Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth LIVE (BRITS REACTION) 

Here it is… the big one!

Floors parents were in the audience that evening. I can only imagine that they were fairly bursting with pride. Floor said it was emotional for her to perform this masterpiece in front of them. Thanks for this fine reaction.

For context Tuomas had Tarja He got a Stradivarius Tuomas had Anette He got a Steinway Tuomas has Floor He got a Whole Orchestra

Fun fact: During the Nightwish Virtual World shows the chat server crashed under the pressure of thousands of people typing WE WERE HERE all at once.

This is nothing short of a masterpiece. Amazing composition and performance.

There are so many “hidden gems” that Tuomas included in the lyrics & the music. You will hear about them all! The musical tributes you mentioned start with some African tribal drumming, then through the Gregorian chant in Dies Irae (Mozart), Bach’s Minuet in G Major followed by his famous Fugue in D Minor, followed by American banjo music, Metallica’s Enter Sandman riff (!!!), finally ending in Rap/Hip-Hop and 90s dance music. 18:28 - Your eyebrows said it all! 😹

Marko's (finnish) shouts in the end: "Yy-kaa-koo-nee" = one-two-three-four, "Ja isolla" = and loudest (or biggest), "Viimeinen" = last one. Floors "kiitos" = thank you.

Yeah ...metellica....and ...just before that .. . BACH 🎹🎶🎻...Tuomas.......Brilliant 👌👌👌💎👑

This song makes my eyes tear every time I hear it without fail. A summary of the universe in a single song.

We Were Here 🤘🇫🇮🤘

The Greatest song on Earth!

This could come only from the genius that is Tuomas Holopainen and played live by the only band that could - the incredibly amazing Nightwish. Truly epic in every way.

You truly react & think what you see'n'hear - great! And Nightwish... They just happen to be quite on a league of their own.

It's not overestimated when people say Tuomas is a "Modern day Mozart". It suits him.

WE WERE HERE!! Yes we were and Yes it gets me every time! Tuomas is completely off the charts with his Talent and it is so Humbling to realize that instead of "a Poet greater than Keats" or "a Scientist greater than Newton" that it is I that is Here! Wonderful Composition, Performance and Message....Thankyou Guys you did this Masterpiece justice!

This show is unbelievable, but look and analyze the lyrics. That together makes it unique. Greetings fromthe Netherlands

They actually tried to get David Attenborough to do a voiceover on the latest album. He apologized but he was too busy at the time, so they got the actress Geraldine James instead (and she did it beautifully) If you want to really hear what Tuomas can do you should check out disc 2 of the latest album. He doesn't write songs, he composes masterpieces.

One of the best bands of all time!Super!Thanks friends, great reaction.🔥🔥🔥🇷🇺

Songs like this make me want to look into Tuomas's brain, you know it is vastly different from the rest of us! He is a compositional genius, and to live in the times of his work is so flipping cool. And of course, YUMMY Marko, can't go wrong. I am so proud of you, B1, for being a good grump and sitting still like you did. This was a great reaction, as always, you 2 Brits are the best! Um, Floor's arms?!?! To be young and beautiful.....

WE WERE HERE !!!! That Ending gets me every time 🥲. And they look together like Real Avengers of earth ......Fantastic Work Guys 👏. Who else is going to vote for this song's inclusion on the next Voyager golden record, if there'll ever be one? I want to beam this song into space forever. PS: Tuomas IS Nightwish !!! NWSU 🤘😎🤘.

This is celebrating life to the MAX.

I get emotional at the 'WE WERE HERE' part, every time.

Thank you for giving it the time and respect it deserves. It’s a composition rather than a song. Well worth a listen with lyrics or in a darkened room with a good drink :) thank you for this

The magnificence of this song can hardly be described in words. 'Epic' seems to me still very far understated. Tuomas can only be called a musical genius, and the musicians he has around him are perfect for converting his ideas into sound and voice. And also the team for the visual realization deserves proper respect in my opinion. A masterpiece in every aspect. _____________________ 【 _Our rock never dies ever. Forever!_ 】- from BAND-MAID 'Manners' 🕊️

Thank you guys! Finally BP1 is also fully on board 😁. I think you realize now that we are not talking about a "band" and "songs". This family is out of this world. And what can you say about Tuomas?! The most gentle, kind and down to Earth genius. His level of humanistic intelligent is off the chart! By the way, I was there! And we were there as a family and still are and always will be.

You mentioned that you could imagine Attenborough commenting this on The Blue Planet series. - Nightwish asked Sir David Attenborough to do something similar (like what Richard Dawkins did) for their latest Human. :II: Nature. album. - Tuomas: "He sent a handwritten letter. He thanked us for our request for cooperation and wrote: I hope you will not be disappointed because I will not go along and all the best for the new record. I sat in the chair for about five seconds, annoyed, but then I was quite Wow! I just received a letter from David Attenborough."

When you remember this was the end of the show, they'd already performed Ghost. Love Score, Yours is an empty hope, Sleeping Son and so on. I actually like it when reactors do poet followed by GSOE, it let's them see Toumas at his darkest and his most optimistic

This is a significant, heavy, and emotionally charged Nightwish piece of work... This one here has legitimately moved me to tears at times whenever I listen to it. And I'm a 44 year old man that isn't very good at showing emotion, ya know... LoL.

This was most epic Nighwish show i have ever seen :)

The dress of Floor is not only having a double helix, but it is also the colours of the Finnish Flag. BP2 ask if we knew someone in the universe that could subscribe. I did ask some alien and he said bleep (means thumbs up)!!!!!! Thx for doing this masterpiece and have a nice day. BTW i saw TGSOE myself, but the indoor version. It was mindblowing

Thank you for the reaction, and this song kind of puts life into perspective. We worry daily about the most insignificant things. We are blessed to even be born.

There are many, many references to other music in this one. I believe Tuomas said once, that he would wonder if anybody would figure all of them out.

Their latest album (double), Human and Nature, the next one?! 😊. Again a major subject of Tuomas, mankind and Mother Earth. Another masterpiece. 🔥 In my opinion, the best. ❤️

Nothing before the Big Bang friends. The song starts about 9 billion years after the Big Bang... 4 billion years ago, with the Late Heavy Bombardment, where the inner planets were bombarded by huge asteroids (and Earth was also hit by Thea, a Mars sized planet that entered into Earth but a chunck of both of expelled in molten form to create the Moon). The late heavy bombardment seeded Earth with the elements needed for life.

SO respectfully done by BP1 & BP2.............................keep on following the /\/ \/\/-journey, guys

Hi guys, late again. This is pure musical theater or rock opera (whichever you want to call it). I agree with you about the keyboard BP1, although everyone is absolutely amazing the keyboard do stand out. I really wanted to become a patron, but my hubby who has twice had to be reimbursed after illegal activity refuses to let his details out again. I’m so sorry… Thanks for an amazing upload 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Great reaction! Just imagine the scale of Tuomas had to go through to conceive, write, compose and arrange this extraordinary work of music. He is an absolute legend and will go down in history as one of the great composers - not just in metal but in music more widely. In one hundred years this will be considered classical music.

We were here❣️ It is touching, and also nice to see the interaction with the audience at the end.

You were right, they went through the history of music starting with some Gregorian chant, some magnificent J.S. Bach, there was someone else whose name I always forget and ending with the Metallica reference. Unlike most bands, Nightwish do not play encores, they play the last song and that is it! I rather like it that way.

There are some who prefer this version with the fireworks and some who prefer the Wembley version with Troy initially on guitar with E-bow and the live appearance of Richard Dawkins at the end with the quote from Charles Darwin. But both are epic.

Hello Dexter Fletcher & his friend. Any time day or night it's my wish to see Nightwish play live again :)

You did a great job guys! justice to this piece of art. Thank you!

Thanks again, gents! I think you see why Ghost Love Score, Poet and the Pendulum and this one are considered their big three! Beyond epic.

Nightwish Army UK popping in to say .... WE WERE HERE

The more often I get dragged into this song, the greater than the greatest show it becomes. Really liked your comment of it being like a Attenborough documentary. It draws you in, it captivates, it evolves, it is something my vocabulary doesn't have a word for.

There's a video of Floor with her class in The Rock Academy. Floor actually cries in it talking about her parents. There's a video of Floor talking about her burnout

🇬🇧 Norfolk division signing in and ready to go let’s do this Thanks for your love of this masterpiece

Great reaction from you - this is why - another why - Nightwish are unique and the greatest metal band ever. And the story continues in Human Nature....

Thank you, a great reaction to a great performance! 👏BP1, since you like astronomy and since the we-were-here-part got you a little bit emotional, I think that you would enjoy two songs from Nightwish's latest album Human :II: Nature: "Endlessness" sung by Marko, and "Shoemaker" which refers to Eugene Shoemaker, the scientist whose ashes are buried on the Moon (official lyric videos for both). Stellar songs!

A friend of mine just lost her mom i used words from this for her comfort. She loved it and brought her comfort

Being at that concert must have been an elevation. I can only imagine how that must have felt in that audience. This...at the END of a 2-1/2+ hour show!!?!? Are you kidding me?!?! Floor goes from human Therimin to primeval ancestor to emotionless creation entity....I mean, how much more can one say about her magnificence? When she does her deadpan, straight part it reminds me of HAL from 2001 a Space Odyssey, creepy but comforting at teh same time. Man, you think her parents were proud after this show? And at the end of this , she's belting out D5's (after nearly 3 hours) like nothing and asking the crowd to sing along? I bet there were a lot of very hoarse Finns at work the next day. The rest of the band are so locked in, they make the most difficult concepts seem effortless and easy. It's simply insane how good these musicians are. I have to say, in this one in particular Kai beats those drums like they owe a guy named Vinny a LOT of money. And yes BP2, Empuu was playing the opening riff to Sandman by Metallica ;-) I could see it in your confused look. They actually played a series of music from many composers up to that point in that section, but it goes by a lot of folks. Thanks guy, much appreciated. One request for future NW, when you get to doing 7 Days to the Wolves. Do yourselves and viewers a treat!! It's quite possibly the best of Annette AND one of Floors best. Do a double feature and react to both back to back. Wembly Arena for Floor absolutely ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XvsfwAPbWXc.html And Gample Open air for Annette ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i0lz4NgOOK0.html Cheers gent's, till next time Daniel

As you correctly pointed out multiple times, there is so much going on, every small detail, so I recommend to watch it multiple times ;) and there are a lot of clues on the other songs on the CD, so just keep up the good work ;)

Loved that guy's, thankyou for doing this one its an epic masterpiece.

Hi guys, nice reaction to this amazing song or should I say masterpiece of music. This is so great to watch and listen. It has so many layers, changes and tons of details. They have put lots of effort to make everything work perfectly. Every detail has been thought at least twice I would say. That quality on a live concert. You mentioned at first you really didn't know which direction it will take you next. That's very clever composing by Tuomas. He knows how to captivate us to listen these songs till the end. Earlier on the comments it was mentioned about Floor's parents participating that concert. I enclose here a video link about Floor's classreunion. There is an interview at Tampere stadium just day before this concert, her parents are on this video too. This video gives us beautiful glimpse of Floor's personality as a person. Floor Jansen - (English&Finnish Subtitles) Interview and Reportage From Tampere - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B3NIfu0qvtg.html.

The same thing happens to me when I hear that line :) feel choked up every single time. Just that idea of that no matter what happens, we were here and we mattered. It’s so easy in this world to feel like you just don’t matter but no matter who you are in this world you are here on this earth for a reason and you are loved and important 🥰

when this nightwish boom start in youtube few years ago with reactions, nobody truly see tuomas holopainen. now i can see tuomas holopainen have jump super star class. when i see this band last summer festival concert, tuomas was middle in stage, drums was where tuomas being before and troy his own place. if people looking floor in the stage major time,i notes that people go to see equally floor and tuomas and then rest of band. thanx to react this major song and have wonderful day and soon weekend.

This is how to end a show... Nightwish does concerts like a theatre production ending with the "cast" doing their bow to the audience with Nightwish produced outro music (usually orchestral) behind them. The bow was timed to the music. They play the entire concert straight through with an instrumental song mid show to give the singer a break and a costume change. It is a marathon. When they did the live virtual concerts they did a full dress concert in a green screen room as if they were on stage. For the North America audience they played it very early in the morning in Finland.

Great reaction! Thank you!

The song is BRUTALLL. 🎸🎸 PEPINAZOOO. 👍👍 From Basque Country with ❤️.

What else can one say but "We were here!" Great reaction guys. Well done BP1 for managing to last the course. You are right the we were here does hit home! Stay safe 🤘✌

Glad you did this version over the Wembley

What a great reaction on this masterpiece. Thanks for that.

I like the different vibes the MUSIC sections give you. Thanks gentleman, Nice Reaction 😊

Nice one mates. I would love to have been there but I saw them perform it at Bloodstock Festival 2018(Walton upon Trent) and it was an electric experience there we’re lots of people in tears by the end.

Wow what an incredible experience, that was awesome, blimey this band is epic. Cheers!

I was here to write a greeting from Finland 🇫🇮🤘

We are the universe made manifest. Here to understand itself. From the galaxies to the solar systems. From the planets to all the vastness in between. Hence from the star's once we came. To the star's we must return. Before the eternal night of us all. If for no other reason. To remind the universe. !!!!WE WERE HERE!!!!

Ya I saw your eyes water up as I did to, again. Pretty powerful and yet such a genius composed song that I’ve ever heard. Sure makes you think about the lottery of live that’s for sure. Great reaction fellas!

Thankx guys really enjoyed watching this with you, something been waiting for. Tuomas truly is an amazing songwriter/ composer. When the albun EFMB came out in 2015 and this song came on youtube, no liveshows yet, I always remember someone commenting 'they will never do this live" I hope that guy has seen this video :) now....you have to check out the new album 2nd cd from Human Nature, the Nature album and listen to Tuomas new music and you will hear something completely different and beautiful. It's as long as this song about 30 min. Worth listening too.

Great reaction guys!!😁👍 There's Nightwish for you once again 😂 🤘🤘 Nightwish ❤🤘🤘 Enjoy your day 😊

Great reaction guys one of the most amazing concerts I went too and will live in my memory

Superb reaction fellas! That comment near the start hoping that Troy had a cushion for the rock was about as British as it gets! 😉🤟

Been waiting months for this! Good job guys!

Correction! You get whiplash at a Nightwish concert haha Thanks guys ❤️

Another fantastic response guys. And indeed I wish I was there. Thank you.

aw ... thank you for doing this ... your reaction to this really made my day ... Nightwish is special ... you are becoming one of my favorite reactors .. we were here .. the good the bad the ugly ..

great reaction mates from the states

Next must hear Creek Marys Blood live. Its also wonderful pease of history Native Americans , but check the meaning behind that. Its amazing, the End of and Era DVD live. Have fun with that 🙏

Fantastic job guys

Great job, gentlemen.

yes it is awesome, just want to point out though cause he doesn't get noticed as much but on the vocals, there are three harmonizing, Troy was also singing with Floor and Marco as he's also taken up a little of the slack now that Marco's gone.

Yes there was a musical journey in the instrumental part. If you listen carefully in the background are Gregorian chants, Bach, banjo and Enter Sandman plus others.

Well done again mates!

Yes! Tuomas is a genius 😌 And this is masterpiece of all time, literally 🌏 🐠☀️ Thank you for your reaction 💯 Greetings from Finland. Subbed! 🤘

Thanks

I'm danish, so this bit I'm not sure of, but what I have been reading in the comment sections of other reactors, is that the Keyboard stand is not of Groot, but a finish statue. I'm sorry but I'm aware where this Statue is or what it is called, if someone knows please comment. Fun facts; One new crab species (Tanidromites nightwishorum) was named after Nightwish in honor in particular for the 2015 album “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” about the evolution of life. Conservation biologist Jukka Salmela of Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland recently discovered a new insect species in his home country and while remembering Tuomas Holopainen‘s love for nature, he decided to name it “Sciophila holopaineni” after NIGHTWISH‘s keyboarder and songwriter. After the release of the band’s latest album “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” in 2015, Holopainen has been known as person being highly interested in evolution and the diversity of nature. In 2018, a new species of beetle was discovered by scientist Andreas Weigel. It was named after Floor Jansen, dubbing it Tmesisternus floorjanseni. This makes Floor Jansen the second Nightwish member to be a namesake for a newly discovered species.

Thx for this one. The song title describes our human being on this planet - we are living the greatest show…. it’s evolution…. 👍🏆 Also for this song - the lyrics will beam you up… there are sooo many things and persons to watch and understand, it’s quite impossible to understand it all. So, Watch it again and do it with the lyrics….

Great reaction guys

Not the big bang, but the creation of the Earth by asteroid collisions etc (the fireworks!). Its about the Earth and evolution of life on it, rather than the whole universe. Professor Dawkins also quotes from Charles Darwin at the end. Troy is playing Irish Uilleann ("elbow") bagpipes, his speciality instrument. Good thoughtful reaction, guys. :)

Thank you very much for this awesome reaction. I'm big fan of yours and subbed. Greetings from Tampere, Finland. Stay safe!

Really nice analysis, guys. Well done!

Actually 4.6bn years is the age of the solar system, which is where we start. The big bang was about 14bn years. The song is based on Richard Dawkins book of the same name. The spoken part during the bows is a quote from the book and the final speech over the credits is from Darwin. The title of the album is based on that phrase from Dawkins and all the spoken pieces are read by Dawkins. In the Wembley version, Dawkins appears on stage in person to do the readings.

Everyone speaks of Big 3, but for me there is "only" Big 5: Ghost Love Score, Greatest Show on Earth, Poet and the Pendulum, Shoemaker, Dead Boy's Poem (in any order). Those are Nightwish's undisputable masterpieces. Luckily, the quality doesn't drop because "core" Tuomas (excellent comment) is just that good. As you rightly noticed, Tuomas had a huge role here (other than making it :)), he worked overtime on those keyboards and had to be superfocused. He even made small mistakes, but that just shows it was live. You'll enjoy watching the Wembley version because they use several different instruments, interesting ending, subtitles and Troy is more featured. #wewerehere

I just realised…. The song is about caring for the fauna and Floora….

React to shoemaker if you like astronomy the last bit sends me to tears . It's got an amazing backstory.

"How about that" indeed. Being able to type this down after the lottery of birth, winning the swin against other seeds in a single burst of ejaculation, is a humbling privilige. As it should be to anyone and everyone. Nicely reacted guys. 😉👍 Cheers from Finland 🇫🇮, the Mother Land of Nightwish 🤟😎

"Where do you park" I guess brits fall on the american side of the american/european split on this one. They mostly took public transportation. Buses and subway can move a LOT of people when properly designed.

tuomas is a big fan of mike oldfield,there is a bit flavours of him in this huge "suite" ,tubular bells melody,pipes and the caveman includes ;-)

This is a great show! No doubts. I love both live versions of it. IF you are concerned about keyboards, maybe you should check Ayreon. If you are concerned about smart music, you should check Ayreon. (Or Star One, which belongs to the same guy.) Maybe starting for the official videos of "The day that the world breaks down" or "Lost children of the universe". Or, as I did, for some live version: The age of shadows, The eye of Ra, Twisted Coil, The garden of emotions, Isis and Osiris, among many, many others. Cheers!

4.8 billion years is the age of the earth. the big bang was about 13.8 years ago, and there is (currently) no way to know what was there at the moment of or before the big bang.