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Hello all!
Also the second concert in Tokyo was just great, even more people were coming
to enjoy the show! We have been quite impressed that some of our fans had
travelled the long way from Great Britain, Spain and New Zealand just to see
us in Japan!
We came to Nagoya by train early today and Lauri is currently doing a live
interview at Radio I where "In The Shadows" has been most played track last
August!
Tonight we will be playing in a beautiful club called "Club Quattro" ... and
tomorrow we`ll be travelling to Osaka for the last show on this tour. We`ll
be showing some new pix from this trip as soon as possible!
All the best from Nagoya!
Aki, Lauri, Pauli & Eero[february 2nd,
2005]
The Rasmus won"Best Nordic Act" at NRJ Radio Awards The show was held
in Helsinki 21th jan
[january 31th, 2005]
{New}Here his a message from the band in
Japan to the fans!
Dear Friends,
Konichiwa! Today (January 31) is our first show in Tokyo! We did a lot of
interviews (MTV, Music-On TV, Spaceshouwer TV, FM Osaka, Sky Perfect TV "Music
272") during the day and are now looking forward towards our first live show
in Japan. We're playing in "Ebisu Liquid Room" which is a pretty nice venue
(capacity of approx. 900). We're all in a very good mood and we sure hope
people in the audience will enjoy the show as well.
Here is our setlist:
Guilty
Bullet
Everyday
If You Ever
F-F-F Falling
Not Like The Other Girls
Then comes a little accoustic set -
Life 705
The One I Love
Back In The Picture
To be continued with -
First Day Of My Life
Time To Burn
Days
In The Shadows
In My Life
Encore will be
One And Only
Funeral Song
We will be doing a Meet & Greet with lots of new friends afterwards, so it'll
be a long day... Tomorrow (February 1) we'll play a second show in Ebisu Liquid
Room, then we'll travel to Nagoya and Osaka.
Stay curious for more news!
Aki, Pauli, Eero & Lauri in Tokyo [January
31st, 2005]
The Rasmus finaly got their hands on their award for
"Best Nordic Artist" voted by MTV Nordic (backstage in Hartwall arena)
[january
31, 2005]
The Rasmus would like to thank you for all your support to
make 2004 such a successful one.
We've been travelling the world, met so many new friends and still cannot
believe how much experience we gained within this year. We like to thank all
the fans who helped us making 2004 such a good one!
This was written last hour before the last show in Lisbon, ‘Paradise Garage’, on Dec. 10th 2004. (for the offical website)
PAULI
This year has been unbelievable ! I have seen so many beautiful new countries
and met so many wonderful people. Made so many new friends and played the
best gigs of my life. I want to thank all the fans who I have seen on our
gigs. Your happy faces make me so happy that I want to explode ! YOU HAVE
MADE THIS POSSIBLE ! THANK YOU !!!
LAURI
Tonight is the last gig for this year – and I have to say it has been the
best. Yet, the busiest year in my life. I’m happy but exhausted. I’d like
to thank all the people who gave me love, inspiration and strength to survive
this madness. We hope to start recordings for the next album in the spring.
I’ve never felt this strong about the new material and going to the studio.
New songs keep coming like the rain !
AKI
Hello everyone ! Tonight it is time for the last show of this year. I feel
a little bit sad, but at the same time it’s nice to have a break. I think
we all need it ! We will all travel in different directions and spend X-MAS
in peace. I’m looking so much forward to going back to the rehearsal room
and concentrate on new material. Anyway, I want to say: THE BIGGEST OF THANKS
to YOU ! It’s been a hell of a year ! SEE YOU SOON !!!
EERO
Dear fans and other people. THANKS FOR THE GREAT YEAR OF 2004 ! I think it’s
been the fullest with experience of our career. Also, we’ve been taking big
steps forward with our music and performance - getting wiser everyday. It’s
been great to see all the countries I never went before on our tours: Mexico,
Portugal, Ireland, Scotland, Monaco, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Austria
etc. etc. We still have a great feeling of brotherhood inside the band, still
great respect for everyone who come to the concerts - we are lucky to be able
to do this. Sorry for Reading – we’ll make it up to you later. MERRY, PEACEFUL
and JOYOUS CHRISTMAS ! I hope it brings peace to your heart. Have a good new
year – may it be for the better, for all of us ! Be the change you want to
see in our beautiful world ! THANK YOU !!!
We're wishing you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! [december 17]
Apocalyptica's and The Rasmus's singer Lauri Ylönen's working together
continues.
Finnish group Lauri visited Tallinn not long ago, making the new Life Burns-video.
In upcoming video Life Burns, Lauri lights all the three cellists on fire.
The frontman of The Rasmus has also write the lyrics to the new song. more
info to come...
[December 17th]
Download a few interview here... [november 17]
The new song: Bittersweet video is now availiable! Here;) [november 17]
RUSSIAN MTV AWARD!
The Rasmus won the BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST price at the MTV Russia Awards
2004 in Moscow on Saturday, October 16th. The band also performed In The Shadows
at the gala. [october 23]
A new album by The Rasmus will be recorded during the spring of 2005,
to be released after the summer.
More info will follow... [october 23]
NOW you can preorder the LIVE LETTERS DVD with The Rasmus on www.cdon.com
(click on the image to see bigger picture)[october 23]
This is what will be on the DVD: * Live at Open Air Gampel, Switzerland,
August 21, 2004.
Includes these songs: * First day of my life
* Guilty
* F-f-f-falling
* Still standing
* Time to burn
* Bullet
* Everyday
* One and only
* In the shadows
* Funeral song
* In my life
* Videos In the shadows (1st, "Bandit version")
In the shadows (2nd, "Crow version")
In the shadows (3rd, "US version)
In my life + making of...
First day of my life
Funeral song
Guilty + Making of...
* PLUS video documentaries, behind the scenes footage and more exclusive material.
Pauli Rantasalmi has co-produced and written songs to the upcoming KWAN
album "Love Beyond The World", to be released in Finland November 5th. Check
out
http://www.kwandynasty.com
http://more.at/kwan
Lauri Ylönen will be part in the finnish band Apocalyptica new album thats
coming out later this year. Lauri will be singing together with Ville Valo
from HIM with a song written by them both. And Lauri will be singing another
song himself on their album. The song is called "Bittersweet" ----- Updated:
will be released internationally on 29 November. Lauri and Ville will appear
with Apocalyptica in the video for “Bittersweet”, shot in the band’s hometown
Helsinki and directed by renowned finish director Antti Jokinen [october
23]
The Rasmus are once again nominated in this year MTV Europe Music Awards
held in Rome Italy. Rasmus are nominated in the category Best New Act and
YOU can help them out to get this price by voting for them at the MTV website:
[october 23]
http://ema.nordic.mtve.com/ema2004/
-To all the fan in Canada or at least in Québec, the album :"Hell
Of A Tester" will be released this
TUESDAY!! [Sept. 27]
Listen to a audio interview with Eero and Pauli from The Rasmus. The interview
can be listen to and downloaded on the Toazted homesite, Click the picture
to enter the site...
[Last update: September 21]
HELLO FROM AKI
Hello everyone! It’s Aki, the drummer… I just wanted to thank all you fans
for your great support – I really respect the good work you’re doing!!! It
has been quite busy for us, so we haven’t been able to write that much on
this site. We were just in Berlin, promoting our fourth single “Guilty”. We
also made a good video for that in Los Angeles with a director named Nathan
Cox. Everything went quite easily and we’re extremely satisfied with the results.
During this week we’ll prepare the setlist and something special for the upcoming
tour, but I can’t tell you what... You have to come and check it out – I’m
so much looking forward to do one more tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland!
Last time it was so great!!! Well, I need to go now. Enjoy your lives and
see you soon! Aki -Taken from the offical Rasmus site
The World Music Awards have just been held in America, were the world's top-selling artists in various musical categories, along with top-selling artists by country get their awards. And the winner for Scandinavia is THE RASMUS The winners were determined by record sales. so Well done boys!!
Want your own The Rasmus paperdolls to put up in your room or anywhere
you want?!
http://www.universal-rock.de/_img/_magazine/_specials/therasmus_paperdolls.pdf
The Rasmus are now upp for awards all over the world. Latest one are MTV VMA in Latin America where they are nominated in 2 categories: Best Rock International Band and Best International Artist To VOTE for the guys click on this link: http://www.mtvla.com/canal/especiales/vmala/04/nominados/
Check out the new 'Guilty' flashcard, (including the video) you can send
this to all your friends & family
For PC: http://www.universal-rock.de/specials/ecards/therasmus/therasmus_guilty.exe
For MAC: http://www.universal-rock.de/specials/ecards/therasmus/therasmus_guilty.hqx
The Rasmus were forced to cut short their first performance at the Reading Festival 2004 when bassist Eero Heinonen was hit in the face by an object thrown by someone in the crowd. Eero received medical treatment to his right eye in the backstage area at the festival immediately after the band left the stage. The band wanted to apologise to fans who attended the Festival in having to cut their set short. The Festival performance on Sunday 29th August was the final date out of four for The Rasmus, following two sold out gigs at Glasgow Barrowlands and Nottingham’s Rock City, and their appearance at the Leeds Festival
-The New track of The Rasmus is released now: Since You've been gone. Wanna hear about it... Here!
-Help the Rasmus to win a price @t Kerrang Awards. You need to get a copy
of of the magazine and hurry up VOTE!
The categories related to The Rasmus as an international band are:
Best international
newcomer
Best Single
Best Live Band
Best Album
[August 18th,2004]
-Vote for The Rasmus on MTVUpNorth as challengers. With your help they
can enter the chart
with their new video Guilty so VOTE!! 
[August 5th]
-UK promotion with an EXCLUSIVE at TOTP on Saturday August 7th and Popworld on August 6th.[August 5th]
- The Rasmus new single "Guilty" will be release very soon in
a lot of countries including Canada.
1.Guilty (US mix)
2.First Day of My Life (Live radio session)
For UK, There will be a special edition with a DVD which inclued:
Guilty video, Dubai stuff (material from the show + interview), In The Shadows
Video (Barangas version).
Don't worry, I'm sure that we will find a way to order the CD over internet
to have the UK version.
[August
4th]
-They went in Asia on July 16-24 to promote their album Dead Letters over
there.
They visit Malaysia and Taiwan, did interviews + live shows in Kuala Lumpur
and Taipei.!.
Check out the New Official Websites for Asian fans: Taiwan
& Japan
[August 4th]
- The guys recieve their Swiss platinum award (40 000 copy sold)
and double-platinum in Finland (60 000). They had sold over a milion album
worldwide!
[August 4th]
- TRSTCanada website will be soon done (The Rasmus Street team Canada)!
I'm the President
and Sarah is my co-worker (co-president). Hope you'll enjoy it!
That's coz of Etheral_Rapture (leader of TRST of North America and UK) who
asked me that.
Here you can go on the main website of the unofficial
street team. Lot's more personal than
the official one!
[21/06/04]
-Join The Rasmus Online Team! That's the official street team. They are
trying to get known
in America and you can help them by joining this club. For that you can win
GREAT
prizes from the band, receive exclusive content and news, and more!
Click here to join->
-Here is the Chat with Eero on Rock am Ring! 
-There is "rumors" start by Eero himself, that in July they
will come to play
in a festival in Quebec, Canada and some in D.C and N.Y.
Check it out... some more infos soon!
-Vote on CKOI for the song "Guilty" to make them play it!
-The guys had shoot the video for "Guilty" last week-end in L.A
-Finally there gigs in America where @Montreal, Toronto and L.A.
They will be back here in August-September or in November!
-You wanna cheer The Rasmus and be live at a performance and interview?!?
The guys will be @Plus sur commande on May 11 at 5 PM!
Go on M+
to ask for tickets or if you can't just be sit in front of your TV!
-Sorry I was wrong. The tourdates which are confirmed are
Montreal, Toronto and Minneapolis. Go in the tourdate
section to know more!
-Ckeck the new tourdates (America)*not sure* that Eero said--->there
-YAHOO Congradulations to the guys! They win the Best rock internationnal
band
at TMF awards show!!!
-They are getting famous here. Lucky them!;)
ITS video is no 1 and the song is 8th on the radiostation CKOI
-The guys plan a mini-tour in America in May. I'll post
the new tour dates as soon as I know them.
Eero said: Hello everyone! I'm just posting this message, because
i want to let you know that we are most probably coming to a visit to US and
Canada in beginning of May for 2 weeks. We are going to play few gigs and
do few radio and tv shows. The cities we are going to visit probably are:
Toronto, Montreal, NYC, LA and maybe some others. The gigs will be in small
clubs with capacity of around 300, and there will be lots of people from medias,
so it won't be easy to have tickets. But as soon as the venues and dates are
confirmed, they'll post it on this site, so you can request tickets from the
venue. This all is under work still, so let's hope that this little tour is
going to take place and everything goes fine. It's great advantage for us
if you also request our songs to be palyed in radio & tv programs! It always
helps. And, by the way thanks for all the good (and bad) feedback! Take care,
see you soon! Eero
And: The thing is that we only have 2 weeks for this whole thing
so we are not able to tour all over. We need to focus on cities that the media
that we work with is in. Personally, it would be great to do a tour for a
month or two if there was good response, but maybe the time comes later for
that. Let's see how this "mini"-version goes first. Thanks for the interest
anyway! Eero
Taking from:
www.rasmusdeadletters.com
-Dead Letters is now released in stores and you can have a little poster
when you buy it.
So cute lol! For only 9.99$ :| check
it out!
-Dead Letters will be released in Canada on April 8th
- In The Shadows is on MusiquePlus
since March 8th!!
and they are on Quebec radiostations for a few weeks now!
They were on the chart but not now (radiostations and on TV)
Their album is on 20th place!
-Funeral song is finally released in Europe
-The Rasmus won 4 awards at Emmagala(finnish)! Congrats to all of them!
and congradulations to Baranga film who won the price for " The Best
Video"
-In My Life-
-They will release the next single "Funeral song"
on March 8th in Europe and sooner in
Scandinavia, February 25th,2004!
-They will shoot the video for "funeral song"
this week!
-!Wanna see the 3rd version of ITS!
then click here---> Let's go
pics here---->picies!
