First Euoropian Show, Helsinki, Finland

[gutterchick]

Went to the Twinz show last night in Helsinki. Have to travel all the way from Moscow, Russia to catch the boyz right there.
Got in front of the Tavastia club around 6 to met some finish friends of mine and was looking at the passer=byes... Scott Ford walked the doors in the street wear, completely unrecognized. It made me happy since I was worried if the Twinz will come at all. We went to the bar nearby to have a few drinks and I saw Villie Vallo from the HIM (some local pussy rock band) who turned out to be a big Mark Lanegan fan. We chilled out in that bar for a while listening the sound check. When I've heard "The Change Has Come" I'd known the show would be special... and it was.
Just after the soundcheck Scott Ford came in to the pub with a plate of cheeps or something but then decided that it was too noizy in there and went to have some food backstage. But then the tall guy went in with his sunglasses on with the keyboard/guitar player. It was Greg Dulli, not Mark unfortunately who as I guess went to take some nup before the show. We wished to Mr. Dulli to have a good show as he passed us to the doorway and he said thanks back to us.
I've managed to secure a spot on the left side of the stage near to the mic stand and the extra keys for Dulli to sing. It was quite a surprise for me when Mark Lanegan grabbed the stand and was just in front of me for the whole night.
There were some new song in the setlist. @spanish Doors@, @belles@... The highlight of the show was a tribute to the late Natasha from the Eleven (the Queenz keyboard player, the one and only Russian rocker I'm really proud of). The Twinz played a cover of "Flow Like A River" and it was so cool to have them doing that song.
The only let down was provocative behavior of Dulli during the encore. I knew he could be an asshole sometimes, but it was such a bullshit when he pretended what someone spit on him and he asked the crowd to turn the fook out. *Josh Homme-wannabe) I was trying to see any evidences of spit at him and it wasn't any! The bitch was just fooking with the people minds and he succeed. One big Trash Metal looking guy with long hair and a bold spot in front was called some names and he started to shout "It wasn't me! It wasn't me! I love you guys! And you, and you, and you!" It was such a disgrace! I saw Lanegan cracked the smile and hid it behind the mic. So the Dulli said that he would leave the stage if the crowd wouldn-t sing his and the National anthem and they sung "Helsinki". Dulli laughed at the Finns.
I've heard about the accident in Norway when some crazy fook grabbed Mark's leg, but this time I believe it was different. So, I hope it won\t happen in Stockholm tonight.
I stole a setlist so here it is>

The Stations
God's Children
Feathers
Idle Hands
Deep Hit Of Morning Sun
Seven Stories
Flow Like A River
Bete Noire
Down the Line
St. James Infirmary
Belles
Change Has Come (sung by Dulli)
Spanish Doors
Each To Each
Front Street
/////////////////
Papillon + Shadow of the Season
Dulli's Bullshitting the Crowd "Man, you're wasted! You know what you did? You've just @hit the City@!"
Hit the City
Bonnie Brae
Meth Blues
Number Nine

No second encore... No nothing. Good show "A+". The little drummer boy from Ausin almost stole the show. The git wiz from New Orleanz waz something else... The band was so tight and rocking. Love to see them again.

[m]

sounds great. these shows are looking so much more inspired and interesting in terms of setlists.

[Stephanie]

Footage of the incident described above:



I laughed my ass off ;D

[ShotByTheBlues]

That Helsinki song was goddamn awful And no one grabbed Mark's leg in Oslo im afraid, me and my buddies were the ones infront of him and he was out of reach (im a pretty tall dude, if anyone could reach him it would be me, and I wasnt even close). So that must be from the Vienna show or wherever shit happened. Everything was nice n dandy at the Oslo show ;D

[Robin]

Someone threw a glass at him when Lanegan started to sing "shadow of the season".
I saw the plastic glass flew over me head

[sandyego]

Went to the Twinz show last night in Helsinki. Have to travel all the way from Moscow, Russia to catch the boyz right there.
Got in front of the Tavastia club around 6 to met some finish friends of mine and was looking at the passer=byes... Scott Ford walked the doors in the street wear, completely unrecognized. It made me happy since I was worried if the Twinz will come at all. We went to the bar nearby to have a few drinks and I saw Villie Vallo from the HIM (some local pussy rock band) who turned out to be a big Mark Lanegan fan. We chilled out in that bar for a while listening the sound check. When I've heard "The Change Has Come" I'd known the show would be special... and it was.
Just after the soundcheck Scott Ford came in to the pub with a plate of cheeps or something but then decided that it was too noizy in there and went to have some food backstage. But then the tall guy went in with his sunglasses on with the keyboard/guitar player. It was Greg Dulli, not Mark unfortunately who as I guess went to take some nup before the show. We wished to Mr. Dulli to have a good show as he passed us to the doorway and he said thanks back to us.
I've managed to secure a spot on the left side of the stage near to the mic stand and the extra keys for Dulli to sing. It was quite a surprise for me when Mark Lanegan grabbed the stand and was just in front of me for the whole night.
There were some new song in the setlist. @spanish Doors@, @belles@... The highlight of the show was a tribute to the late Natasha from the Eleven (the Queenz keyboard player, the one and only Russian rocker I'm really proud of). The Twinz played a cover of "Flow Like A River" and it was so cool to have them doing that song.
The only let down was provocative behavior of Dulli during the encore. I knew he could be an asshole sometimes, but it was such a bullshit when he pretended what someone spit on him and he asked the crowd to turn the fook out. *Josh Homme-wannabe) I was trying to see any evidences of spit at him and it wasn't any! The bitch was just fooking with the people minds and he succeed. One big Trash Metal looking guy with long hair and a bold spot in front was called some names and he started to shout "It wasn't me! It wasn't me! I love you guys! And you, and you, and you!" It was such a disgrace! I saw Lanegan cracked the smile and hid it behind the mic. So the Dulli said that he would leave the stage if the crowd wouldn-t sing his and the National anthem and they sung "Helsinki". Dulli laughed at the Finns.
I've heard about the accident in Norway when some crazy fook grabbed Mark's leg, but this time I believe it was different. So, I hope it won\t happen in Stockholm tonight.
I stole a setlist so here it is>

The Stations
God's Children
Feathers
Idle Hands
Deep Hit Of Morning Sun
Seven Stories
Flow Like A River
Bete Noire
Down the Line
St. James Infirmary
Belles
Change Has Come (sung by Dulli)
Spanish Doors
Each To Each
Front Street
/////////////////
Papillon + Shadow of the Season
Dulli's Bullshitting the Crowd "Man, you're wasted! You know what you did? You've just @hit the City@!"
Hit the City
Bonnie Brae
Meth Blues
Number Nine

No second encore... No nothing. Good show "A+". The little drummer boy from Ausin almost stole the show. The git wiz from New Orleanz waz something else... The band was so tight and rocking. Love to see them again.

This txt annoyed the heck out of me the minute i saw it generally,but specifically cause i think its stupid to claim Greg a Josh wannabe in any level.

Posted by Robin on Today at 2:12pm
Someone threw a glass at him when Lanegan started to sing "shadow of the season".
I saw the plastic glass flew over me head

Sad to hear.
I didnt see any throwing,but its infuriating and frustrating if and when someone throws something dirty and hard towards artist who is performing.

So its more like the thrower is "fella that throw josh" wannabe+sensation seeker.

Its total lack of respect and act of arrogance.

There wasnt even a support act,so why to show up,if you dont dig it. To throw plastic mugs around?
Its not exactly a hc-punk gig.

But as i said i didnt see any throwing ,but the whole case was disturbing and made me sad.

The spell was violated.

Im afraid that the band never wanna come over again ..
and i have to bear only with mainstream -69 eyes-,-him- type of a rock scenario ,while i rotten in this gods forgotten place.
(private mental note:never)

So lord.. gimme strenght,cash and heck some luxus quality alternative,independent,"rock" tunes.

[Robin]

it was a plastic glass, but it was stupid enough anyway really.
And i dont think you have to be afraid they wont come back because of that situation....didnt greg say they would be back around 2010?

[manintheshadows]

Can't see the point in paying money to then throw stuff at the people one turned up to see. The person doing it may feel like Oscar Wilde for a short while, but nobody really wants it, it could have stopped the show there and then and hiding behind anonymity in the dark means that if someone then claims to be the person who did it, nobody's going to believe them anyway.
Nice to see a great way of turning a flashpoint into a bit of spontaneous silliness from Greg (and the crowd)

[nanna]

To me that incident seemed more like a joke, no arrogance on Dullis behalf. At least i had a laugh at it and enjoyed the "man you're wasted, you know what you should do? You should hit the city"-line. Even Mark laughed on this incident (or atleast it looked like that to me, couldn't really see much of him 'cos the light came from behind).

But yea, don't throw thing at artists, waste of energy and really not cool

[Stephanie]

I thought Greg handled this pretty well--I find the clip hilarious, especially the professions of love from the big Viking dude.

Though I still am ambivalent about musicians having a big reaction to having things thrown at them onstage. It seems this is something people have been doing at shows a long time, and I don't think it's always a sign of not liking the band. It seems just to be a part of the destructive chaos that rock shows can stir up. Sometimes it seems the more things being thrown at the stage, the more the crowd is into it and enjoying the show. Just like people beating the hell out of each other in the mosh pit is a sign of enjoyment. It's weird, and a bit unfortunate, and I'm not sure what it is, but to flip out about it seems a bit diva-esque to me. If you're injured, sure, that's a moment to stop the show--but if it's just your ego that was bruised, I say let it go. Or just catch whatever it was and hurl it back at the offending party a la Henry Rollins ;D