Day-gig During Sauna Open Air!
Dreamtale will play a short concert on the 2nd day of Sauna Open Air, on Sat 6th June, in Tampere, Finland. The gig takes place on a boat-cruise Heviristeily from Laukontori (right next to the festival-entrance) and it is organised by Heavy Metal Tampere. The boat sets off at 12:00 and will return to the same place at 15:00, in time for the main festival. Lunar Path will be the warmup act on the cruise. So, come and clear your hangover with us on a boat in the beautiful Finnish summer!
Dreamtale's New Bassist is H.AHONEN
Heikki Ahonen established himself as a regular member of Dreamtale in the shows this spring. More information about Heikki coming soon...
DT-GIGS PLAYED BY H.AHONEN
The upcoming gigs will witness a new presence on stage. Bass-player Heikki Ahonen will join Dreamtale for the gigs in January-February. Ahonen is a talented, technical bassist, who is no stranger to metalheads of Tampere-area.
14-12-2008 - Ristolainen retires from Dreamtale
Dreamtale regretfully announce the departure of their bass-player, Pasi Ristolainen. The news reached us a few days ago and the band met to discuss the situation amongst themselves, as well as with Pasi. The upcoming concerts in 2009 will be handled with the help of a temporary replacement (soon to be announced), after which the band will be looking for a new permanent bassist to start playing gigs and contribute to the next, 5th Dreamtale album.
Pasi's statement can be read here.
13-11-2008 - GIGS, GIGS, GIGS...!
A couple of new dates have been added to the gigs-section. Dreamtale will be touring through February-Early March, so if you want to see us in your hometown, contact your local venue and ask us! If you are a local promoter, you should get in touch with our booking-agency MP-Viihde. Hope to see you all at the shows! Don't shoot the bird, thirst will follow...
08-10-2008 - GIGS NEXT YEAR / 40,000 CRACKED!
The members of Dreamtale are happy to announce some news. First of all, our booking agency currently booking shows for the beginning of 2009, and the first one confirmed is on Friday, 13th of February, inYO-talo, Tampere, the band's hometown. The last gig there in August was a great success and the group wants to make the next one even better! Pretty soon we should have info about other dates and places.
Also the band's MySpace has recently exceeded 40,000 visitors! The little update about Dreamtale-the-Cat received plenty of positive feedback and interest. The band thanks all fans for their support...
19-09-2008 - DREAMTALE THE CAT? |
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Lady Dragon... Firebird... Yes, this we already know. But here's a real Call Of The Wild: a real-life Dreamcat! What on earth is happening in Sweden? Find out more in the media-section... |
09-09-2008 - BOOKING AGENCY & MORE NEWS
Dreamtale is proud and happy to announce that they are now a part of the booking agency MP-Viihde. The band is planning concerts throughout Finland early in 2009. Please contact our new booking agency when you need us!
More reviews and interviews are also available in Finnish. Pasi was interviewed by Pirkanmaan Sanomat and the webzine Korroosio.fi did a review of Phoenix. The links can be found below.
Korroosio.fi -review (3.5/5)
Interview with Pasi in Pirkanmaan Sanomat
26-08-2008 - VIEWS, REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
As this is the week of two consecutive Dreamtale-concerts on Friday and Saturday, we thought of updating the site a little bit, too. There were a couple of nice reviews of PHOENIX in Finnish webzines, Noise.fi & Imperiumi.net. And Erkki was also interviewed by Sue-magazine and Imperiumi.net about Dreamtale and his other projects. Unfortunately these are all in Finnish again, but hopefully we shall have some material for you in English soon. Here are the links:
Noise.fi-review (4/5)
Imperiumi.net-review (8-/10)
Interview with Erkki in Sue-magazine
Imperiumi.net-interview with Erkki
11-08-2008 - VENUE CHANGE
The joint concert with Force Majeure and Dotma in Helsinki on Sat 30th of August has been moved to a bigger venue. The gig will now take in place at Club Liberté. See you there! Very soon...
01-08-2008 - NEWS IN AUGUST
Dreamtale members have been spending their summer in various ways, but now it's time to start preparing for the concerts of this month. The band is very excited about playing two shows with fellow-metallers Force Majeure in Tampere and Helsinki. Come and see!
The band is happy to soon announce their deal with a new booking agency, which should further improve the concert situation. Details will be revealed shortly.
Akseli and Erkki were also interviewed recently by metalfromfinland.com. The interview is in English, so all of you Dreamtale-fans outside of Finland can read about the bands current events! Read the interview here.
07-07-2008 - NEWS AND UPDATES OF JULY
The release of PHOENIX has proceeded nicely. Recently the band's MySpace exceeded 30,000 views! Since the pages opened in the end of January '08, it means that they have attracted almost 6,000 hits each month. The band wishes to thank their supporters everywhere for this!
Dreamtale's Rami and Erkki were interviewed by Finnish nationwide radio YLEX, in the program X-Ryhma. You can listen to the interview now in the media-section, in case you missed it.
Songs from the new album have also been played almost daily on Radio Rock, and again the band owes a big thanks to all those fans who have requested the songs on air. Keep up the good work and rock the bird!
The first reviews of the album are also coming out now and here we post the first Finnish one from the band's hometown's main-newspaper:
19-06-2008 - INTRODUCTIONS
We conducted candid interviews within the band, all members telling their views about another bandmate. You can find the results from the bottom of the bio-section, just click on the pictures! ROCK THE BIRD...
13-06-2008 - DREAMTALE INTERVIEWS & GIGS
Two brand new interviews added in the media-section. They are in Finnish, so unfortunately those not qualified in this language may struggle... Also there are two new gigs coming up in August, so check them out!
03-06-2008 - DREAMTALE ON THE RADIO
Ask Dreamtale on Radio Rock or YleX. Click the links below to go directly to the feedback forms, fill them up and send to the radios. You can make a difference - and rock the bird!
Radio Rock
YLEX
31-05-2008 - Take What The Heavens Create -video!!! |
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The first ever promo-video is available now. Download small version here / Download larger version here / Or watch it on YouTube. The video was shot at Klubi, Tampere (Finland) live during the soundcheck, backstage and concert of the 22nd of May, which was the 1st gig played by the new lineup of DREAMTALE. The atmosphere both on and off stage was great and the band wanted to share something of it with their long-standing fans, and the new ones, too, of course!!! Enjoy. |
30-05-2008 - FORUM OPENEDThe link to the official DREAMTALE-forum is now working. There you may discuss the new album, the songs, the whatever. The TAKE WHAT THE HEAVENS CREATE-video will be released tomorrow!!! 29-05-2008 - LEGEND OF THE PHOENIXA link to an article about the PHOENIX legend has been added to the media-section. Find out more about the mighty bird and the concept. A video of the single TAKE WHAT THE HEAVENS CREATE will be posted here in the next few days, so be alert! 27-05-2008 - PHOENIX ALREADY IN MARS!We have information that PHOENIX is already available on the planet Mars! Click here for more information! Very soon it will also be available in Europe. Link & picture added also to the media-section. 26-05-2008 - UPDATES - MEDIA and TRACKLISTING!We have updated the media-section of these pages. Also we would like to specify that PHOENIX is already available at Finnish stores on the 4th of June, not 6th, as was originally announced. Furthemore, we have released the final tracklisting and credits for the new album! You can see them in releases-. We will also very soon try to put up a link where you can order a copy of PHOENIX to your home, anywhere in Europe, so keep checking the site!!! 21-05-2008 - SITE OPENEDThe Tale has returned online. Pages are still under reconstruction, but the main news can be read from this first page. For now, check out the album release info below and also the upcoming gigs. 21-05-2008 - NEW ALBUMDreamtale’s 4th studio album PHOENIX is released in Finland on the 4th of June 2008. The album is also released in Japan, Thailand and, according to most recent information, Russia. European release is set to Autumn 2008. The release-party / gig is set in Amarillo, Tampere on the 6th of June and it takes place right after the shows at Sauna Open Air. Full songlist of the album will be published on these pages very soon, so keep checking! The album contains ten tracks. The Japanese release includes two bonus tracks. Two download-singles have been released from the album: PAYBACK (Ristolainen – Ristolainen/Seppänen) and TAKE WHAT THE HEAVENS CREATE (Keränen – Seppänen), which display the band’s current musical direction. The singles are available for dowload at the following addresses:
NetAnttila The singles can also be heard on the bands MySpace. |
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