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Originally posted by slowpogo:
Great review, glad to hear they're getting a good reception world-wide.

Wow, everyone looks really young in those photos. Mark looks all of 35, and he's in his 50s, isn't he?

Mark is 54, actually. His birthday is July 2, 1953.

Justacat said

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Even at their ages

They're not on their zimmer frames yet! As I will be telling everybody all too soon,

50 IS THE NEW 30

Anyway, not very good photo of them getting down with the audience.
CH Barcelona

Excellent review, Imaginary Man. Your English was spot on! Fantastic pictures as well, thanks so much for sharing your experience!

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Originally posted by Imaginary Man:
I had the pleasure to meet a guy and two ladies who had come from the UK specifically for the concert, I can't remember their nicknames but they are members of the forum so I’m sure they will remember me when they see this. (Hi!)

Hi there, I was one of the ladies with Battylad. It was so lovely to read your account of the day, and to hear prior to the gig that you had been successful in your quest to meet the guys (love your photos!!). I did wonder when I saw your Ray Davies t-shirt if there was an ulterior motive and it's so nice to hear that your "plan" worked

I second what Batty said in that it was one of my most favourite atmospheres of all the Finn gigs I've ever been to, and I'd certainly not think twice about going over to see them again in Barcelona. In fact I can't wait to go back anyway, it's such a lovely place and we weren't there anywhere near long enough to see everything.

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Originally posted by Valb:
I'd certainly not think twice about going over to see them again in Barcelona.

I think Spain is a tremendous country, so can only hope to get to Madrid and Barcelona should the band return. I can rate Madrid quite high, having visited on several occasions, but haven't yet made it to Barcelona. Finn concerts are always a good excuse to get out and travel to places both known and unknown.

Excellent news to hear about how well the band was received!

Sounds like a wonderful gig, truly jealous of you guys. Thanks for the reviews, really good to hear that the they are more than on form and being truly appreciated.

Battylad - Not another request surely! How many requests is that now then?

Awesome review Imaginary Man..and the pics look effing good
Um..is it just me or has Neil become a bit more brawny around the neck and shoulders..looks great

Ascha, very good review too, what Nick said was something like "I can't control my dancing feet", but instead of "bailons", which would be the correct word, he said "bailongos".

Battylad and Valb, very nice to see you again, I'm glad you had such a great time.

And to all the rest, thank you very much for your kind words! You're a very cool bunch of people. And you say that about my English because you haven't heard me...

Here are the only decent pictures of the ones I took:





If you want some professional ones, I found this link in which there are a lot. Most are very good.

http://www.alterna2.com/fotos/album/72157602234784276/C...Sala-Razzmatazz.html

Thankyou very much for your photos Imaginary Man and also for the link to the other photos

Excellent show.

Sound was not very good sometimes, too much treble

Very hot place, the biggest sauna concert hall in Europe

no puc parar de moure els meus peus bailongos, Nick said that in catalan, meaning "I cant' stop movin my dancin' feet", then Neil started what seemed an improvisation

After Distant sun (burned down the house!) they left the stage, the crowd started singing a typical football chant like oe oe oe oe oe, Neil joined them (us) with keyboards making a very funny moment

I will write something more tomorrow, and try to upload a couple of pics I took with my phone

People faces after the show reflected pure happines

What can I say Anna, as Neil says, its all in the timing!

Can I just mention that I spoke to mark Hart after - what a top top bloke that man is, I mentioned he had not written in his blgo for a while, so he promised to update it and say hi to the Frenz 0 he is true to his word!

http://www.markhart.net/

Great stuff Battylad methinks you have the touch. Onya Mark, that is very cool

Oh, Neil wore a tie--v. nice indeed.

IM great account of your CH day. Excellent link to the photos as well.
Thankyou very much for sharing.

Thank you for posting about it, its made my day, I wish I'd been there! Great set list. And doesn't Neil look gorgeous!!!??

Hi Imaginary Man, thanks for the review! I remember you, you were right in front of me...

It was a great gig, except for the sound during some of the songs, but the atmosphere and enthousiasm of everyone in the room and on stage made up for that! It was pretty hot and steamy, but the security guys (who were in the way of my camera most of the time ) handed out some water, which kept us all going.

I kept shouting for Transit Lounge (my voice was gone the next day...), but no luck this time. Will try at the next gig, realy curious how that song sounds live!

Then after the show we (with Mystify and bf *waves*) waited for the guys to appear. I had a postcard I wanted Neil to sign for my colleagues, they keep laughing at me for going on tour with the Finns or CH every couple of years I had it signed, but I was almost sqaushed by a couple of over-heated Spanish fans who wanted to take some pictures... Neil was almost run over, even though there was some railings in between him and the fans I've never seen anything like that... , not even at a Jamie Cullum gig
But everithing calmed down again once Neil got on the bus, and there was some time to have my picture taken with Matt (cute ), I thanked him for the great gig and said See you in Stockholm!

Ha! So, one down, four more shows to go! Roll on Stockholm

*will try and post some pictures this weekend, got a couple of pretty nice ones I'd like to share *

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Originally posted by Piglet:
Neil was almost run over, even though there was some railings in between him and the fans I've never seen anything like that... , not even at a Jamie Cullum gig

Lol..Sounds like a very passionate evening
*wants everybody to ride the gigs out*

Hey Piglet, I remember you too! I heard you shouting Transit Lounge, and I thought it was very cool that somebody requested a song from the new album, not something too common. It would have been cool to hear it, all the songs from TOE worked very well live. Probably my favourite was Walked Her Way Down, I'm very happy they played it and it's been in my head since then.

BTW, I'd really like to see your pictures!

Hey Piglet,

Maybe we can shout together in Stockholm!!

Could you please pm me your mobile number (again )?? I have lost my address book thanks to the installation of Windows XP....

See you in Stockholm!!

A quick taste - thank you to whoever posted - such good memories!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwJaZImDeQ

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