Precious <3
Very in the morning wakey, shower and let’s pack and go. Just when i arrived to Cluj to pack my stuff in the new house i’m moving my phone rang and it the woman from the press of Peninsula/Félsziget giving me info about the meet and greet with the guys. So then i knew that it’s only gonna start at around 4. Good, a little calmer that we’re gonna make it in time we went to Tg Mures and on the road we met with Oana and her dad so we could go together to the venue of the festival. Getting there, exchanging the tickets into bracelet and meeting with Ildi (another friend) and here we come. When we went to the place where the Main Stage was we could also see the backstage where there was also guys’ tourbus. So then had to go to the press office for more details on the whole thing and back to the main stage for the soundcheck of the guys. The soundcheck was boring at first because it was the staff doing some setting but then the guys finally came in (Pauli was laughing so hard about something, he has such a funny laugh i was like ok i have to laugh too 
). They did Ghost of Love and Immortal at the soundcheck and after it with Ildi we were like ok if you shout the name of one of them i’m talking with him. after all Ildi shouted at Eero and i took all my power all at one place and asked him in Finnish if they are going to come down to the fans, he said not now cause they have a press conference, and i asked him if they come after and he said he doesn’t know. then i heard people around me like “what the fuck was she talking with him?” 
We wanted to go and eat something but just halfway to the food court we got a call that we should go back because the meet and greet starts soon. So running and after all for nothing because we had to wait about 10 minutes for the guys.
Meet&Greet: it was one of the nicest 15 minutes of my life. When the guys sat down Lauri started the whole thing by asking “Where are you from?” xD Aki was like: i had my sunglasses in my pocket and someone stole it, and i said we are not leaving until i won’t get it back, he did got it back a few minutes later he told…a pity, i would have loved if they stay a bit more xD and then Eero turned to me and asked me how did i learned Finnish, how long, where, who was my teacher and Aki was looking like 
After all he asked me if i ever been to Finland, where and where did i liked the most. Then they asked me to sit closer to them 
and then was the moment of my plaaaan so took a deep breath and asked Aki if he can give me a drumstick because it’s 3 years since i’m trying to catch one but he never throws where i am and he smiled at me and with a huge grin:
Aki: Only if you say it in Finnish!!
Me: But i have no idea what drumstick is in Finnish!
Aki: Rumpukapula!
xD So he told Antti (their tour manager) to get me one and i got it by the end of the meeting. Eero when was signing my book he told it’s a nice one and i was like “ha? it’s your book you don’t know what’s it in?” xD he told about some of the pictures in the book where they are from and such. At the end, i asked Lauri if they have Rakkauslaulu in their setlist, but he said no but if i want to sing they can do it, and i said okkaaay i want it…but they didn’t do it 
Baaaaad guys you are 
Pictures with them: Aki, Eero, Lauri, Pauli
The two bands playing before them were quite boring to me, not my style of music (it was a romanian band called Directia 5 and one hungarian band Quimby). Finally the guys started their gig, but just before it some huge guy came to us and told that we are not allowed to use flash on our camera. I was like okay, but those fucking huge lamps don’t disturb them xD It was a kick-ass gig and as far as i could see on the guys they enjoyed it as well 
So glad they had some fun. They played mostly older songs, were just 2 from Black Roses, i was hoping they would sing Justify but they didn’t 
. Setlist (not in the right order though): Intro, Guilty, First Day of My Life, In My Life, Not Like The Other Girls, Still Standing, Funeral Song, In The Shadows, Chill, F-F-F-Falling, Liquid, No Fear, Sail Away, Immortal, Livin In A World Without You, Ghost of Love and i think that’s all.
After the gig we went to the entrance/exit of the backstage where the bus was and been waiting there listening to Gorillaz (they were the next ones performing). They guys all went to the bus and there was some pink light (yeah xD), Pauli sitting at a small table. I was taking a picture of the stage (which was right behind the bus) and i saw Pauli waving and then turned the lights off xD I think he thought i’m taking a photo of him…he was too far for that to be a normal photo so i didn’t gave a try for that. Then at around midnight they left and we followed them out of the exit (i also had to leave because the next day now i had to come back to Cluj in the morning) and there was some car blocking their way xD so it was like the driver of the bus, Antti and the 4 of the guys standing right there near the wheel waiting what will happen now xD The bus started and suddenly the driver pushed the brake so Lauri almost fell forward xD would have been a pretty funny sight. But soon enough they left been already missing them at that point when the bus disappeared at the corner of the street.
I can tell that it was one of the best gigs so far, taking a competition with the one last year in Bucharest which for me was considered to be the best day ever…let’s wait and see.
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