I added maps for the German clubs. Will look for Hotels later and add the information then.
As of this morning, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Mannheim VIP tix seem to be fully booked. That can change if people don't pay what they have reserved, but there are not many tickets left.

I'm still trying to get more informtion about sibiu like what exactly the schedule is and when the doors open. So far, there is nothing on their site excpet for the names of the bands for the day. After the weekend I'll contact them and see if they'll give me any informtion.

Added e-ticket links for a few German concerts - no VIP tix though

Added Lost in Music since it's confirmed by LiveNation now

Hello all : ) I want to attend my first Poet's live, so maybe someone more experienced could help me with selection ; ) I have two options - Espoo in August or Tampere in October. How does such festival look like? Just few songs by every band/soloist? Or maybe full setlist? Thank you in advance!

Hey, festival setlists are often a bit shorter than club gigs, but more than a few songs. It also depends on the festival and on the venue how much they play. I have seen them play 90 minutes at festivals and I have seen them 60 minutes in clubs. A short festival setlist is about 45 - 50 Minutes long. There are no schedules for the Weekend festival or Lost in Music yet, so I cannot tell you how long the concert will be. There is more than one band playing at weekend festival and at Lost in Music. Thus, my best guess is these two concerts will be about the same length, but I could be wrong.

Generally festival stages are bigger, therefore you have more space in front row, the first orw is further away from the stage than at clubs and the guys have more room to move. In clubs everything is smaller, but if you are front row, you are closer to the stage. I have not been to Pakkahuone so I don't know how big the club is though.

Club gigs are cheaper than festivals, but at festivals you get to see other bands as well for the price of your ticket. You could check who else is playing at the concerts and decide if they interest you or not. Then go to the concert with more bands that you want to see. In case you are traveling from outside Finnland, it also makes sense to check on the cost of accomodation and transportation and take that into account.

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you have more questons.

On a personal note: I'd take the first opportunity I have to see the guys. Then you could go and see them again if you like them Oh and if you eed a ticket for espoo, let me know. I can't go and I'm selling mine. seriously.

redbossfan - thank you so much for all these precious information I have a great oportunity to see them, because I'm moving to Finland next month Yep, lucky girl I am.
Somehow I was convinced that festival gigs contains only few songs, so it won't be the best way to see my favourite band live for the first time... Now I feel more assured : )

Please, pm me about the ticket, I will be getting two of them, but I can free you from this one ; )

You're welcome. And lucky you are. PM sent

This hostel is just round the corner from the Berlin venue and is where I am staying. Any fans want to stay there and have a post gig beer with me are very welcome to.

Eastern Comfort Hostelboat Berlin
Mühlen Str 73-77
http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Eastern-Comfort-Hostelboat-Berlin/Berlin/11864?sc_sau=prfs&sc_pos=95

In Munich I am booked into The Meinenger chain hostel. As it is the nearest in case of public transport issue. (I live in England and the gits keep striking, so I am always wary)

^^great, thanks. I haven't gotten around to adding hotel/hostel information yet.

Some info about Espoo 18.08 Weekend Festival: only cell phones and compact cameras will be allowed, Poets will be performing around 7 pm, before Hurts (but there might be some changes to the schedule, though).

^^oh finally! I'll add that thanks

Added the newly announced gig in Pori (November 1st)

Edit: I'm curently on vacation. Will add information on all the new gigs when I'm back home.
As far as I could see yesterday there are no tickets available for any of these newly added shows yet.

I added at least some information on all the upcoming fall gigs. I will add ticket links as soon as they are available. It seem stta for some events they will only be available at the door.
I'll also add more info on locations and such later.

I still don't know when the doors will open in Sibiu and what time POTF will play. I emailed them and they repplied with a link to tehir programme page (that does not contain the information)

There is no schedule available for the Weekend festival in Espoo either.

Added the dates for India, will add info on tickets as such as soon s I find it. any help would be much appreciated.

Tickets for India are available now.

Changes to German venues and one date! Cologne is a day earlier now.

Weekend Festival announced their schedule:
Poets will be on stage at 19.45 (before Hurts which is the last one at 21.45)

the hostel I have listed above for Berlin is now NOT near the venue, its about 20 minutes on the S-Bahn away

I added the changes to the Finnish tourdates. I really hope there won't be more of those

India tour

I keep hearing the concerts are sold out, but the ticket website still shows a link to buy tickets. Since I cannot register to the site it is impossible for me to check if there are tickets or not. any information regarding this would be much appreciated.


Finnland fall tour

The place in Turku where they are playing in December is half-opened now, i.e. the bar is opened, but not the nightclub. Still were sparese information on the website, but it sounds more promising now and there is an adress.

I've added the Info to the first post and will add more as I find it.

Since people keep asking me this: There are not tickets available yet for any of the Finnish gigs that I didn't post a ticket link for. I will update the information when I get it, but for now my regular checkof ticket sites has come up with nothing. So far, tickets are available for "Lost in Music" and the gig in Kotka only.
For the cruises, you do not need an extra ticket: booking the cruise is enough to go to the concert.

Pori tickets are available now. You find the link in the first post

Vantaa and Pälkäne tickets are available now. The link is in the first post.

Tickets for the Virgin Oil gig are available now. Link is in the first post.

Updated with information about the postponed/cancelled gig in Turku

I will add Russia and Ulkraine after the Germany tour. I am sorry, I really have no time to go and research things now. If anyone can provide any information on the location of the clubs, how to get there or where to get tickets it is greatly appreciated.

I am sorry I have not gotten around to reserach anything about the Russia/Ukraine gigs yet. as far as I knwo there are tix available at least for Moscow, probably for the other Russian gigs too. No idea about Ukraine.

If anyone nows, please tell me. Thank you

okay, I clearly suck at Russian, I hope no-one gets angry if I mix something up here.

St. Petersburg, the club site, the gig, the "buy tickets" button redirects here and I haven't seen the tickets on sale elsewhere so far, the location of the club.
Moscow, the club site, the tickets.
Krasnodar, can't find anything about that one
Yekaterinburg, the club site, no tickets for this one either location of the club
Kiev, I think this is the club, the tickets.

I know it's not much, I guess I can try keeping an eye out if tickets for rest of the gigs will become available.

Thank you, I'll add that info to the first post. you are a life saverm I really had n time to google any of that.

You're welcome.

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