Excitement

When we go deeper into the fall and closer to the darkest time of the year the Finns starts celebrating what we call pikku-joulut, directly translated as little-christmas. The firms throw parties for all the employees, the bosses drink together with the rest of the crew and we all try to forget that it will only get darker and colder for the next two-three months. The "little-christmas" audience is usually a great crowd, they are there to have fun and they want to be entertained. There has been some funny, or lets say interesting situations during the past years though.
Like the one man who felt the music so much that he came up on stage and asked me to put my mic down so he could dance with me. I tried to show that if we stop singing the music will stop, but he didn´t take no for an answer and while he was trying to grab my mic it accidentally hit my lip and started bleeding.
Or the one guy who threw his belt around me and started using me as a dance pole.
These things don´t happen very often and when they do it´s usually because the people are so happy and excited and full of party feelings.
But last week at the casino I had a new kind of interaction with a person from the audience. There was this young man who throughout the show had been talking quite loudly to his friends, kind of competing with our PA on the volume level, and in my last speak I pointed out to him that we all, the rest of the audience and we up on stage, could hear him very clearly.  This man got so upset over me interrupting his conversation that he gave me the finger.
That was a new experience. Not the finger, I have had that before, but the being up on stage and given the finger.

We only have love and happiness in our group. This is from last Friday when we did a benefit appearance for the Red Nose day on Radio Vega.

Fan mail from a very young lady. Thank you Cassandra!