#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

[hapotonradio]

Pois Kalliosta <3

Toivottavasti en oo pistäny tätä tänne vielä. Tykkään tästäki kuvasta jotenki paljon. Ja tääki on muuten oikeesti vaan screenshot videosta. :D

[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 😍

[jerejerejere]

For all tape-master Jesse enjoyers, get your fix from the Allas gig right here 📜