Aapo “The Angus” Rautio has received this yr’s Air Guitar World Championships in his hometown of Oulu, Finland. It is the primary time since 2000 {that a} Finnish air guitarist has received the world title.
AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
World peace by means of shredding air?
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RASCOE: That is the ethos of this month’s Air Guitar World Championships, held in Oulu, Finland. In response to the organizers, wars will finish, local weather change will cease and all dangerous issues will vanish when all of the individuals on the earth play the air guitar.
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UNIDENTIFIED PRESENTER: The winner…
UNIDENTIFIED PRESENTERS: Is The Angus.
RASCOE: The Angus is hometown hero Aapo Rautio. He beat out Japan’s Yuta Sudo, aka Sudo-chan, following an air-off tiebreaker during which every carried out to “Candy Little one Of Mine” by Weapons N’ Roses.
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RASCOE: That is Rautio’s first world championship, and the primary time since 2000 the winner has come from the competitors’s host nation. This yr’s prize for being the world’s finest air guitarist? It is an actual guitar, which is unusual as a result of Rautio really performs drums in a band referred to as The Southgates. Rivals closed out the occasion on stage collectively. They hoisted the champ as much as Neil Younger’s “Hold On Rockin’ In The Free World.”
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NEIL YOUNG: (Singing) Carry on rocking within the free world.
RASCOE: The competitors stays in Oulu and can happen this weekend subsequent yr if you wish to, because the organizers say, make air, not battle.
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