Drum Machine Demos (2000)

Acoustic Demos (2001-2002)

Army Days (demos 2003)

Acoustic Demos 2003-2004

Recorded in Vantaa/Sipoo 
Juhanuus 2003
Markus Nylund: voc, guitar
Sami Penttilä: Bass
Seppo Penttilä: Drums

Juhannus Jam 2003

The Shrugs (2004)

A W E (2005)

Acoustic Demos (2006)

Newark demos (2006-2007)

Live from Denver (2007)

Drum machine + guitar demo from 2000
Music by Markus Nylund
Lyrics by Pietari Suvanto

Anyway

Demo from 2000
Was in high school
Wrote songs at home
Dreaming of fame and glory
Loved girls and beer and pop culture

Nothings changed except high school became life school.

May I Think About You Tonight

I remember I always had crushes on girls in my teens but it took me awhile to crack the code so they'd reciprocate. I wanted them so bad. I wasn't a manly man. More of a creative handsome sensitive weirdo but I did alright I guess. Cut my long metallica hair after first year of high school and became what they wanted more and more but I sucked in bed haha. I just wanted to drink and fuck and sing and play guitar and read my music magazines and write my songs. This was one of them.

Why Are You So Far?

Music: Markus Nylund
Lyrics: Pietari Suvanto

Tonight

What's Wrong With The World Today

Sometimes Nothing Helps

Settle It

Where Do I Turn

Demo 2002. Still going through my Lennon nasally voice phase. 

Not Even Already There

The Girl In Arms

Demo 2003
Love this one personally
Beatles influence strong in this era
(both McCartney and Lennon)

Demo 2003
Full of spunk and venom, piss and vinegar
I was 20 years old, in the military, had a gf
Life was awesome

Time To

Acoustic Demo 2003
Weezer influence strong on this one I remember we were blasting their albums while guarding the army base (I was military police)... fun times

Martini

Placid

Ordinary Guy

Everything Is Nothing

Come On Now

Going Away To Come Back

Don't Let Them Win

Everybody Loses

Juhannus Jam 2003
Markus Nylund: voc, guitar
Seppo Penttilä: drums
Sami Penttilä: bass

Another Day Behind Me (live)

Everything Is Nothing (live)

So Hard (live)

Juhannus 2003
Markus, Seppo, Sami
Recorded in Vantaa/Sipoo

Lonely Railway Station (live)

Everything Will Go (live)

I started a band called The Shrugs in 2004 with Antti, Taneli and Seppo. 

Wait

Reflections

The Shrugs,  2004
Markus, Antti, Taneli, Seppo

Almost Above Ground

Thrill

The Shrugs thing was not working out. Me and Pete wanted to be stars, Antti and Taneli wanted to be nerds. So we fired them and changed our band name into Awe. We were now a rocknroll duo. Me on guitar, piano, voice. Pete on drums and swagger. Long blonde hair. We were two young studs full of ourselves, our songs, our wild youth. We performed around Helsinki and conquered the night. Next few years would be spent on refining our act, writing and dreaming of London, NYC and making it big. We never did... and eventually I decided to just be a solo act and left Finland in the summer of 2006. Now I'm the greatest artist alive yet nobody knows I even exist except you perhaps :)

Performed by Awe
Markus Nylund: voc, guitar, bass, piano
Peter Kjellberg: Drums

Sound engineer, mixing, mastering by Timo Poijärvi

Broken

Fall

Complete Shutdown

Rock n Roll 4 eva
Markus on the pipes and strings
Peter on the cans 

Screaming Souls

This girl texted me, said she knew a friend of mine. We started going back and forth. I was working at a record store in a shopping mall in Helsinki and there was this other girl working tthere at a clothing store. I think I wrote this song as a combo of both of them. Then I moved to England. And the rest is history. Slowly starting to find my sound and style. I was 23 at this time. 

Mystery Girl

First version of this song, reworked later, still playing it
Hit amongst friends

Thinkin 'Bout You

Forgiven

You Can Do Anything

I started to get sick of everything. I wanted to be free. It was 2006 and time to to leave. I did and spent the next 13 years looking for something.

Homesick

Moved to Newark, England in August, 2006
Bought an 8 track recording device
And started recording new songs

We Are Born Dead

June (instrumental)

Hunger

Enemies & Friends

Brighter Day

Went travelling in USA for 3 months in 2007. Played a show at a student house party on Race Street where my hostel also was. Legendary times. Joe recorded the show. But I've lost touch with him and everyone who was there. If I had a time machine that's where I'd go. Was having the time of my life but of course, I couldn't appreciate it at the time as it was just my daily life and we always want what we don't have or can't get back.

Pain and Glory (live)

Color My Reasons (live)

Live show from Race Street Denver (2007)
Recorded, mixed, mastered by Joe Cusella

Hide Me (live)

Was travelling around USA for 3 months
Performed at a student party in Denver

Running Through Puddles (liive)

Live student party Colorado 2007 September

As We Are (live)

Wrote this about Zack who I met at the hostel... he lost everything. Because I helped him out, he wanted to buy me a bunch of records at the music store. So we went shopping and after that drinking at the Grateful Dead bar where the bartender poured bourbon straight into my mouth from the bottle. You still out there somewhere bud? Miss ya

Man, one thing I regret is how bad I kept in touch with people I met on my travels. Back then social media wasn't what it was now. I didn't even have a phone or laptop when I was backpacking for 3 months. Just used internet cafes and stuff. 

When Radiohead released In Rainbows for free, I borrowed someone's laptop at the hostel to download it on my ipod. Amazing times but I was still miserable and hungover most of the time. 

Easy to love and romanticise memories in hindsight. 

Playlists by Markus Nylund ⓥ