Broken beehive in Helsinki

After a very long night of almost no sleep because of the cold weather it's been an awfully long day with rain and shine plus the nervousness of not getting any good spots by the front rail. there has all day been a feeling of the guards actually not understanding nor respecting our idea of lining up. we've been in touch with the guards several times today trying to explain how they can help us and themselves out by using our system. basically it's all about letting ppl into the stadium in a fair way. the guards have to use their authoroty and let ppl in by their numbers. we have been struggling all day with explaining the numbering system to ppl who arrive to the queue and making sure everything is done in a fair way. the girl who was in charge has really done a marvelous job, been enthusiastic and really witty but still it didn't work out right. she got a pretty good spot between Adam and Bono but actually she deserves an even better. the guards opened 6 turnstiles at the same time after promising to let us in fair by the numbers. they really let us down today. I'm just to he left of front row on the Edge's side. could have been a lot better than this but this is what you get sometimes even if you put a lot of effort into it.

tonite it's Razorlight who will give U2 lift-off. I must say I have a hard time appreciating their music. maybe one or two songs are ok but they never got the audience going like snow patrol can. cool thing is that the base player said "tack, jag kan tyvärr inte säga så mycket på finska".

now all of the U2-crew is on stage doing sound checks. there seems to be some kind of problem, they have taken down the "beehive" and are now repairing it just minutes before U2 go on stage.

it's gonna be a really cold night again so I'm glad I have my hoodie. I doubt I'm going to camp out tonite concidering the result of today's queuing. we werw spoilt rotten by the procedures in Horsens.

I'm longing for food now and a Coke. haven't actually eaten anything today. very soon showtime.

By the way, I believe I was on the radio today.

http://svenska.yle.fi/huvudstadsregionen

So, bring on Helsinki 1.