A little ditty about #helbf15

Here I am, at the bottom of my bed with a horrible cold....I can´t remember being this ill since my Dengue-fever some years ago. At least I got my sinuses open now and can walk around for more than 5min without wanting to faint :) I was totally bummed out for missing the Abstinenssi-klubi last night! Good thing is, I heard there will be more of them <3 YAY! Also, feeling pretty happy that I have a couple of weekends off and not having to perform while feeling like this, I know a few colleagues that are not so lucky. Hang in there, babes! Glitter and ibuprofein go a long way.

Anyway, my point was NOT to moan about this (since there are shitloads of worse things out there than a flue, as crappy as it is) but to share a link with you from last weekends Helsinki Burlesque Festival! Read this interview with Bettie Blackheart in Sylvi (my new number also got a mention, hurrah!) - this is, unfortunately, only in Finnish.

I´ll tuck myself in so I´ll hopefully be ready to rokk on Monday again! Have a wonderful weekend <3

"Midlife Crisis" (c) Tuomas Lairila

(c) Mats Öun

Tired and thankful

Tuesday Post Festival.

The blues after the #helbf15 has been worse than for a long time after a great event...Don´t know, it might have to do with the fact that I got to climb on Mr. Gorgeous lap on Sunday´s workshop -and well, the drop from there IS pretty high.
I will post more pictures and stories later but for now I just want to send out a HUGE thank you to everyone involved: crew, audience, performers, lovers and sinners! It truly was something to remember and even if I´m still exhausted from lack of sleep I can´t remember a time when I would have been more *alive* than right now.

Thank you for receiving my new number "Midlife Crisis" so well on Friday, I´m overwhelmed by all the good reviews everyone has given me about it <3


And when the going gets tough, the tough gets going! Come and get rid of this post-festival-depression to Cafe Mascot this Friday at Abstinenssiklubi  organized by the Ravishing Shangri-La Rubies!

Group pic by Tuomas Lairila

Gorgeous!

#HELBF15 is ON next week and I´m stoked about everything about it! I´m bringing a new act for Friday, helping out with the backstage catering, taking many wonderful workshops and getting to meet old and new peeps <3 Simply put: bloody marvelous!

One of the absolute favourite performers is Mr. Gorgeous from New York. I had the pleasure of seeing him on and off stage at the Vienna Boylesque Festival last May and yes, he is as gorgeous and *tall* as he seems. The perfect Clark Kent-image that he brakes with the most immaculate comedic timing. He is a real sweetheart as well, being genuinly *nice* to you. He´s also a costumier, I got hubby a pair of his tiger-swimtrunks for our trip to the Keys :) We´re taking his acrobatics workshop next week Sunday -yikes!

Anyway, if you don´t have ticket for the Helsinki Burlesque Festival you ARE seriously missing out!
I´m hoping to see this act again live... <3 Mr. Gorgeous in Vegas