On December 27th, THE LOCAL BAND featuring Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM), Jussi69 (THE 69 EYES), Archie Kuosmanen (SANTA CRUZ) and Olli Herman (RECKLESS LOVE) performed a one-off show in Helsinki, Finland at Tavastia. The show featured classics from MÖTLEY CRÜE, SKID ROW, RATT, VAN HALEN, BON JOVI, POISON and KISS.

Following is a rundown of how the band came together courtesy of Jussi69:

"One night. One band. One interview. No rehearsals. Half soundcheck. One after party.

Lots of people are asking me how this happened and why. So the story goes like this:

I talked with Alexi Laiho two weeks ago while he was on tour and I was in the backstage in somewhere in Finland.

- Alexi: 'Dude, we gotta get together, play some Poison, Mötley and drink some Jack.'
- Jussi: 'Okay, when?'
- Alexi: 'Christmas.'
- Jussi: 'Cool'

Few hours later I texted and told him that I got Olli Herman to sing and Archie Cruz for bass because they're the best guys in the world for the gig, and the name for the band is The Local Band. Alexi says: 'Perfect!'

That´s the whole story.

At first we thought of not to tell anybody, then we decided to make it public X-mas Eve as a present. I´m glad we did it.

Btw, we did not take ANY money for doing this, we did it cause we wanted to have FUN! Thank you everybody who came and joined the party!

We´ve been talking about doing a song or something together with Alexi for years just for fun, but our touring schedules are just insane.

Children Of Bodom, The 69 Eyes, Reckless Love and Santa Cruz will all tour the world like crazy in 2014 in our separate ways. We were super happy after the show and we all felt that it was a big release to do something different, pure spontaneous, pure fun! It really gave us fresh thoughts and views to everything we all do in our own bands, this helped us to give the extra 100% for playing shows around the globe next year. I am still smiling."

An interview with The Local Band will air on Finland's Radio Rock on January 10th at 7:00pm Finnish time. The broadcast will also feature the band's two hour set.

Fan-filmed video from the show is available below:

The complete setlist was as follows:

'Shout At The Devil' (MÖTLEY CRÜE)

'Looks That Kill' (MÖTLEY CRÜE)

'Yankee Rose' (DAVID LEE ROTH)

'Fallen Angel' (POISON)

'Slave To The Grind' (SKID ROW)

'Too Young To Fall In Love' (MÖTLEY CRÜE)

'Round & Round' (RATT)

- guitar battle -

'Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love' (VAN HALEN)

'Nothin' But A Good Time' (POISON)

'Wanted Dead Or Alive' (BON JOVI)

'Unskinny Bop' (POISON)

'Panama' (VAN HALEN)

'Nightrain (GUNS N' ROSES)

'Rock And Roll All Nite' (KISS)