Hello and Welcome to fin-archive everyone!

This journal is a translation archive dedicated to artists from Finland – so far, and it’s probably going to stay this way – these artists are mainly Uniklubi and Negative.

The archive covers a growing collection of translated magazine or newspaper articles, interviews, radio broadcasts, TV appearances, lyrics and basically everything you can think of. - For a complete tag list, go here.
The source language is usually either Finnish or German, so everything will mainly be translated to English.

The journal's concept is basically a "different kind of fanwork": since many artists from Finland are mainly featured in their mother tongue, and since many people have difficulty in understanding the articles in question, the translations open up another means of getting information.

Before I'm getting started, a general disclaimer:
Translation work is always a time-consuming and in many ways elaborate matter. Feel free to refer to or post the translations elsewhere, but always be so kind as to note who did the work. That is, please always leave a linked reference to this page if you post the translations somewhere else. Thanks :)

( A few sidenotes :) )


Love,
ilta_seija


PS:

Dear everyone,
I think a week is enough - I'm ready for a new beginning!


Everybody welcome to the new, web-based, rearchivated (it's a little more in order) and "Uniklubi-only" new archive

Until then, have fun looking around on the new page, and if you want to support me - please do spread the word everywhere Uniklubi-related!

Thanks, again, for the last year - you're all great!


- ilta-seija
| fin-archive

My dear readers,

if you take a really really close look, this Journal has been online for 11 months right now. The first archive-entry I made was on December 22 last year. What followed then was a series of old translations I had once done for Negative's official forum.
What was intended to be a translation-journal for all different kinds of bands turned out to be quite two-sided... or well, even one-sided in the end.
Having left behind the translations for NGT, I soon focused on posting translations in connection to Uniklubi only, and this is what happened ever since that day... and I think I'm quite settled there right now.
I often thought about just changing the name to uk_archive, even... if it wasn't for the United Kingdom, at least. Or what was it, Urho Kekkonen? ;) - maybe something related to this.

Even though it's not yet been a full year, I have to say that I am very pleased with the archive.
Even though the myspace-site for this never actually found its true destination or the echo I wanted it to find, it's worth maintaining this one as well.
Even though I'm not updating regularly, and even though I never manage to catch up with all the new things if I don't do them straight away, I think I can say this goes quite smoothly.
It's been a great "almost - year" and I've learned a lot... mostly a lot of Finnish, actually ;) But also other things. I also found a lot of - unexpected - appreciation and response.
I might not have the hugest list of readers on here, but I have always been one of those people who rather have a few people close to them instead of having a bunch of acquaintances, and this applies to this place as well; and those who comment here continously always manage to give my work a sense. - Whether it's a quick "thanks" here or over at the community, or a longer entry, I feel - again - like thanking each and every one of you for your comments :)

To make a long story short...
as I mentioned already, there's something new to come... Or, something new using the already known stuff. Or something.
I've spent the past week preparing and I could be finished by now, but I suppose I still need to sleep over it a night or two, or more ... I'm a perfectionist. ;)

With this entry, I'm starting a countdown, though I'm not sure what to set it to. Maybe just a few days. Maybe another week.
But this is the beginning.

- Speaking of beginnings,
all of you do take a look at uniklubidaily.webs.com -


Until then,
thanks for the past months!

Well now, Jussi was featured on yesterday's Radio Millennium-show on TV2.
This is what they said in English - I was too lazy to write a transcription ;)

I also have to say that there's going to be a premiere soon. It's both fin-archive and Uniklubi-related, and quite important to me. But more on this when the time has come ^^

So far, have fun with the [weirdest] interview [ever] :)

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Jussi @ Radio Millennium

Host: "Alright now... does the camera work? ..No... ah, now. Well, let's wait for the producer, then we can start. But before we begin, is there anything you can't talk about?
Jussi: No... not really. It's nice if we talk about music, so I don't need to worry so much.
Host: Aalright. Oh do I look pregnant in this!?
[Jussi just looks at her, voicing 'no', but not really saying anything.]
Host: Well well now, did you ...
[A weird guy comes in]

( read on... )

Let's take a few steps back into the past. Before Kehä was released in 2005, Teemu and Jussi commented on all the songs and told a little about the studio sessions and stuff. This used to be available on two videos, but those were lost somehow. - Which I hate, because this is how I got to know the band first.Anyways, Nightingale posted the translation to the videos back in 2005 in the official forum and I decided to do some timetravelling as a special from now on and over the next week [since I haven't done much myself lately] :)

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"Poikien mietteitä uudesta albumista"
Teemu and Jussi's comments on Kehä

J(USSI): Hey, we'll tell you... now... something about the songs off our new album
T(EEMU): Our feelings
J: Yep
T: Welcome [with a funny voice]