TARJA TURUNEN (ex-NIGHTWISH) has issued the following:

"I want to start this post by telling you about the show in Munich.

Something very strange happened to us there…

It seemed that all the bad luck and dark clouds were upon us during this concert. Never we have had that many technical problems before. Actually we didn’t have any major problems during this tour or during the Warm up Concerts last year.

The sound check went fine as it usually does.

At the beginning of the concert, I just walked to the stage and missed my first line in the song Lost Northern Star. The click that helps us and that we can hear from our monitor system was not there!

After that, it was chaos.

In some songs we heard nothing coming in our in-ear monitors, or what is even worse, we heard a double clicking that was only making us to play in a wrong tempo.

We were forced to stop in the middle of the song of 'I Walk Alone' and to start it all over again just because everything sounded so wrong.

Computers are the best friends… when they work!

No human mistake from band or crew, just things got out of hands. Maybe some power issues or who knows what, but ghosts were playing tricks on us that night

And when you think that nothing can go worse, there we go…

I was wearing for the first time jewellery that I got from a friend day before the concert. When I entered the stage after change over and banged my head for the first time, this jewellery flew away!

I thought, “ups” and continued singing and soon after forgot the whole thing.

But when I went to play 'Oasis' alone with my piano, I realized that the jewellery has fallen upon it and changed the sound settings into some ridiculous electric piano sound.

As you can imagine, I didn’t notice that early enough to change it… So there I was playing 'Oasis' with a funny electric piano sound!

And in the encores, during 'Die Alive', the computer decided to go crazy again leaving us in a state of chaos and shock that only made us laugh during the song. But my band is great and we pulled through it without hassle. I hope.

I think that was enough trouble for only one gig.

Anyway, the show was just great and the fans that I got to talk after the show were saying that they really liked the show.

Next day we performed in Zurich and once again we had amazing show there.

It was a sold out show and the place really felt rather too small for the people that showed up. The whole band was very happy with the crowd, so we ended up playing one more song after the normal set.

It came as a surprise for the audience as well as for the band and crew when I decided to add the song. Maria had to run to the backstage to pick up her in-ear monitors…

It was fun though.

The city of Graz is beautiful. So many old buildings and houses. I had a pleasant walk in the city day before the concert and took some photos.

Then it started to rain and it kept on going. It was challenging for us and for our fans too, who needed to wait in the rain to get in. For me it was great to have my first concert in Austria. The people were happy to see us on stage and I guess they enjoyed the show quite a lot. At least it seemed so. I wish to have another chance to return there some day soon.

Now we are in Milan starting the sound check in 5’. The crew is preparing everything ready at the moment. Find here some photos of the Sound check in Munich.

We have done half of the shows in this leg of the tour and my condition to sing is still great. I am very happy about that.

I can’t wait to have fun together with the Italian audience tonight!

Some fans were already waiting at our arrival. Together with some bootleg t-shirts stands…"

Check out more photos here.