The first music video by The Friend. http://www.thefriendband.com ************************************** The Friend have finally managed to get their first music video done. This video for the crispy song "sparkling in the rain" was entirely the band's own production. The video was directed by the band's bassist Jaakko Kajan and it was shot at guitarist Mikko M. Koskinen's parents' living room. The band invited some friends over to assist on the video which theme is a party at parents' house. At the location a young couple who were assisting on the video got so excited of the wonderful atmosphere that they started making out, to which director Jaakko quickly reacted by turning the camera on without the couple noticing. "lense on fire!", Jaakko chuckled out loud. The wonderful atmosphere and people having genuine fun transfers really nicely through the video. By the time everything was shot, the "party" turned in to a REAL party and everyone started to have a ball. But unfortunate to some, vocalist Anders Vuorimaa lost his voice and couldn't make a sound anymore. "I lost my voice due to numerous takes. I wasn't able to talk for a few days. But in the end it was actually a good thing for me, since I really started to think about things I say. I used to blurt out very stupid things. But nowadays, I never say anything needless." says Anders. And surely the sparkling in the rain -musicvideo isn't a needless blurt. It has party, good time and rock'n'roll. Rock on, dude.