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Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth: An Album Everyone of You Will Need

2009-10-07T18:28:01+03:00

NEW YORK DOLLS Guitarist Releases Debut Album With New Band!

STEVE CONTE & THE CRAZY TRUTH

11 Scorching Rock & Roll Tracks From New York City.

(Special guests include David Johansen)

Debut Album on iTunes, Amazon.com and in stores 10/20/09

On Varese Vintage Records.

www.steveconteandthecrazytruth.com

www.myspace.com/stevecontecrazytruth

www.varesevintage.wordpress.com

www.myspace.com/steveconterocks

Just take my word for it, Nancie

Personality Crisis

2009-09-17T20:55:01+03:00

Well, let me start with the words "fuck the damn plan". Has been a strange day. I knew it early when I was walking in an oily lake. Really. A whole lot of things have been weird today. First of all:

a) Michael Monroe has cancelled his performance in Turku book festival, (according to the festival's office worker) for the third time. Of course I'm bloody disappointed it went this way but I've had it in my mind of days. When I met Dirty Monroe this morning I went on how I should call the office about the date and she was all "Don't stress out with it, okay". I told her about him not being in the programe but neither in the list of performers, that I don' even know if he's coming! Guess, who got stressed out and called them then :D Well, bright side is that I'll save money for the Sam Yaffa & Pelle Almgren record :)

b) Today the trash magazine covers included Andy McCoy's face and head lines of "Andy bled after being beat up". And how did that come to me? My mind screaming "Panic! Panic!" I read the article and I was real scared for both, Andy's condition and selfishly the conserts I'm going to. There was a link to a video some ass hole took of this fight. Somehow, I came up with watching it. As stupid as it seems, I'm glad I did. I don't have to worry about it anymore. Andy was totally not bleeding, he was on the win! It wasn't as bad as the magazines made it. Fortunadly so.

c) Sixx sent me a crazy ass video she shot in Pakkahuone as we met Sami Yaffa and Steve Conte. Those two minutes included me hugging Sami four times, (you can't get any clear of my talk) him saying stuff like "I love you too", "You two are the coolest, the number ones" (to me and Sixx) and him cracking up by this one thing I did. Won't tell. Already by 20 seconds gone of the clip I couldn't breathe. It got me all hysterical. Made me cry and laugh and hyperventilate at the same time. Never seen a video that made me feel that way.

But one of the funniest things of the day conversation with Tane, my guitar teacher. Or actually I overheard the conversation and then particiated it. As I was lacing my boots, as he put on his head this eighties, very Hanoi-ish, black wig with silver stripes. Then he started telling his friends loudly: "You know, on the streets and everywhere you pass these stupid looking Hanoi Rocks fans who's haircuts look like this joke of a wig and are wearing zebra patterned trousers.. Those patterns and all that shit and their make up make them look like wild animals!" And I was there listening, wearing leopard patterned jeans and thought about Sixx and Dirty Monroe. "Well, thank you from all my friends!" Then he came to me saying "I don't think you should listen to this. But you gotta admit, it makes you a little worried when you know if had raw meat within your wrist they'd eat you up." Who is that squirrel to talk? :D

Now Listening: New York Dolls - Frankenstein

Love, panic and rock 'n roll, Nancie

Ps.The only genuine winner of the European war was Potato.

Desperados

2009-09-15T20:31:01+03:00

Okay, I made the damn plan. I just couldn't help it :D And because I don't know which day it is on, Saturday or Sunday I made plans for both! So if Michael's there on Saturday October 3rd, this is how it'll go:

1. We'll catch a bus to Turku 6:35. The bus'll arrive by 9:30. This is how we'll go until we find out the more exact time of Michael's presense and then we can look for later busses. A reason why bus, not train, is that the trains go reeeeally rarely on weekends between Tampere and Turku. The ticket costs 11,20 euros.

2. The ticket to the book festival costs 5 euros. It ends by 18:00.

3. Somehow, in the leaving there was also big breaks in the rain timelines so we'll come by bus too. Bus departs 18:35 and arrives here 21:30. It costs too 11,20 euros. It's Saturday so Sixx, you should stay at mine this night and maybe the previous one too.

And the Sunday plan:

1. Same bus, same price.

2. Nothing new besides that te festival ends by 17:00

3. Bus departs at 17:35 and arrives at 20:30. Same price. Sixx'll have the time to get home for the night :)

So this is the cheapest and easiest way for the trip. Only down side is that the walk from the bus station to the festival hall is 5,5 kilomtres. But perharps Bambie's and Dirty's mom could drive us all there or something :)

Now Listening: Hanoi Rocks - Beer And A Cigarette

Love, Nancie

Ps. Mixing Sami Yaffa, Steve Conte, a great Dolls gig, back stage, Nancie, Sixx, a consert bus, hugs and a camera is not the sanest calculation to make.

Obscured

2009-09-15T17:27:01+03:00

I'm dreaming my way to see Michael Monroe down the Turku book festival in early October, but there's hell of mis-promo in there. I mean, I can find Michael within the performer/authors section but no kind of a date, time nor stage, so I'm not completely sure if he's even coming.. Anyway, as long as I can have even the smallest suspicion of him coming, I'm in. Just trying to get Sixx to come with me, because Bambie and Dirty Monroe are going to Turku within their car and they'll spend the night at their sister's. However, Sixx is cool company :D That's why I want her to come. I'll wait a while til the info of the book festival answers my email before I start planning any detailed chedules for the day, no matter how I'm feeling the temptation to.

School's keeping me quite busy this week, I gotta sew a freaking mushroom or whatever it is to my grafts lesson (return day: tomorrow), read a book for Finnish lesson (return day: Thurstday).. Though the book was optional, so I'm reading my favourite one (of fictional books), Restaurant At The End Of The Universe. And I've got a Cooper's test tomorrow; I practised running last night and all I managed to accomplish was to twist my right ankle - practise helps my result so fucking much! Gotta get back to work :D

Now Listening: Hanoi Rocks - Are You Lonely Tonight?

Love, Nancie

Ps. These boots are made for rocking, kicking ass and stepping over lines.

Hash Cake

2009-09-12T22:10:01+03:00

Just saw Taking Woodstock movie with Bambie and Dirty Monroe. I was like an hour early because I came straight from my drum lesson and I was a little paranoied of tickets selling out. Yeah, really sold out :D If you'd put every person in the picture hall into the same row, the row wouldn't be filled! Anyway, this is the first time I really talked to Bambie and she was the coolest ever. I'm so glad I'm going to see Andy in Helsinki and Tampere with these kick ass bitches. The waiting went really quickly, had such a blast. In the pictures we laughed so much the other viewers probably weren't enjoying it. Afterwards we hang out in town for hours just having fun. It was great, really can't wait :) I so hope they'll take me in for the Turku book festival in October, there'll be Michael Monroe handing autografts due to his book release "Hanoi Rocks - All Those Wasted Years"! Don't I just Love living :)

Back to the movie. Taking Woodstock kicked ass, man! It was very well made and stuff. The soundtrack - do I have to say anything about it! The LSD scene's my favourite scene. The hills doing waves and lighters of the crowd members looking like the Universe.. Also loved to scene where Elliot kissed on the dance floor first a hippie girl, then this construction worker guy. Totally great.

Today was also my first drumming lesson on my new teacher. Funny how fastly I learned all this jazz and metal stuff I've never heard in my life. The lesson was good for me. Only down side is that there's only one drumset which is waaaay smaller than mine and the pedals are stiffer (my sucker's pedals being too loose) so it's completely different than I've used to. Well, change keeps your mind fresh :)

Now Listening: Hanoi Rocks - Watcha Want?

Peace, Nancie

Ps. May Day and Midsummer are totally not the same!

Truth Ain't Pretty

2009-09-11T14:39:01+03:00

The Real McCoy Band just released new tour dates:

Sat 14th Nov. Rovaniemi, Tivoli
Sun 15th Nov. Kokkola, Seurahuone, special unplugged gig
Tue 17th Nov. Kuopio, Puijonsarvi
Wed 18th Nov. Imatra, Osmos Cosmos
~~Thu 19th Nov. Kouvola, Marilyn~~
Fri 20th Nov. Turku, Apollo
Sat 21st Nov. Eura, Osmantupa

See on how many I'm going! :D Really all are agelimited. Though I'm not sure if Rovaniemi gig is, anyway, I won't go that far. It's completely in the other end of Finland. Anyway, I just can't wait til seeing them in Tampere and Helsinki!

I'm going tomorrow to the pictures with Dirty Monroe and Bambie to see Taking Woodstock. Does anyone have any opinions about this one? I know there's one review in today's paper, because the film opens tonight, but I wouldn't trust the reporter who wrote that (and said it sucked) since she was the one who said the best gig I've ever been to sucked and called Steve Conte "Brien Koon", who actually is playing on this movie's soundtrack. At least I'm gonna get the soundtrack..

Today, I had a "sports day" at school, but since we're all artsy and not-sporty people we went to eat in the woods and had some great fun :) We even created ourselves alter egos! I was one-armed and one-legged jet pilot called Jay, Cookie was feeling like not making one so she was a person with dementia, Eeva was a fisher called Sami (love Samis!) who fishes underwater and Emilia was.. Don't remember. Oh and Saana was the Groke!

Now Listening: Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth - Gypsy Cab

Now I'm off to my arts lesson!

Love, Nancie

Ps. Monsters get high.

Paranoied

2009-09-10T20:31:01+03:00

Just returned from the first guitar lesson of this autumn.. If you can call that a lesson, not saying I learned anything. I loved how there was some new kids who were all serious about the lessons, they're expecting way too much from us :D Okay, well, I can give you a few examples of the madness of that "lesson":

Tane: "Hey, Nancie girl.." Nancie: "How did you know they call me Nancie?!" Tane: "I know a whole lot of things.. I know where you live.. I know where you get your hair cut.. I know what you wore two weeks ago on Monday.." Nancie: "And I know you like to dress like a squirrel every Saturday!"

Tane: "I see there's a feather in your hair. Why didn't you put there the freaking entire bird?!"

Tane: "Is there anything unclear about this song?" Nancie: "How do I play E minor?" *10 minutes later* Tane: "Any questions about this one?" Nancie: "How the fuck do I play E minor?!"

Now Listening: Suicide Twins - Silver Missiles And Nightingales

Love, Nancie

Ps. I am not a guitarist.

Chatterbox

2009-09-10T14:40:01+03:00

Came home from my school in Tampere on the same bus with my friend, Cookie. We were all chattering and somehow we got up with talking about Niko. Niko's a screw lose from Cookie's swimming league. Well, it's impossible to ignore him being in the bus nearly everytime I get in one. But it doesn't matter where the bus is going, all that matters to him is that he gets into any. He's singing and talking to himself.. It's nice to have laugh with Cookie every once in a while..

Anyway, I heard New York Dolls have just been making a video for 'Cause I Sez So. It is to be the first 3D rock 'n roll video ever.. Wonder if I am to wear those silly glasses!

Waiting to hear from Sixx and the 69 Eyes/Tokio Hotel consert she went to yesterday.

Now Listening: Hanoi Rocks - Pretender

Love, Nancie

Ps. Sixx is a rock and roll piper.

Ps. VIP = Very Important Pet

Mind Over Matter

2009-09-07T17:57:01+03:00

Okay, today, fortunadly for me, Dirty and Bambie are coming with me to Helsinki in November! I was already nearly worried I wouldn't make it but thanks, sweethearts :) Gee, all this is making me so inpatient!

And I should perharps tell my plans for the other Real McCoy consert I'm gonna go to. It's in Klubi, Tampere. That place brings me fond, fond memories from the times I went to see the New York Dolls and ended up meeting them.. Or it was in the same building, but anyway.. They are doing his gig on Sunday, November 8th. It's agelimited but I know the way down the back door - how stupid of Steve Conte - where I'm going with Dirty (I forgot to ask if Bambie's coming too) to listen thought I'm staying outside. The roadies are keeping the doors open during the consert so that they can do their work in and out and.. I don't know why is that, so I could stop stucking on it. And besides of hearing what is to come on Tuesday in Nosturi, Helsinki, we'll see Andy, Angie and George and maybe even get a chance to talk to them! So, here comes my plan for that day:

1. I'll jump to the bus number 85 16:30 on Sunday from Ylöjärvi. I'll arrive to Tampere 17:00.

2. I'll hang out with Dirty Monroe until we'll go down the back stage door waiting for The Real McCoy Band, I guess aroung 18:00.

3. Gig starts by 21:00.

4. After the gig I'll spend the night at hers. My school will start 9:00 on Monday morning.

Great plan, ain't it? :D

I should still say a few words of my day. I bought Self Destruction Blues vinyl and Twelve Shots On The Rocks CD after school. they were the only albums I was missing by Hanoi Rocks. I was planning to buy also some red and black paint for my art work but the second I get into a record store I'm out of control :D

Now Listening: Hanoi Rocks - Love's An Injecion

Love, Nancie

Ps. Too much thinking breaks your brain. (A reason not to)

Strung Out

2009-09-06T13:48:01+03:00

Alright, amm.. I've been quite unpleased/surprised/even a bit amused by the tour calendar of The Real McCoy Band.. Gigs have been cancelled off and on all day. I mean, yesterday I noticed already third big change on the tour dates. Things don't seem quite worky with the promotor or whoever's fault this all fumbling around is. I found out the messing around, which has been quite a mystery, is due to the tourdates of Chris's conserts with the Foo Fighters. I still can't see why the hell can't they find out if their other bands have gigs under the same date on the other side of mother earth before booking the gigs.. We wouldn't have to bother buying tickets to gigs not coming and they wouldn't have to bother booking constantly replacive dates. It would be a win-win.

Anyway, I've been planning the Andy tour this morning/last night, checking all kinds of prices, train tickets, bus tickets, consert tickets, the way from the train station to the consert venue... And what I came to find is that I'll probably going this way with the gig at Nosturi club, Helsinki, November 10th:

1. My school ends 15:45. I'll run to the train station in Tampere and catch a train departing 16:02. The train arrives to Helsinki 17:30. The ticket costs 16,80 euros.

2. As the train arrives to Helsinki train station, I'll walk 1,3 kilometres to the consert venue, Nosturi, where I'll be on the latest around 18:00.

3. The gig starts by 19:00. That ticket then again costs 25 euros. I guess this all must end on the latest 22:00. Then we'll go have some fun down the back stage door..

4. I'll walk to the bus station in Kamppi, which is around 1,5 kilometres away from Nosturi. There's a bus leaving to Tampere 1:00 and it arrives to Tampere bus station 3:45. It costs 11,90 euros.

Tadaa! That's it :) It's a wonder what can I do when I can't sleep at night.. Really, don't be scared tho this scedule does make me look like a looney. Anyway, I hope I'm going with Dirty Monroe and Kati Sixx, since if they won't come this routine will be unused :) And if here's anyone else who knows us and possibly wants to join us, contact me on: a) Twitter (LittleNance) b) Myspace (Nancie Collodia) c) email (UrielTheCygnet@gmail.com) or d) just commenting me here. You'll find me.

Now Listening: Steve Conte & The Crazy Truth - Strumpet-Hearted Monkey Girl

Love, Nancie

Ps. "It's not what you do, it's how and when and where" -Andy McCoy