly,
catchily flowing piece of art' -Samu Valleala
Onechord.net
(5/04): ****1/2 'Consternation!
Uproar! is a wonderful guitar pop album'
Let's
Make Some Noise (8/04): **** 'The record
makes makes anybody overwhelmingly happy'
Rytmi
(#4/04): **** 'Janne Lehtinen is a brilliant pop
writer and an original singer. Heikki Tikka's and Aleksi
Mänttäri's rhythm section plays stylishly,
guitars jangle nicely' -Antti Ervasti
Powder pop at its best
April 7th 2004
Right, this is it now, this
time it's really happening: the third Mummypowder album,
'Consternation! Uproar!' will be released on 23rd
April. (And it will, because we're kindasorta determined
about this. No seriously, we are. Mummy says it's coming.)
'Classic' has only been one of the words to describe
this, in some people's opinion, 'groundbreaking' Finnish
powder pop record. Check out for yourself whether some
reviewers we're right to give the previous album, 'V.
Strange', only four stars out of five just because they
we're certain that this one would be even better.
Playing on a skateboard soudtrack
is not a crime
March 17th 2004
Mummies' music will be featured
on the soundtracks of two forthcoming TV/Movie
productions: Melodica
Skateboards are releasing a skate-DVD titled 'Bird
Songs' in April, with some tracks from Mummypowder and
Treeball,
(who've already appeared on a snowboarding
and skiing movie before this) included. Later this
year, Yle
TV2 are showing a TV series called 'Laura' where
you can spot some very strange music - songs from the
second Mummy album 'V. Strange', that is.
March 14th 2004
Bing! You're hypnotized!
We all knew it would be special, but the new
Hypnomen
album 'Crystal Skies' (Stupido
Records) is even more so: witness Janne Powder singing
on a track called 'Love Gone Bad' on the new album,
out soon.
This time we're serious
March 10th 2004
This is slowly turning into
a habit now, but the record release date for the third
Mummypowder album has been moved again... 'Consternation!
Uproar!' is coming out mid-April instead of 25th March.
Sorry... final dates announced ASAP.
Nice pick
March 9th 2004
The
Orchard, the largest distributor of independent
music in the world, has chosen The second Mummypowder
album, 'V. Strange', as their 'Staff Pick of the week'.
A great critical success, several reviewers in various
papers and websites ranked 'V. Strange' one of their
favourite Finnish albums of the year 2003.
Smooth operator logo
March
4th 2004
Now you can order yourself
a Mummypowder operator logo (Finland only): Send a text
message RM LOGO OLMUMMY to 17210. You
can also send your friend a Mummypowder operator logo:
send a text message RM LOGO OLMUMMY 040123456
(=your friend's mobile phone number) to 17210.
Price of the service (0,95€) will be added on your
next mobile phone bill. The service works on most Nokia
phones (please check that your phone supports operator
logos before ordering) and on Sonera, Radiolinja, Telia
and DNA networks.
OK, you can breath now
February 26th 2004
The first single to be released
from the upcoming Mummypowder album titled 'Consternation!
Uproar!' is now officially out in the wild. Turn your
radio on and wait patiently; you might hear 'Don't Hold
Your Breath' swimming the radiowaves into your consciousness
soon enough...
Still alive
February 3rd 2004
Yes, we know, it's been
awfully quiet 'round here for a while now, but that's
just because we've been busy finishing the album many
of you have so eagerly been waiting for since the last
one completely changed the course of your lives. The
new Mummypowder album, 'Consternation! Uproar!' will
be available for you to grab and hold in your sweaty
hands from all the finest record shops around Finland
on 25th of March, 2004. (Yes, we know that in some cultures
25th of March doesn't exactly mean 'the beginning of
february' which is what we said earlier.) And that's
not all: you will also be able to review and purchase
this (as well as the previous) Mummypowder album from
Apple's
iTunes Music Store, as well as many other online
music stores within your reach. Oh, almost forgot: this
is what it sounds like.
A very strange year it was
January 4th 2004
Nöjesguiden
ranks the second Mummypowder album, 'V. Strange', number
10 on their Finnish album of the year 2003 list. The
review average for the album from various papers, magazines
and web sites totalled at 4.3 out of 5 stars - although
people who have heard the third album rate it even higher!
There'll be no stopping the mummies in 2004...
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