In the beginning there was Sakke, a garage and guitars.

 

And of course The Black Keys.

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On Sakke's own YouTube channel, Sakke had played all sorts of things as his own projects, alone and also with friends. He had already gotten a couple of songs from The Black Keys' production, Lonely Boy and Tighten Up, in between.

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That's probably where the idea came from. The Black Keys were so different, different from other bands on the surface, there was something that others didn't do. The music is authentic, really played unlike what tends to be the case these days.

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All He had to do was pick up the phone and ask his friends to join him, if he could get a tribute band together. And so the band, which was assembled in January 2024, still without a name at the time, started getting to know the selected songs. The first rehearsals were in January-February. Everything seemed to go together well and that's how the band was born. And then the name was finally invented:

The Howling Echoes.

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(Coming up with band names is one of the hardest parts, ed. note.)

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We've set out to do this without compromising on the number of guitars and the quality of the sounds. It wasn't exactly easy to go on gigs with this arsenal, but we went anyway. This is what Vesa Pekka Pajulehto wrote about the warm-up gig for GA-20 in Tampere's Tullikamari (30.10.2024)

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"--- and especially for its sound that firmly grabbed its listeners by the "nuts". Especially the way Sauli "Sakke" Koivula, who achieved fame as the drummer of "Peer Gűnt", thrashed several of the vintage guitars he brought to the venue made an indelible impression on me. In addition to Peer Gűnt's drums, he seemed to master the guitars as well. Although his guitars changed frequently as the songs changed, the guitar sounds were always exactly as gritty and rough as I thought the songs he played should be. Big thumbs up to "The Howling Echoes", who acted as the warm-up for GA-20. For once, there was such a warm-up that you could go there separately and even pay to listen to."

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That's right. When it's done, it's done properly. Let's take over the space, and this can be understood in many different ways. But the point is that when you like playing, someone else can accidentally like it too.

 

That's where it starts, and that's how it goes.

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Text written by:

Laura Heikelä

The ruler of the keyboard kiosk