Tampere Stadium...

...after rock concert.

Soundtrack by Eppu Normaali, 'Tahroja paperilla' ('Stains on the paper', unfortunately only available on Youtube): youtu.be/4n4ocBknicU

I took the picture to show how bright the artificial lights are on a stadium like this, and also because the view was rather exceptional. Short after the event there are still at least several thousand people on the arena, whereas the seats have already emptied.

Tampere Stadium is as one may guess, made mainly for the sports events. The seating capacity is for 16,800 people. But during concerts, when the arena becomes filled by people, and the seats behind the stage are not used, there is space enough for 30,000 people.

Me and my wife were there to see (and hear!) concert by the most famous Finnish rock band Eppu Normaali. They were celebrating 40th anniversary, played over 40 songs during four hours, together with Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, lead by nationally famous and well known Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

What comes to Eppu Normaali rock band, they have made many songs, which well describe the Finnish melancholic soul landscape (see the song translation on soundtrack video).

This picture is also my contribution for The Sunday Challenge 'Sports', and this is as close to the subject I manage to come up during last week. Eppu Normaali actually started as a punk rock band, and they have made many good satires on current issues like being madly obsessed by sports. On their song 'Urheiluhullu' ('Sports maniac') they make fun out of a person who has turned his back to philosophy and intelligence, and instead started to compete on sports like a madman.

Some sources on Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere_Stadium
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppu_Normaali
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampere_Philharmonic_Orchestra