Mr. Snack - Keyboard player

Name: Janne Kokkonen

Stage name: Snack

Born: 15 July 1978 ??? (sometimes you can also find the year 83´) in Tampere/ Finnland

Signs of the zodiac: Cancer

Eye colour: Bluish-green

High: 190 cm

Tattoos: one tribal-star on his right shoulder, one tribal above his left upper arm and one font "Rocker"on his left forearm

Piercings: one at his eyebrow

Parents: ???

Siblings: one older brother and one older sister

Favourites of own songs: "Misery", "Sinner´s night/misty morning"

Other facts:

- Snack plays the keyboards on Negative.

- He joined tha band as the last member in 2003 and his keyboard-parts enrich the songs of Negative since their second album "Sweet and dceitful". Since then the young Finnish guy doesn´t want to be missed in the band by anyone.

- Before he joined Negative, Snack played in the bands Destination X, Satellite Kids and The Hip Hillbillies.

- Snack´s favourite bands are Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Guns´n´Roses, Led Zeppelin and The Doors.

- Music has a big meaning to Snack. He says it´s his lifestyle and therapy.

- Snack got an education as chef. So this would probably be his profession today, if there was no music ;-).

- To Snack important values in life are honesty and love.

- Like his bandmate Jay he can be called a typical Finnish guy because he seems always very quiet and reserved.

- Snack´s favourite colour is green.

- Snack´s favourite gig venue is the Ruisrock.

- To Snack the most memorable Negative gig was the first show in Germany at Bochum Total city festival 2005.

- To Snack the best gig by other artists was U2 at Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

- Snack´s favourite food is meat, steaks in different forms, pasta and Indian cuisine and his favourite drinks are Cider, beer, different shots such as Salmiakki and the Finnish alcoholic Absinth.

- Snack´s idols are Dizzy Reed, Ray Manzarek, Bob Marley, Nicky Hopkins and Jon Lord and his favourite movies are Quentin Tarantino movies, "Pulp Fiction" and "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas".

- Snack says Ray Manzarek from The Doors is a person he respects and George W. Bush is one person he doesn´t resepct.

- As a song Snack would like to be written by himeself, he stated "Shine on you crazy diamond ".

- Snack´s motto is: "Take it easy, don´t fret…"

- Snack means women as a bad habit of himself ^^.

- Like he told he counts sex and bars to his favourite hobbies.

- Snack is always friendly if you meet him at autographing sessions and fullfills with pleasure and willingly the wishes of his fans.

- His snackbar is "24 hours open" like it´s well-known ^^.

- The best thing at the moment (02.07.2007): Touring with the band; all the great people around him.