curefans.com

2007-12-15 Helsinki, Ice Hall
2007-12-16 Tampere, Pakkahuone

even though caley will bash me severely and/or probably never speak to me again, i'll say it:
THE best gig i ever went to. or to be precise, both two finnish dates together are likely to be the best things i've seen live.
so, dear ol' bob is really going to make a serious run for his money next february/march if he wants to get gold in this race... huh!

my best (and also only) christmas present this year: i got to see/hear gavin harrison live two nights in a row.  
the other dudes weren't exactly bad either - freaking most excellent live playing i've ever got to hear. 
AND they even played 'hatesong' on both nights


SW: "first ever porcupine tree show in helsinki, how about that?
...took us fifteen year to get here... and i'm afraid as a consequence of this absence from finland, my finnish extends to one word - which you've already heard, so...
everyone here speaks english ok? i thought so - you're so educated here..."
so, obviously we have a lot of music which we've recorded over the last fifteen years and, so i apologize in advance if we do not play your favorite song tonight, we've only got two hours to play - but hey, we'll be back."

ok i will remember that!


more pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/slowdrowned/PorcupineTree20071215HelsinkiIceHall


my helsinki master is available on dime, both 16 and 24-bit. probably my very best recording so far  - yet i've rarely (if ever) heard such a good live sound anyway, so actually it was an easy job.
if you want to check it out, here's a sample track with clips from two last encores, 'trains' and 'halo':

http://rapidshare.com/files/78113769/pt2007-12-15_sample.flac


***EDIT: my blog is now updated for helsinki:

http://blog.curefans.com/japanesebaby/2007/12/18/porcupine-tree-20071215-helsinki-ice-hall-fi/