The Perfect Pitch

As you all know, the new World Champions get a chance to record a single and sign a recording deal with IVK Music Finland. After Saturday’s final festivities and partying (naturally water is the winners choice of beverage) we headed to Lohja to start recording at IVK Studios. The male winner Michael Bates recorded his original single during Sunday and the female winner Julie Gonnet will come back to Finland for her recording soon, as she had problems with her voice after the demanding competition and needed to rest.

We will also publish more detailed information about the actual song and recording & release process later on, stay tuned!

Erkka and Mauro in the control room.

Michael giving it all in the booth.

Everything was filmed. You are sure to see some of that footage in this blog!

While Michael, Mauro and Erkka were working hard in upstairs, we played 8-ball downstairs.

The man at work.

After the recording was done and deals were signed, it was time for some champagne.

Cheers to Michael and KWC!

Now its time for Saturday and the final ceremonies, enjoy!

See the full gallery here. (stay tuned for more, only about half of the photos have been published)

Some picks:

See the full gallery here.

The 2008 event is over, thank you all! KWC Organization, Eastway and Lahden Messut are extremely happy for this year’s competition, and we hope everyone else also feels the same.

For starters, the first picture package is online starting right now. The pictures are mostly from Friday. Saturday and studio session photos are still to come! Stay tuned.

Some picks from the actual package:

For more pictures, click here..

Pictures from KWC’s opening ceremony. More detailed reports are scheduled after the event.

For original and a little bit bigger pictures, click here…