South Park Festival esittää: Blazing Burlesque Stage vol. 2

Albine A. Dorable

Three Two Dizzy Daisies ;)

Miss Chrissy Kiss

Elisa Day

Gigi Praline

Holy Curves!

Natsumi Scarlett

Olivia Rouge

Pepper Sparkles

Blazing Burlesque Stage Artists & Crew 2014

South Park Festival esittää: Blazing Burlesque Stage vol. 1

Albine A. Dorable

Gigi Praline

Miss Acrolicious

Natsumi Scarlett

Olivia Rouge

Pepper Sparkles

Miss Chrissy Kiss

Petra-Miisa Juusenaho

Elisa Day

Anyways...Let's dance!

I was in Helsinki last night with my brother and his wife. We went to see Bon Jovi at the Olympic stadium and it was freaking awesome! My brother and I saw them there two years ago, but we had tickets for the floor (or whatever you call it) and I could barely even see the screens back then (yes, my confession: I'm short). Now we had seats up in the side and we saw the whole thing. 

The stadium was sold out so there was a few others too...

Click for the full size!

It was pouring rain by the end of the show, hence all the plastic on people. Thankfully we had a roof over our heads, so we didn't get wet. 

I want to share some of my favorite songs by Bon Jovi (mostly oldies, of course) with you and I hope you'll dance with me. :)

December 6th & 7th - Believe & Sydämeeni joulun teen

JOSH GROBAN - BELIEVE ft. Beyoncé

IRINA - SYDÄMEENI JOULUN TEEN

December 3rd - Bells Of New York City

JOSH GROBAN - BELLS OF NEW YORK CITY 

I'm a big fan of Josh Groban and I just heard this song a few days ago. I don't know for sure is it an actual Christmas song, though. I think it is. I don't know if it's Groban's original either, but I don't care. It's great and it has a very sad sound to it. 

December 1st - Konsta Jylhän Joululaulu

I'm going to post a Christmas song every day till it's Christmas. So 24 songs coming up. I'll probably post loads of Finnish songs, so sorry for my foreign readers if not understanding the lyrics bother you. I just love the melancholic Finnish Christmas songs. 

KONSTA JYLHÄN JOULULAULU 
(THE CHRISTMAS SONG BY KONSTA JYLHÄ) 

I think this is one of the most amazing and touching Christmas songs ever written.
And J-P Leppäluoto (Charon, Harmaja, Northern Kings) performs it so well. I can't believe I haven't realized this before last night.

The lyrics (written by Paul Holm aka Paavo Helistö) tell a story about a little child taking a candle to his/her mother's grave on Christmas. Even if one couldn't understand the lyrics, I think the heart-breaking melody conveys the message perfectly. Especially in the guitar solo.

The album version

P.S. I changed the layout again. I didn't feel that the green suited with December, so I needed something better. :) 

One of the songs I wish I'd written

Natasha Bedingfield - Wild Horses

I can relate 100% to this song's lyrics. 

One hundred percent. 

Life is a funny funny thing, isn't it?

Bon Jovi here we come again!

So I got a call from my brother tonight asking if we'd go see Bon Jovi
as they are coming to Helsinki next summer.
We went just the two of us in 2008 and it was a great experience.
Now his wife will come too and I'm stoked. :)

Here's my favorite Bon Jovi song.
I performed my own version of it in my brother's wedding
(a lousy pre-wedding audio recording can be found in the left sidebar of this blog).

Unfortunately they don't perform in that kind of outfits anymore...(no, I'm serious about the 'unfortunately'!)

I also love:

Blame It On The Love Of Rock & Roll

(it's a bummer they don't ever perform this live)

Woman In Love

Little Bit Of Soul

And many many more. I think Keep The Faith is their best album.

 P.S. I came home around 6 pm tonight. It had just started to snow a little bit then.
I looked out of the window when my brother called around 8 pm and this is what I saw.
Well this is the view from my balcony and I looked out from my kitchen window but whatever. :)
Beautiful.