Oceanborn Europe Tour

Oceanborn Europe Tour

Tour by Nightwish
A tour promotional image, from Spinefarm Records
Associated album	Oceanborn
Start date	November 12, 1999
End date	December 12, 1999
Number of shows	26
Nightwish concert chronology

Oceanborn Europe Tour was a concert tour by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish from November 12 to December 12, 1999. The tour is notable for featuring the band's first European concerts. Oceanborn Europe Tour followed a Finnish leg with 33 shows, the Summer of Wilderness. In this tour, Nightwish played beside German heavy metal band Rage, and Nightwish was occasionally supported by Finnish singer Tapio Wilska, singing in the songs "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion" and "Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean"; Tuomas Holopainen performed "Beauty and the Beast" and "Astral Romance" beside Nightwish's frontwoman, Tarja Turunen.

Personnel

• Tarja Turunen - Female vocal^[1]
• Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards, male vocal^[2]
• Emppu Vuorinen - Guitar^[3]
• Jukka Nevalainen - Drums^[4]
• Sami Vänskä - Bass^[1]
• Tapio Wilska - Male vocal

Setlist

During the Summer of Wilderness tour, a typical setlist would consist of:

• "Sacrament of Wilderness
• "Elvenpath"
• "Stargazers"
• "Passion and the Opera"
• "Know Why the Nightingale Sings"
• "Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean" (featuring Tapio Wilska)
• "Walking in the Air" (Howard Blake cover)
• "Gethsemane"
• "Astral Romance"
• "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion" (featuring Tapio Wilska)

Encore:

• "Beauty and the Beast"

During the Oceanborn Europe tour, a typical setlist would consist of:

• "Passion and the Opera"
• "Sacrament of Wilderness" or "Elvenpath"
• "Gethsemane"
• "Walking in the Air"
• "Know Why the Nightingale Sings" or "Sacrament of Wilderness"
• "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion" (featuring Tapio Wilska)
• "Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean" (featuring Tapio Wilska)

Beginning in early December, "Stargazers" would be played following "Passion and the Opera", and "Sacrament of Wilderness" would be played between "Walking in the Air" and "Know Why the Nightingale Sings".

Tour dates

References

External links

• Nightwish's Official Website