By Lloyd Wakeling, Rock At Night Manchester

Satellite Stories-“Cut Out the Lights”-Release date September 14, 2018

To be completely honest, I know nothing about Finnish music, let alone Finnish Indie. Listening to Satellite Stories however, has changed all of that! Their new and sadly their last studio album, ‘Cut out the lights’ is a joyous trip amongst the fabulous isms that is and was the perfect song writing of Indie. Well-produced, multi layered and at times characteristically simple, the tracks dance into the psyche like a long lost friend you had forgotten you knew and who suddenly turns up at the same party, bringing smiles, warm hugs and stories of old.

Happy music performed with the skill of a band who know their audience and who actually sound like they love what they do. Five albums, millions of downloads and large tours later, going back to their roots, sounds like a fitting way to end it all, but I will be making a decided effort to listen to their back catalogue to see if I agree, because on this showing I think it is all way too soon!

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Lloyd Wakeling

The product of a there, where, everywhere lifestyle that all service families live through combined with being born into the 60's mishmash of politics, love and an anything goes era, is it any wonder I have an eclectic and varied love of all things music. Discovering the Beatles in Malaysia, Elvis and Fred Astaire in Torquay, Pink Floyd and Zeppelin at boarding school in Cornwall, Creedance in Saudi, taught me many things, but mainly the importance of the saying, 'each to their own'; nothing artistic can be crap...it is just different and after being diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome at 38 a lot about my life and outlook became much clearer to me, being a chef is what I do to earn money, being a much sold, self-obsessed artist tortures my dreams, but in all of it, music has remained my companion and as a friendly, happy companion with all of life’s memories entwined within their lyrics and melodies, things could definitely be worse…

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