Posts Tagged: joona toivanen

J&FF Live in Oslo!

We´re playing in Oslo on saturday 28th. Venue: Herr Nilsen, at 16.00. Oslo dwellers: Don´t miss this rare opportunity to hear the band live – this is our first ever Oslo show! We´ll be showing some new videos before the concert, and since we´ve started shooting Jazz & Fly Fishing: Season Two, our cameras will… Read more »

Article in Fluefiske 2011

The Norwegian magazine Fluefiske 2011 comes out once a year. It´s a real high quality publication, with interesting articles written by interesting people. This year, there´s an article written by none other than J&FF´s Fredrik Hamrå! Now that´s interesting! For those of you who aren´t able to read Norwegian, there are two alternatives: 1. Learn… Read more »

The Monkey Wrench

Early in the morning, while the other guys were fast asleep, I snuck out of the tipi. In the arctic mountain lake just outside our tipi, there was a huge mayfly hatch going, and a large brown trout was having an early morning feast. It took my fly on the very first cast, and I… Read more »

Pre-Orders Available Now!

Hellau! Our debut album, Slow Walking Water, will be released physically and digitally worldwide on the Norwegian label Bolage on May 8th 2011 (Spotify users will have to wait three months after that, but Wimp users will have it straight away). However, we will start taking pre-orders right now! If you order the album straight… Read more »

Video! Gig! Fun!

Hi! Our last gig at Parken, Gothenburg was great fun! Parken is a great venue for live music, and the people running the “Parken Jazz Series” of concerts are really commited to bringing quality music to the people. We dig. Damien at Parken makes videos from all the performances in this concert series – a… Read more »

Sight Fishing Part 2 – The Lapland Jam

Sorry for the long wait, but here it is: the second episode of Sight Fishing. If you didn’t see part one yet, you can see it here: http://jazzandflyfishing.com/​?p=2779 Joona is devastated after losing a huge sight fishing trout. Håvard gives a go with the dry fly. An improvised lapland-joik sets the mood for this episode… Read more »

Finns, sauna & hole in the ice

What do Finns do when they have a frozen lake and a sauna? Well, they make a hole in the ice, warm up the sauna to over 100 degrees celsius and take a bath in the lake. This is the Toivanen brothers at their summer cottage quite recently. The water may seem cold but it’s… Read more »

Cobra Perch Soup

Fredrik is a man of many talents. As this video from our recent planning/scripting weekend in Gothenburg shows, he is an accomplished ice fisherman, a devil with the knife, and a great cook. However, his mad lip-syncing skills came as a huge surprise to us. Enjoy! Music: Cobra Perch by Jazz & Fly Fishing Clownens… Read more »

J&FF´s 2010 in Videos, Pictures, and Links

Hi! Inspired by our friends at the excellent Norwegian fishing blog Utras.net, I decided to sum up the Jazz & Fly Fishing year 2010, as seen by yours truly. As it turns out, we did a lot more stuff than I remembered in 2010, but here´s some of it at least: For me, the first big… Read more »