Europe @ Wrightegaarden 12.july 12

all right, here's a small report.

And first of all, I must say I feel rather ashamed, as I've got NO interesting stuff :
NO picture
NO video of the show.

Simply because they told me it was forbidden to film with a camera.
And my camera, it was the only material I had with me !

What I managed to record with this camera, is the whole soundcheck however. I'll upload it if you want.
I was right behind the door, and heard everything. So, I filmed : the sky, the boats, the cars... while EUROPE were playing the soundcheck.

Disappointing.
But there were many fans filming with their phones around me during the concert. Valeria Usiello already posted some pieces of videos, as you already said above...

The show itself now. It was fantastic, as always with Europe.
As you all know, there's several kinds of Europe concerts : sometimes they are the conquerors, sometimes distant big stars...
In Langesund, it was the friendly kind.
JTempest was especially in a good mood, made a lot of charming smiles to the most enthusiastic and devoted fans.
There were fans from Poland, Italy, Austria, France, and more...

But the audience was mostly made of quite calm Norwegians . So, it was not difficult to be in the first rows, and therefore, it happened to me to be at the 2nd one, right at the middle, in front JTempest.
I could even say I was nearly at the first row, as the one in front of me was : Tone Irene - not the tallest Norwegian on earth as we all know ... (Tone Irene, if you read this, I send you a big hug : you're one of the sweetest person I've ever met ! )


More stories to come later...

Was a pleasure seeing you as well, Guesswhoo! I am currently on holiday in Germany, but as usual I will post a review sometime. Joey were on excellent form, and I was so happy to catch Mic's attention during the show, he smiled at me. I awas happy to meet Valeria and Guesswho, people I knew from Norway and people I didn't know from Norway. More about that later. The setlist was AMAZING!!!!

Vonny,
I'm going to tell more things here soon.
I couldn't before. I was very busy when I came back home from Norway, and had some serious problems because my professional emails where blocked after I tried to read them at Oslo airport.
But I'll tell you more details soon here...

Here's a little report.

-First , the sky : weather reports all spoke about a very rainy day (and even about a tempest !), but finally, it was sunny, just a little windy. Perfect for me who don't like heat. -the "Tempest" was there, but a very nice one on stage !

-2) The venue : outside in a kind of close garden of a restaurant. So, we could listen to the soundcheck outside. Very short, but with great moments of Mr tempest training his voice (exceptionally good !)

-3) The fans : There were many Europe audience of course, however I think we were not more than ~20 "hard" fans. Which means there was no battle to be at the first rows : we all could find a place very near to stage. The barriers were less than 1 meter from the stage ; and as the stage itself was rather large but not very deep, we were very close to the band. An unusual experience for me.

-4) Special conditions.
No opening act, only EUROPE. Which means : no time wasted, only full pleasure ! We arrived, took our places quietly, and after a while, the blast begun...
Then it was a daylight show (althought it began at 9:30) because we were in Norway in Summer. So, for the first time I saw the band just how they are for true. It gives more "proximity" : they are normal people, when they are not enlightened by artificial lights. But the amazing thing is that they are still unusual person ! They stay very handsome even in daylight. What stroke me, is that in the reality, JTempest looks very much like how he was in the 80s !!! His faces didn't change very much in fact. (That was very surprising for me to see this, because I've always thought JT in the 80s and JT nowadays were 2 different persons ! )

5) The show : Excellent, of course. that's Europe, always at their best. IMPERIAL. Nothing else to add.
Even my husband, who was working in a nearby restaurant during the concert, and who heard the show, told me he found them excellent (and he doesn't like hard rock at all !)

6) The band behaviour :
Ian didn't make any special joke (like the pig mask).
Leven was in his "distant" day. Mic also. They didn't interact very much with the audience.
At the contrary Norum made winks and little signs ; and at a moment, he made a little joke. It was "Seventh Sign" moment, but he watched Mic, and began a few notes of "Girl from Lebanon". Mic answered with his keyboard, Norum answered, and so on for a little while. then he took a mischievous air, and attacked on Sevneth sign... That was nice.
Tempest was on a very friendly mood. He did big smiles to the most enthusiastic fans. there were a lot of beautiful girl (they were all, except me, in fact !), so I suppose it was nice for him to see all this young cuties full of love for him. He made little signs, but in a kindly way. and he threw some mediators. However, those pics often fell beyond the barrier ! So, suddenly, a polish fan jump above it to catch the pic. She was leaned over it, her head downstairs and the feet in the air ! the man behind her was holding her legs. And she succeeded in taking the pic and to lift up again !!! It was funny.

7) MY great moment.
For me, the most amazing episode was during "Rock the night". Suddenly, JTempest kneels down on the edge of the stage, right in front of me, and stretched out his arms towards me to sing "what do you want?" with his most passionate and fiery air... !!!
I thought his eyes had burned me all, and I was not far from the KO !!! (does he know it's dangerous for the poor audience to make this kind of thing? He should inform first : "beware, I'm going to fire one of you...")


The story is not completely finished.there 's another part to come about my little disappointements...