America’s ‘Marquis’ snares air guitar championship title

The winner Rob Messel The Marquis from US performs during the Air Guitar World Championships final in Oulu, on August 23, 2019. / Finland OUT

The Air Guitar World Championships have been held in the small Finnish town of Oulu, not far from the Arctic circle, for 24 years, and the competition has become an institution in the country which prides itself on organizing wacky competitions in anything from wife carrying to sitting naked on ant hills.

Elsewhere there was ample ripping off of trousers mid-set, while other performers poured ketchup over themselves, and Frederic “French Kiss” Reau even found time in his routine to take an call from his mum.“As a guitar player you think about first if their fingering movements are at all accurate, or if they’re doing things that would be completely ridiculous if you were trying to play an actual song on the guitar,” judge Douglas Blair told AFP.

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