Fan-filmed video footage of KISS's entire May 4 concert at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Deuce 02. Shout It Out Loud 03. Lick It Up 04. I Love It Loud 05. Love Gun 06. Firehouse 07. Shock Me 08. Guitar Solo (Tommy Thayer) 09. Flaming Youth 10. Bass Solo 11. War Machine 12. Crazy Crazy Nights 13. Cold Gin 14. Say Yeah 15. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll 16. Psycho Circus 17. Black Diamond 18. Rock And Roll All Nite Encore: 19. Detroit Rock City 20. I Was Made For Lovin' You KISS kicked off its month-long "KissWorld" tour on May 1 at the Olympijskiy Stadium in Moscow, Russia and has European dates scheduled through May 31 at London's O2 Arena. KISS frontman Paul Stanley told The Morning Call about how the band goes about choosing its setlist: "The cream has always risen to the top, and the people expect certain songs and they'll get those, undoubtedly. And we'll try to mix in some lesser classics. But the idea of playing obscure songs is only appealing to a die-hard fan who knows our albums inside out. To go up on stage and play unknown sons for a handful of people as opposed to playing the songs that everybody wants to hear is really not in our best interests or the audiences." He continued: "We want to do the best show and we want to blow away people who get to see us once every two years, five years, ten years. Those are the people who we put the show together for. If somebody come night after night or sees ten or fifteen shows on a tour, well, they may be asking why we don't change the show up much. But the fact is we don't change it up that much because once it's great, you don't mess with it. If you mess with it, you're doing it more for yourself than for the audience. We want to do the best show possible."
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