It’s still another half hour to the concert but I just noticed that you can see them underneath the announcement! I’m fairly certain that what I am seeing is the guys getting set up for the concert and doing the sound check. Perttu just got up and walked offstage and looks like Paavo and Eicca are still checking out their instruments.

Fun! I wonder if they know that they’re being broadcast already even if hidden behind a semi transparent ad thing.

EDIT 1:40pm: They just turned on the sound. Can hear them talking now. Someone’s singing the lines from Life Burns! Can’t make out who though.

1:42pm the video and audio just went away, it’s now only the announcement graphic that I posted in the reminder earlier today.

EDIT: 1:56pm It’s starting… announcement is gone and we can see the empty stage now. Hope you’re all watching this too! BTW this is PC only, sorry for those on a Mac

Edit: 2:02pm They’re playing Bittersweet now. I didn’t catch if they said who the fourth cellist is but as far as I know there’s still only officially 3 in the band. Perttu has an interesting get up on. He’s wearing a stovepipe top hat, long black coat and has dyed his hair all black. Paavo has a really nice smile, he looked up and was grinning at the other guys at one point.

Unfortunately the mike is so low that I can’t make out what Eicca’s been saying in between the songs.

I realize now that I’ve never heard Bittersweet done without the vocals from Ville & Lauri, it’s really nice!

2:07pm Darn it, I got distracted and missed Eicca introducing the guy who’s singing the next song, I’m Not Jesus. I don’t know what Corey Taylor looks like so don’t know if this guy is him. He is the one who was singing Life Burns in the sound check earlier. But I did see Mikko getting on stage. He reminds me of a drummer friend who can never stop grinning when he’s playing because he’s just happy to be performing.

That’s it? Only three songs? Apparently so.

Ok here for those who missed this: “Missed the show? No worries. We’ll be showin’ it again on Tuesday April 15th at 6pm PDT.”

The one thing I did make out from Eicca is that the first single from their new album will be out next week. (Hope I got that right!)

Final EDIT: Ah ok, they’re releasing Worlds Collide in the US next week. Worlds Collide was released last year in Europe but Zomba Label is doing a US release. I wish they’d sign The Rasmus as well since TR parted ways with their US label who failed to marshal a cohesive promotion campaign. Zomba’s doing very well by Apocalyptica. Looking up Apocalyptica on YouTube brought this ad in the advertising section: