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Music:

I SAW ALICE COOPER LAST NIGHT.



Before leaving we had a lot of problems with the tickets and keys and who knows what, but we got there some time after eight.
In the lobby-space mum bought me a scarf (which I suppose I'll have to pay for her later). There were posters and stickers and shirts, and one shirt was extremely funny: the face-shot of Alice with his name and the words KIELLETTY TAMPEREELLA (=forbidden in Tampere).

Here's what our ticket looked like:

That's mum's ticket as I actually sat on seat number three, but whatever. Our seats were on the left side of the hall, and we were up high in the last row. You did see very well, though.
We were in time to hear the last couple songs of the warm-up band (/singer, actually) Sebastian Bach and watch as they put up the stage for Cooper. The music they played during this mid-time was good (including Michael Jackson and The Who)

As we were sitting Mike Monroe emerged from the backstage to mingle with the commoners, and soon he had a queue of people waiting to get a photo of him or whatever.
The variety of people was lovely to see. Unlike when I was watching Moi Dix Mois, the people weren't all dressed up.



The show started, unexpectedly, for me, at nine, when it was supposed to start, with School's Out.
The full
School's Out
Department of Youth
Eighteen
Wicked Young Man
Ballad of Dwight Fry
Go To Hell
Guilty
Welcome To My Nightmare
Cold Ethyl
Poison
The Awakening
From The Inside (w/ extended instrumental)
Nurse Rozetta
Is It My Body
Be My Lover
Only Women Bleed
I Never Cry
The Black Widow (Instrumental)
Vengeance Is Mine
Devil's Food
Dirty Diamonds
Billion Dollar Babies
Killer
I Love The Dead (excerpt)
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Under My Wheels
encore: Schools Out (full version)
of Hammersmith Apollo, London. The songs are very much the same as they were here. Songs known and sung by me in italics. The ones I did not recognize you can expect me to recognize later.

Cooper had numerous changes of costumes and canes, which he spun with elegance. He threw stuff to the audience (what looked like necklaces during Dirty Diamonds, money during Billion Dollar Baby and so on)
He was killed four times, by an evil nurse (played by his daughter), with the means of guillotine, poison injection, hanging, and stabbing. There was some sort of a story, a plot, to the show, too, because with Cooper it's never just a rock show, is it?

After the concert as we were walking towards the bus stop mum said that this experience made her like heavy rock as it is so energetic and (if I remember correctly) angry.
After getting home I was suffering a slight tinnitus, but it didn't matter, as I had experienced something unforgettable and was so tired I fell right asleep.


[pictures, except the ticket, via Google]