Boy, am I glad I don't like Metallica

[Pursuivant]

which is I go to my local to see the games rather than buy the mtv3 or go to the ice hall...

gigs are great but I rther go to a small club to see an unknown band than a huge arena..

[otyikondo]

Mebbe its easier and cheaper to buy a ticket for Stockholm or Russia!!
Last time I attended a concert, I paid a Heck a lot of €€ for getting a glimpse of the artist on the stage which was pretty far away ( Stadium )..
I always thought that the best seat you can get is at the comfort of your home...

Dunno about Russia, but Stockholm's not much better. Ticnet.se works, but audiences at Globen are only marginally more alive than here.
Going to the Stadium and taking a seat is asking for trouble and suggests lack of effort on your part. The only place to be is on the grass and on the rail, even if your ears do ring for days on end afterwards, and even if you may find embarrassing images of yourself with your mouth hanging open in the next day's Iltis. Besides, GA tickets are usually cheaper than a seat half a mile away.

Pursuivant, I'm offended. I'd NEVER go to Stockmann for something like that. I've heard the fight for the elevators when the doors open makes Hullut Päivät look positively demure. What you need is a small, tucked-away location at the back of a public library or swimming hall in Lohja or Mäntsälä or Takahikiö, preferably located inside an out-of-fashion shopping mall so's you can get inside in the warm well before the machines open up. Stockmann is a total disaster and is only for eedjits.

[sinikala]

Mebbe its easier and cheaper to buy a ticket for Stockholm or Russia!!
Last time I attended a concert, I paid a Heck a lot of €€ for getting a glimpse of the artist on the stage which was pretty far away ( Stadium )..
I always thought that the best seat you can get is at the comfort of your home...

Dunno about Russia, but Stockholm's not much better. Ticnet.se works, but audiences at Globen are only marginally more alive than here.
Going to the Stadium and taking a seat is asking for trouble and suggests lack of effort on your part. The only place to be is on the grass and on the rail, even if your ears do ring for days on end afterwards, and even if you may find embarrassing images of yourself with your mouth hanging open in the next day's Iltis. Besides, GA tickets are usually cheaper than a seat half a mile away.

Dunno about Russia either, we've been to a couple of concerts in Stockholm, and I have to say they were great though there were some complications in booking with Ticnet when you aren't in Sweden - surely cured now that they are part of Ticketmaster?

Simon & Garfunkel at Globen was a bit of a last minute job, I only heard that they were touring by chance on the BBC website, shortly before the Sweden leg of their tour and fluked getting a couple of good tickets (about 1200SEK a piece IIRC). Then found that there were no suitable flights so had to go by ferry, and stay a night in Stockholm ... IIRC the whole trip came to about €800 for 3 days Would have been worth it at 10 times that price.

Other time was for Depeche Mode's last tour at the Stockholm Olympic stadium (July '06?), we'd already seen their Helsinki gig at the Hartwall (typical passive audience), and they only tour every 3 or 4 years... and with Gahan's proclivity for illegal substances, you never know if it will be their last ... got there quite early, great weather, stood about 10 yards from the stage, and got to hear Muse as a warm up act just as they were breaking through. The atmosphere was fantastic, way better than at the Hartwall.

Best atmosphere I've had here was for Bowie a few years ago in Seinäjoki, which was also way better than his Hartwall Areena gig.

[JasonS]

Tallinn is worth checking for arena concerts (Saku Suurhall) but not that many big tours go there which is shame because they're cheaper than Helsinki and just a quick boat ride away. I think Bob Dylan, REM, Sex Pistols and some others have been there this year.

There's not many listed at the moment though ( http://www.piletilevi.ee/eng/frontpage ) but you can snap up tickets for The Scorpions and James Blunt though!! hmm maybe not

The best overall atmosphere at recent big gig for me was Springsteen this summer. He played what i heard was his longest set of the whole Euro tour here. he must have enjoyed it as much as the audience, did something like 31songs in 3hrs+

[raamv]

Going to the Stadium and taking a seat is asking for trouble and suggests lack of effort on your part. The only place to be is on the grass and on the rail, even if your ears do ring for days on end afterwards, and even if you may find embarrassing images of yourself with your mouth hanging open in the next day's Iltis. Besides, GA tickets are usually cheaper than a seat half a mile away.

Pursuivant, I'm offended. I'd NEVER go to Stockmann for something like that. I've heard the fight for the elevators when the doors open makes Hullut Päivät look positively demure. What you need is a small, tucked-away location at the back of a public library or swimming hall in Lohja or Mäntsälä or Takahikiö, preferably located inside an out-of-fashion shopping mall so's you can get inside in the warm well before the machines open up. Stockmann is a total disaster and is only for eedjits.

Yes it was a lack of effort for the pure cause of a gift!! so no choice of choosing seats. The grass are was pretty full too.. but then Gone are the days of the mosh pit when I used to be there for almost all the Pearl Jam concerts in the US..
If it were upto me, however much I am a fan of an artist....The last thing is a concert...CDs or Digital downloads are a better way to support them..

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

"a mosh pit"....hmmmm....

I don't go to big gigs. I have no clue how to even the tickets for those things. The festivals I went to I got in free.

But when I went to see The Sex Pistols (ahem) I was told by the ticket people over the phone that all the standing room was gone and the only tickets were seated. So I decide to skip it...changed my mind...My back was wrecked at the time so thought it might be better to sit anyway. Went to buy the ticket and there was tons left. Got the standing. And they were really "yeeees, plenty of standing, no problem"

When I drove down I thought it must have been some cancelations or something and I got lucky...turned up at the gig and it was half empty anyway...

What was that about?

[otyikondo]

Yes it was a lack of effort for the pure cause of a gift!! so no choice of choosing seats. The grass are was pretty full too.. but then Gone are the days of the mosh pit when I used to be there for almost all the Pearl Jam concerts in the US..
If it were upto me, however much I am a fan of an artist....The last thing is a concert...CDs or Digital downloads are a better way to support them..

Methinks someone is seriously showing his age. Paging Sinikala, paging Sinikala...
If a gout-riddled old fart like me can do it, I can't see what impediment there would be for you. I saw Eddie Vedder totally wasted when they opened for Neil Young in the Ice Hall in 1993 and I think I was too grown-up to get the point of it even then (admittedly it was - see above - an atrocious performance).
On the other thing, of course it's a matter of taste, but the people I go to see I rather hope I'm NOT going to hear the CD played back verbatim - I'm looking to hear his or her current take on the song. And if the digital downloads are uhmm... "field recordings" - how you going to get them without SOMEBODY going to live performances?

By the by, what was with Pearl Jam and drummers? They went through them like sh*t through a goose on amyl nitrite.

[raamv]

I think the current drummer is old GNR drummer...who was playing for SoundGarden after GNR..
its been a while since I ve kept track of PJ...
I ve mellowed down a lot since Cant listen to grunge with ankle biters around....
Its not the showing of age..but when you have to wake up early after a concert...it just makes it really taxing ..

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

I ve mellowed down a lot since Cant listen to grunge with ankle biters around....
Its not the showing of age..but when you have to wake up early after a concert...it just makes it really taxing ..

Never knew PJ were grundge - I think that when the grundge thing took off I said "can't listen to these Sub Pop bands with all the Pearl Jam fans around"..Jokes aside - Mudhoney are still great...I've posted this vid before but it is good fun....
Still like Green River and a bit of Tad.

(not being able to wake up after a gig IS showing your age)