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Ha you guys will certainly stick out in the crowd! 😆 Wow, well done! They can't really complain about fans, in places like South America they certainly wouldn't be able to get food by themselves withoug being assaulted by hundreds of fans! In Canada they have it easy! 🤣 Here's some A&P footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8Gota5UP0

Nice find, thanks! Metal floor is back 😁 Funny, I never noticed until now they were performing outdoors.

Amazing! 😮 Were there may people waiting for them as they arrived at the venue? Very few videos from the show so far (to be updated): Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZQNaBCG0GU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AM3mXy8ltg Planet Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOiY4lZ3S0E Tribal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkoH5XHGXs0 Élan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExO34A4CkRE Storytime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwB5TvzqisY She Is My Sin Harvest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu69-F_mglE 7 Days to the Wolves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYCJ7Pqw7qU Dark Chest of Wonders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4H3JWNqQk I Want My Tears Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZsP5KKN4TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3HoTC4uLRg Ever Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZsP5KKN4TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECuofcW0WZ4 Nemo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEG22-B770I How's The Heart (acoustic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQsTZs1YoI Shoemaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUrOcHIYO8 Last Ride of the Day Ghost Love Score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8sRUH-HAGk (part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2gyP_H0v0 (part 2) The Greatest Show on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXq8t0dMj84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lXc_uPZfjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFkNcV5iuM (part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9-nLcIHmw4 (part 2) Ad Astra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0IU_aPhZ5E Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaX-JP-lohRXnoHYgr-p8_OdR2XisBh0F

And they stay put? I'll have to try it at home!

Any recommendations or first-hand experience with good concert earplugs? 🤔 I didn't use to wear any but as I'm getting older I'm becoming more cautious! 😁

There would appear to be some tour-specific merchandise available in Toronto, like North American Tour t-shirts and such. Maybe @Moondance can update us tomorrow!

Interesting, I wish more of the old games in general were remastered for modern-day platforms. But it has to be a huge game franchise like FF to be worth the trouble.

I haven't listened to any reactions to 'Fire' before this one, but Doug is someone who has mostly well balanced and informative reactions. Doug Helvering - Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlbClFjW84

And a very wordy song, I don't know if her German is good but it must have been hard memorizing all those lyrics in a language she barely spoke a few months ago! 😮

At least you can walk to the venue, because relying on the bus or subway to get to the venue in time can be stressful in NYC! Are you planning to show up very early? It's a general admission show, if I remember correctly.

Yeah that's for those who aren't lucky enough to get their sticks straight from the man. @Ocean Soul 😁🥁

The clock is ticking, are you nervous yet? 😁 This may be of interest, a Chaoszine report from the Tampere show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm-lXNteBsE

I noticed that Just Jen Reacts will be at the NYC gig -- act accordingly! -- and Chase Carneson will see them in Los Angeles. I don't know about any others.

Those SDP guys were properly wrecked, as they should! 😁 Although it was a nicely restrained cover. Here's the English translation of Floor's performance, you need to turn on the subtitles manually. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8aj3r8

It is happening! https://www.facebook.com/kai.hahto.96

Probably I should start a separate thread for this, as it's about Charlotte and not Delain... anyway here's a new/old collaboration of hers, with little known Dutch metal band Disquiet. This was recorded in 2020 but only released today.

It's unlikely that NW can keep going if Floor leaves. Not impossible IMO, but very unlikely. The older one gets the harder I find it is to start over and put effort in a new relationship, and a band is just like a group marriage. On the other hand, what would happen if it's Tuomas who decides to call it quits? Would you guys see Nightwish going on a band with a new keyboardist, doing anniversary tours until they all retire? I mean, it's Tuomas' work but I can't imagine all his songs to never be played live again. I listened to the first album Fallen over and over for forever... then eventually moved on to something else, and I can't say I even listened to any other album of theirs. Strange when I think of it. Amazing! Kai is a gentleman. And he's a superb drummer. No lesser man could have replaced Jukka.

What platform/console are you playing on?

I'm really looking forward to Floor's next week performance. The song she chose to cover sounds pretty emotional, even though I don't understand a single word. SDP - Unikat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wVlLR4pYjg I'm sure she can make this memorable!

I'm bracing for the incoming crowd! 😆

Still waiting for Floor's proper video recording of Our Decades In The Sun from AFAS, there's been a lull in the weekly releases! 🤨

😄 I also discovered Evanescence before Nightwish, and I quite liked them for a while before I lost track of them. It's nice to get children hooked on 'daddy's music' for a change! Last hurrah?! Yeah, I guess at the rate the band is touring and Tuomas writing, we'll all be in senior home by the time the next tour comes around! 😉 Probably because you're the extrovert type, I'm not sure I'd make that many friends going to a gig by myself! 😅

So it seems to be a bit random -- I haven't heard of anything for Montreal either. Who's the promoter for this tour anyway, now that Finberg has been booted?

From Nuclear Blast: https://www.facebook.com/nuclearblastrecords/posts/545501340263039 AFTER FOREVER's final album before the band split up, the self titled fifth studio album, is approaching its 15th anniversary! To celebrate, the band will release a special re-issue of the album - completely re-mastered by Darius van Helfteren - and featuring two rare Japanese bonus tracks [*see note]. Check out the single released today entitled 'Sweet Enclosure', here: https://bfan.link/sweet-enclosure.fpo Singer Floor Jansen comments: "I am very glad to see this album revamped [🤭] and presented once again. I am still so proud of it and consider it our best work! It brings back happy memories to rehearsal sessions in extreme temperatures with good laughs and wonderful recording sessions in the middle of the Dutch countryside. Singing these songs live is something I will miss forever and rocking with our loyal fans too. Thank you for all the magnificent years and I hope you can enjoy this album, maybe for the first time, maybe once again!" Pre-order the album here: https://bfan.link/AfterForever15a.fpo *Note: The CD will actually only have one bonus track (Lonely), while the vinyl will have both (Lonely and Sweet Enclosure).

I was wondering if M&G are still a thing in the post-pandemic world, I have yet to see any evidence of Nightwish doing them.