The support act was Finnish band called Manboy. I used to like them but this time I just couldn't wait them to get off stage.

Before the gig at the bar Simon told us they were just going to play "depressing old b-sides" like High Rising, Big Time and Digging a Hole. Well, they didn't, but they started with Europe Is Our Playground which sounded just very, very good. The setlist was a nice mixture of old and new songs. Brett looked happy and once again joked on stage, telling us about his problems of "not getting it up". He started encore with playing a bit of Indian Strings and then said oops, that's wrong one and went on with Untitled. Show ended with So Young and Beautiful Ones and the band was smiling widely while leaving the stage. I had liked the Stockholm gig a lot, actually, but liked this one even more. Later I noticed my knees and arms were all black and blue with bruises after the whole lot of bouncing and rocking.

My two evenings with Suede ended happily as we got passes to go to the after show party in their dressing room (thanks a loooot Ilkka & Liisa, Mat and Peter). Quite soon the bottles of champagne ran empty and the band (and lucky us) went on to a nightclub.

(now it's time to get back to reality for a while but London is calling...)

:: Maria's review:
I'll just have to say, it was absolutely fabulous, amazing... They were all looking very fit and gorgeous and Brett was interacting with the audience wonderfully. Though the gig wasn't sold out (well, it was almost, there was about 2000 people) the atmosphere was great. Brett was making jokes, like when they played CGE, he said "Now, this is a song about my sexual problem, can't get it up"... everybody went quiet... Brett: that was a joke, I don't have a problem with that, you're suppose to laugh when I'm telling a joke!...

And something like this:
Brett: We were at Stockholm last night...
(some booing from the audience, as Finns are supposed to "hate" Swedes and vice versa)
Brett: booing... they couldn't sing at all... maybe they all had sore throats. You lot could sing better?
But Helsinki was from another planet, smiley hip-swaggering "bionic man"-Brett... I'm out of words really...

Europe is Our Playground
Beautiful Loser
Trash
Metal Mickey
Electricity
Street Life
Everything Will Flow
Lost in TV
Obsessions
The Wild Ones
Filmstar [with funny Brett spelling the word F I L M... -intro]
Animal Nitrate
Can't Get Enough
Positivity
She's in Fashion [very hilarious moment in the beginning when Brett coaxed
the audience to sing the words "she's in fashion" in some very camp voice]

encore:
[a bit of Indian Strings]
Oceans
Untitled
So Young 
Beautiful Ones [this is for you lot]