Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät

Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät
Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät at Provinssirock 2013
General information
origin	Finland
Genre (s)	punk
founding	2009
Founding members
guitar	Pertti Kurikka
singing	Kari Aalto
bass	Sami Helle
Drums	Toni Valitalo

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Kuus kuppia kahvia yes yks kokis   FI 17th 01/2013 (6 weeks) Grandma rough   FI 22nd 12/2015 (1 week) The Best Of Greatest Hits   FI 4th 20/2015 (4 weeks)

Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (in German Pertti Kurikka's name day ), often referred to as PKN , is a Finnish punk band.

The four band members Pertti Kurikka, Kari Aalto, Sami Helle and Toni Välitalo live with intellectual disabilities . The band gained international fame through the film The Punk Syndrome , which is a documentary about the band. The film by Jukka Kärkkäinen and Jani-Petteri Passi won the audience award at the Tampere International Short Film Festival 2012 and thus helped the band to gain international fame.

In 2015, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät successfully took part in the Finnish preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and won it with the song Aina mun pitää (in German: I always have to). They therefore represented Finland in this competition, but did not get past the semi-finals on May 19.

Discography

• 2010: Ei yhteiskunta yhtä miestä kaipaa (EP). Together with the Kakka-Hätä 77 Band, Airiston Punk-levyt, Red Lounge Records
• 2011: Päättäjä on pettäjä (maxisingle) C-cassette, Hikinauhat records
• 2011: Osaa eläimetkin pieree (EBP) (7 ”vinyl), Mauski Records and Punk & Pillu Records
• 2012: Kuus kuppia kahvia ja yks kokis , Airiston punk-levyt
• 2012: Asuntolaelämää (EBP), Airiston punk-levyt
• 2015: Aina mun pitää (maxi single) (7 ”vinyl) Sony Music
• 2015: Grandma rauha , Airiston punk-levyt

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1. ↑ Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät in the Finnish charts
2. ↑ http://www.woz.ch/-2984
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät on Myspace