Lucy was driving is another band from Helsinki and made of Otso Koskelo, Henri Kälvälä, Janne Koukkula and Juho Sandman. They are taking part in UMK because they want to get bigger audience and even look at abroad. Otso has written the song Dancing all around the universe and tells it's about an atom's voyage from the Big Bang to the heart of a person. He's a doctor in physics btw. The band has been together since 2004 and has gained already fans in Germany besides Finland and in the CV they also have MTV's Nordic Unsigned competition. They have also voted the best unsigned band by Noise.fi and already in 2008 City paper named them one to watch out. Their debut album was released in 2010. Otso tells that they want to break through and collect small victories before becoming world stars. This would be one step, to make a proper tour after this, even abroad and then on to next challenges. What I saw of UMK last year I think this would fit nicely to us, being a commercial sounding rockband. It won't hurt us to be seen in it.
What did the jurors say?
Toni Wirtanen: It's great that the song starts with a such drum beat that you will recognize it in second even after years! This is kind of punk rock inspired American collage radio stuff. The chorus is fine and the whole song has been composed and written, there's nothing improvised in it. This is music that we need!
Aija Puurtinen: Good rock song. Not my number one favorite but in this genre very convincing.
Tomi Saarinen: I would say the opposite, in this genre rather mediocre. I think this goes to the pile of songs we still have to discuss, in or out?
Toni: Shame that we still have to discuss about it. I think this is such an easy song to approach, some work in production to make those fireworks really explode and that's it.
Redrama: This has true potential and I definitely will put it through.
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