European Tour!!!

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by AAAAAAAAA » Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:17 am

NeonVomit wrote:So, all our stuff is ready, packed and we're good to go. Tomorrow morning we leave for Belgrade (a couple of the other guys are there already) and the tour begins for us.

Hope to see many of you guys in different towns we'll play in.

We're ready to rock! I'll be back online in a week or so I imagine.

See you!

:D :D :D Good luck! Good luck! Good luck to you.
But, but, we will miss you here! :cry:

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by ggonza43 » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:01 pm

NeonVomit wrote:So, all our stuff is ready, packed and we're good to go. Tomorrow morning we leave for Belgrade (a couple of the other guys are there already) and the tour begins for us.

Hope to see many of you guys in different towns we'll play in.

We're ready to rock! I'll be back online in a week or so I imagine.

See you!
Good luck, hope you enjoy :)
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by finnlandia » Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:56 am

Stratovarius Welcome to Hungary !!

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by Natasha » Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:03 pm

I was in Belagrade a few days ago, and it was fantastic! :D
Unfortunately, the hall wasn't full, and there wasn't many people, as usually, but all the people who were there thinks that concert was amazing! :D
Winter's Verge were awesome, they gave their best, and Tracedawn, too, but my favorites are WV.
I bought Polaris shirt with European tour, and it looks beautiful.

Took some pics with Lauri & Timo, and just few of were lucky us took pic with Timo, 'cause he left us after a few minutes.

Lauri is awesome guy, on stage, and outside of it. So friendly and cute. And he's just pro in playing bass! His solo was unbelievable! <3
Kotipelto are one of the most amazing frontmen I've seen so far. <3

Strato had an amazing setlist and show, and hope I'm gonna see them soon again!

I'm pretty sure they won't be back here for some (longer) time, or at all, but anyway, I'll try to catch them somewhere on tour. :D
Impressions are great, evening was beautiful. <3
I met many (dear) people there, we attented one of the best concerts, and it was some special connection between bands & audience.

Thanks all the guys (special thanks to Kotipelto, Lauri, and George - singer of Winter's Verge) for such a beautiful evening! Hope to see you somewhere as soon as possible! \m/

Here you can find some pics from the concert:
(of me, friends, and band members :D)
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... Id=2201305
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He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart <3

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by StratoFabio » Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:20 pm

Natasha wrote:I was in Belagrade a few days ago, and it was fantastic! :D
could you post the set list? Thanks!
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by ggonza43 » Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:24 pm

Searching a lil' you'll find it, like I did :)

Live at Belgrade, Serbia - 23/01/10:
01. Destiny
02. Hunting High & Low
03. Speed Of Light
04. The Kiss Of Judas
05. Deep Unknown
06. A Million Light Years Away
07. Bass/Keys Solo
08. Winter Skies
09. Phoenix
10. Bass/Guitar Solo
11. Forever Is Today
12. Paradise
13. Against The Wind
14. Eagleheart
-- Encore --
15. Forever
16. Father Time
17. Black Diamond
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by sheryl1 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:38 am

Yesterday show in Bratislava was totally stunning and wonderful! I mean, all the bands played really well, very good setlists and pefromances, even the sound as well:) I don´t know how the hall looked in terms of attendance from stage, but more than 1 000 tickets were sold.

I had the pleasure to interview all the bands for various Slovak medias (Strato - Timo, Tracedawn - Antti, Pekko, Winter´s Verge - Goerge, Miguel). It will be mainly used for printed media but I will do the English version plus pictures for the ones interested in and hopefully upload it somewhere at the weekend already :)

Strato´s set:

Destiny
HHAL
Speed of light
The kiss of judas
Deep unknown
Million light years away
Bach?
Winter skies
Phoenix
Guitar/bass solo - I´d say Matti won this time:D
Forever is today
Paradise
Will the sun rise
- because "This one wasn´t in the set for the show, but one young lady called Lenka I think, asked me today if we could play this song...And I thought why not" - that was meee :D)
Eagleheart
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Forever
SOS
Black Diamond



I´d like to thank all the nice people I spent the day with! Was great :wink:

JENS! I am the girl who was in front of you in the pit under the stage :) If you ever read this, pls, thank Timo for the song again. When he told me in backstage that the band didn´t rehearse Will the Sun Rise, that you hadn´t played at this tour so far and for longer time actually, I really thought you wouldn´t do it...But you did :)

See all you Strato guys back in Slovakia in august. And hopefully the "supporting" guys somewhere sometimes as well:)

Cheers! :)

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by Arkash » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:13 am

First time I saw them I asked them for Paradise, we got it, next time it will be Coming Home! ^^

But yeah, that's amazing how the accept playing songs asked by fans: that's what a fucking great band does, and Strato has always been one of the greatest bands!!!
Through the storms we've wandered
Many mountains we have climbed
But all the bad times are behind
The road is free - I'm coming home

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by life-l » Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:02 pm

sheryl1 wrote: Will the sun rise - because "This one wasn´t in the set for the show, but one young lady called Lenka I think, asked me today if we could play this song...And I thought why not" - that was meee :D)
haha :D awesome!!!!! respect for you! :headbang:
sheryl1 wrote: See all you Strato guys back in Slovakia in august. And hopefully the "supporting" guys somewhere sometimes as well:)
Are they really going to visit Slovakia in august?! :shock: Will be there some kind of fest or.... ???
Arkash wrote:and Strato has always been one of the greatest bands!!!
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! :banana1: :jump2:
sorry for my english)))

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by sheryl1 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:31 pm

Life-l - yes, it´s gonna be one day festival in two cities in Slovakia - one day in each city the same bands... And they are confirmed (even Timo said it on stage) for 13 & 14 august for this event :)

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by Irinia » Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:36 pm

*SCREAM*

I might not be able to go the concert in Norway 8th of February :(
We are having difficulties finding a babysitter.. The concert is Monday and next day is workday for most people :cry:
Crossing fingers and hoping for the best! If not I'll be totally devastated!

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by life-l » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:00 pm

sheryl1 wrote: And they are confirmed (even Timo said it on stage) for 13 & 14 august for this event :)
hm.... there is no information on the official site about this.... 13-14 of August... very, very interesting..... :roll:
Sheryl1, have you s/th heard about other bands of this festival? ???
sorry for my english)))

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by sheryl1 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:48 pm

life-l wrote:
sheryl1 wrote: And they are confirmed (even Timo said it on stage) for 13 & 14 august for this event :)
hm.... there is no information on the official site about this.... 13-14 of August... very, very interesting..... :roll:
Sheryl1, have you s/th heard about other bands of this festival? ???
What is the problem with this dates? :) They are not here because just yesterday Strato confirmed... And of course, I know about the other bands, but I should shut up at this point as they are not officially 100% confirmed, you know :) But if the things work out as well as they could, it will be awesome :) As soon as I can, I will tell you the band names...

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by life-l » Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:32 pm

sheryl1 wrote: As soon as I can, I will tell you the band names...
OK :) What is the name of this festival?
sorry for my english)))

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by sheryl1 » Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:12 pm

life-l wrote:
sheryl1 wrote: As soon as I can, I will tell you the band names...
OK :) What is the name of this festival?
:oops: Shame on me, but I´m not sure :D I know that in the past it was called More Than Fest (but it used to be two days in one venue), but now its structure has changed and I don´t know if the name remains :D As long as we manage to get Kiske there, I don´t mind about its name :wink:

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by NeonVomit » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:23 am

Well, just got back home.

I can't really think of much to say at the moment, so I'll keep it simple: we had an incredible experience on the tour which was something entirely new to us, and I want to say on behalf of the rest of Winter's Verge a heartfelt thank you to Timo, Matias, Lauri, Jens and Jorg of Stratovarius for making us feel so welcome, FD, Keijo and the whole road crew for helping us out with everything we needed, Antti, Tuomas, Ronie, Villi, Pekko and Perttu of Tracedawn who were great bus- and beer-mates and everyone who came to the shows, checked out our music and had fun.

You all rock.
"Beneath the freezing sky arrives Winter's Verge..."

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by StratoFabio » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:06 am

NeonVomit wrote:Well, just got back home.
which gig NeonVomit?
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by NeonVomit » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:31 pm

StratoFabio wrote:
NeonVomit wrote:Well, just got back home.
which gig NeonVomit?
We played at the Belgrade, Sofia, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava and Zlin shows.
"Beneath the freezing sky arrives Winter's Verge..."

http://www.wintersverge.com


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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by Beast_Pete » Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:42 am

NeonVomit wrote:Well, just got back home.

I can't really think of much to say at the moment, so I'll keep it simple: we had an incredible experience on the tour which was something entirely new to us, and I want to say on behalf of the rest of Winter's Verge a heartfelt thank you to Timo, Matias, Lauri, Jens and Jorg of Stratovarius for making us feel so welcome, FD, Keijo and the whole road crew for helping us out with everything we needed, Antti, Tuomas, Ronie, Villi, Pekko and Perttu of Tracedawn who were great bus- and beer-mates and everyone who came to the shows, checked out our music and had fun.

You all rock.
It was really good to meet you finally and I was really glad to hear your band live. I just hope that next time you play at least double the amount of time you played now. It's a good first step, but gosh you already need to take the third now!
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S a tested is a porba hullék,
Akkor is van még remény,
Mert a lelked továbbra is él."

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by NeonVomit » Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:46 am

It was cool to meet you as well! How did the operation go? And yeah I really hope we play in Hungary again soon!
"Beneath the freezing sky arrives Winter's Verge..."

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Post by Beast_Pete » Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:56 am

It went really well. Though it was much more serious than we first predicted. It took one and a half hour to finish it. I was asleep during the process. I had a big S-curve inside my nose and behind it there was a bone-outgrowth which the doctor couldn't see until my nose hedge was fixed... and then he had to remove the outgrowth. And later burning the bottom tarsus as it was double the normal size. I was staying in the hospital till Friday and I was getting better really fast. I will be able to use my nose from this Friday when the doctor removes all the phlegm (as I'm not allowed to blow my nose I have to wait for him to clean it). But I already feel more smells and more powerfully than before. So it was definitely worth taking this operation. :)
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by Kmasters » Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:16 pm

Hey i just see in a web the setlist of the show in Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany and in the set appears they Play KING OF NOTHING This is true?

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/stratovar ... 763f4.html

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by palarmux » Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:45 am

What, what what??? If so want to hear! The song I most wanted for setlist from polaris 8) Is it true, can any body here prove this? :roll:

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by rikkertje » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:29 am

I think it is true. Last week I already heard from a 'very reliable' :wink: source that they were rehearsing KoN and another very cool Polaris song. :)

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by stratovana » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:21 am

Great pics!

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by StratoFabio » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:14 pm

any reports from Swedish gigs??
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by rikkertje » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:44 pm

Anyone knows if there are recordings of King of Nothing?

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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by StratoFabio » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:48 pm

rikkertje wrote:Anyone knows if there are recordings of King of Nothing?
I'm almost thinking is a fake news from lastfm....
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Re: European Tour!!!

Post by ggonza43 » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:37 pm

Hold your horses! A recording of "King Of Nothing"?! What?! Where?! When?! How?!

Wait, is it fake? Seriously?
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