Big hairy men from the forest

I love autumn in Nagoya as it’s the start of “gig season”. At the weekend I was checking out which bands were playing here over then next few months and writing dates in my diary. I hadn’t heard of most of them, but that hasn’t put me off before. The first gig of the season is on Thursday: a band called Korpiklaani who describe themselves as “pure Finnish folk metal”. I checked them out on MySpace and they sound awesome, like a Finnish Pogues. I can’t imagine who is going to be at the gig apart from us. Is there a Japanese housewife following perhaps, or are Nagoya’s wholesome punks going to appear from nowhere like they do occasionally. I’ll let you know after the gig on Thursday.

http://www.myspace.com/korpiklaaniofficial