Friday, April 15th 2011
Woke up 7:30AM, heard the quietly noise of a notebook-keyboard. In the first moment i thought what for a strange dream, looked to my right side. It was no dream, Patrick laid on this bed and had been surfing in the internet since he woke up. For this I have just one description: Internet-Junkie.
It had been noticing the first time since our arrival in Finland that we are in far far away from home, that today is the day. The day of the DVD Shooting.
So I rubbed the sleep out my eyes, walked to the bathroom for taking a shower. Wide awake, fit, full of vim and vigor - LUDI INCIPIANT.
Time for a small breakfast, because we had been buying the day before cereals + milk, I decided to take my breakfast today at the desk in front of my notebook. Checked mails and myspace, so I also vistited the myspace page of Tony Kakko . Hooray!
A new status: "The outside Finland part of Europe rocked! Loved it! Thank you all for showing up! Finnish leg on it's way, already done few shows, but been too lazy ass to write anything before today. :P Preparing for a practice round of tomorrow's huge DVD shoot in Oulu, Finland! The stage looks awesome! Pyro's and lights are set and there's A LOT of them, acoustic guitars have new strings etc etc. It's gonna be big! Be there or miss something memorable. ;)"
We will be there and don´t miss something memorable. We traveled more then 2000km just for this gig, to be part of this amazing event.
Round about 9AM we left our hotelroom, because we had to buy traintickets for our trip at the next day to Kemi, Tornio + Sweden. It was so easy to find the railroadstation just straight ahead the street. After this item of our agenda, it was time for sightseeing, townhall, cathedral, harbour, the nice parks in Oulu, the castle...
At 1:30PM we was back in the hotel, time to relax a shorte while, check mails, for skype..."what have I done" . We ran more when 4 hours trough Oulu, yesterday the same and tonight is the concert of the year. I´m feel a little bit tired, but show must go on. 2hours later we decided thats time to have lunch, so we packed our stuff for the concert his night. The 2nd DVD Shooting from SONATA ARCTICA - unbelievable we are here in Finland, we will be part of this show. Next stop McD in the pedestrian area of Oulu. Again fastfood, urgh! After a McD menu we went to the Club Teatria at the southend of Oulu. When we reached the Club there was a few hardcore fans which stayes over night in front of the club or stand more or were there since wee hours. Amazing, awesome.
So we stand now beetween so many hardliners, the most of the fans was from Finland, but in crowd was hiding a few other nations - France, UK, Holland. After a while we got the infomation door opening 8PM. Oh no it was 5PM, 3 hours more cool my heels. More and more fans arrived at the concertlocation, more and more diffent languages, suddenly I noticed a female fan who had a phonecall. First she spoke english, later she switched the languages to german. WTF, we are no more alone. There are some other fan from Germany. After she completed the phonecall, I took my courage in both hands and asked her in german, if she live in Germany.
She smiled and so we was a group of three from Germany.
Later we allied with the 2 girls from UK and their finnish friend. 3 became 6 *gggg*
Time went by and more an more fans reached the location.
8PM Door open. The girls from UK decided that she will run to the stage and reserve space for our group. Just the other german fan got inside the Club Teatria lost. So I searched alone for the funny girls from UK, surprise I found them...the really reserved space. Space in the first row, right side. The same side like my last two SONATA-gigs. In front of Henrik and Marko. DVD-Shooting first row, it sounded like a dream. I was soo happy....
More about the concert tomorrow in this blog.
Stay tuned.
Greetz
Kerstin "Kes"
Test test...
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