Radiopuhelimet
During autumn 1987 Raatikainen, Antti Penttilä and Kari Heikonen founded a record company called Bad Vugum with the intention of publishing music by Radiopuhelimet.
The first album, Rokkiräjähdys ("Rock explosion"), was recorded during the early weeks of autumn 1988 and was released a couple of months later.
Rehearsals of new material had been underway for some time when bass player Hautamäki announced he was leaving to study in Helsinki.
He played some shows but three of them were still performed with a four-man line-up: Kangas had got the thumb of his right arm severely mutilated at a sausage factory but he fortunately recovered fairly quickly.
Euros was no longer interested in Radiopuhelimet, probably because sales were not what the company had expected and because the band refused to sign publishing contracts.
After a couple of shows played after the recording sessions the band went on a half-year break while Raatikainen travelled around the world (literally).
Many people didn't know how to react to the music which had slowed down and gained a "jerky" quality: the album was "interesting" but "difficult".
The band and bass player Korhonen parted ways in December 1993 due to his other commitments which made touring and intense rehearsing impossible.
The tour lasted for five weeks and included shows in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Ismo Autioniemi from Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions From Mars played guitar at the tour.
Profit was to be made and "hobbyists" like Electric Blue Peggy Sue and Radiopuhelimet which brought little money home were no longer needed.
Especially getting release rights for a couple of songs to be included on an Alternative Tentacles compilation EP called "Hygiene" was difficult.
At the beginning of 1996 guitar player Kangas left the band due to work commitments and family reasons.
The second guitarist Mällinen immediately phoned Ray Katz, the singer-guitar player from Electric Blue Peggy Sue, who was living in Berlin at the time.
Among the festival shows of summer 1998, a special set of old Kansanturvamusiikkikomissio songs was played in Läsnärock with a four-man line-up (without Katz).
Theatre director Juha Hurme, who the band had got to know while working on Kostamus-symphony, had already in summer '97 suggested a play to be produced in collaboration.
Constructing and rehearsing the script went on little by little until the play, called simply "Radiopuhelimet", premiered at the Oulu Children's Theatre Festival in February 2000.
