… or how to get goosebumps for 2 consecutive hours.

Last night I may have attended the best concert I will ever have the opportunity of seing. After a short warm-up, Anathema started their gig.

When I first heard “Empty vassels..”, the first lyrics of “Empty”, my heart started pumping faster and I felt high already. It was like the Cavannagh brothers knew that “Empty” is the first song I have ever listened from them and as I was telling my friends this morning, I will never forget the circumstances in which I had done that: while on the subway in Bucharest and.. well, the rest is history.

I tried to take more pictures. I swear I did but I just couldn’t. No, nobody would have stopped me from photographing the entire event if my memory card had allowed it. The thing is that I felt high the entire concert. It was the first time ever when the music I was listening to had merged with my state of mind, shaking all of my foundations. As I was saying, I did try to take more pictures but I just didn’t want to ruin the moment (2 hours moment I might add) by taking the camera from the backpack and missing any piece of the concert.

Honestly, I am glad that I had been to this concert by my self. In my selfishness, I wouldn’t have liked to share this experience with no-one, what-so-ever. It was just too beautiful to even think about saying any other word while watching it.

I left to the temporary home speechless on the outside but singing from all my heart on the inside. They played every tune I would have asked them to play and even more. Among the songs from the following album, their setlist contained (this is just what I can remember): Deep, Inner Silence, Forgotten Hopes, Fragile Dreams, Flying, Hope, Alone, Angelica, One Last Goodbye, Judgement (!!), Are You there?, Empty, Lost Control, Restless Oblivion, The Silent Enigma, Eternity part III and Cries in the Wind but I am not sure about this last one.

Needless to say that I would watch Anathema again for at least a couple of hundreds of time. I’ve just forgotten what I thought to have been the best gigs that I have ever seen: Moonspell? Santana? Opeth? Cannibal Corpse? Those are long gone my friend. I know you can’t compare these music gendres but I swear, last night was absolutely extraordinary.
I am now on my way to Odden to take the ferry back to Aarhus. I exceeded the budget I had planned for this trip so now I’m going to have to make some food-related compromises but as I was saying: these 4 days will always be in my heart and I know for a fact that I have what to tell my future nephews while holding them on my leg. And yes, I would sell a kidney or a lung to see Anathema live again. I swear.