The next one came very quickly!! Here is my experience of a KAJ gig from Allas Live in Helsinki, 18.7.2026!! It felt like the whole gig was over in ten seconds. They started with Kom ti byin and suddenly it was time for one of the last songs, Yolo, and I just thought that wait, where are the rest of the songs…
I feel like I forgot something, and I'm a bit frustrated about that. Also, the gig was experienced under some insanity and mostly written afterwards with five hours of sleep behind (and the focus being a little bit more on Kevin (A LITTLE BIT?? it's all about Kevin) (kevin…) (and his hips...), so, as with all of these posts, take this with a grain of salt, remember that it's a personal experience, and enjoy!!
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There is no way on earth that I would NOT tell this. I was standing in the line, it was still going to take a while until the gates would open, and I was just minding my own business. Until. I hear someone next to me say the key words, Jakob and Axel. The person spoke finnish, and my ear picked up on it immediately. "Jakob ja Axel tulevat tuolta."
HJELLOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ARE WALKING THERE????? I TURN AROUND AND IT DOESN'T TAKE ME LONG TO SPOT TWO VERY FAMILIAR FIGURES WALKING ALONG THE ROAD IN REGULAR CLOTHES AND WITH BACKPACKS. THEY HAD THEIR SUNGLASSES, BUT I SAW THAT THEY WERE LOOKING OUR WAY, ESPECIALLY JAKOB WHO WAS GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR AS HE WATCHED US AAAHHGJFDNVJKDDJS
MY STOMACH DROPS, IMMEDIATE ADRENALINE IN MY BODY. I'M FUMBLING TO REACH @residentraccoon STANDING NEXT TO ME TO GET HER ATTENTION AND STARTED STAMMERING SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR NAMES WITH A MIX OF "TTHERE THE THEY ARE WALKING AXEL AXEL JAKOB THE LOOK THEY JAKOB AXEL LOOK" AND I WAS SHAKING AND TRYING TO STAY NORMAL AND BEHAVE IN FRONT OF THEM AND AFTER THEY HAD GONE PAST US I JUST STARED INTO NOTHING WHILE BEING SPEECHLESS AND TREMBLING AND LAUGHING AND SQUEALING ADN
I was losing my mind with residentraccoon. I get that she would react like this (LOVED TO EXPERIENCE THIS WITH HERRRR JDVNJDFDSFJN WHAT THE HELL) but why me?? I HAVE SEEN THEM MANY TIMES NOW??? WHAT THE FUCK. It's different to see them out in the wild though. IT WAS INSANe. I don't know if anyone else had seen them, because no one seemed to react to it. I don't know. Or we are just insane. But that was one of the best moments from that day, actually that is one of the absolute best moments in my life, it felt so good, and I know that being alone in that moment wouldn't have been as great. We gushed about them after it had happened oh my goooood it was the best thing ever.
It's a good thing that we didn't see Kevin walking there like that. Right at that moment I would have ran away to never be seen again (if my legs would have been even working). I know that would have been the end of both of us.
It's time for the gig to start!
During Karar i arbeit, uhh… where my eyes went, was… well. You know, That Part. But I swear it hypnotised me… How he moved his hips with precise control from side to side and slightly forward, I had the perfect, unrestricted view to that. I could write a pages' worth about this. Other times when I've seen him do that, it's been smooth and going easily with an invisible, relaxed flow, like waves, loose fingers curled onto his side. His hips have had a continuous movement, when extended forward, he has pulled them back with the same calm and soft confidence that he takes to the other side as well, never stopping the flow. But there was something different in him today… This time his his hips were snappy, but not uncontrolled. He stopped to the furthest he wanted to go, and with the same path came back, using the same trajectory again and again without letting his hips wander. He was firm with it, just like the beat was, which came the loudest through all the music. It was dull and strong and vast, the perfect rhythm for Kevin to use. I just could not take my eyes off of him. The beat and the movement was all I knew at that moment, and everything else tuned out into the background. You can read this from a pervert's perspective, but I will also offer you an option for an admirer's perspective who finds the smallest shifts, lines and shapes, colours, behaviours, facial twitches and voice changes of his to be the most interesting subject in the whole possible world.
Oh and he didn't sing his long note at the end of his verse :( I can't remember what his rawwr was like. But what I remember thinking was that with Kevin's verse being the dirtiest and most suggestive (Jakob and Axel's are innocent, Kevin is the freak here), of course they also have to start doing the thrusts immediately after his verse. And of course he has to moan about it, scrunch his brows a bit, push the tip of his tongue against the inside of his lower lip, ready to peek out a little.
Who even are they and why do they exist?? This is insane behaviour. I love that song so much.
OH and Kevin mimicked Axel's hand movement!!! It was soooo cute aahhh <3
Ehehehe there was someone in the crowd whose voice reached over the cheering very well, and I could hear them shouting, "Hyvä Kevin!" which means that the person was cheering on Kevin, but I think that word in finnish has more praise in it than the english translation, "good, Kevin!" would have. (KEVIN'S PRAISE KINK FROM THEIR JULKALENDER REFERENCE????? BRA KEVIN NBVJFNJDN) The person shouted this about three times :) Kevin was audibly praised three times! :) It was so nice to hear from other people who love him as well. <3 I loved it. <3
Oh one part that Kevin sings in Heimani I Skick, where they have come up with new lyrics for the city they are performing at got me thinking how creative they always are for that. It's a fun addition to the song, especially for the byaoriginals! After Kevin had sung his part, Jakob looked at him and gave him his hands up, with his fingers crossed. He was smiling a lot, and that's it, no other explanation for it. Gotta love their secret language on stage, whatever it was :)
It was some song (Heimani I Skick?) from the beginning when they were playing their instruments when this happened. For the song to start, Jakob guided us to clap along to a beat. Kevin started playing his guitar, and the sound came through for a few seconds, but suddenly it all went out, and the sound was lost somewhere. Kevin kept playing his guitar, perhaps hoping that it would be fixed, and in the mean time Jakob told us to keep clapping. I love that he took the crowds attention for a while to let Kevin work it out for a while. After Kevin had checked some kind of guitar sound thingy on his strap, they started again, and this time everything worked perfectly. It somehow felt extra great to hear the sound coming loud from the speakers, and Kevin immediately started to play it with confidence. It was a strong start again, and the technical issue was forgotten immediately!
Again, when Kevin was playing his guitar, it was such a joy to watch it when he looked at the crowd in front of him on his side and saw us jumping and dancing and singing, he started smiling wider and playing with a renewed fire when he saw us. He was enjoying so much. It was just a joy to see him feeling like that. Oh a happy Kevin. <3 And when he sings and dances and looks at us, it's like he guides us with the show, he knows how much their work means to us and how happy it makes us. He can see the effect they all have on us, and every time one of them smiles while looking at the crowd, I just feel like we are also doing something right with supporting them and showing them our love. It's all unbelievable, how much love there is shared between them and us and also amongst us fans, you as well who cannot make it to their gigs.
The beginning of Gelateria is still the most insane part of this song. How can something like that even exist? And Kevin's part…………………. The way it starts with his mmmmhhjahar ett ställ ja ha bonga, I could listen to that for ages, it's perfect, Kevin's pitch is perfect, Kevin is absolutely perfect. Damn. yES. It's kind of a tone that shows playful flirting, with Kevin wanting to be a little bit more loose without losing his confidence or sexiness.
Kevin's moves…… The move Kevin did in Gelateria promo video, swaying his hips from side to side while keeping his hands flat on his sides… that has come to the performance… uhm. Literally every time they were about to go to the chorus and I looked in Kevin's direction, he was doing this goddamn dance… Add Gelateria to the cunty songs list next to Karar i arbeit, Dansgolv and TEXT-TV (and now apparently Firmans man as well…….)
Oh… this also reminded me of how Kevin moved in general. (uhh. is this me just talking about Kevin? Ahhah, yes.) It very much looked like he was just a little bit shy from all those things he had done last year. There were a lot of tiny hip sways that didn't quite reach the Dansgolv level. Maybe he's taking it more slower this year (he's saving them for KAJhem… or. maybe he's actually taking it a bit slower, if he doesn't feel like doing it again or something…).
Aaahjhdjdvnvnjd can't remember what song it was bUT KEVIN WENT TO DANCE TO THE HIGHEST BENCH!!!! Where Jakob and Axel have been dancing, and now it was Kevin's turn!! <3
Jakob had some new air to him. He did his dances with new rhythms, exaggerating them and also coming up with new ways to dance. There was a moment– I have no idea if I should write this out, it sounds ridiculous, but in person it looked …good. During TEXT-TV, he does his dance with flicking his ass and hips from side to side. Here he decided to emphasize that… in time with the beat… during a song about tv… It looked like he had fun! and we got to look…
He did something with his shoe too? It had slipped off of him, or he took it off? But he danced with the shoe in his hand! Did something with it, just being a normal, silly Jakob.
Kevin during Pa to ta na kako……. I LOVE HIMMΜ it looked like he was having so much fun singing the chorus, he was jumping and dancing, and he lowered himself a little bit and moved his feet on the ground, like they'd slide on the surface. And his hands… Man, he can make his body move like liquid, it's amazing. (He also had the most oiled hips at that venue, it's like they live their own life at that point.)
Speaking of Kevin and his hips (again??), uhh, Firmans man, anyone? He was so horny during it… the way he moved… it was like he was in his own world and he got some kind of satisfaction from doing what he did. Like he felt the song in a different way than before (the Dansgolv in him wants to get out). I'm scared to watch videos of it.
Man, Kevin's singing… Sometimes there are parts when he sings more melodically, which differs from the track or his regular singing, and let me tell you. It's much more than any kind of music could ever be to my ears. It's the softest, purest sound that feels like hope and a bright future, it's like everything is okay when I hear him sing, and at that moment I'm in a place that I can't believe exists. It's something ethereal, and the knowledge that I am able to hear more of it at that exact moment, that I can hear all three of them, see them and feel, it's like a sacred privilege.
Ah, the humour they have during these gigs. <3 The joy they share, the joy they create, people can smile and laugh and feel good. And they love to be the cause to that. Sometimes they also look surprised by how much they and their work are loved. And the intensity of it…
It has recently come into my conscious mind, that people who haven't been at their gigs don't necessarily know how much happens there with the speaks, the songs and the details from the crowd or the venues or the set list or the choreography, so I hope that I am not telling all of this like it would be obvious. If you have read these experience posts, you might have got an image of what it would be like, but it's still different to experience all of that in person, because the full show experienced in whole is something that I don't think cannot be experienced anywhere else.
There was something in the air, the crowd was… crazy? There was a lot of cheering, and this time, while in my experiences most of the longest and loudest cheers have stayed in the first applauds they get after Kom ti byin with extended and increasing screams (since we don't have time to properly appreciate them before it, as they start the song immediately after coming onto stage), but this time, after some songs in the middle of the gig we gave them applauds which grew in duration. There was a moment when the initial screams had calmed down, but here and there people were continuing, and from there the audience, prompted by the few screams, got noisy again with one by one joining in to reach the levels that had been right after the song. Not sure if this next thing happened during this part, but at some point Jakob joined the cheering with his own scream, it was cute!
Most of this was a bit of a haze to me (I was focusing on screaming, therefore couldn't pay attention haha), but I also kind of got this confirmed by another source.
Saying it again, there definitely was something in the air. And I think what it was, was more appreciation, more love towards them after their pause in gigs this year. We fans know that they are something exceptionally unbelievable to be actually true and exist, and when that gets taken away for a moment, but then we get it back, we show how much we had missed it, right? They are getting more and more love, and if I look at the small journey (compared to their 16-year career) from last year all the way to here, their gigs have changed quite a lot. From their first sauna tour gigs when they stuck to the choreography and followed what was already planned, to this where they can improvise with dancing and stage shenanigans and their singing, where they can move more relaxed and really find the joy for performing, between these there is a lot of work, experiences, creativity and especially friendship. And it really shows. I'd give anything so that I could see all of it again. So, I understand people who are living for KAJ, myself included. Moving to new places, going to new countries, breaking language barriers, and staying creative. Keeping the KAJ fandom alive with friends and meeting new ones, because life is simply much more brighter with these tre pojkar in it.
Thank you so much if you read it all the way to here. <3 My tenth KAJ gig was, well, I don't think I can put this into few words anymore. So I hope that you felt it through this text. :) It was so nice to see some familiar people again, it really left a warm feeling in my heart, and I can't wait to see you again. <3
And now to the post-gig depression. :') The only way to deal with it is to consume some KAJ, like I every day do. :)
I hope that the days treat you well, sending much love to you. <3










