EVC all over the place

We are already in our second week of doing ElectroVocal Circus, I guess once again time flies when you are having fun. I really have no idea how we made it to the opening, maybe we were just high on jet lag or something but suddenly it was the D-day and we could only hope that everything was going to work as planned.
When we, we as in the singers, came to the theatre a day before the opening the technical crew had already been working there for 24 hours. It was an incredible feeling to realize that all of us were aiming for the same goal, to make this show as good as possible. I think we have the best technical crew in the world!

Is there anybody out there?

Could someone please tell us where to go and on what mark. 

Outi who designed and made our clothes was not happy with my pants during the run through. She is a perfectionist which is a very good thing except on the opening night. The show started at 7 p.m and when the clothes weren´t yet at the theatre at 6.20 I called Outi to ask if everything was okay and was she maybe on her way soon? Yes, I am in the taxi she said calmly. Just around the corner. There any minute now. Which was a slight lie because at that point she was on the other side of the town waiting for the taxi that never showed up and then running out on the street with all our feathers desperately looking for anything that could take her to the theatre. She made it and we were all dressed and ready to rock at 7 p.m. With a bit higher pulse than usually.

Women at work.

After each performance we talk about how the show went and what we can do to make it better. Things like are we standing in the right places for the light, how did everybody´s speaks between the songs go, are we singing too loud or too quiet (too quiet is not something that would happen too often in this group...) and so on. But we have an one-hour rule. You are not allowed to give any negative feedback during the first hour after the show. Only positive things can be said out loud. It is not like we are very good on hiding our face expressions though...

Face expression. Pain. 

Jonte in action.

I am clearly looking for something.

Is it up there?

Or down there?

Love lifts us up where we belong.

As you can see on Kasper love really lifts us up.

And the audience? What can I say, I guess you have to be there to feel it. Helsinki is Helsinki. It is good to be home!

@SoJam

Imagination is more important than knowledge said Einstein and we like to think that is true. At least in this group.

After some hasty and nasty packing in KL we made it to the airport on time and got all our very colourful bags checked in. The goodbyes were tearful but the hope for a return to Malaysia kept us going. Maybe next year again!

Passport - check.

The flight to Raleigh via Tokio and Dallas went fine except that the sleeping schedule Linda had made  wasn´t really working as we hoped. The timezone changes and the 48 hour without sleep didn´t exactly made us into the sharpest tools in the box.

The SoJam people thought it was a good idea to have us do an interview early next morning. We probably didn´t answer a single question without offending someone unintentionally. But Mark and Dwayne (who by the way had the pleasure of driving us around and only tried to kill me once, unintentionally he claims) still seemed happy with us. Or maybe they smile out of horror.

At the cheesecake factory in the Crab tree mall where a small salad is the size of Helsinki. Here we did some shopping, shoes and other necessities.

I don´t know how it happened but all of a sudden we were in a picture with the fire department of the City of Raleigh. Who was on fire and why? Or why not?

Then it was workshop time. Anna and me in I am woman - class. Yes I am. The topics we discussed were:
belting - we were like uhh well we just sing and if you need to sing higher you just sing a bit higher.
how to tour with men - we were like uh, well it´s nice.
how you take care of your voice - we were like uh, well, never thought of that before. Should we?
clothes on stage - uh, well, you need to know how to wear them.

Soundchecking. Anna, Kasper and Richard Gardner.

Minutes before entering the stage. Anna is still working on her Gangnam style.
We had so much fun during the concert, the audience was wild and crazy and the energy level was extremely high!  Thank you SoJam!

The day after. Bill Hare is taking the Finns out for a beer. Then back to the hotel, once again packing our bags and off to Helsinki.
We have had a very good four weeks on the road, met so many nice people, had such warm audiences and had quite a few good laughs. Now, once the jet lag is tackled, the preparations for our upcoming premiere on ElectroVocal Circus begins.

It´s good to be home.

In many ways but one...