Me, my parents and a few family friends went to Helsinki to see U2 live, at the Olympic Stadium, as part of their 360° tour. U2 is among my favorite bands, so it was exciting to see them live.
We left with the ferry around 12:05 in the afternoon. In Helsinki we were given a tour by my father's friend Georg. After eating at a tasty Chinese restaurant, we started walking towards the Stadium.
The opening act was a English-Swedish band called Razorlight. I hadn't heard of them before, but they have quite a known song named "America", which I recognized there.
This is the highly creative stage they had there (this photo isn't from Finland though). The point of the 360° stage is that the audience can be all around the stage. The band members would move around on it a lot.
U2 arrived a bit after 21:00. They played 5 songs from their newest album, No Line On The Horizon. I really liked the concert, as did the rest of the people I was with. You could see the band pretty well, where ever you were, the place wasn't overcrowded and the selection of songs was great (even though I don't know a single song by them which I don't like).
At the end of the concert it started raining, and we were soaking wet when we returned to the ship. The sea was slightly wild and wavy on our ride back, I really liked it, soothing.
I'll probably be abroad in September again.
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