Stay calm and breathe

This week we finally got to try some of our new arrangements on the audience. On Tuesday we were in Ekenäs and had a great time like we always have when we visit this small but sassy town.
The challenge when performing new stuff is to stay calm enough to be able to breathe. It is scary what nervousness can do to you. If you lose your harmony you can always find it again, if you forget the words, well, we are all pretty good at making up new ones as the song goes on... But if the breathing fails, then you are in trouble. Especially if you are supposed to sing a long sweet ooooo.
It will sound more like o-o--o-o---o-hh-h-o.

Sound check. Baba, our local guy, is giving us some last minute advice on how to take over the Ekenäs crowd.

We had a quick brainstorming about what to do to get this thing going.

Of course the answer to that was coffee, which was brought to us by the wonderful Mr. Pöysti.

Sometimes after a successful gig we look like this:

"Yeeei, Ekenäs, Thank you! We are happy and almost sane!"

or like this:

"Money, wuahhahhaa!"


But sometimes we look like this (in a town far from Ekenäs):

"No, that was not fun."

or:

"I want pizza."

To sum it up, so far the week has been interesting and I think we managed to perform our new stuff with our honour intact.

Multitasking in Frankfurt

Last night we came home from a very short trip to Frankfurt. We flew in on Tuesday, did a gig in the evening and back home on Wednesday. The wonderful thing about this trip was not only the great audience we met but also the feeling of SPRING! Once again I realize that we live very far up north.

Major sun-worshipping.

The bad thing about this trip was that Linda decided we could do this without her. Which meant that suddenly I was in charge of all kinds of practical things.

"Where is the car that should have picked us up? Who should I call? "

"Where is the person we are supposed to meet outside the hotel? What was her name again? Are we at the right hotel?"

"Where are our rooms?" "When is our soundcheck again?" "When do we eat?"

While the rest of the group is taking a power nap I am ordering the food for everyone. "Ok, Jonte will have the ceasar salad, Kapser wants the sushi platter, Anna wants chicken, Greg wants french food..."

"Where is the cold beer? where are our sun hats?"

"How long was the set again?""Which songs are we singing?"

Meditation time.