emilie autumn in helsinki 18.04

[cimorene]

Saturday's performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody" with the guitar solos on electric violin♥


We went to Helsinki this weekend to see Emilie Autumn, my favourite industrial burlesque e-violin genius. (Granted, she's the only industrial burlesque violinist I know of; but I like her compared with non-industrial non-burlesque non-violinists too.) Even though we got to the club ½ an hour after the doors were supposed to open we stood outside for another ½ hour with our extremities going numb like, 100 meters from the water in the harbour. A seagull was laughing at us, trufax. When they finally let us in we stood in the bathroom and put our toes under the hot water. :| And then there were some drunken gig-crashing assholes behind us yelling "TITS!" and "SEX!" the whole time over the music and patter and kinda ruining the whole burlesque show segments, and they didn't leave until nearly the end when a chick with more balls than us told them off. Also, there were these big sweaty dudes with dude!BO in front of us and personally, dude!BO is my least favourite smell in the universe, way below cat pee, sulfur, and vomit.

However, we were only 2 peeps back from the balcony railing so, even though I had to stand up like last time, at least I was able to see, and was neither too hot nor too cold. The Goth/Burlesque Teenie Fashion Show was almost as great as last time; I only regret that it was too dark to take snapshots of the outfits successfully, like I'd been planning to do.


My favourite part, the violin solo, is... here.



Anyway, as a weekend it was a little stressful: Wax forgot her iPod and we spent WAY too long trying to find someone to sell us an iPod USB cable, and the temperature dropped a bit lower than anticipated and it was KILLER windy, even for the Finnish coast. Icy wind trying to knock us over, seriously. I wrapped my scarf around my face just like in winter and I was still cold in my wool coat. Also, Sofia, who once again provided us with crash space on her floor, has an adorable but bad little border terrier who tracked sand into our mattress and nommed on my hair and licked Wax's face in the middle of the night, so we didn't sleep extremely well. Then we came home, deeply invigorated by two hours in direct sunlight on the bus, and cleaned the apartment for about eight hours. Level of cleaning indicators: I scrubbed under the sink with a toothbrush, and Wax scrubbed the windowsill and double-glazed windowframes in the bedroom with stain remover until two buckets of water turned black. (We live near the highway. Yum, heavy metal window dust!)

Comments

[everysecondtuesday]

I love Emilie Autumn! Someone else on my flist introduced me to her music a few months ago (I'd heard a song or two before, but never found out who it was until that point). Thanks for the link!

[cimorene]

Cool, another fan! Well, if you don't mind the quality you can see live video from almost every show she plays on YouTube, as well as fake-vids of the studio recordings of pretty much every song she's released.