Monday nights from 21.00 (more like 21.30). Hämeentie 13 B
Siltanen is a cool cafe up on the Hämeentie hill. It sits just off the normal road and you have to cross a bridge to get in; Presumably it will also serve as a hipster fortress when the skinny-jean revolution kicks off proper. Inside it's v-cool. Beautiful hipster-staff, bearded hipster-DJ and obscure IPA's. The lights were stolen from a hospital in the 70s and the bar, annoyingly, has no stools.
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| NO STOOLS!!! |
The acts, this week at least, were brilliantly varied and all nicely amateur. First was a Neil Young lookalike in leather trousers and cowboy boots who played guitar like Richard Thompson and growled lyrics in Finnish. I have no idea what the words were but I'd bet my shoes they involved dragons and elves.
Richard Thompson - Scary good
Then up came a bouncy Uruguayan reggae singer in a giant Rasta hat so lop-sided that my OCD gene started to short-circuit.
Next were stand-up comedians, rappers, guitar players dedicating songs to their girlfriends and in between the bearded hipster DJ played mostly excellent records (bit too many versions of Hotline Bling for my taste).
Perhaps the high point of the evening was the wild-haired guy (think Lionel Richie in the 80s) who stumbled on to the stage and let go a relentless monologue, half Richard Pryor half Steve Buscemi in The Wedding Singer, swerving (and crashing) from awesome stream of consciousness to probably offensive. Eventually he was dragged off whilst the audience sat in confused silence.
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| Steve Buscemi |
Lionel Richie
A great Monday night. Beers are a good price, lovely place, nice atmosphere and lots of fun acts to watch so you don't even have to talk to your friends.
Go there.
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