Three bands - Juice Leskinen Slam, Eppu Normaali and Hassisen Kone - are on tour by a boat, sailing to different towns by the lake to play gigs there. There are interviews and a lot of random joking and having fun, but I'd estimate at least half of the playtime consists of live songs from the concerts.
Personally I'm not a big fan of these bands even though they're very famous nowadays, but their youthful energy and fun-loving attitude gets captured to the video perfectly and it's difficult not to like it. I don't know how the Kaurismäki brothers got involved to make the movie on the tour but that was a genius idea, since it really feels like they were in the right place at the right time when these popular bands were young, hungry, and energetic, and the boat tour is a fun idea to begin with.
A classic piece of Finnish rock history.
(If you don't speak Finnish, then make sure there are subtitles. My dvd copy didn't have. I don't know what kind of international releases there may or may not be. )
Personally I'm not a big fan of these bands even though they're very famous nowadays, but their youthful energy and fun-loving attitude gets captured to the video perfectly and it's difficult not to like it. I don't know how the Kaurismäki brothers got involved to make the movie on the tour but that was a genius idea, since it really feels like they were in the right place at the right time when these popular bands were young, hungry, and energetic, and the boat tour is a fun idea to begin with.
A classic piece of Finnish rock history.
(If you don't speak Finnish, then make sure there are subtitles. My dvd copy didn't have. I don't know what kind of international releases there may or may not be. )