In Helsinki with Madonna

Madonna performed a concert from Sticky & Sweet tour in Helsinki 6.8.2009. And what a show it was. An amazing event overall and great performance from the artist and her team. Weather was great, too. Sun was still shining when Paul Oakenfield and Madonna's dancers warmed up the audience.

I'm not a fan but as said I enjoyed the concert very much. At the beginning people were bit calm but soon audience was jumping together with Madonna. Many of the songs were from her latest album Hard Candy and went unrecognized for me. Still they stuck in to my head and it was nice to dance in to them with rest of the crowd. Classics such as Into the Groove and Like a Prayer got the warmest welcome, as expected. In addition to those, my highlights were tender You Must Love Me and Give It 2 Me that ended the show. I could also mention Jump and Music and... The concert was also visually spectacular.

The biggest concert ever held in Finland was also well organized. Jätkänsaari had enough space for about 80 000 people. Getting there and away was not problem at all. I also bet the place was much easier to clean up afterwards compared to for example Kirjurinluoto in Pori, thanks to the flat concrete field.

I wasn't able to take our Ixus with me this time so I had to resort to my phone. Just took few shots, hoped for the best, and enjoyed the show! Below is a video shot by friend of mine next to me. You can also spot me on this video. We had pretty good place next to the stage :-) I love to be as front as possible as there you can see all the details and expressions of performers. In this concert it was obvious that Madonna and the dancers were really having good time as well.