Hey, one of my readers is from this northern Finnish town, where they have this thing called Mieskuoro Huutajat. What is it? A normal choir that doesn't sing, but rather screams everything at maximum decibels. Apparently they toured Japan, but I missed them. One performance where you could probably save money by listening from outside the auditorium.
Have you heard them Marko?
Posted by Joe at February 3, 2004 10:17 PMYep, they are pretty famous. The national TV showed a documentary about them some time ago (this documentary was mentioned in your link as well).
I actually have a personal experience with the choir: I was once arriving from a business trip from somewhere (by plane) and the choir was in the same plane. I was quicker out of the plane, they came behind me. Upon entering the entrance hall, I was greeted with a red carpet, some trumpets and an audience with flowers...
Apparently they had been given some sort of a price somewhere.
Oh, they have a home page, as well (and it's mostly in English):
http://www.huutajat.org/
There are a few samples there.
I once arrived at Helsinki airport before the Finnish ice hockey team who were coming home from losing to Sweden in the World Cup final. Loads of fans, but no red carpet - not after losing to the dreaded enemy.
Posted by: Joe at February 4, 2004 11:06 AMIt's the long nights that do it, you know. I took to hollering in no time during my one and only Icelandic winter.
Posted by: martin at February 4, 2004 04:39 PMI think Martin hit the nail on the head here. It's not only cold in the winter, it's dark as well. Fortunately the days are already noticeably longer than a month ago.