Two days ago I saw my best gig so far, Iron Maiden at Hartwall Arena incl. an audience of over 13'000. The gig was really great, great effects, the lighting was awesomely varied and done and the atmosphere was good.
Bruce Dickinson and the rest of the band performed really well and the sounds were just perfect.
One downer is that they played the whole new album (A matter of life and death) and only 6-7 'classic's' in about 1hr 50mins.
The warmup band was Trivium, who I don't really like, but well atleast they played alright.
My worst concert was also this year when I went to see Gary Moore (and George Thorogood). I went to the concert mainly and actually only because of Gary Moore, for his songs like: Over the hills and far away, after the war, wild frontier etc.
And of course he didn't play ANY of the songs I really like, only his calmer, softer love, 'blues songs'
*deep sigh*
George Thorogood though, was good as I hadn't heard of him/them before, but I had heard Bad to the Bone and Get a haircut and get a new job, those are good songs and they were nice to hear live.
This year I also had tickets to see Metallica (warm up BFMV) with 70'000 other peeps in Estonia, unfortunately couldn't go because of my parents bad holiday arrangements
. I also missed Whitesnake and W.A.S.P during the year.
Also as my music taste is quite varied:
I had a ticket for Underworld who should've played in Helsinki Ice hall (smaller than Hartwall Arena) 21.10 this year, without any age-limit, but they changed venue, because of "technical difficulties"(they had only sold 700 tickets) to a club, one of the finest in town for the matter of fact, and along came the 18 year limit, but then I just didn't bother going, luckily I got a refund though.
Also in a week and two days Ti?sto is coming to town, he only does so around every three years, needless to say it's a bit annoying when you're almost 18 less than 2 months away (well, of course he could play in a 20, 24 club ).