Sonisphere

Sonisphere

July 25, 2009

Pori

Kirjurinluoto Arena

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A day before the big happening

Sonisphere logos

Balloons ready to be placed to show
where're First aid, WC, Bars, Exits
- good idea, easy to see far away

Still empty on the morning of the event
- passed the area while having the morning run
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A glass of Fresita
before heading towards Kirjurinluoto Arena
- Chilean sparkling wine infused with
100% natural strawberries
- delicious!
http://www.fresita.com/
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The gates opened at 9am,
first band started at noon,
went there around 5.30pm
Linkin Park
- started at 5.45pm
-ok gig, never seen them before
or any similar type of music playing band
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Before Linkin Park there're:
Machine Head
Saxon
Lamb of God (saw them in Copenhagen)
Mastodon (saw them in Copenhagen)
& Finnish bands:
Nicole
Diablo
Turisas
Los Bastardos Finlandeses
.- heard that Machine Head was great,
even though the guitarist Phil Demmel fainted
and they had to stop the gig
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The main stage before Metallica arived
- similar layout than on tour in 2007
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And finally at 9pm
everyone was humming:
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
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Battery by Metallica
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Set list:

Battery

Creeping Death

Fuel

Harvester of Sorrow

Fade to Black

Broken, Beat & Scarred

Cyanide

Sad But True

One

All Nightmare Long

The Day That Never Comes

Master Of Puppets

Blackened

Nothing Else Matters

Enter Sandman

encore:

Stone Cold Grazy (Queen cover)

Motorbreath

2.encore:

Seek & Destroy
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- absolutely fantastic!

- 2h of something that all the

60.000 people had been waiting for the whole day!
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Had a really good place quite near the stage,

could have taken loads of photos,

but didn't want to loose any moment of the music

Some pics taken in the beginning of the gig:

Rob Trujillo

Kirk Hammett
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James Hetfield
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Kirk Hammett
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James, and Rob on the backround
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Metallica
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Metallica
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Kirk again
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Rob & James
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The biggest concert ever in Finland!