I did 1.5 hours of live local radio tonight. About a 35 year old album - interview and tracks - with my old pal, blues brother and former tour manager of the band, Joke Linnamaa. Max Ahava was our enthusiastic host and dispensed glög and christmas tarts.

I do love radio. Especially radio drama, or music with Peelish information. It's a hot medium. And this local radio station is manned by community volunteers in an old shop in one of the friskier areas of Helsinki. There's a budo shop next door. Radio still has plenty of life in it as a community building tool - and is happily being rediscovered in Finland.

You can't be me, I'm taken