Finnish / Latvian high caliber d-beat band .338 are going to play at Sid Vicious day in Riga on Feb 2nd, playing 2 shows in Estonia on the way.
Dates:
01.02.24. 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Ülase 12
.338 – d-beat,Tampere 🇫🇮
Skoone – hardcore punk, Tallinn 🇪🇪
Düsentroop – hardcore punk, Tallinn 🇪🇪
02.02.24. 🇱🇻 Riga, Sid Vicious day, club DEPO (Vaļņu 32)
.338 – d-beat,Tampere 🇫🇮
Depustūtes – riot girl, Riga 🇱🇻
Pūķis un Vella kalpi – hardcore punk, Riga 🇱🇻
PND – street punk, Riga 🇱🇻
All Day Long – ska punk, Riga 🇱🇻
Inokentijs Mārpls – punk’n’roll, Riga 🇱🇻
03.02.24. 🇪🇪 Tartu, club HELL (Tiigi 76A)
.338 – d-beat,Tampere 🇫🇮
S.I. – crossover death, Tartu 🇪🇪
Shrapnelle – neo-avant core, Tartu 🇪🇪
Interview by Pvsrs for Sid Vicious day promo, translated.
“SID VICIOUS day guests from Finland – .338. After few years break, this year on Feb 2nd at club DEPO a foreigner band will joing the festival’s line-up. For the sake of truth, the band has some connection with Latvia. A memmber from Latvian punk / HC scene, more known as Dave (Dāvis) is playing bass for .338. The band is a high caliber d-beat band from Tampere, Finland. .338 is playing fast guitar riffs with technical drum patterns, old school guitar solos un lyrics in Finnish.
.338 was found by guitarist Tomi, vocalist Niklas un drummer Jane. The trio recorded a demo and soon after solo guitarist Juuso and bassist Dave. The band is truly international because Dāvis is travelling for practice from Riga but Nikals is nowadays living in Sweden. The band is nammed after the .338, a rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridge. It was developed during the 1980s as a high-powered, long-range cartridge for military snipers. “We play fast, shoot from our guitars with .338 caliber,” the band adds.
.338 lyrics tells mostly about the darker side of being a human and the struggles of life and misery, stuff that probably a listener can identify with. Having our dark lyrics with heavy and fast music makes it quite a d-beat bomb together.
.338 have played in Riga before. It was at Turboballe at Ādmiņu 4 during band 4-day weekender with Pidari. Band is mostly playing in Tampere but have done shows in Helsinki and Tallinn as well. In July we plan an European tour, with a show at Munky Pride fest in Latvia and Fragile Mountain fest in Gothenburg fest in Sweden.
Because of band’s international members, it seemed interesting to find out how different is punk / HC scene in Finland and Latvia. .338 believes that there’s way more quality bands in Finland than Latvia. That’s way Finnish listeners has more options to choose from, who to see live. On the other hand, in Latvia punk shows are a rarity. And most of them are packed and the crowd goes nuts. Possibly, this is the biggest difference between scenes in both countries.
See you at SID VICIOUS DAY 2024: annual Latvian punk show on February 2nd at club DEPO.”