Draft:Jyrki "Spider" Hämäläinen

Jyrki "Spider" Hämäläinen (born. 1984 Porvoo ), is a Finnish author, journalist and musician.

Hämäläinen is best known as the author of Killing Joke biography Killing Joke: Are You Receiving? (2020). It's the first biography about the post-punk group. By March 2021 it had sold over 600 copies. It has been favourably reviewed in such magazines as Vive Le Rock and Classic Rock. Academic publication Punk & Post-Punk Journal praised the research and amount of indepth interviews of the book. German Ox- magazine praised the use of large archive materials as well as the broad interviews and attention to detail. Punktuation Magazine brought out the easy reading nature of the publication on top of the extent of the research. The book focuses on the band rather than the private lives of the members. Over 20 people had been interviewed for the book. Writing the book took about a year. In less than a y,ear the book had sold over a thousand copies. The book is also on sale on the band's official website.

Hämäläinen is a former full-time editor of Finnish tabloid Seiska. He wrote the main cover feature about the SDP MP Antti Lindtman in 2019. He is a long time contributing writer for Vive Le Rock magazine where he wrote a 10 page main cover feature about Killing Joke in 2012. . His first commissions in the UK were in 2006 when he interviewed the Casualties and Street Dogs for Big Cheese magazine. AC/DC is a band he has extensively covered and been quoted in reviews.

When he lived in London he played guitar in Defcon Zero. While living there he also organised concerts under Spiderweb Promotions moniker. Which according to Metal Hammer Defcon Zero never received the respect they deserved in the UK punk scene. He also played in Ratbags, which contributed music to Devi Snively's feature film Trippin'.

Hämäläinen played bass in Finnish hardcore punk band Sekasorto. While living in Leeds he was a guitarist indistrial punk band Action Directe. He has also guested on songs by Anzi Destruction.

He has also worked on a documentary about the D Beat / hardcore band the Varukers.

Hämäläinen contributed to the "Those 12 Bar Nights" book about the 12 Bar, which was located on Denmark Street in London.

He is a member of the Association of Finnish Nonfiction Writers.

Books

 * Killing Joke: Are You Receiving? Milton Keynes: New Haven Publishing Ltd, 2020. ISBN 978-1-912587-40-7
 * Those 12 Bar Nights London: Mark Webster, 2022. (one of the writers) ISBN 978-1-905912-85-8 (hard cover) / ISBN 978-1-905912-84-1 (soft cover).

Albums

 * Action Directe - 60 Million Guns (single), Action Directe (2006)
 * Action Directe - Intervention, Action Directe (2006)
 * This is London kokoelma CD (bands Spider's Sideshow, Ratbags and Condition: Dead), Media Controller (2010)
 * Condition: Dead - Famous For Fuck All. CD. Active Distribution (2013)
 * Lost Cherrees / 22 Chillies - Make Us Different (Don't Just Cry) 12" guitars on side A. Antisociety (2013)
 * Defcon Zero - Music For Gluesniffers, Terrorists & The Mentally Ill. thanks. Urinal Vinyl Records (2017)
 * Action Directe - Wakefield's Burning - Live '06. "Recorded live at the Snooty Fox, Wakefield on 28th September 2006." Action Directe (2020).
 * Anzi Destruction - Bully Dodger (single), backing vocals. Rolling Records (2023)
 * Anzi Destruction - Face of the Crow (single), backing vocals. Rolling Records (2023)

Film music
 * Autumn of Route 66 director Ester Brym, publisher Brym Productions (2013)
 * Trippin' director Devi Snively, publisher Camp Motion Pictures LLC (2012)
 * T is for Torture director Elisabeth Fies, publisher Drafthous Films (2011).