Helsinki Tavastia Club

[annt]

I was on the friday show, and it was great! I would maybe rather had heard TDF instead of To Rid the Disease, but you can't have everything... The gig was perhaps a bit spoiled because I accidentally saw the setlist on this forum beforehands... Actually, when someone yelled "Blackwater Park!" just before it was supposed to be played, Mikael said "Jävla internet" (Fucking internet)
He talked a lot in Swedish, funny things like "You probably can't understand anything I'm saying in Swedish, you just yell at everything... and you're all drunk" etc.

I think that the new songs worked best live, along with Face of Melinda and Demon of the Fall.

And El Diablo: The last picture is awesome!

 

[j4ska]

Friday was awesome, as was Sunday at Nosturi. Even Mike Portnoy and James LaBrie from Dream Theater showed up in the crowd on Sunday. It was really cool of them to be in the audience watching the gig. Portnoy even headbanged with the rest of the crown on Blackwater Park, it was fucking metal! \,,/

 

[madu]

Woah, Portnoy and LaBrie were there? Awesome, though they probably were in the uh, place upstairs.

Twas great, though there were some kids moshing in the middle of the floor :/

Mike was really funny. Moomintroll theme?

 

[annt]

A pic from the signing:

The fact that the store only allowed one set of autographs per customer due to the great number of people sucked. I told Peter about it and he hadn't even heard of it, and he even offered to sign all the records I had brought with me, but I didn't want to get in trouble with the staff... Well, next time then! Shaking hands with Mikael was definitely one of the greatest moments of my life.