After meeting my old high school life over the weekend, I have been pretty looking forward to go and see H.I.M. yesterday. I was pretty close to knocking on heaven’s door. Not because of the band but because of the cold I caught last week – fevery and weak I was waiting for the concert to start. First, there was playing Paradise lost, what I found pretty cool. They have nice melodies and a groove that let me forget ’bout my aching bones. The singer was not much of an entertainer but at least the bass guitar player was! 
The hard time came after them: I had to survive the break somehow. And as I was there all alone, I just sat on a chair and waited for the concert to start. People must have asked themselves what drugs I have taken – I think I looked pretty much scary.
And theeeeen, the show began! I was standing close to the sound engineer, as I’m always interested what’s going on there as well and the club was not too big, so I still could see Ville pretty close. It’s so surprising to see this small, skinny boy on stage and then hear his gorgeous, powerful voice! It just rocked so much! And the sound was great as well, very powerful and the light show was amazing too.
So, Ville is a gift for the tobacco industry: I’m sure he smoked at least one pack of cigarettes during the concert, just while singing – I have no idea, how he does that. And it was pretty funny, coz the singer of Paradise lost’s last sentence to the audience was (as so many were smoking):”Thank you for giving me lung cancer!” and then, there comes the other one and smokes like a machine…
There were only two things that I didn’t like too much: seemed that Ville was in a very talkative mood. He talked and talked and talked… worse than a woman!
And the other thing is more a psychological one: they didn’t do an encore. They played pretty long, though, but still it would have been better for the crowd if they stopped after one hour and then do another half an hour of encore. This is the learning I take out of it 
