Svenska
2004-08-06 Estonia
On the 6:th of august we went away for a 4 days tour
in Estonia. We had spent a lot of time in optimizing our packing to match Finnairs
demands for weight and size of our packaging, and we could now go by plane to
Finland to wait for the propeller-plane that would take us to Tallinn. Since we
had to wait for some hours we started to play card, and soon we got company from
Hanna and
Kristina from Helingborg (Sweden) who were on their way to New York.
When we had arrived in Estonia we were located at a nice hotel in the middle of
Tallinn with a wonderful breakfast-buffé. By watching Teletubbies we could
also catch some useful words. We had prepared before the trip with useful sentences
such as: ”miks on oks sinine?”, which means ”Why is the door
blue?”. But the estonians new some swedish phrases too. They knew classics
like ”svenska flicka, mycket bra” ("Swedish girl, very good")
but also unexpected phrases like ”stora håret” ("Big hair").
Two really nice guys took care of us during the tour and they also stayed at the
same hotel; Madis and Juko. Juko was newly-wed and couldn't keep his eyes from
his wife and Madis was our driver who couldn't keep his eyes from his bus. It
worked excellent as a tourbus, except for a broken key. Luckily our guitarist
Sven showed his unexpected talents by learning us how to start the
car without a key...
We had 5 gigs during on our tour in Estonia.
The first gig was in a wooden church in the suburbs of Tallinn (Nömme). It
was very warm outside, and it was even warmer in the church. Sweat poured down
over our faces as we performed, and we could twist out sweat from our clothes
afterwards. Vi had a great time, even though it felt like doing a work-out in
a sauna...
The day after we played in Tallinn. It was in a park in the middle of the old
town (Harjumägi), so soon the area was filled with people listening to our
scandinavian rock-music. The next day we had two gigs. First on a russian service
in Tallinn. We didn't understand a word of what they said in the service, but
they were very grateful for our concert and gave us money and a CD with some mixed
christian music, even some russian hip-hop. After this we played at a festival
called Kaparock in Kohila. This was the concert with the biggest audience. We
also met the american reggaeband Christafari at this festival. The last concert
was
in the centre of Pärnu on the west-coast. We stood on a sidewalk and didn't
know in which direction we should look since people was located all around us.
We also met two norwegian missionaries, one of them had an gigantic Elvis-hairdo.
Maybe he was the guy behind "Stora Håret"? It wasn't too hard
to make the audience get into the music, no matter where we played. And when we
played at public places people stopped to listen to us. I was prepared to see
most of the people walking by trying not to listen, but it seemed to be the opposite.
Many of the people talked to us afterwards and some
of them bought t-shirts or a CD. Madis and Juko with friends were great at keeping
us busy during the days. They took us swimming, to barbecue, saunabathing, shopping,
soccer and much much more. My favorite thing was when we jumped from a cliff down
into a small river, about 7 meters free fall. All of these activities made sure
that we never got bored for a second and this tour was a pleasure in many ways.
Thanks to all of you who made the trip possible and made it an experience we'll
never forget: Sonico, Madis, Juko with wife and Brother, Hanna-Marie, Karoliina,
Lehari, Risto, Elari, sound-engineers and the fantastic audience.
Hope to see you all soon!!!
/David Einebrant