HANOI ROCKS Wins RADIO ROCK FINLANDIA Award

December 5, 2007

Legendary Finnish rockers HANOI ROCKS beat out HIM, NIGHTWISH, APOCALYPTICA, SONATA ARCTICA and AMORPHIS to win the first-ever Radio Rock Finlandia award. The band was presented with the award at a special ceremony Wednesday night (December 5) at the Ice Hall in Helsinki.

The Radio Rock Finlandia award, which recognizes the achievements of a domestic group or artist which has active during the past year, was given to HANOI ROCKS by the radio journalist of the year, Klaus Flaming.

HANOI ROCKS will play three shows with legendary MOTÖRHEAD in December. This will be followed by a long European tour in early 2008, which will take HANOI ROCKS from Sweden via Germany to United Kingdom. The last gig of the tour will be in London's notorious Astoria Club on March 7.

For a list of upcoming HANOI ROCKS shows, click here.

Demolition Records recently released a HANOI ROCKS special-edition digipack of the band's new CD "Street Poetry" featuring four bonus tracks: "Trouble Boys", "Fashion" (video),"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (video),"High School" (video).

Audio samples from "Street Poetry" have been posted at the web site of the Japanese record label Victor Entertainment. Check out the clips at this location.

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