La première en France!

France! Paris! Oh, la la. Here we are now, staying smack in the middle of Paris, in two different apartments. Boys in one and girls in the other. Not bad, not bad at all.

Before Paris we did a gig in Vendenheim and on our arrival we were offered lunch.

The French really knows how to cook, at least in Vendenheim. The lunch was so good with a local dish and local wine so it felt almost impossible to start thinking about work again. But luckily we eventually did because Vendenheim was sold out and the locals had high expectations on the Finns and our knowledge in French. Well, we had been practicing a bit so I would say we didn´t make fools out of ourselves. Even Jonte, who has absolutely no background of any kind of french lesson threw some unforgettable lines.

Another challenge was that we had decided to use our golden clothes in Vendenheim, which also involves some hair work for Anna and me. Since we don't have a hair dresser with us, Linda was the one to create something on top of our heads. I think she did pretty good.

Linda was nervous throughout the show that our hair would fall off. It didn´t.

The trip from Vendenheim to Paris took 5 hours and here are some pics of what usually goes on in our tour bus.

Linda counts money. Or actually checks. We stopped using checks in Finland in the 80's so this feels very special. And a bit antique...

Jonte does arrangements. Kasper is knitting. Yes, you heard me.

Anna is reading.
Greg is sleeping, I am writing and Tobias or Hasse (depends which one is on tour with us) is driving. After Vendenheim Tobias went home and we were joined by Hasse, who is now in charge of the lights. Welcome Hasse!

Then we came to Paris.

Oh la la.

The first night we just walked around and enjoyed this lovely city.

The next day we had a gig in Achères ( a suburb to Paris), at 14.00(!!) for 300 french speaking kids.

In the soundcheck we looked like this:

And this

And this

But OMG was it fun to sing for the youngsters. They knew exactly how to behave at a concert, dancing, singing along, screaming and enjoying themselves 100%.

And after the show we were this happy

And once again the stuff was put into the tour bus to go to the next place. We are staying in Paris the whole week but our gigs are in different places around the city. Tomorrow we are in Le Vesinet. 

Today we have a day off. Let's do Paris in one day!