Thursday 16 February 2012

The penguin


A lonely penguin in the Finnish winter night.

Last week we had a gig where the events manager not only treated the customer with some Fork but also gave them a spectacular ice sculpture show. It was amazing to see what skilled people can do with a piece of ice. Now, the evening could have turned out to be just one of those gigs where everything goes exactly like planned without any surprises. But this time the ice sculpturing must have been a bit too much for the events manager because when we met him, after the soundcheck when everything was still fine,  he immediately started yelling a bunch of non-understandable things to us about mixing table being in the wrong place and us destroying the whole gig etc. It was quite an experience and we more or less looked like a bunch of question marks and since any attempt to discussion led nowhere we transported ourselves back stage to calm down and figure out what to do next.

Well, what happened next was this:
The events manager came back stage, he apologized for being stressed and behaving like such an you know what,  we said everything was cool, we put on our make up, did a good gig for a great audience and everybody was happy.

Two bottles of sparkling was brought to us with a note saying Sorry for us complaining. :)


We had another gig last week as well where these wonderful ladies took such good care of us.

Now we are back in rehearsals.

Really looks like they know what they are doing.

Sunday 5 February 2012

Winter time

Yesterday there was yet again a new record for this winter, the temperature outside was as low as 40 degrees Celsius. Luckily not in Helsinki, here it was only - 23... For us Finns normal life goes on no matter what the temperature is, we put on one more pair of long johns and an extra sweater and we are off to work. I am not saying I enjoy this coldness but there really isn´t anything I can do about it, except move somewhere else of course.

This is not Siberia, this is Helsinki.

And about moving somewhere else, we just elected a new president for Finland (congratulation Mr. Niinistö, hope to see you in the audience soon again) which always is a bit exciting at least in the beginning. And then of course Helsinki is the World Capital of Design 2012 so no way am I leaving this hip and in city at least not this year.

Today and tomorrow we are doing corporate gigs, we still can´t do our new material for the audience, it  needs more rehearsals. Last Friday at the rehearsal studio we experienced a moment of total emptiness, we sat for six hours and nothing happened, not a single good idea or inspiring thought. Luckily Linda came to see us, all tan and relaxed after two weeks in Mexico, and brought some chocolate and sparkling wine with her!

The boys in a sensitive duet.