#allas gig

[mitamicah]

Gorgeous man :'3

This is a redraw of a picture I took of Jere at the Allas Sea Pool gig, july 5 2024

Reference under the line

[smimon]

Magnificent Jesse at Allas Sea Pool

Credit to starkowo on insta 💚

[micahthemoon]

Summer 2024

The Are You Tattoo Saga

I have been fascinated by tattoos for a long time. I love the fact that you can make yourself into a work of art quite literally showing your passions and story on your sleeve. There’s autonomy in getting tattoos as well; taking back our body that may or may not give us dysphoria (or other senses of discomfort) and decide what it shall look like for ourselves. Body parts that otherwise would make me uncomfortable have been made a source of pride (on good days) or at least I can look at it with content indifference (on the lesser days). All because of some ink. This might be why I have been getting more and more tattoos that – in some cases- may be seen as a spontaneous decision. This tattoo I’m gonna talk about now however is far from one of those.  

If you read my previous entry about how Käärijä accidentally validated my gender, you may remember that I mentioned a comfort stim sentence: Are You.

It can be linked back to the Eurovision preshow days where Bojan and Jere were just starting to get to know each other which the two idiots did by fooling around on a date. This saying has not only become a way for the two of them to show endearment (or the fans getting to interact with each other and the boys), but it has also been what finally learned me how to roll my r’s practicing the right cadence alone in my room for the simple fact that saying it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. It was also one of the things I became known for meeting up with fans irl for the first time between Käärijä’s Stockholm and Berlin gigs last year.

And so it didn’t take me long to daydream about getting it tattooed. Which ended up becoming a whole saga when Joker Out announced that they’d visit Malmö on their upcoming Europe tour (which is basically Denmark) and where I later – with a lot of people cheering me on from the sidelines – got Bojan to write the phrase down to me in two different fonts. To this day the concert is amongst my favourites.

Yet things don’t end there because one comment later about the possibility of getting Jere involved as well and I was off making a new sign. I tried getting Käärijä’s attention in Böle to no avail (other than making myself more stressed than I’d ever been at a concert). So, this summer going to Backas and Allas Sea Pool I had let the sign stay at home. Jokes on me, because suddenly in a rush of bravery I made myself a new sign out of half a pizza lid box left behind in the queue for the Allas Sea Pool gig. Low and behold if not Jere saw and reacted to this sign during the concert!! Getting by with a little help from my friends (especially this one finnish fan I’d met at Backas) I went home from the gig with Jere’s handwriting. A little over a month later on August 13 2024 the Are You tattoo saga concluded when I got a local tattoo artist (I’d already fanboyed too back in March when getting one of those spontaneous tattoos of mine) to make the little three way conversation permanent on my skin.

I have no idea how long the brainrot will continue. Maybe I will stop being this much of a fanboy in a year or two. But even so I don’t think (or at least I hope not) this tattoo will lose its meaning. Because It’s so much more than just a fan tattoo. It’s a story about a time I was foolishly brave no matter if it went well (Malmö) or it didn’t (Böle). It’s a story about the importance of interpersonal connections (the fan in Allas), the power of a found family through a fandom (or two) and also just a time in my life I was actively a participant in pursuing my own happiness.

I’ll say it again: I freaking love tattoos.

[n3ongold3n]

Baby's first Käärijä gig l 💚 Allas Sea Pool '24

Potato phone + being small so they're not the best pictures but still. 👀🙏🏽💚

[mitamicah]

How are we even supposed to sleep after this 😭😭

Thank you so much for the nice words and what a lovely collection you got there 🥹💚❤️

I’m sorry I was so fucking nervous pissing my pants dying but rääääh, adopted some cornpea boys from @omppupiiras , got gifts from @jerejerejere (Finally I’m a true Pirkka influencer!! My life is complete 💛) and more stickers from @krishoney feat. @mitamicah ’s beautiful art 💛

Allas was insane, now I should really pack for Ruissi and try to sleep somehow????

[omppupiiras]

If anyone coming to backas or allas would like a corn pea Kä sticker then now's your chance 🌽 I'm probably too awkward to go up to people though, so you're gonna have to find me 😂 we'll see idk

[vii-doodles]

Mr. WorldWide from the Allas Sea Pool Gig cant be missing on the Dress Up Series

[sister-pianist-chan]

I'll write my Finland/Käärijä/Joker Out gig report later. However... Here's my footage of Käärijä singing Herra Cha Cha Cha at Allas Sea Pool! I'm still trying to figure out using my GoPro and editing/uploading and stuff. Special shout-out to Micah for helping me!

It was fun! I will never forget this day, not all of you guys that I've met there! I fucking Love you guys and I miss you guys! I was the crazy bitch that didn't wear her nun habit (I'm not a nun lol. But I've embraced my religiousAU fics a little too much lol) and was having you guys sign/draw in my book lol. I may have drawn you a Brother!Jere/monk!Jere or a Father!Nace/priest!Nace if you asked me to draw or write something.

[hanhan156]

I saw Käärijä in Lohja and in Allas Sea Pool Helsinki and holy shit… I’ve been going to various concerts from -03 but Allas Sea Pool was hands down one of the top 5 concerts I’ve ever been in. We also met Jere briefly before the concert and he was such a sweetheart. Still not over of it…

I’m so mindblown right now, but would like to write proper concert reports later. Thank you Käärijä, concert organizers and the audience for the best time ever. <3

[yourbasicqueerie]

can we hear ur lilia headcanons... as many as possible i am starving

be careful another what you ask lol, these r some of my fave ones:

( i am and will be ignoring her death. try me hoes)

• that woman can cook, she’ll make you a MEAAANNNN pesto alla trapanese and don’t get me started on traditional sicilian dishes. can’t bake for shit tho.

• she sews most of her clothing herself.

• that woman has had some questionable gigs to rank up some cash, some of those being:

- a history teacher who made some questionable comments about vampires and their uselessness in actual fighting ( “you know kids, vampires are absolutely shit heads, you think they are going to be these big scary people but noooo, terrible at hand in hand combat too” . )

-a hand reader at various kid parties. the amount of times she’s had to tell moms that no, she will not know the gender of their child is astounding ( . )

-a jazz singer at some dingy bar ( she got approached by a big time producer once, but refused to do anything with him after he made some off handed comment about her hair)

• talking about hair, she’s very very proud of her curls, she might not be keen on chemical peels as much ( smth jen later got her on) but if you want to talk hair care? she’s your girl

• after she got kicked out of her place, she moved into agatha’s house and took over the couch. though she will never say it, the couch is the most comfortable thing she has ever slept on ( maybe even the MAAASSIVE bed she must have had in her young days)

• talking about her young days, even though she was not from a royal family, YOU CANNOT TELL ME she wasn’t somehow related to the médici family, i mean LOOK AT HER!!!

• she owns a small artemisia gentilieschi portrait of herself she commissioned while at florence.

• her favorite colour, contrary to popular opinion, is not yellow, but orange

• she sings in the shower, beautifully and loudly so. ( can’t exaggerate the loud part, you can hear her from the whole house, the coven does not complain tho, they acc quite like the everything shower days, it means they get at least 40 minutes of lilia’s singing)

• when drunk, lilia is so chatty and touchy, agatha is not keen on it, but rio loves it, their karaoke duos are astonishing too.

• she laughs the loudest between all of them

• agatha full on laid all her mommy issues in this woman ( now, if that is to say that if she and agatha were to have sex, agatha would call her mommy, or if agatha sees lilia as a motherly figure is up to you)

• the whole of the coven depends on her, if lilia is gone then they all fall apart

• she is a sucker for an aldi, would spend hours grocery shopping if she could.

• wine enthusiast lilia calderu

• polyglot lilia calderu

[mitamicah]

*Aggressively shaking him* stop being so pretty!!!

Allas Sea Pool, 7.5.24

[smimon]

I'm looking at Allas photos and Jere wore a Trafik bracelet 🫠

[micahthemoon]

Summer 2024

Kääryleet Summer Camp

July was a magical month, most of all because it was time to meet up with friends from all over the world for the Käärylyeet summer camp. I still recall walking into Expresso House in Helsinki (Vantaa) Airport and seeing the faces of kääryleet I’ve only ever met online. It was surreal. And it didn’t get less surreal from there meeting Bison, Ello, ICBI, Zoren and so many more during the one week I spend in Helsinki and Turku.

Our green banner flew high for three whole Käärijä concerts starting with Jere’s hometown gig in Vantaa and ending with a bang at Ruisrock.

Everybody in the camp got their moment at some point – wedding puposals, flag shout outs, guest performances of our favourite artists, gifts being given (both of us to the boys and the other way around), crew members being met, hugged and taking pictures with. Interviews being abducted… I could name so much more, but I have already shouted about it on my main blog.

So I will just say this: Thank you everybody once more for this amazing trip! I still smile when I look down at my angle at the pineapple tattoo, I’m sharing with siblings in Canada, Chicago, Germany and the Netherlands. I also still have a song I need to share with you. Until then I hope you are doing well, love your Danish brother/sibling.

[n3ongold3n]

You were all waiting for more potato quality Allas pictures yesyes?

[omppupiiras]

i got fomo from everybody's buying kä tickets posts so I bought myself a ticket to käärijä's allas gig 😂 so if everything goes according to plan I will see him 4 times this summer 😍

[harrisonarchive]

Photos by Henry Grossman.

“[The Dark Horse Tour] was an extremely well organized tour. George had even arranged a Boing 707 for us, complete with a big Aum painted on the outside, and the inside rearranged so that the first-class area was a floor with carpets and throw cushions, like a Maharaja’s lounge. The entire plane was ours for the tour. Our musical instruments, cushioned in large protective boxes, were traveling by road along with the sound equipment, After a performance three trucks used to leave for the next city, while we would fly later on, so that when we landed and were whisked off from the plane directly to the hotel (by car), they were there to meet us. One of the trucks was even converted into a full kitchen run by Vasudevan [Ravi’s former cook], so that there was Indian food ready for us on arrival at the hotel!” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala (1997) “That was great. Everybody really got on well on the plane, all the Indian and Western musicians, The flights were the best times. It was easier to fly after the show, so we got into the groove of escaping out of the hall, running to the airport and jumping on the plane. Then we’d take off and go to the next city and there would be a little after-show party on the plane, and we would arrive late at night so we would already be in the town for the next gig. Jim Keltner, Emil Richards and Tommy Scott were so into all the Indians — they would be hanging out with Alla Rakha on those plane rides, playing different rhythms. It was fantastic. And with the kitchen truck, it reached the stage where the Western musicians would be eating Indian food and the Indians would all be eating pizza!” - George Harrison, ibid “There were many exchanges on different sounds with two percussionists with Ravi Shankar’s band. […] We somehow communicated through melody and rhythm. When Rij Ram, one of the percussionists, heard a new sound that impressed him, the look of joy on his face was indescribable.” - Emil Richards, Wonderful World of Percussion: My Life Behind Bars (2013)