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DAY 15
So now we are off to Oulu which is quite far north…
about a four hour drive from Vaasa. It was snowing a lot today so
we had to be careful and I gave the wheel to Dave for the last two
hours so I could get my nap!
The Foxia is a great venue but Ade Barnard (our sound guy) had to
wrestle with the sound system quite a bit. As usual though he got
it together but it meant that sound check went past curfew!! Ooopps.
Anyway the only problem was it cut down our time to eat and get
ready but I can't eat less than three hours before a show anyway.
We had some fun finding the hotel in the snow and prepared for our
last gig in Finland which went very well! It wasn't perhaps the
most enthusiastic audience so we closed the set with the new version
of "Lady In Black" instead of doing it as the encore and
that woke everyone up so the show ended up with very rowdy singing.
It had gone well and we now knew that 5 gigs in a row is quite possible
even under these difficult driving conditions etc… this will
give us much more flexibility for future touring plans!
At the end we celebrated the completion (finish?) of our Finnish
dates and the first leg of our World Tour 2002. We were faced with
a long (9 hours) drive to Turku tomorrow so we didn't have much
time to sleep.
I am really pleased with the way this is going and deeply thankful
to everyone who has worked hard to make this a team effort. And
of course I am always thankful in my prayers!!!
It's 4:20am now and I have to get up in… aaaaaghh!!!
Next day...
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