VERANDAN RELEASES DEBUT EP
Last week Finnish pop quintet Verandan, formed in 2015 around Cats On Fire guitarist Ville Hopponen, released their long awaited self titled debut EP. It’s a collection of six nuanced pop gems that delivers both depth and variance across style and decade. We gushed big time a few months back over its splendid first single, ‘Gold […]
VERANDAN UNVEILS DEBUT SINGLE
Back in late 2015 Finnish artist Ville Hopponen (Cats on Fire, The New Tigers) assembled an impressive array of fellow musical luminaries to help create his new music project Verandan. He described the process thus; “I have played music since 1876 but never really written any songs myself it was a slow and meticulous process. […]
RECORD REVIEW: CATS ON FIRE: ALL BLACKSHIRTS TO ME
It’s been a long and frustrating road travelled for main Cats On Fire protagonist Mattias Björkas and company. The now five piece pop troubadors had their beginnings in the then somewhat small and isolated west coast Finnish town of Vaasa where in late 2002/early 2003 as an 18 year old Swedish speaking Björkas, Kenneth Höglund […]