Kaivohuone is one of the -- if not THE -- fanciest clubs in Helsinki located in the main city park.
Right to the left in the entrance area you can find a Black Jack table, inside the club you can find two bars on the left and the stage on the right side as well as huge mirrors framed in gold everywhere, and many people dressed up in designer clothes. Not the typical Poets of the Fall audience.
The club was crowded, and I mean really crowded. There was no coming through (only if you really pushed and then many people were complaining, cursing or trying to push you away or hold you back). The music until the band finally started playing, which was at 11:30, was really bad house music, very monotone.
But I wasn't here to listen to the house music and dance to it. So I was glad as the 6 Finns entered the stage. They opened with "lift" and as if it was a command everybody raised their hands to join the beat and went even closer to the stage so that there was really no coming through (don't ask me how I managed it anyways).
Mark (the singer) was playing with the audience during their whole performance. He was always getting close to his fans, but just so close that they couldn't quite get a hold of him. Really funny to watch. Ollie was jumping around and having a blast without getting tired or taking a break of jumping around, so it seemed. Jake seemed like the shy guy of the band who tried to avoid eye contact and didn't move that much. Jani did the typical bass player stand (spread legged) and changed sides every once in a while. Captain animated the audience to jump, raise hands or clap along whenever they didn't do that already. Further was he rocking behind the keys.
The drummer gave everything behind the drums and you could see the seat running down his face.
Poets of the Fall played for about an hour and played all released songs and many more. It seemed like they almost played every song of both albums.
They didn't play their standard closing "locking up the sun" but they ended their performance (including the encore of three songs) with "late goodbye" where the complete band was raising their water bottles as it came to the phrase "raise my glass and say: Here's to you". Really nice because the audience joined doing so. They also sang along quite loud at some parts so that Mark could stop singing and you could only hear the crowd. What a nice evening in such a fancy club.
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Poets of the Fall
9. August 2007
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