I should have done this way before but oh well, here goes.
On the 29th of november I woke up, and was immediately very excited, Korpiklaani tonight for the 3rd time in 5 months! Me and two friends had already bought our tickets 1 month before, and we were counting the days left to the big day
.
The venue was about 100km from our villages, and we went by public transport, as always.
We took the bus to Gent, quite big city 30 mins from home, there we took the train to Antwerp.
Arriving in Antwerp, we bought a few cans of beer and went to my aunt's house to dump our sleeping bags for the night.
We then took another bus that went to the venue, and drank a few beers on the bus.
We arrived at the Biebob, the venue in Vosselaar, went to exchange our tickets, found out it was actually a quite small venue, bought some merch, and went out to search a local bar to taste some of the local beers, while the first bands started playing (we were only interested in Korpiklaani). After a nice local beer, we were on our way back to the venue about 30 min before Battlelore would start to play. Then i saw a large tourbus. We went closer and saw a Korpiklaani sticker on the front window and became quite excited
. We were curious and looked a bit at the bus and through the windows. Then someone came down the stairs inside the bus, we instantly moved back from the bus
. The dor went open and 2 men came out, followed by a cameraman that was filming, and then Jonne and Hittavainen! We were standing there stunned
. Almost noone was outside the venue at that moment, Jonne was smiling and said hi, we greeted him back but were to shy to say something
. Then the 2 men, who were intervieuwers, asked us a few questions and made us shout some funny things for their movie
. Was great fun. Then we went inside the venue again, got few beers at the bar and moved to the front while Battlelore was playing. Battlelore was quite funny, the singer was waving a plastic sword above our heads, and tons of people were crowdsurfing and landed on the stage itself because there was no crew. When battlelore was over we became super excited, and when the lovely Korpiklaani intro started we were going out of our minds!
They played an awesome setlist, which i will look up later and post too. We were singing to every song, headbanging, jumping, on the slower songs moving in extase. But it was very very very hot inside and i was a little ill those days and had a few beers inside me so after a while I was totally wasted and superthirsty, and my mates too. I remember almost falling on the ground from tireness. Next time we're going to a KK gig again we're gonna make sure we've got water with us. Everyone of the band was doing great, we were also right in front of Jonne, sometimes on the first and sometimes on the second row. In the start Jonne also smiled crazily to us, and we used our energy up even faster
. And in the end he took a can of beer and he was holding it above us, me being insanely thirsty and 192 cm tall reached for it and i was holding it, but Jonne didnt release it. Then my two mates and some other people, also superthirsty , pulled at my arm, and i got half of the beer in the can over my head
. When the gig was over we rushed our way to the bar and bought an expensive glass of water. Then took the bus to my aunt, while talking about the gig and playin more Korpiklaani because some people on the bus were playing some crappy techno music.
I also remeber two girls standing in front of me, and one of them had a really beautiful and special Korpiklaanishirt, I asked where she had gotten it and i think she said Hungary or Poland or so, if she understood what i meant at least.
The only thing i missed in the gig was that they didnt play Ii Lea Voibmi, i really want to hear that song live once!
Video compilation of the gig:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hutnjOzNkDMSetlist:
Wooden Pints
Kantaiso
Vima
Korpiklaani
Happy little boozer
Tuli kokko
Orbina
Kipumylly
Keep on galloping
Pellonpekko
Paljon on koskessa kiviƤ
Cottages and saunas
Journy man
Hunting song
Let's drink
Midsummer Night
Beer beer