A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to visit Stockholm, to finally see Nortec Collective live.  Nedless to say, we jumped around like crazy and enjoyed the gig immensely, especially since instead of Banda samples they actually had live musicians backing them up (who played an encore of their own).  We even ended up backstage with them after the gig, and naturally welcomed them to come to the Helsinki Festival whenever they could.

It was a very welcome pause, and it was nice to see that Stockholm still looks the same.  An interesting note was that everybody spoke to me in Swedish (even though I had a tejana on most of the time), while that seldom happens in Finland with or without funny hats.