Eläkeläiset
Found some Eläkeläiset music today. I love that band. Finnish, funny.
Image of the true being of Eläkeläiset.
The music consisted of humppa – their own brand of folk music – covers of 90s hits. Gangsta’s Paradise in a Finnish folk-version. With Finnish lyrics.
It’s brilliant. I feel better already. Can’t stress to these tunes.
Their concerts are even better than the songs.
They combine cowboy, sailor and spaceoutfits with heroic amounts of alcohol.
At one concert the keyboardplayer threw of every thread of clothing, except for a quite cute sailorhat, loudly professed his love for a woman and then continued to play his organ with his organ.
I saw them at Hultsfredsfestivalen once. They were completely electric.
For us Swedes, it was like having something out of a Kusturica movie come play for us.
A table where they sit and play is filled with bottles and jugs: an on-stage bar for the band. If I don’t misremember, there might’ve been a little servant as well. A guy to pour the band their drinks. And they drink heavily on stage.
Their alcohol cache maps on their website are amazing.