COWBOY

My little Sunday morning cowboy is drooling on his striped horse.
Here's some cowboy music to go along.

SPECTACULAR SPECTACLES AND A WHOLE LOT OF GLITTER

Here are some pictures on-and-off stage from our first night of SPECTAC-O-RAMA.

The second nigt was last Saturday and even though I was still flush and with a voice that would have made even Tom Waits jealous I made it trough the night; we all did it with a bang and the house was full again!

 

 

Spectac-O-Rama is a two hour show with rockabilly music and burlesque inspired by cabaret and vaudeville. Those who have seen our shows in the early years, and our mutual shows with Sweet Jeena from those times, got a lot of old school stuff as we performed our classics like the Western Revue and The Bikini number but with new, live music twists. Birdwatching gentlemen, mescaline cacti, cardboard horses, thirsty cowboys in despair, angry monkeys and so on. The usual. We also had Mr drag n'roll Mia Li Moon and our student troupe the Shangri-La Showgirls on stage - it's rather impressive actually that we managed to fit so many people onto that small space!

Btw. You can see more of our Showgirls and what we've been up to with them and with the rest of our students as well when we organise this year's Under the Mistle Tease  - the Christmas show & party of our studio and burlesque school - next week! And here I have to mention that we also have an intern working for us (wooh, adulthood points!) who we so could not have managed without during these nights as she carried a lot of stuff around and did a lot of dressing us up and down during the two hours were we change clothes so many times that I don't even want to think about it now afterwards. We'll, this production is not totally over, new stages awaits later on!

Photos by Janne Porkka and Tuomas Lairila

SPECTAC-O-RAMA in 3-2-1...

I've been fixing costumes and making arrangements the whole week and tonight it is time for the first set of our vaudeville-rockabilly burlesque spectacle Spectac-O-Rama!

The night is sold out so no use to get out in the cold and try your luck at the door! But if you missed out get your tickets for the next night which will be November 29!

SHADES OF COOL FOR THIS SUMMER SUNDAY

Most Finnish people will still be out of reach of -or not interested in -the internet right now, post drunk and hungover from Midsummer, but for everyone else in the world, here is some Soft Sunday music.

No one can make living in a valium haze, getting shitfaced on daiquiris by 2p.m. or haunting your old lover's life with the bittersweet memories of you look as good as Lana Del Rey. I don't like all of her songs, but the ones I like I love. This is such a sad and beautiful video I've watched over and over; I've always loved Lana's appearance and also how she makes her videos look just like she sounds.

SLOWER, BUT BETTER

We haven't had some soft Sunday music in a while over here!
(Although the actual list itself over at Spotify gets and update every now and then)

Soft Sunday Song of today is what was referred to as the "Brokeback Mountain version of Jolene". What makes this different from any other cover of the song is the fact that this is not a cover at all, just Dolly's record played at a slower speed. And it sounds pretty awesome.

THE ARTFUL MUSICIAN

Some of you may remember the giveaway we did last year with the Artful Musician NY?
The Artful Musician is fine arts photographer and musician Thomas Roberts Meyers who creates art prints of music instruments and equipment. You can read more about it here.


He has now opened up a web shop of his own too, Guitar Art Print  with art prints and t-shirts, as well as started selling music themed pendants in the Guitar Art Print- etsy shop.

So, in honor of that not only one or two but three readers here will have the chance to win $50 in store credit!

In order to enter  we do as before; leave e a comment on this post and make sure I will be able to reach you trough it! And as usual: if you share, you get one more entry per share. The give away is open until Sunday, April 28 and the winners will be announced the day after. Good luck!

IT'S LIKE LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE

If you ever wondered where a slave to the details comes from it is form this song!
This was my all-time favorite song for many years, many years ago.When I studied in Budapest we had this record on repeat night after night, while drinking red wine, painting our nails and smoking out of the window of our apartment on Fó utca. I just realized it has been such a long time since I have last listened to Interpol and this is an instant Budapest flashback for me, but also of my life in general in the early and mid 00's; small apartments around town, bleached hair, pale summer mornings and cold Helsinki nights, cigarette smoke.

ONNEN MAA

Score (by Tuure Kilpeläinen) for an upcoming series on Finnish schlager, Iskelmä Suomi. The series will be seen starting from February on Finnish TV.

Eddi and I filmed some nostalgia mood shots for the series on our farm late last summer. Most of you will not be able to see the series due to country restrictions but you can watch this video instead!