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Finnish goth ‘n’ roll superstars THE 69 EYES have released the exclusive iTunes single ‘Rosary Blue’ featuring L.A. Ink/ex-Miami Ink tattoo artist Kat von D!

‘Rosary Blue’ was recording during the studio sessions for the band’s most recent album, »X«, and can be purchased via http://bit.ly/69katd

More about this recording session can be seen on the documentary DVD which comes along with the digipak version of »X«.

Check out the documentary trailer on ’Rosary Blue’ at http://youtu.be/ch7Y3CPS2iM

Commented lead singer Jyrki69: „Kat Von D is a bona fide renaissance woman. I wasn’t surprised when she mentioned me some time ago that she’s going to spread her wings over music. Strangely enough we happened to have a suitable song for a female duet ready at the same time, so it was completely natural to ask her to join in. Kat boldly flew over to Stockholm to Anders Bagge’s studios to lay down her sweet vocals last spring and the result is pure magic!“

Another big name of this years Novarock festival will be The 69 Eyes, that will join the line-up already created by Korn, Rammstein, Kiss, Sabaton, HIM and many other. Beside The 69 Eyes, Dragonforce are confirmed as well.

Through three days filled with great music, Novarock is hosting around 60 bands that play on two stages. The passage that connect them is filled with stands of diverse offer, piercing and tattoo studios and for the bravest here is bungee jumping….

Tickets are already on sale in Eventim system and via web www.eventim.hr.

Ticket prices:

143 EUR – festival pas,
228 EUR – VIP pass,
218,40 EUR – festival ‘ caravan pass,
298,50 EUR – VIP ticket + caravan pass
(w. caravan pass you can keep your car in VIP area, use VIP WC and access the festival area whatever entrance you use).

Festival will held on Pannonia Fields II near Nickelsdorf in Austria, June 14-16, 2013.

Official web:  http://www.novarock.at/

Helsinki vampires The 69 Eyes, whose most recent album “X” was released on the 28th of September 2012, will release the digital “Love Runs Away” EP – including two previously unreleased bonus songs – via iTunes on February 1, 2013!

The tracklist looks as follows:
1. Love Runs Away
2. Rosary Blue (feat. Kat Von D) (edit)
3. Dracula’s Castle

`Love Runs Away´ – the third single and opening track of  “X” that has by now already become a live-favourite – carries pure rocking metal riffs and a chorus with a bulletproof hook line. Singer Jyrki69 comments: “This is the most obvious single track from the album and already works great on stage, so it’s about time to release it as a proper single!”

The larger-than-life ballad duet `Rosary Blue´ on which Jyrki is accompanied by world-famous tattoo artist and “L.A. Ink” star Kat Von D is the first of two never before heard bonus tracks. “We’ve known each other for some years and since Kat is also starting to make music, I thought it would be interesting to have her on board. The song is amazing and with her help, it turned out even more magical – it’s like our own `Stairway to Heaven´”, states the front man.

The final track `Dracula’s Castle´ is at least equally interesting, as it can be considered pure rockabilly – or rather gothabilly! Jyrki shares its background: “The Fuzztones is one of my all-time favourite bands and I’ve got to know their leader Rudi Protrudi a bit. We wrote this track with him in Berlin one night before our show and he actually even sings backing vocals on it. Words can’t describe the feeling of making music with your own idol – I still can’t believe it! The song is like a Scooby Doo-on-acid-by-Helloween kind of gothabilly track. Should be a radio hit too by any standards!”

Click here to pre-order the digital 3-track “Love Runs Away” EP: http://bit.ly/69love.

Don’t miss the chance to hear those hits live – on THE 69 EYES’ upcoming “I Know What You Did Last Summer Tour” 2013:

Jan 26: Essigfabrik, Cologne, Germany
Jan 27: Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Jan 28: Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Jan 29: Zeche, Bochum, Germany
Jan 31: Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany
Feb 01: LKA-Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany
Feb 02: Backstage, Munich, Germany
Feb 03: Majesty Music Club, Bratislava, Slovakia
Feb 04: Arena, Vienna, Austria
Feb 05: Z7 Konzertfabrik, Pratteln, Switzerland
Feb 07: Swamp Club, Massa, Italy
Feb 08: Honky Tonk Club, Seregno, Italy
Feb 09: New Age Club, Venice, Italy
Feb 11: Le Nouveau Casino, Paris, France
Feb 12: O2 Academy Islington, London, United Kingdom
Mar 01: Avrora Club, St.Petersburg, Russia
Mar 02: Milk Club, Moscow, Russia
Mar 06: Göta Källare, Stockholm, Sweden
Mar 07: Lions & Barrels, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mar 08: Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg, Sweden
Mar 09: KB, Malmö, Sweden
Mar 10: John Dee, Oslo, Norway

In other news, Jyrki69 has teamed up with famous “L.A. fingers” icon photographer Estevan Oriol (http://www.estevanoriol.com/) last week for the humanitarian mission of UNICEF Nicaragua. Together they spent a week in Nicaragua to see how UNICEF is taking action against trafficking of women and children in the country. The material will be released in different formats this year.
“It certainly is like often said, the most beautiful country in the world but all the shadows and snakes in this paradise are a threat that UNICEF is trying to prevent with the local authorities”, says Jyrki.
Los-Angeles-based photographer Oriol was responsible for the cover of The 69 Eyes’ previous album “Back In Blood”. Moreover, he’s famous for his work with Eminem, Cypress Hill, Snoop Dgg and Jay-Z, among others.

For further information on UNICEF’s project in Nicaragua, visit: www.unicef.org/nicaragua

World famous Finnish goth’n'rollers The 69 Eyes has released their highly expected tenth studio album ”X” and after the tour leg in Finland already next week, to be precise on January 26th, they start their European tour.

After they as part of the tour that followed the release of previous studio album ”Back In Blood” visited Zagreb, on this tour we are not that privileged so closest to Croatia Helsinki Vampires are coming on Feb 3rd in Bratislava, Feb 4th in Vienna and Feb 9th in Roncade/Venice.

Tickets for the concert in Vienna, Arena Wien are on pre-sale on Eventim box-offices and www.eventim.hr. Those who decide to go to the concert in Roncade, New Age Club, close to Venice can travel to the concert with Art Travel Agency that will take care of tickets for the concert as well. More info is available on www.art-travel.hr.

The complete tour dates you can find on bands official web www.69eyes.com and the official Croatian fan web www.the69-eyes.com.

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador Jyrki Linnankivi will be visiting Nicaragua on January 14-18, 2013. Known as Jyrki 69, Mr. Linnankivi is the vocalist of Finnish rock band The 69 Eyes.

Jyrki Linnankivi will be accompanied by members of the Finnish Committee for UNICEF with the aim of learning about UNICEF’s work supporting the Government of Nicaragua in preventing commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. This will take him to the cities of Managua, Granada, Bluefields and Pearl Lagoon.

This will be the first time that Nicaragua has been visited by a Goodwill Ambassador. According to the UNICEF Representative in Nicaragua, Philippe Barragne-Bigot, “Goodwill Ambassadors give a voice to those who don’t have one. The objective of Jyrki’s visit is for him to return and transmit a message to the people of Finland and the Nordic countries of Europe on the advances in compliance with child and adolescent rights, the challenges still pending, and the possibility of collaborating to reduce the existing gaps.”

As part of the visit, the Goodwill Ambassador will hold a meeting with adolescents and young people who have been victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. It is also planned to hold informative sessions with the National Coalition for the Fight against Human Trafficking, local and regional authorities, and nongovernmental organizations.

In 2013, UNICEF Nicaragua is initiating a new Cooperation Programme that will last until 2017, including actions linked to the prevention of violence and the protection of children and adolescents. Employing an equity-based approach, UNICEF has identified 24 municipalities with higher rates of poverty and inequality located in the country’s northern regions and North and South Atlantic Autonomous Regions.

Only few days after Jyrki will be back from Nicaragua, The 69 Eyes will start their European tour on which closest to Croatia they are coming: Feb 03 – Bratislava, Feb 04 – Vienna and Feb 09 – Venice.

Tickets are available on Eventim box-offices and on www.eventim.hr.

Croatian fans can travel to the concert in Venice with Art-Travel agency, more info find at www.art-travel.hr.

ABOUT JYRKI LINNANKIVI

Born in Helsinki in 1968, Jyrki Linnankivi (also known as Jyrki 69) has been the lead singer of Finnish rock band The 69 Eyes for over two decades.

The 69 Eyes has a loyal following and has produced ten albums—the latest, titled “X”, released in September 2012. Their albums have gone gold and platinum and the band has been on an extensive world tour.

In 2010, the band received an Emma award from the Finnish Music Industry for its contribution to the exportation of Finnish music. Its international sales total over a million discs.

Jyrki Linnankivi has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Finland since 2005, focusing on the fight against the trafficking of children and against HIV/AIDS. Prior to coming to Nicaragua, he has made two visits to Kenya.

In 2006, Mr. Linnankivi received an Outstanding Young Person of the World award from the Junior Chamber International (JCI) in Seoul, South Korea.

After finished touring the fall in their native Finland for the latest album “X”, THE 69 EYES head to the European tour.

I Know What You Did Last Summer Tour 2013:

26.01. D Köln – Essigfabrik NEW VENUE
27.01. D Hamburg – Markthalle
28.01. D Berlin – Postbahnhof
29.01. D Bochum – Zeche
31.01. D Frankfurt – Batschkapp
01.02. D Stuttgart – LKA
02.02. D München – Backstage
03.02. SK Bratislava – Majesty Music Club NEW
04.02. A Vienna – Arena NEW
05.02. CH Pratteln – Z7 NEW
07.02. I Massa – Swamp Club NEW
08.02. I Seregno – Honky Tonk Club NEW
09.02. I Venice – New Age Club NEW
11.02. F Paris – Le Nouveau Casino NEW
12.02. UK London – Islington Academy

For the German dates their support band will be the German horror-punk band THE FRIGHT.

“We will gather again all those goths, glammies, horror punks, psychobillies and metalheads under the same roof and will simply deliver them what we know the best: GOTH’N'ROLL! And as the Helsinki Vampires, we make sure that everybody’s appetite for rock’n'roll will be satisfied!” sums up the main vampire, Jyrki69.

The 69 Eyes during the upcoming European tour, no matter how hard our wishes and hopes are, won’t visit Croatia but we all have the chance to see our belovedHelsinki Vampires on tour thanks to ART TRAVEL who offer all fans arrangement (ticket+travel) to the concert The 69 Eyes will play on February 9, 2013 in Ronade in Italy!
More info is available HERE.

Helsinki vampires THE 69 EYES recently shot a video for the hit single “Borderline” together with famous producer Patric Ullaeus over in New Orleans. The song comes off the band’s most recent album, “X”.

Frontman Jyrki commented: “My favorite music videos are basically all Elvis movies. What else you need: good music, beautiful girls and exciting location. When it comes to darkness, I think Danzig has got it in the way I love it — always seductive vixens involved.”

Check out the video here

Finnish gothic rockers The 69 Eyes has few weeks ago filmed the video for the second single taken from their new album „X“, the song „Borderline“.

The video is directed, as the one for the song „Red“, by Patric Ullaeus and you can watch it on Jyrki69′s blog: http://7redblog.com/fi/the-new-video-borderline-by-the-69-eyes/

Helsinki vampires The 69 Eyes recently shot a video for the hit single “Borderline” together with famous producer Patric Ullaeus over in New Orleans. The song comes off the band’s most recent album, “X”. The clip will be due next week – keep your eyes open!

“It’s like our “Love Me Tender” – a soft, timeless ballad. But it also has that dark, mystic Southern vibe (some said “True Blood”), so naturally we had to go to Louisiana to shoot the video! Mark Twain’s books, Elvis’ “King Creole”, “Easy Rider”, blues, jazz, voodoo, vampires – so many reasons for The 69 Eyes go to N’awlins. We’ve played there twice, I’ve hosted two DJ club nights there called ”Fangtasia” over the last two summers. The leading rock/metal video director of these latter days, Swedish Patric Ullaeus was also interested in coming to NOLA to make this masterpiece, so all was set for it! The mid-October was perfect for a long-lost weekend in the South, ” tells the singer Jyrki69.

The video starts with a scene in which the local vampire tour legend Lord Chaz draws five Xs on the crypt door of the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau’s resting place in Saint Louis Cemetery # 1. “Easy Rider’s” famous psychedelic scene was also filmed there.

„Red“ music video (presented by the mistress of the dark, ELVIRA): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATIjzauz5o8
„Red“ lyric video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSgrpoQJFIA
„X“ snippet + commentary trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85iujy6KRJk
„X“ trailer 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-SVq2hK1e4
„X“ trailer 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMvkQvfsWg
„X“ trailer 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7Y3CPS2iM

Traditional and in the sam time one of the first Halloween parties in this area Twilight Halloween Party is this year returning to the «dark cradle», club Jabuka in Zagreb, where we will on Friday, October 31, enjoy in the darkest Halloween Party in region.

For unavoidable spooky interior this year will be in charge girls and boy from association Kloto whose unique handicrafts you can buy in their shop in Masarykova 14 inZagreb. More info you could find at www.udrugakloto.com or fb Kloto.

On the program will be the dance performance of tribal fusion belly dancer Tanja Freakshow from the dance group Maat.

As part of the evening we will enjoy also the promotion of the new album of Finnish goth’n'roll vampires The 69 Eyes, ”X” (Nuclear Blast/Maldoror) so beside the listening of the album and watching the new video visitors will have the chance to participate in The 69 Eyes Croatia (www.the69-eyes.com) competiton prize to win few of new The 69 Eyes albums and posters.
The whole evening Tomi Phantasma will play dark hits from the 80′s until today or from post punk, new wave, synth pop, dark rock, darkwave, gothic, ebm, industrial, pun, gothic metal, or Bauhaus, Joy Division, Dead Can Dance, The Cure, Siouxsie, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Damend, Christian Death, Killing Joke, Fields Of The Nephilim, Mizar, EKV, Rosetta Stone, London After Midnight, Clan Of Xymox, Cassandra Complex, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Borghesia, Laibach, Die Krupps, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Placebo, NIN, Depeche Mode, Human League, The 69 Eyes, Moonspell, Tiamat, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Satyricon, Mortiis, Misfits, Ramones, Anti Nowhere League, Gary Numan, Heroes Del Silencio, The Cult, Pixies, The Cramps, Nick Cave, The Smiths, The Stranglers, Violent Femmes, White Lies, Diva Destruction,…..

The program will start at 22:00 and ticket price will be 25 kn (3.5 EUR, cca.)