Merry KAJstmas!

This blog will help you celebrate Christmas in the form of a KAJ advent calendar!

[kajstmas]

DAY 24

KAJstmas is here!

What a KAJcember (December) we have had! And what a journey KAJ has had all the way from little boys to grown adults who keep creating, laughing and being themselves.

To each other they are what Christmas is with food, presents and family; these belong together and without one of these it wouldn't exist.

As people hopefully find some relaxation and rest today, one person who is working hard all day long and well into the night is Tomten aka Santa Claus. If Christmas was in KAJs hands, even withouth Christmas magic these three Tomten would make sure that no one is left with a frown on their faces.

This Tomten (picture below) would always leave with laughter being the background music of his trip!

Who is dressed as Tomten (Santa Claus)?

Kevin Holmström

Axel Åhman

Jakob Norrgård

Voting ended onDec 27, 2025

(Picture is edited, no AI used. Just like KAJ we all support real artists.)

Answer: Jakob Norrgård!

A note from the host:

At this point I want to thank everyone who participated in the fun! I hope that you found some questions interesting and that there were a variety of easy and difficult questions, although when looking at the results it's clear that you KAJ-fans know your source very well! 😉 But that is understandable; some pjasar is always needed in life.

Special thanks to everyone who gave encouragement in the forms of follows, likes, reblogs and especially those who gave comments/feedback on the reblogs. They did not go unnoticed and I will remember them with warmth!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas however you are going to spend it. Maybe it's listening to Håo Håo Vööbåo on repeat, maybe it's taking a nap after the meal or it's enjoying a foot bath to relax. Whatever it is I hope that you find sources of comfort and joy of some sort.

Tack så mycket och God Jul! 🎄✨❤️

Here are the last episodes of KAJs julkalender. Enjoy!

Avsnitt 24, God Jul!

2011

2013

[kajstmas]

DAY 23

KAJstmas is almost here and now is a good time to answer to a Christmas related question. If you know where to look you'll find KAJstmas content from the internet in the forms of julkalenders, performances (x, x, x, x), of course Håo Håo Vööbåo and some small interviews from this year but also from a few years backwards. In 2019 there was a Christmas concert Decemberkväll in Helsinki and even if the songs that KAJ sung were not about Christmas they sure conveyed the joyful Christmas spirit to all who were and are watching it again.

In a mini interview right before they started playing Taco Hej KAJ was asked what they are wishing for Christmas. Did they wish for a winter coat and some warm, homemade gingerbread cookies? Or perhaps a brand new Cadillac?

What did KAJ wish for Christmas in the Decemberkväll concert?

Shampoo, mittens, gingerbread cookies

A Cadillac, cigarettes and beer, an opportunity to live forever in Vörå

Long underwear, legos, gröna kulor

A winter coat, scratch cards, mulled wine (glögg)

A new guitar, Diamond Ocular Excellence binoculars, 10 000€ in cash

Voting ended onDec 26, 2025

Answer: Long underwear, legos, gröna kulor

Source: The stream of Decemberkväll (timestamp 18.55)

Decemberkväll

Bjud in julen med vinterns stora musikfest! Tomas Ledin och en rad kända artister bjuder på julsånger, hits, komik och allsång på Kulturhuse

Some translation for their parts:

Reblog by @sflow-er · 8 images

💬 0  🔁 9  ❤️ 33 · How had I missed this until now?? Such lovely performances with a live band and everything! The gifs are perfect, love the

Avsnitt 23, DJ Väinämöinen

[kajstmas]

DAY 22

KAJ started with their iconic green t-shirts but now it's almost an everyday occurrence that you see KAJ wearing suits. Their suits as a trademark started with the release of Karar i arbeit album in 2024 and from there Bara bada bastu and Eurovision only intensified their signature look of suits.

Before the year of 2025 there has been a lot of footage of KAJ performing without suits but this year it has been impossible to see them without ones during gigs and concerts. Can you remember any occasion where they haven't worn any? With that it's understandable that they grow the contents of their wardrobes with more pieces they can wear. Can you count from memory how many suits they exactly have had during their whole career?

Answer includes only suits where they have performed in on stage or during gigs. It has to be a set (dress shirt, jacket and trousers). Musicals are not included.

In how many different suits have they performed on stage?

4

5

6

7

8

Voting ended onDec 25, 2025

Answer: 6

Sources/explanations:

Suits that didn't count as they have not performed in these:

DNA advertisement suits (both the ads and the Finlandia hymn video)

Linnan julhat suits

Suits where they have performed in (did you remember to think about their past?):

The green Pa to ta na kako suits

Karar i arbeit suits

Of course the Bara bada bastu suits that were made for the song itself

Mosquito suits. The first time they wore these suits were on the release gigs of Mosquito. They have used these suits (or combinations of pieces of them) in Basel, but they never performed in them there.

(Below a pic from the Eurovision time with these suits)

Again new looks with Karaoke suits that they wore for Kaj On Ice concert

And with the latest addition their Christmas suits they performed on JouluMielelle -charity concert and Julallsång på skansen in

Avsnitt 22, Demotisdag 2

[thehappiestlittletv]

We have a name for the ESC version of the Mosquito suits (with Kevin in light grey) too! They were referred to as the Mafioso set in this video (@ 0:40 or so):

So uh 6 ½ suits? 🤔

[kajstmas]

Ohh the Mafioso set and the boss in the middle! 😉 That sounds very fun, they might have given some fun names for their other suits too! 6 and a half sounds perfect, now we have to be on the lookout for Kevin's light grey suit if he ever wears it on stage. 🤭

Thank you for pointing this out. (:

[kajstmas]

DAY 22

KAJ started with their iconic green t-shirts but now it's almost an everyday occurrence that you see KAJ wearing suits. Their suits as a trademark started with the release of Karar i arbeit album in 2024 and from there Bara bada bastu and Eurovision only intensified their signature look of suits.

Before the year of 2025 there has been a lot of footage of KAJ performing without suits but this year it has been impossible to see them without ones during gigs and concerts. Can you remember any occasion where they haven't worn any? With that it's understandable that they grow the contents of their wardrobes with more pieces they can wear. Can you count from memory how many suits they exactly have had during their whole career?

Answer includes only suits where they have performed in on stage or during gigs. It has to be a set (dress shirt, jacket and trousers). Musicals are not included.

In how many different suits have they performed on stage?

4

5

6

7

8

Voting ended onDec 25, 2025

Answer: 6

Sources/explanations:

Suits that didn't count as they have not performed in these:

DNA advertisement suits (both the ads and the Finlandia hymn video)

Linnan julhat suits

Suits where they have performed in (did you remember to think about their past?):

The green Pa to ta na kako suits

Karar i arbeit suits

Of course the Bara bada bastu suits that were made for the song itself

Mosquito suits. The first time they wore these suits were on the release gigs of Mosquito. They have used these suits (or combinations of pieces of them) in Basel, but they never performed in them there.

(Below a pic from the Eurovision time with these suits)

Again new looks with Karaoke suits that they wore for Kaj On Ice concert

And with the latest addition their Christmas suits they performed on JouluMielelle -charity concert and Julallsång på skansen in

Avsnitt 22, Demotisdag 2

[kajstmas]

DAY 21

The year of 2025 for KAJ started with continuing their Karar i arbeit tour well into April. Midway through they added Bara Bada Bastu into the setlist after Melodifestivalen rapidly changed their summer plans.

After Eurovision KAJ came back from Switzerland with many experiences richer and started their Sauna Tour right away. KAJs first venue was in Gröna Lund 24.5 and the last venue was at Viking Grace 17.9. Many fun memories, amazing people and unforgetable nights fit in between that timetable. But how many gigs fit there?

How many Sauna Tour gigs did KAJ perform this year?

34

38

42

Voting ended onDec 24, 2025

Answer: 42

Source:

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Avsnitt 21, Sein kveld med Ruben

2011:

2013:

[kajstmas]

DAY 20

Everybody knows what KAJ stands for. It's the first letters of their names: Kevin Holmström, Axel Åhman and Jakob Norrgård. However, during Eurovision they have gotten another set of names. If someone refers to the man with the big, bright smile as SCHakob then we all immediately know who it is. Kevin and Axel are not left without names either. Mr. International holds up his title proudly as he greets the audience with "Hola!" and just like one australian businessman did, Big Kev can be heard shouting "I'm excited!" in backstages and band practices.

In the themes of three, they also have a third set of names. Even if KAJ hasn't mentioned those names at all after they were first created these names can sometimes be seen in fan spaces, fanart and fan edits. K, just like Kevin. Or is it Kindness? And the letter J is of course... Justice. That's right. But what is Axel's name in the middle of Kindness and Justice?

What is Axel's name, morally?

Acceptance

Abundance

Awareness

Voting ended onDec 23, 2025

Answer: Awareness

Source: Tiktok live from 6.5.2025 (timestamp 21:05)

Avsnitt 20, Vegas vintersatsning

[kajstmas]

DAY 19

In KAJs earlier years they were known throughout all of Ostrobothnia. But Melodifestivalen and Eurovision raised our boys to the knowledge of the whole world. Many people who had never known about them before might have learned that they after all have known one of the members in the past, maybe as a neighbour.

Information flows and people talk. Jere Pöyhönen aka Käärijä got to learn that he was one of these people who has had a past with KAJ. With lighthearted messages in Instagram DMs he and KAJ talked about his and one of the member's combined past and found out that they have been neighbours in Helsinki many years ago.

Who of the three has lived next door with Käärijä?

Jakob

Axel

Kevin

Voting ended onDec 22, 2025

Answer: Axel

Source:

Tumblr post about it with a screenshot and a translation of the text messages:

Reblog by @sflow-er · 1 image

💬 0  🔁 10  ❤️ 35 · In English: "When [@]paidatonriehuja realises in the middle of the night that he and [@]axelahman were neighbours 10 yea

Avsnitt 19, Fabbo på fääland fåot 3

[kajstmas]

DAY 18

KAJ probably didn't expect how busy they would be during the Eurovision week. Axel had bought a fishing counter for his hobby but he ended up using it to count something completely different than fish: interviews.

With the fishing counter they showed us fans just how many interviews they answered. It is known that the Eurovision participants are being interviewed literally left and right for many days in row and it can get exhausting. Luckily our boys had each other to support them through it and now the fishing counter with its results is left to be one of the many memories from May. A memory some of us might remember from that one specific video they made about this.

How many interviews did KAJ answer to on the turquoise carpet?

97

101

106

119

Voting ended onDec 21, 2025

Answer: 101

Source:

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Avsnitt 18, Guru Gosta

2013:

[kajstmas]

DAY 17

(Note: This is information that I cannot prove to be true as I can't find a source for this. But I'm sure that it exists somewhere in the sea of KAJ-content. This answer comes from my memory, I'm curious to see if you all agree!)

It took KAJ a few months to learn the Bara Bada Bastu dance perfectly. It's probably in their muscle memory already! Well, practice makes perfect, as one entrepreneur once said.

In Switzerland along the many, many interviews KAJ gave, they traveled from their hotel to St. Jakobshalle to practice their Bara Bada Bastu performance. All that glory came from hours of dance- and choreography practices and with every detail planned from the sauna benches to the fake sausage they made sure that nothing would go wrong during the final.

Jakob got to sit in the makeup chair, Axel got to play table tennis during freetime and Kevin got to get excited every time they prepared for the dress rehealsals. How many times did they go through this complicated routine of getting ready?

How many times did KAJ practice their Bara Bada Bastu performance in Basel in total?

8

10

17

Voting ended onDec 20, 2025

Answer: 17

Source: ):

If anyone remembers something about this then feel free to share any information!

Avsnitt 17, Kajs låtskrivarskola 3

[kajstmas]

DAY 16

1

2

3

Saunaa!

When Axel received an email from Karin Gunnarsson, the competition producer of Melodifestivalen, he was probably skeptical about it at first. But as we all know, it all turned out to be very real, thus leading KAJ to qualifying in the fourth semifinal of Melodifestivalen on the 22nd of February and going to compete in the Melodifestivalen final. It was a tight draw between KAJ and the close second Måns Zelmerlöw. During the counting of the points KAJ and Måns took the lead one afer the other with always a few points between them. When the last points were revealed KAJ got to perform Bara Bada Bastu, the winning song of Melodifesivalen, again.

After that KAJs long journey took them all the way to Switzerland, Basel, where busy schedules, interviews and the first semifinal awaited them in May.

They qualified from the semifinal with flying colours and their spot in the final was secured. "I went perfectly," Jakob has said about their performance in the final and so thought many people who were watching it from home. Even though the public voting was... what it was, people from all over the Europe had fallen in love with our bastubröders and voted them to fourth place in the whole competition!

How many points did KAJ get in the Eurovision final 2025?

303

321

352

Voting ended onDec 19, 2025

Answer: Funny enough, their final points were 321 saunaa!

Source: Eurovision Grand Final livestream (timestamp 3:55:03)

Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Grand Final - Livestream | #Eurovision2025

Subscribe and 🔔 to Eurovision 👉 https://www.youtube.com/user/eurovision?sub_confirmation=1 ​Join us for the Grand Final of the Eurovision So

Avsnitt 16, Gambämark Lokal-TV

[kajstmas]

DAY 15

In the spirits of Christmas I'm sure I'm not the only one who is craving a KAJ Christmas song that we could listen to this year. But even if the KAJ pojkar don't have a Christmas song (though they have many julkalender to entertain us!) Vörjeans is stepping up!

Håo Håo Vööbåo is a Rikto Rockabilly Christmas Låt. It might not be the most traditional Christmas song but it's all the more eventful just like the other songs from Vörjeans are.

What are Vörjeans doing in their song Håo Håo Vööbåo?

Vörjeans are stealing ornaments from Vörå's local Christmas tree

Vörjeans are giving a homemade Christmas drink to every Vörå resident

Vörjeans are passing out in a ditch after drinking too much plum brandy

Vörjeans are wrapping up prank gifts for the Vörå residents

Voting ended onDec 18, 2025

Answer: Vörjeans are giving a homemade Christmas drink to every Vörå resident

Source: English translation of the song here

Vörjeans - Håo Håo Vööbåo (English translation)

Vörjeans - Håo Håo Vööbåo lyrics (Swedish (dialects)) + English translation: I

Avsnitt 15, Hupparipäivä

[kajstmas]

DAY 14

If you see something red passing by with the speakers playing music loudly and a cigarette poking out from one of the windows, it's pretty clear who they are. Volvoräägörs. And this specific red Volvo is a part of their moving territory.

This Volvo, which Tommy includes in many songs is very dear to all of the Vörjeans members. It always gets them to the right destinations, whether they need to buy some beer, go to Freppa's garage for practice or when they need to drive to their venues with instruments in the trunk, backseat or wherever they can fit them. Or when they need to go drifting the car keys are not staying in Freppa's pocket. They are born to börn after all and Vörjeans live up to their reputation, no matter if it's good or bad reputation.

This Volvo has probably witnessed every occurrence in their lives. And like for a pet, they have given a name for it too.

What is the name of Vörjeans' red Volvo?

Rockabilly Mama

Mrs. Börns

Vöro's Beauty Queen

Voting ended onDec 17, 2025

Answer: Mrs. Börns

Rockabilly Mama comes from the song Rikto Rockabilly Mama from WÖR-TV. Vöro's Beauty Queen comes from the song Rejpelts Miss Valborg.

Source:

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Avsnitt 14, KAJs glada värld 2

2011:

2013:

[kajstmas]

DAY 13

Vörjeans' song Born to Börn shows what it really means to be a rockabilly band by heart. Some could say it's their introduction song. It quite literally introduces the members of the band too. One specific part that easily gets stuck in the listener's head is a flowy sentence of their names.

In what order does Tommy introduce Vörjeans?

Tommy, Freppa, Määnin

Määnin, Freppa, Tommy

Freppa, Tommy, Määnin

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

Answer: Tommy, Freppa, Määnin

Source:

Born to börn — KAJ

Avsnitt 13, Årets stjärngosse

[kajstmas]

DAY 12 BONUS question

Can you believe that we are already halfway through this julkalender? Me neither. Admitting things out loud is a part of the burden off of your shoulders. I'm pretty sure that our Tommy knows it very well or at least is still in the confusing aftermath of it all.

I had planned this question well before Kaj on ice but we all know what happened there. Now more than ever this should be asked.

IS TOMMY IN LOVE WITH MÄÄNIN?

YES HE IS

No, they are just friends

It's really hard to talk about this topic...

Voting ended onDec 15, 2025

Source: Tommy's obvious pining towards Määnin.

[kajstmas]

DAY 12 BONUS

A bonus post? What is this special occasion?

Beside the focus being on Vörjeans right now, we must give attention to someone special. The youngest KAJ member is celebrating his birthday today!

Happy Birthday, Kevin Holmström!

[kajstmas]

DAY 12

Next up is— Wait. Do you smell that? It smells like... Burned rubber in here! Who is behind this??

Ohh, it's just Tommy, Määnin and Freppa out there doing their Vörjeans stuff; drinking, driving, being loud. Speaking of Vörjeans, KAJs alter ego band, they have released their debut album in 2019. But their very first song they have released many, many years before that. You probably know what it is, for Tommy was very loud back then too.

Which of the following was the first Vörjeans song?

Rejpelts Miss Valborg

Volvoräägör

Rock Elo Blus

Grillin

Måll Åpåå

Vörodagan

Doppus Preludium

Voting ended onDec 15, 2025

Answer: Måll Åpåå

Måll Åpåå was first played in KAJs julkalender in 2014 and later released in the album Kom ti byin in 2016. The next Vörjeans song, Volvoräägör, was released in 2019.

Source: First performance of Måll Åpåå

Avsnitt 12, Kajtharsis (did you know that this is not Kajtharsis' first appearance? The first one was on their julkalender from 2013, but we will have to wait for that...)

[kajstmas]

DAY 11

Dan-Ole and Bertel, the Bachelors of the Sea were supposed to be on their bachelor trip together. They were supposed to conquer every dansgolv, every bar and the spa on that cruise. However, in the start of the musical we very quickly find out that Bertel had lied again. He in fact is not a bachelor but recently divorced from his wife.

This wasn't touched directly in the musical, but the information was later found deep from the internet.

What is Bertel's wife's name?

Heidi

Helen

Helga

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

Answer: Helen

Source: In Act 2 of KAJ WAS HERE

"Dan-Ole waits for Bertel in the duty-free shop and calls Bertel’s wife, Helen, only to learn they’re already divorced."

Avsnitt 11, Låtskrivarskola

2013: