”This is not another ordinary day at work!”
- Roy Kahn (vocals)

Thus spake Kahn; sadly, the performance told its own tale, and it wasn’t as rosy as the comment...
Ok, so Elize Ryd had a new outfit on, Sean Tibbetts had a new hairdo and there was a new guest-vocalist in singing Forever, I believe it was, but I can’t say who it was I’m afraid.
And the performance tricks of the band were also at full work; there was an impressive fire-show, costumes and drama was in order, Kahn was making little comments between songs to keep things flowing, and the band was agile enough during the music, Kahn especially liked to move out onto the speakers in front of the stage a lot to get closer to the audience, but still, something was missing.

Maybe it was just me though; I must admit that Kamelot had pulled one hell of a crowd, and there was clapping and shouting all the way from the stage in the front to the food-vendors in the back.
This was something Kahn wasn’t late in taking advantage of, and he created, without much trouble, great shout- and sing-along sessions throughout the show, but for me it felt like the crowd had much more intensity and sincerity than the band this day.

The Great Pandemonium from their at the time still upcoming album Poetry For The Poisoned had been in the set for the entire tour and was growing pleasantly familiar, and maybe this was why Kamelot had decided to share one more song from the album for us this day; after a dedication to Thomas Youngblood’s mother, who tragically died during production of Poetry For The Poisoned, the band proceeded to play the dark and brooding Hunter’s Season, and also this song garnered a good response from the fans, even though no one (for good reasons) had ever heard it at the time.

I must admit that the show did grow on me as it went along, but in comparison to the more than excellent show I had just witnessed by them at the Magic Circle Festival, Kamelot came nowhere near their own potential at this gig, and in the end it could only reach an ok but highly forgettable standard.
And yes Roy, this did feel like just another ordinary day at work...