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still some time to prepare for it. We have some such as ‘So you wanna be the best in business, a bigger role than the other songs, but, funnily
shows here in Finland, which, fortunately, are but the business isn’t made for dreamers, prove enough, it’s also the song which has less of the
weekend-based. We have three weekends in a your worth, baby it’s gonna hurt.” We ask the electronic type of sequence beat. It’s more of an
row coming up as Finland has only recently frontman simply if he feels that after this time 80s track. It’s more groovy than the other songs.
come out of lockdown and has been slower Reckless Love has proved their worth. And I used to grow up in an arcade in a little
opening up. And then we have a crazy summer “I really hope so,” Olli replies. “But, like I town in eastern Finland when I was a little kid,
with festivals. But Finland is a relatively small mentioned, I’ve stopped thinking about. I can’t back in the early 90s, the second coming of the
country so you can’t tour during the week, and, be conscious about it otherwise it’s going to hold arcade halls. We all had our gaming consoles
especially in the summer time with festival sea- me back. So, I’m just going to leave it for others back home, but the arcade halls, I think, were
son, which is also at the weekend, it will be to judge and I hope we are able to create the almost a kind of fashion thing! I didn’t care when
something of a soft landing to ease me back into kind of music people will still be listening to in I was a kid, but my first recollections of me and
it!” five or ten years’ time. my guitarist Pepe were playing Sega Rally to-
“I love that we’re talking about ‘Kids Of The gether or Air Hockey. We played a lot of Mortal
ids Of The Arcade’ is a personal Arcade’ as it’s one of my favourite songs on the Kombat and Tekken and, of course, the pinball
‘Kfavourite on the new album and one record. I love the goofy lyrics of the chorus and tables were our favourites.
which includes some particularly insightful lyrics I think it’s the song where the electric drums get “One of my fondest memories from my

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