Poets
of the Fall | main crew
Marko - Vocals.
Real name: Marko Saaresto.
Nick: Mark, Marko.
Born: 5th of December 1970.
Band leader, Mark also composes music and texts. Made
Sam Lake's poem adoptation providing first hit to
PoTF, Late Goodbye.
Makes music since childhood.
Rock-vocalist, has a very pleasant voice with irish
timbre.
Poets
of the Fall | main crew
Ollie - guitars.
Real name: Olli Tukiainen.
Nick: Olli/Ollie.
Born: 8th of April 1976.
Ollie is a guitar tycoon, certificated jazz musician,
working in the band from its very beginning with Mark.
Instruments: different models of guitars to solely
Ibanez series.
In particular: Ibanez JEM77 BRMR "Bad
Horsie", UV777 P BK
Steve Vai Signature Model.
In Lift video Ollie used ESP
M-II, black.
Equipment: Digitech Whammy 4,
Ibanez TS7 tubesceamer,
BOSS TU-2, BOSS
NS-2, BOSS OD-3...
Poets
of the Fall | main crew
Captain - keyboards.
Real name: Markus Kaarlonen.
Nick: Captain, Kapu.
Born: 16th of November, 1973.
Captain also makes sound producing. Trance-industrial
musician joined Poets some time after creating the
band by Mark and Ollie.
Instruments: a long list of the equipment. Among them:
Edirol and Roland
synthesizers, Apple laptops.
Poets
of the Fall | extended crew
Jari - droms.
Real name: Jari.
PoTF drummer in Carnival of Rust tour. Has replaced
previous member, Tapio, which solved to devote to
photography.
Instruments: Tama drums.
Poets
of the Fall | extended crew
Jaakko - guitars, backing
vocals.
Real name: Jaska.
Nick: Jaska/Jaakko/Jake.
Second live guitarist, helping Ollie to cope with
his guitar beat. Plays it responsibly enough.
Instruments: mainly Fender Stratocaster,
black. In Lift video Jaska used Gibson
Flying-V67 Reissue.
Poets
of the Fall | extended crew
Jani - basses.
Real name: Jani.
Jani plays basses during live performances of PoTF.
At first look inperceptible guy, while live performance
shows visual and technical high skill.
Instruments: Fender Presicion.
Poets
of the Fall | extended crew
Kiffe - FOH-engineer.
Real name: Carl.
