N°4 LORDI - HARD ROCK HALLELUJAH

Off course I've chosen to walk the Eurovision contest path especially because I'll always  remember where I was when this song won the contest in 2006. I was in holiday in Rhodos, Greece at that time and I didn't watch any of the songs participating that year. Actually I wasn't really aware there was this metal rockband from Finland wearing masks and cosstumes. But as soon as I heared the news I was thrilled that a band like this actually won.

The day after I even had a discussion with a Greek lady who thought the monsters should have won since that wasn't even music and she couldn't see if they sang it live. Off course they roared it live and off course the show was more important than the song itself but then again it was a pretty damn good song. Once I heared a stripped down version on the radio sang by a Belgian singer, playing it on an acooustic guitar and it really really sounded good. If any song holds it up when played accoustic it's a damn good song and I'm saying this with Nirvana in the back of my mind.

Anyway, Lordi. They're from Finland and they all wear masks and go by beast names. They even wore their mask throughout the whole week at the contest. Up till now there's merely speculations on who's who in the band. Another fact is that the Rovaniemi square in Rovaniemi, Finland was renamed to Lordi Square after their victory in 2006. They made 8 albums in the past 11 years and they toured with bands like Nightwish and Type-O-Negative.

Lordi also participated in creating two movies. The Kin came out in 2004 and is a shortfilm about a novelist trying to publish a book about superhuman monsters (played by the bandmembers) who kill people. The band co-wrote this short movie but although they participate in it at no point their music is played.

In 2008 they wrote a complete movie called Dark Floors. This ones about an autistic girl who gets stuck in a hospital elevator together with some other people. When they finally reach the next floor the hospital is abandoned apart from some monsters which are again the Lordi group members. Only in the end credits you'll hear a Lordi song.

As you can read there's plenty to tell about these crazy Fins but i'll leave it for now. Just open up your mind, watch and listen to their performance in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest Finals.