Kings Place

Last night seven happy and tired Forkians arrived at Helsinki-Vantaa airport after having spent four great days in London!

This could be the cover picture of our next album but it isn´t. It is Fork arriving at London Gatwick airport and waiting for Linda to tell us what to do next.
We had the privilege of staying at the Finnish ambassadors residence, thank you Pekka and Liisa Huhtaniemi, at Kensington Palace Gardens (right next door to William and Kate) and the taxi driver had a very hard time believing that the hippies he was driving from the airport really had the right address. He asked us at least seven times if we were sure and do we know princess D used to live there next door and that it is a very high security area and so on. We were his first customers ever to go to an address on that street. I guess cabs usually aren´t needed around that area...

The Finnish hippies at Kensington Palace Gardens.

On Thursday we visited the Finnish Embassy to give an interview. Jonte and Linda took the chance to pre-vote in the Finnish President election since they wont be in Finland on the election day. Linda will be in Mexico on vacation, she needs some after this trip I guess...

We had a nice lunch with the people from the Embassy at the Star tavern which is known from the Great Train Robbery. Somewhere here in this room there might be millions hidden. In this picture - Linda, Tanja, Jouni, Tiina, Otto, Kasper, Jonte (what is he doing?!) Anna and Pirjo.
In the evening we went to see the Boxettes, a very good a cappella group with five hot women and a heavy beat.

On Friday we had soundcheck in the morning and in the evening it was time for us to get ready and do our thing. I was quite nervous before the gig since I knew the audience would be a very professional a cappella audience and what we do is break all the rules of traditional a cappella. I could sense in the beginning of the show that there were some question marks of What are they Doing? but when we came to Final Countdown and Jonte put on his wig it was clear that the audience had decided to like what they see. Even if they weren´t  sure what it was. It was also clear that Modern talking wasn´t such a big hit in the UK in the 80´s as it was in Finland...

On Saturday we went to see The Swingle Singers who hosted the whole a cappella festival. They were really one of the best groups I have ever seen. So spot on. Multi-grammy award winners...

On Sunday morning we were hungry and tired.

But then we had some English Breakfast and the sun was shining again.

Today in Helsinki the sun isn´t shining at all, instead it is snowy and cold outside. Tomorrow we are going back into rehearsals and I am very much looking forward to that.

Thank you LACF for having us!