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Tarja @ Rockperry festival, Vaasa, Finland

Tue Jul 21, 2009, 3:09 AM
I arrived at about 2, I was a bit worried that I wouldn't get in the first row but there were just like 10-15 people. There were two stages, one big festival stage and a very small one. I had read that Tarja is performing on the "Rockperry Stage", and the other one was called "Real Rockperry Stage" so I thought it would be logical that the "real" stage was the big one. So I just asked around, half of the people said it's on the big stage and the other half on the small one. But I saw Tarja fans near the big stage so I went there too.
I met Paivi, I think she is one of the organizers or something, and she explained to me where to go after the concert to see Tarja. She also said the concert will be on the big stage so I went there. I was standing right near Starbreez, I didn't recognize her at first though. I can't say a lot about the first bands, I only saw Egotrippi, Von Hertzen Brothers and Lordi, because the rest were on the other stage. I have to say that Lordi really disappointed me though. I wasn't expecting a lot from them, but those stage decorations, costumes and the concert in general were a bit too much even for me.
Before Lordi started I saw Doug and Mike on a part of the stage, so they distracted my attention from Lordi of course. :P
I really liked this concert a lot more than the one from Romania, even though it was shorter. It was still light when Tarja played (actually it didn't get dark at all anyway) and not so much smoke, so I could see her a lot better. They didn't play Sing For Me, If You Believe, Boy And The ghost, The Reign, Wisdom Of Wind, Calling Grace or Our Great Divide, and the solo before Ciaran's Well was also gone, but I finally heard Over The Hills And Far Away live. :D
About the crying thing, I wouldn't call it crying, it was more like a tear on her face a few times. I don't really remember the songs, I think it was once during Enough and maybe Nemo. But that could have been from the pyros or something else as well.
After the concert I went to meet Paivi again, I stayed about 20 minutes with her and we talked a bit, she was nice too. She told me that she told Tarja about me, and that she remembered seeing me in Bucharest at the press conference last month, she did recognize me before but then we just talked a few seconds and took a picture fast, so I didn't think that she even had enough time to look at me and see who I was, so I was a bit surprised. :D
After Tarja ate, she took me at some kind of cabin (?) in the backstage. Kiia was there so we both waited a while until Tarja came out. Marcelo was walking around as well, he saw me and came to say hi and ask how I was, like he always does. :)
We stayed about 10 minutes with Tarja, it was just us three, she asked me what I was doing in Finland and I told her I'm visiting and that I want to move there, she made a really weird face. :D We talked a bit more about Finland, she told us for example that she came in the morning with some friends from Kuusankoski with a van and they drove 6 hours, she told us about their house, and how she likes cleaning it, I couldn't resist to not tell her that it's weird though. :P I gave her a book with Bucharest from the Romanian fanclub, she started to browse it and she said we didn't have to, but I told her it's just a book, we wanted to give something to her but didn't really know what. I thought she was just being nice, but when we left away she showed it to Marcelo and they looked in it about 20 seconds or so, until we went around the corner and didn't see her anymore. We talked a bit about her concert, she asked if we liked the band that was playing right then but I had no idea who they were, she said that they are playing more disco things now or something like that, but she didn't say if she liked them or not. I also told her that I really hope I can manage to see her at some classical concerts at Christmas. It was really nice to talk to Tarja even for 10-15 minutes with not too many people around or guards telling us to leave.
Oh, and she told us about Marcelo, she said he was cute because after the concert it was very cold and he was in a Tarja T-shirt, and he ran to her to tell her "I'm freezing, you have to go inside now", she said she really liked how he didn't go inside even though it was cold for him and instead he went to tell her to go inside. :D
After that we just took some pictures, Tarja said that she had to go because it was very cold and that we should be careful not to get a cold or something. So we said goodbye and left, she went to show Marcelo the book, and they were looking in it together and waving at us. It was hard to leave from there though. :P
After that i went to the hotel, I dodn't care about any other bands and I had to wake up at 7 in the morning to come home. So I really liked this concert a lot, and Finland in general, now I'll try my best to go again at Christmas. :D

  • Listening to: Tarja - Aranjuez

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