21 May 2006
Written by Rainer
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
All I can say is that hell has frozen over. We actually won the Eurovision song contest. Something also celebrated was also the fact that we won the Swedish, a benchmark important for the Finns.
I was walking through the center after the contest and it was packed with people shouting “Lordi!”, “Hard Rock Hallelujah!”, “Hell has finally frozen” and so on. Half of the bus started chanting the chorus always when some one shouted “Lordi”, “We won” or “Hard Rock Hallelujah”. I was really odd feeling walking through town in a mist (and we were erred for foreigners for two times while walking) where one can suddenly hear druken shouts of “Lordi” which then echoed in the streets. Cars were driving by, boomblasters blazing the Hard Rock Hallelujah.
All I can say is poor YLE (Finnish equalent of BBC) which will need terrible ad-on to it’s budget to cover the expences of the song contest next year.