19:18 Cleaning Women waltzes with washboards

Cleaning Women had the pleasure to be the first band in the third tent for Saturday, and managed to draw a big crowd well before their scheduled start. Emo intellectuals, goth princesses, neo-hippies and punks had all gathered together to witness the show of the band who play their music with instruments attached to washing boards.

After the first clings from their more or less Do-It-Yourself instruments, the tent was drawn full. The band knows how to take their audience as all available space was used for dancing, even if it's rather hard to label the band as very "danceable."

Raving applause and confused comments, such as "as if Super Mario has reached a new level" or "I don't know what they want to say with this, but it sure does sound aggressive" confirm the success of this strange band.

Markus Heikkilä
Pic: Minna Pahkin

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