Just got back from the show, before you read this keep in mind that I’m a new fan of Nightwish, I never saw them with Tarja and I like both versions of this band.
Having said that, this was a very good show. My plan to sit by the bar to avoid the kiddies backfired on me cause I was with Orbweaber, Al and a mutual friend of ours who is only 20yrs old. Needless to say a security guard made her step away from the bar and into the floor area, well I wasn’t about to leave my friend all by herself down there so I went to the floor as well to be with her.
Paradise Lost were ok I guess, the whole band stood there in one spot the whole time except for the bald guitar player who was a little too excited to be there, like I said they were just ok.
I honestly can’t remember when was the last time that I saw a show with just one opening band, that is the best thing ever! The place was packed but surprisingly the floor wasn’t as crowded as I thought it would be, it was still pretty crowded but I didn’t have someone’s armpit in my face the whole night.
Nightwish finally went on, they opened with “Bye bye beautifull”, Annette sounded really good right away, it’s one thing to see a crappy cell phone video on youtube then actually seeing her live. “Amaranth” and "Dark Chest of wonders” followed. I don’t know the whole setlist but I do remember a couple of things that stood out. They did “The islander” a bit early in the set, the crowd was really hipper and then they hit us with this acoustic song, I don’t know why but it felt kinna lame, they should of played it later in the set when the audience was a bit more tired. “The Poet and the Pendulum” was freaking awesome, I just wish they had somewhat of a light show because in that really slow part in the middle we just saw Annette hanging out in front of her mic while Marco and Emppu were next to Tuomas playing the slow parts, meanwhile the audience is staring at purple lights with no movement.
Annette is a really good singer, like I said before I think the only bad thing is that she has to sing songs that were not written for her voice and on “Sleeping Sun” it showed. She practically “Talked” the song instead of singing it. For the encores they did Nemo and it was really great, definitely a crowd favorite and probably the best song of the night as far as crowd reaction and Annette’s vocals. “Wishmaster” was next, if you’ve seen the video on youtube form earlier in the tour you see that Annette was practically yodeling during the oOoOoOHhHhHhhh’s at the beginning, someone must have told her to stop doing that cause she didn’t do it tonight, however she still came up short.
Here's the yodeling video from Hamburg, Germany:
The last song was “I wish I had an Angel” and that tune went over good as well.
One thing that I have to mention is that Marco is god! That dude has such a presence on stage, it’s not that he’s a really good bass player (nice pick) but he just has this bad ass persona thing going, I think he sounds like a Hetfield that can actually sing.
Well there you have it, I had a good time and I won’t think twice about seeing them again when they play the Pearl Room next year.
Let the hattin' begin!
Having said that, this was a very good show. My plan to sit by the bar to avoid the kiddies backfired on me cause I was with Orbweaber, Al and a mutual friend of ours who is only 20yrs old. Needless to say a security guard made her step away from the bar and into the floor area, well I wasn’t about to leave my friend all by herself down there so I went to the floor as well to be with her.
Paradise Lost were ok I guess, the whole band stood there in one spot the whole time except for the bald guitar player who was a little too excited to be there, like I said they were just ok.
I honestly can’t remember when was the last time that I saw a show with just one opening band, that is the best thing ever! The place was packed but surprisingly the floor wasn’t as crowded as I thought it would be, it was still pretty crowded but I didn’t have someone’s armpit in my face the whole night.
Nightwish finally went on, they opened with “Bye bye beautifull”, Annette sounded really good right away, it’s one thing to see a crappy cell phone video on youtube then actually seeing her live. “Amaranth” and "Dark Chest of wonders” followed. I don’t know the whole setlist but I do remember a couple of things that stood out. They did “The islander” a bit early in the set, the crowd was really hipper and then they hit us with this acoustic song, I don’t know why but it felt kinna lame, they should of played it later in the set when the audience was a bit more tired. “The Poet and the Pendulum” was freaking awesome, I just wish they had somewhat of a light show because in that really slow part in the middle we just saw Annette hanging out in front of her mic while Marco and Emppu were next to Tuomas playing the slow parts, meanwhile the audience is staring at purple lights with no movement.
Annette is a really good singer, like I said before I think the only bad thing is that she has to sing songs that were not written for her voice and on “Sleeping Sun” it showed. She practically “Talked” the song instead of singing it. For the encores they did Nemo and it was really great, definitely a crowd favorite and probably the best song of the night as far as crowd reaction and Annette’s vocals. “Wishmaster” was next, if you’ve seen the video on youtube form earlier in the tour you see that Annette was practically yodeling during the oOoOoOHhHhHhhh’s at the beginning, someone must have told her to stop doing that cause she didn’t do it tonight, however she still came up short.
Here's the yodeling video from Hamburg, Germany:
The last song was “I wish I had an Angel” and that tune went over good as well.
One thing that I have to mention is that Marco is god! That dude has such a presence on stage, it’s not that he’s a really good bass player (nice pick) but he just has this bad ass persona thing going, I think he sounds like a Hetfield that can actually sing.
Well there you have it, I had a good time and I won’t think twice about seeing them again when they play the Pearl Room next year.
Let the hattin' begin!
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