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Date: November 24, 2004
City: Helsinki, Finland
Author: Iida
Review
I had have been waiting for Rammstein's consert in Finland, Helsinki for a very long time, and now my dream was about to happen! I hadn't ever seen Rammstein live before, and I was really exited. I had a ticket for the ground in front of the stage, and I waited in front of the doors of Hartwall Arena about half an hour before the doors would be open (which happened at 18.30). When the doors opened, I ran as fast as I could to the ground in front of the stage. I thought the places in front of the stage would be taken and I'd have to go to the back of the hall, but I was wrong. There were only few people standing in front of the stage, and I got a very good place for myself.
At 8 o'clock the warmer started to play. It was a band called Exilia. I liked their songs too, but I was waiting for Rammstein all the time. Exilia played for an hour, and then the security men came to the stage (and few people behind me thought they were Rammstein, because one of them looked like Flake.) and they moved Exilia's instruments out of the stage. I was wondering why they didn't bring new instruments for Rammstein, and I thought how would Rammstein play without any instruments. Of course I knew that Rammstein would make a great incoming as always, and I was waiting to see it. Then the lights turned off, and the audience was exited. Everyone started to look to the stage, and then the music started to play. But where was Rammstein? People started to shout "Ramm-stein, Ramm-stein" and then, suddenly, a huge curtain at the back of the stage was tooked off, and there they were! I was screaming, and so were everyone else. But Till hadn't came yet. They started to play Reise, Reise and Till came to the stage and started to sing. I thought I would faint, when I saw Rammstein there in front of me, just few metres from me. That was so amazing! The audience was jumping and singing, and it was really crazy and we all had so much fun.
After Reise, Reise they played Links 234. I thought Mein Teil was an amazing show! Till came to the stage dressed like a cook and he had a knife in his hand. The security men brought a huge pot to the stage, and after a while Till opened it and Flake came out from the pot! He had a funny mask on his face, it was a great show. I screamed and lifted my hands up, and so did all other people too.
During the song Moskau the security men started to give papers with text "Rammstein – aftershow" to the people who were standing just in front of the stage. I tried to have one, but when I found out what those papers were, it was too late. Every paper had have been given to someone already. I was sad about that for a while, but when Rammstein started to play the next song I forgot those papers and started to scream and have fun.
As always, a big part of the show was playing with fire. It was fabulous and I really enjoyed the show! The flames even got to the back of the hall and then came back to the stage. The stage was full of heat, and I could feel that.
During Stripped, some drunken guy crashed me and my bag fell down, and I had to found my mobile telephone from the floor. It took a long time, and when I finally got up again, the same man disturbed me again and he crashed other people too. Then one young man said something to him and he moved to somewhere else and didn't disturb anymore. But it was a pity that I didn't see a big part of the song.
Then Rammstein went somewhere and we didn't see them anymore. The music turned off and a short while I thought the show was ending. The audience started to shout "Ramm-stein, Ramm-stein" again. And then they came to the stage again, and played few songs. During the song Amerika Flake was dressed in a funny hat which had the flag of America on it. After Amerika they played few songs, and then, it was over. Till said in Finnish: "Kiitos oikein paljon Helsinki" (in English it would be: "Thank you very much Helsinki", but Till said it in Finnish) and then they left, and the audience was screaming and clapping their hands. Schneider threw one of his drumsticks to the audience, and someone caught it. I tried to catch it, but I was too near to the stage to do it.
But the show was so great, and I'm sure I'll go to other concerts of Rammstein too!