Hammerlock
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Ok, can't hold bACK on this... Annette was a fucking joke! To even begin to compare her to Floor Jansen is fucking insane! That reedy whiny voice destroyed Nightwish. Now they have a chance to regain some fans...Hell, I flew all the way down to Atlanta to see thursdays show and walked out after 4 Nightwish songs...Annette hurt me that much! I'm sure she has a lovely voice that will fit in somewhere, just not Nightwish. Floor Jansen...she destroys everything in her mighty path!
When I saw Nightwish with Tarja about 8 years ago, they played at a club in the rat warrens of downtown Denver called Cervantes. Little tiny joint that maybe could hold 600 people. On Friday, they played at the freshly remodeled Ogden. Tickets to the VIP booths/front section were sold out, and for those of us in the back it was a tough job to see over the heads of everybody. The place was packed so tight that you couldn't even headbang without hairslapping somebody, and this was after I finally settled for the balcony after a vain attempt to see the stage from the floor. From my perspective, "regaining" fans doesn't seem to be much of an issue for them, as their fanbase in Colorado seems to have at least tripled in size since the singer change.
As an aside, I saw maybe a dozen or so people leave Friday when they played with Elize, out of the couple thousand that attended (not very good at judging crowd sizes, but 2,000 or so is my best guess). I didn't hear a whole lot of people complaining after the show either, most people gave them credit for doing what they could in a shitty situation. Most people were asking me "So, wait, that chick has her own band? What's it called?"