Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Good and sad news to Softengine fans. The release date for their debut album is finally here! It's October 17, 2015 and the album includes 11 songs. The lead singer Topi Latukka promises epic sounds, interesting details and different kind of songs.  None of the songs of their self produced EP is included in this major release. The release party/gig will take place in Seinäjoki on October 18 and after that the band will go on tour, all four of them that is.  Sad news is bassist Eero Keskinen has decided to leave Softengine and concentrate on his lighting technician studies. Also apparently he didn't agree the commercial sound the band is taking on the album that is not to his liking. Despite this the separation has happened in a friendly manner and for now Softengine is continuing without a bassist.  Softengine won UMK 2014 and went on to Eurovision song contest in Copenhagen and scored Finland's best result with Something better in the modern era Eurovision sinc...

Provinssirock in Seinäjoki is one of the biggest Finnish summer rock festivals and has been going on since 1979. Likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Marilyn Manson, The Prodigy, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rammstein are among its performers over the years. This year one of the main performers was none other than Softengine, fresh from their Eurovision success with Something better and release of their follow up single Yellow house . They headlined the Rumba tent dedicated for new talents. Lead singer Topi Latukka confessed before the gig they were more nervous than before Eurovision and that it is a kind of point of arrival, after Eurovision their future plans have concentrated only on this gig.  But they didn't have to worry. The leading newspaper in Finland Helsingin Sanomat headlined the feature on them "Seinäjoki ate from their hands" and wrote (freely translated): It's worth remembereing the band comes just from there, Seinäjoki. Latukka introduced their Eurovi...

Softengine has released their second single and follow up to Something better . The title is Yellow house and they already premiered it in Copenhagen's Eurovision if you happened to be present there. Is it something better? So it seems. It shot straight to #1 in iTunes! The critics and comments so far have been more than positive, and it seems the guys from Finnish countryside are in demand for bigger stages in Europe, Germany and Sweden first. Among their fans are Fredrik Kempe and Ricky Gervais.  Lead singer Topi Latukka tells it's a story of a guy who sees a person  in a yeallow house in his dream. He sets to search for the house and the person without knowing if neither of them really exists. The chains and blindfold make it particularly difficult. It's a kind of a metaphora for a dreams each and everyone  of us should chase. Never give up. Like Softengine were the past few years in the garage doing their thing and believing in it - and look at them now! Mean...