On thursday 12th of November, it was my chance to attend P!nk's second consert in Finland and first one I was able to go to. The whole arena to be filled up for her and it was just crazy because tickets arrived on sale back in early march, probably because the label wanted to make sure that there would be enough tickets sold. But it in the end it turned out to be sold out in just days. "Evermore" was a band that opened for her but they weren't exactly my cup of tea. They also suffered techincal issues and stopped in the middle of a song because of the playback problems. It was pretty embarrasing for them, although they coped with it like professionals. After the hours of waiting, headache and legs hurting it was finally time for her to come and the show was on. Here's a review of the gig with my pictures and with few video links added.

She kicked the show off with a video intro followed by "Bad Influence" and people went insane. The crowd was definately in to her by their reactions and the fact that the gig went sold out in matter of days. She has so much energy going on and she interacts with the audience so well. While the first songs, including "Just like a Pill" went by pretty quickly with no pause, she took quite a few breaks from the set to be communicating with the crowd and joking on stage. It was also fun to see how she cracked up at the responses of her joke's too, she was all real. She then performed "Who Knew", the song that needed to be re-released in US before the fans made it Top 10-single. Which is sad though, because the song is absolutely beautiful and definately one of the best songs she's written. She performed it pretty well but the placement in the setlist was poor, so it almost went unnoticed. She also performed "Don't let me Get me" and after the lyrics mention Britney Spears, she tapped to microphone like she was testing it. It was her joke on the Britney's miming on stage.

One of the highlights was her cover of "I touch myself" that at first sounded like an interesting idea and that it could've been thrown together with "Fingers" as a medley but it wasn't. It was sensual, softcore sex on stage with P!nk lying on sofa with hands of dancers coming from within the couch and touching her all over. Afterwards she performed songs like "Please don't leave Me" and "U + Ur hand". The latter got the crowd absolutely crazy because it was huge radio-hit in here too. Surprisingly she performed "So What" in the halfway of the setlist, when I though it would be at least encore of being such huge hit. Once again it got overwhealming reaction from the audience and no wonder - it was #1 single here in Finland.

She also performed ballads, "I Don't Believe You" and ballad version of "Family Portrait". While performing her current single, she joked with the audience about her limited guitar playing skills and that the audience had to be quiet while she started playing, otherwhise she'd "fuck up". Crowd responsed to it with clapping and cheering that made her laugh. Her vocals were fantastic in both performances and she got very emotional in "Family Portrait". The stage setup was also beautiful.

Throughout the show, the stage was very well put together. Definately visually one of the best gigs I've been to. Lights were beautiful and she followed the carnival theme well. The theme of the tour has been ironically compared to Britney's current "Circus" tour but these two show's follow diffirent ideas. Britney's is clearly a classic circus with modern twist while P!nk's theme is a vintage carnival with elements of circus and trapeze performances. There is no saying who did better now that I've seen both, because they are so diffirent and because I just am bigger Britney-fan.

One of the tracks that got me excited was "Sober", a performance that I was anticipating. From what we all saw at MTV awards, her breathetaking trapeze work was amazing and it was taken from the tour routines. The song started and I got goosebumbs all over but she failed to be lifted from the ground but one of dancers did the tricks while P!nk performed the song on stage. It was bit underwhealming but it still got great reactions from the crowd and it looked just amazing. It was one of the best performances from the night despite P!nk not doing the routine herself. It was said that her arm was sore so she didn't do it herself.

"Funhouse" was another highlight of the night surprisingly. It was well placed in the setlist and she performed it with great choreography and energy. She really has fun on stage and it looks like she enjoys every minute and it effects to audience. She finnished the song and performed "Stupid Girls", another huge hit from her and halfway through she picked up blonde wig and performed the song wearing it. Then she performed a cover of Gnarls Barkey's "Crazy" and left the stage before encore.

The set was fantastic but there was few things I could've changed. First of all I don't understand why she removed "It's all your Fault" from the setlist, because it's one of the brightest moments from the album and could be released as a single. I also think that Queen-cover "Bohemian Rhapsody" was pretty much unneccessary and I could've done better without the Led Zeppelin cover included. "Dear Mr President" was again performed in same style than she did on last tour, so she could've left the song out from the list or change the setup. Despite that, she had pretty good setlist.

Encore was "Get the Party Started" and finnishing the show with "Glitter in the Air". Personally, I found it odd to finnish the show with a ballad but it worked pretty well anyway. "Get the party started" didn't work as well as back in the day and it was pretty lame to be thrown to encore instead of a song like "So What". No doubt that it's her biggest hits but it sounded bit dated and the new version didn't add much of anything to it. It didn't have any effect like that on crowd, because she was cheered to the very end of the show and people really were into it. And no wonder, because she is great performer and vocalist. Personally I wasn't the biggest fan in the beginning with but I've watched her moves closely through her career and bought and listened to her music. This was one of the best gig's I've been to and I definately suggest anyone considering to attend her gig to go and have fun and also to purchase the live DVD.

Watch some other videos from the gig from here, here and here!

Discuss.

On thursday 12th of November, it was my chance to attend P!nk's second consert in Finland and first one I was able to go to. The whole arena to be filled up for her and it was just crazy because tickets arrived on sale back in early march, probably because the label wanted to make sure that there would be enough tickets sold. But it in the end it turned out to be sold out in just days. "Evermore" was a band that opened for her but they weren't exactly my cup of tea. They also suffered techincal issues and stopped in the middle of a song because of the playback problems. It was pretty embarrasing for them, although they coped with it like professionals. After the hours of waiting, headache and legs hurting it was finally time for her to come and the show was on. Here's a review of the gig with my pictures and with few video links added.

She kicked the show off with a video intro followed by "Bad Influence" and people went insane. The crowd was definately in to her by their reactions and the fact that the gig went sold out in matter of days. She has so much energy going on and she interacts with the audience so well. While the first songs, including "Just like a Pill" went by pretty quickly with no pause, she took quite a few breaks from the set to be communicating with the crowd and joking on stage. It was also fun to see how she cracked up at the responses of her joke's too, she was all real. She then performed "Who Knew", the song that needed to be re-released in US before the fans made it Top 10-single. Which is sad though, because the song is absolutely beautiful and definately one of the best songs she's written. She performed it pretty well but the placement in the setlist was poor, so it almost went unnoticed. She also performed "Don't let me Get me" and after the lyrics mention Britney Spears, she tapped to microphone like she was testing it. It was her joke on the Britney's miming on stage.

One of the highlights was her cover of "I touch myself" that at first sounded like an interesting idea and that it could've been thrown together with "Fingers" as a medley but it wasn't. It was sensual, softcore sex on stage with P!nk lying on sofa with hands of dancers coming from within the couch and touching her all over. Afterwards she performed songs like "Please don't leave Me" and "U + Ur hand". The latter got the crowd absolutely crazy because it was huge radio-hit in here too. Surprisingly she performed "So What" in the halfway of the setlist, when I though it would be at least encore of being such huge hit. Once again it got overwhealming reaction from the audience and no wonder - it was #1 single here in Finland.

She also performed ballads, "I Don't Believe You" and ballad version of "Family Portrait". While performing her current single, she joked with the audience about her limited guitar playing skills and that the audience had to be quiet while she started playing, otherwhise she'd "fuck up". Crowd responsed to it with clapping and cheering that made her laugh. Her vocals were fantastic in both performances and she got very emotional in "Family Portrait". The stage setup was also beautiful.

Throughout the show, the stage was very well put together. Definately visually one of the best gigs I've been to. Lights were beautiful and she followed the carnival theme well. The theme of the tour has been ironically compared to Britney's current "Circus" tour but these two show's follow diffirent ideas. Britney's is clearly a classic circus with modern twist while P!nk's theme is a vintage carnival with elements of circus and trapeze performances. There is no saying who did better now that I've seen both, because they are so diffirent and because I just am bigger Britney-fan.

One of the tracks that got me excited was "Sober", a performance that I was anticipating. From what we all saw at MTV awards, her breathetaking trapeze work was amazing and it was taken from the tour routines. The song started and I got goosebumbs all over but she failed to be lifted from the ground but one of dancers did the tricks while P!nk performed the song on stage. It was bit underwhealming but it still got great reactions from the crowd and it looked just amazing. It was one of the best performances from the night despite P!nk not doing the routine herself. It was said that her arm was sore so she didn't do it herself.

"Funhouse" was another highlight of the night surprisingly. It was well placed in the setlist and she performed it with great choreography and energy. She really has fun on stage and it looks like she enjoys every minute and it effects to audience. She finnished the song and performed "Stupid Girls", another huge hit from her and halfway through she picked up blonde wig and performed the song wearing it. Then she performed a cover of Gnarls Barkey's "Crazy" and left the stage before encore.

The set was fantastic but there was few things I could've changed. First of all I don't understand why she removed "It's all your Fault" from the setlist, because it's one of the brightest moments from the album and could be released as a single. I also think that Queen-cover "Bohemian Rhapsody" was pretty much unneccessary and I could've done better without the Led Zeppelin cover included. "Dear Mr President" was again performed in same style than she did on last tour, so she could've left the song out from the list or change the setup. Despite that, she had pretty good setlist.

Encore was "Get the Party Started" and finnishing the show with "Glitter in the Air". Personally, I found it odd to finnish the show with a ballad but it worked pretty well anyway. "Get the party started" didn't work as well as back in the day and it was pretty lame to be thrown to encore instead of a song like "So What". No doubt that it's her biggest hits but it sounded bit dated and the new version didn't add much of anything to it. It didn't have any effect like that on crowd, because she was cheered to the very end of the show and people really were into it. And no wonder, because she is great performer and vocalist. Personally I wasn't the biggest fan in the beginning with but I've watched her moves closely through her career and bought and listened to her music. This was one of the best gig's I've been to and I definately suggest anyone considering to attend her gig to go and have fun and also to purchase the live DVD.

Watch some other videos from the gig from here, here and here!

Discuss.