Somewhere across the sea

We were entertaining people as well as ourselves on M/S Silja Europa 18. -
20.10.2006. It was such a special journey that we will remember it for a long time.
We spent all the three days on the ship and each night we played a gig in the same
place at the same time. The best part was that there was no carrying or installing.
It was enough that we made it on the stage at the right time and that left us enough
time for different activities like maintaining our fluid balance, gambling, playing
in the ball pit, gluttony and other such things.

Our orchestra had a chance to eat in the "messroom", which is the place where the
ship's crew has their meals and they have a continuous, free of charge service 24/7.
That's like a dream for us because we're as hungry as the seagulls. I believe that I
ate there about five times per day. That's a real treat because usually, when on
tour, we can eat only twice a day and so irregular way of eating isn't good for the
body. Normally we eat at the daytime coffee and bread rolls at some service station
and then in the evening we eat whatever the venue, where we are playing, has to
offer. Very often it's nothing too delicious.

The first of the three gigs was the 100th gig with this band member combination and
accordingly, the gig was a very special one. For once we had really been thinking,
which songs to play on the night's gig. Well, we had several "extra features", for
example we had a longish jam session with solos, a humorous heavy version of the
Silja Line theme music and a completely new song with a working title "Till we die".
The next time, when we will play it live is going to be when the tour for our next
album begins.The Silja Line theme was so funny to play that we decided to play it
also on the following two gigs. The gigs went well and also otherwise we were really
enjoying ourselves having good time with fire fart styled humor and the parties
lasted until the morning. Everybody was feeling happy and on the gigs it was really
visible - and the audience was very happy as well. We had The Voice TV's video
camera with us and they're now showing every now and then some clips we shot during
the cruise. We had to censor more than half of the material because of its
sensitivity but hopefully something funny remained to be aired. In case you're
interested, watch The Voice TV. Vivian Sin'amor