October 13th, 2009
Sunday night saw the
Mountain Goats coming to play in Manchester. It was, not surprisingly, amazing. Great songs played by awesome people to a receptive crowd. For some songs every word was sung back by the sold out Ruby Lounge and John Darnielle looked humbled and delighted. It wasn’t like those moments when Bono steps away from the mic in front of 100,000 people and knows what’s coming next, it was far more natural and honest than those phoney stage antics. How awesome for a band to travel over seas and find that people who you have never even met love your music and hard work.
It got me to thinking about the people from all over the world who have bought some of our records. The internet makes things tough for small labels but it also opens up the whole world to music fans. Yesterday morning, in my post Mountain Goats glow, we received an order from Rauma in Finland for the LoveLikeFire album. Intrigued I have done some research to see exactly where the CD is currently on it’s way towards.
Firstly here’s a map to show how I could get to Rauma from my lovely Manchester flat. If I were to hand deliver the album it would take me 1 day and 6 hours to get there and involves two sea crossings. But if I had the time and the money and the ability to drive it would be well worth the trip.
Here’s the lovely Rauma port. I think this would be a perfect setting to pop on the LoveLikeFire album and have a stroll as the sun sets.
Here’s some Wikipedia sourced facts:
1. One popular saying goes that every family in Rauma owns a boat – this is not true, though the city has room for ca. 2,800[6] boats at its docks. People can use their own boats or water buses to get to the Kylmäpihlaja lighthouse that doubles as a hotel and recreation site.
2. Annual Lace Week has been arranged in Rauma since year 1971. During the Lace week local craftspeople arrange small exhibitions in the Old Rauma area. The Lace week culminates to the Black Lace Night, when the small boutiques are open late night, various shows and concerts are held and people dress in black lace.
3. Rauma has its own dialect of Finnish, “Rauman giäl”. The dialect inherits words from languages such as Swedish, English and German due to the seafaring past. The dialect has been diluted into mainstream Finnish in day-to-day use, but it is fairly well studied (mainly by Hj. Nortamo) and practiced as a hobby.
Thanks Rauma, you’re ace!
Here’s the lovely Rauma port. I think this would be a perfect setting to pop on the LoveLikeFire album and have a stroll as the sun sets.
Here’s some Wikipedia sourced facts:
1. One popular saying goes that every family in Rauma owns a boat – this is not true, though the city has room for ca. 2,800[6] boats at its docks. People can use their own boats or water buses to get to the Kylmäpihlaja lighthouse that doubles as a hotel and recreation site.
2. Annual Lace Week has been arranged in Rauma since year 1971. During the Lace week local craftspeople arrange small exhibitions in the Old Rauma area. The Lace week culminates to the Black Lace Night, when the small boutiques are open late night, various shows and concerts are held and people dress in black lace.
3. Rauma has its own dialect of Finnish, “Rauman giäl”. The dialect inherits words from languages such as Swedish, English and German due to the seafaring past. The dialect has been diluted into mainstream Finnish in day-to-day use, but it is fairly well studied (mainly by Hj. Nortamo) and practiced as a hobby.
Thanks Rauma, you’re ace!