The first stanza sung by Troy in Welsh: translation is "The sound of the fog, the mossy forest, the granite, the cemetery of trees, and the drowning, a form of my life's tapestry." Love it when Marko rocks the beast. I think "leather and lace" is the perfect description of this song, Tuomas is a master of switching things up. Thanks for another beautiful reaction, stay safe, God bless, keep rocking.

I think what Troy meant there: he has always wanted to play at Wembley because in musicworld (not just in England) to get to play there and to play a sold-out show at Wembley means you really have made it as a band.

@NickBR57

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Also, in England every 9-year old who plays football wants to play at Wembley where the championship games are played. I have always taken Troy's comment as a reference to that. But I like your interpretation too because in the same concert Marco says hello and says he had to say it too. In Marcos case, he later wrote that Wembley was the biggest show of his life. So that fits with your comment, certainly in Marco's case. They could have had different reasons for saying it of course...

@annev6895

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@@NickBR57 yes and i think i read somewhere (in their book, maybe) that performing there was definitely a bucket list thing for them 🤘

@pro-v7500

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@@annev6895 100% music bucket list type of thing. It’s a long standing tradition for every act that plays on the stage to say those two famous words “Hello Wembley”.

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, which was written while staying at Walden Pond. Troy is singing in Welsh at the beginning. Music co-written by Marko. *Irish Low Whistle, his Tin Whistle is smaller.

praying for the queen..stay strong floor. we love you

@heikkiikavalko1816

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😢we all praying❤

Wembley Arena is the most iconic concert venue in London and UK. For example, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones have played there. So for all british musicians like Troy that is THE place to play, that's what they have been dreaming of since starting the career as a musician. Nightwish is the first and only finnish band to ever have their own concert in the arena, so it was a big day for the whole band. This song gets it's name from Henry David Thoreau's book “Walden”. Thoreau and his work is linked to Walt Whitman and Nightwish also has a song called “Song of Myself”, which refers to Whitman's poem with same name. I don't know which one of these authors Tuomas found first, but they are more or less linked together, american authors and humanists from 1800's. Tuomas obviously reads a lot of english literature with a broad range of genres. I guess that explains how he can write such amazing and complex lyrics in english as a non-native english speaker. Even natives don't always understand all the vocabulary he uses in his texts.

I tell you - your eyes were glowing with happiness👍 My Walden - the cottage by the lake, deep deep down in the forest - the home of happiness.

Can't go wrong with this one. Love the energy 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥 Good one guys

@2ndhandsoulsmusic

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Thank you 🙌

That 2nd half can go on and on and on .....what a cool jam .

This song makes everyone happy! Troy does everything! 👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥

Yep, a metal band with lead Uileen pipes...Troy has a nice mid range voice also...less high and low versitility like Marco, but he has now taken over Marco's back up vocal role ably...

I love watching the expressions on your faces every time you listen to Nightwiish 👍

This song put a smile on my face every-time. Makes me feel content with my very own Walden here. Thank you for reacting to this wonderful tune.

Love to see the love on your faces! Please share that love in healing prayers for our Valkyrie queen! 🙏🦋🌺✨❣️

as a tuscaloosa native im glad to see some cool alabamians on the tube..roll tide 2nd hand

Walden is a book by Henry David Thoreau, an American naturalist, essayist, poet, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist, detailing his experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts, in the 1850’s. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and a sort of manual for self-reliance. For more Troy rocking the pipes, check out the only instrumental from the Wacken show, Last of the Wilds. Praying for Floor. Keep exploring Nightwish.

I love this Song, and this Performance was flawless! It's so good seeing them have Fun together and enjoying themselves on stage. 🇳🇱🌻🦋

Thanks again for these Nightwish reactions. This is one of my very favorite performances. It is so wonderful that you guys are celebrating our lovely Floor with these reactions. It was so good to hear that her surgery went well and she is laying low to allow herself to heal. Still sending our prayers that all the tests come out well and she fully recovers. Much love.

You still have a few songs from this amazing album, Shudder before the beautiful, opening song of this show, Elan, Edema Ruh, songs you should check out. Love your reactions :)

Good job Hint : Troy was playing the Low Whistle in this one . (Tin Whistle is smaller with a higher pitch and the Low Whistle is bigger with a deeper sound)

For Chrissy, Tuomas is the composer/writer who brought them all together and writes all the songs, sometimes with help from Marko or one of the other bandmembers

Troy is from Cumbria in the North of England, so I guess it's a home concert for him.

@TheRealRedAce

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He's lived in and near my home city York for a long time now. I used to watch him there over 30 years ago in small venues with his previous band U Slosh. I was with another band playing in the Arts Centre along with his band and chatted with him and his band as they were sat having a few drinks when offstage. He also played open air gigs in the park behind my house. A thoroughly nice and very funny guy.

I forgot how much I love this one!.

Henry Thoreau's book Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland near Concord, Massachusetts. Hence My Walden = Sancturay/Escape

@frank1963

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Thank you for that. 🙏

Please do "Bless the child" with Floor

🇬🇧 Norfolk reporting for duty glad you are doing a few today x

Pink Floyd mentioned. Nightwish - High Hopes. I just leave this here.

Another Troy lead is the song ‘ Harvest’ on the most recent album HumanIINature however although I’m not aware of a good live version on YT the lyric video is quite decent.

"Good Evening Wembley!" Troy might confuse you, singing in Welsh! With an Irish bagpipe, he's from Cumbria (over 300 miles from Wembley, England is small, haha). (I've just watched him in Bad Shepherds). Tapestry of poetry. Rolling her "R", with a grin. Did you notice the Windmill? A reference for Floor? Emppu conducting the audience, going quiet, you know what happens next, are you ready... Pause, 5, 10? Well done MouseMan :) Marko with the double-neck :) Troy with his tin whistle, (how?) "C'mon Troy bring us your beautiful pipes!". "Whoo!" "Fizz" and "Thunder", "No doubt", absolutely!

@TheRealRedAce

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Troy was singing in Cumbrian, which is related to and similar to Welsh.

We pray for her😢❤

Inspired by the pond in Massachusetts made famous when Henry David Thoreau stayed in a cabin there and wrote the poem by the same name. To find one's own Walden, is to find the place, whether a physical location or a state of mind where you feel at one with nature, at peace within.

@MickRiley

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Also Walden is a old English name for Wooded valley and as Troys mentions of poets Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poets, and American Walter Whitman points that its maybe just poetry? David Thoreau's version of walden was the insparaition for Thomas. to write “The Crow, the Owl and the Dove” as told in the interview Tuomas Holopainen Talks Literature so maybe this song My Walden is more about using the word in its older form. the welsh translation is “Sain y niwl, Gaunt y goydwig fwsog, Gwenithfaen, cen y coed, a'r lleuad, Un gway f'adenydd I dapestri bywyd“ “The sound of the mist, the mossy forest, granite, the lichen of trees, and the moon, weave my wings into life’s tapestry“ followed by Light shines bright beyond all the cities of gold On a road of birdsong and chocolate shops Of buskers, jugglers, innkeeper's welcoming call The sound of mist, smell of moss-grown woods Weaving my wings from many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher, higher into the wild Weaving my world into tapestry of life Its fire golden, in my Walden I will taste the manna in every tree Liquid honey and wine from the distant hills An early morning greenwood concerto Greets my Walden with its eternal voice Weaving my wings from many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher, higher into the wild Weaving my world into tapestry of life Its fire golden, in my Walden Weaving my wings from many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher (higher into the wild) Weaving my world into tapestry of life Its fire golden, in my Walden Weaving my wings from many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher, higher... I do not wish to evade the world Yet, I will forever build my own Build all the way, forever my own Forever my home

@amygoodson-catlady

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@@MickRiley Very cool fact to stick in my brain! Thank you...always interpretive, Tuomas' lyrics...

@TheRealRedAce

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@@MickRiley Its Cumbrian rather than Welsh. Troy was born in Cumbria, England. The two languages are related and similar.

Eeee... my first ever KZread shout out : ) Truly enjoying coming along on your voyage of discovery and what could be better; a bunch of very real, honest humans, reacting to a group of very real, honest humans! I do love to see a little focus on Troy, and not just because he's a fellow Brit. My friends and I used to spend a lot of time frequenting quirky little bars and venues that hosted live music and enjoying a multitude of unknown folk, blues and jazz musicians. Such happy times. Watching Troy play reminds me of these times and also makes me so super happy to see him up on this big stages... what a talented guy : )

Floor is putting out here solo show Live in Amsterdam tomorrow on U-Tube it's brilliant I think you will enjoy it a bit different from Nightwish.

@2ndhandsoulsmusic

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Can't wait!

Hello from the Netherlands. thanks for the video . Sincerely, Hollandduck

Ya all are the coolest band on you tube this shows there Celtic vibe make you fell good I get the fuzz I feel ya rock on

Pinck floyd has his influence on this band 🤘🏻❤️ Another Troy? Last of the Wilds, is another crazy fealing Keltisch instrumental song, of Tuomas his brilliant mind. With again Troy in the spotlight!

My Walden is one of those pieces were Troy is able to show how talented he is and why he earned his place in NW and our hearts, the Pipes and Low Whistle sound fantastic, Marco harmonises with Troy, on this and they all sound wonderful, Troy is From Cumbria (over 200 miles away) and now lives in North Yorkshire which is a similar distance, But for an English Musician Wembley has always been the place to play when you've made it in the music biz.

I bet you have your own "Walden" in Alabama. Take care & stay safe for more entertaining reactions to follow. P.S. Their 2015 Wembley Arena show was voted 2nd best after that of Queen, but I'd say that the Brits just wanted to support their own band no matter what.

your walden is the place you find peace and sanctuary, and a oneness with nature. Appreciating beauty in the simple things, the bird songs, the scenery, contentment. "Walden" is a book about a man who finds his.

@2ndhandsoulsmusic

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Thank you for the info, Cool

Mouseman, you rock!!! LOL at 6:10 "..more 10?.. Okay, there's 10" 😂Well played! Cheers man.

Can I suggest the song 'How's The Heart' for a next reaction? It's a song about human empathy, extra relevant since Floor's message. Maybe you could watch a recent performance at Hellfest 2022 in France. It starts at 25:23 in this video of the whole show kzread.info/dash/bejne/oo19upODqcWcZKg.html I'm sure you'll love the song, as well as its message.

@markclements7767

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I concur 😊

Of all of Nightwish's "happy" songs, It gives me such cool, positive energy! You'd think that a metal band could give you only dark, negative emotions, but not Nightwish. They have so many positive, inspirational songs! I love it!

I love your spontaneous and honest responses. As a classically trained guitarist, I see compositional similarities with classical music. Tuomas is indeed for me the metal Mozart that he proves time and again through the variety of compositions. The songs Tuomas writes are often complex both tecnically and musically. He is lucky to have band members who can perform what he composes exelent. @ Crissy, Marco's beautiful bass tone arises because his bass guitar goes through the preamp to the mixing board. So no expensive bass amplifier.

such a powerfully folky song with such a feeling good like everywhere the presence goes

So great!

Thank you for your reaction to this lovely song. 🙏 I watch a lot of reaction videos, but I can honestly say that you all rapidly became my favorites. I wish I could hangout with you all on your mountain. I have a special place in my heart reserved for all of you and even a little cage for Animal 😂. 🫶🤘🇳🇱

love you guys

Jethro Tull with 'My God' at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970! With a tremendous flute solo from Ian Anderson!

@MickRiley

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ahh yes "I concur", I saw Jethro Tull loads from the early 70s but missed Isle of Wight Festival 1970 due my over protective Mother who thought the Isle of wight was abroad being outside of our small village in England but let my older brother go lol. I last saw them at Christmas tour 2021 in Lichfield Cathedral doing 'Christmas with Jethro Tull' in cathedrals across the country each year, donating the ticket sales to each cathedral for the conservation of the buildings. I am sure 2ndhandsouls would love that!

Beautiful song ,Tanks fore thate, the DIGGIN ITE AGAIN❤❤❤

Yall should definitely check out Nightwish's cover to Pink Floyd's High Hopes. They don't just do it justice they SLAY it

A message for Mouse man: From my perspective there is quite a difference in volume between the song and the reaction. I noticed I keep turning the volume up and down. Now, that is not a problem, there a nice slidebar at the bottom of my screen that can do just that. But I thought you might want the feedback to help you perfect your skills. Keep up the good work!

@2ndhandsoulsmusic

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We can fix that. Thank you for your input.

A Nightwish video you should check out for Halloween is Scaretale. You'll love it!

They ought to split this into two songs, extending both halves into two full-length tracks.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful 🙏😊👍

You guys always make me smile 🤘

You guys are an absolute delight! Love your own music also, hope there's more to come! Thank you so much and all the best!

Thanks

Lovely reaction. To see another side of Troy nad Tuomas you should checkout their side project with Tuomas's wife Johanna Kurkela, Auri. Checkout the Space Between, Desert Flower, or The Valley. Lovely celticy, folky mood music.

Troy sang Welsh at the beginning of the song! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@TheRealRedAce

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Not Welsh, but Cumbrian, which is similar. Troy was born in Cumbria, England.

@RichardJones-rx2iz

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@@TheRealRedAce No I meant he sung the first part of the song in the language of Welsh! I know he’s not Welsh, didn’t do bad job of it however. Well Cumbria was a part of Wales, but you wouldn’t want know that! Check it out?

@TheRealRedAce

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@@RichardJones-rx2iz Actually Cumbria was part of Scotland. Previous to that, before the various Roman/Saxon/Viking invasions, the whole of Britain spoke a Gaelic language similar to Old Welsh. Troy was singing in Cumbrian (Cumbric), which is a separate language similar to Welsh, but a different dialect. Troy sings Cumbrian in the song, probably because he's from there.

@RichardJones-rx2iz

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@@TheRealRedAce oh ok, but I understood the words he sang from the Welsh language I speak! I know the the Welsh language was spoken in Scotland too as they up there have words relating to the same in Wales. Of course the Welsh tribes were the native people of the island, but the language hasn’t changed that much.

@TheRealRedAce

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@@RichardJones-rx2iz Yes, the British languages were mostly all similar, Welsh, Cornish Cumbric, Scots Gaelic etc. and also many lost ones, just differing mainly in local dialect. Cumbric and Cornish, being physically close to Wales were very like Welsh. Indeed, much of Cumbric is now lost and there are very few Cornish speakers remaining. :)

Good one.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden -

Hi, nice reaction

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@tomakazi4468

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Thanks Gail.

@jaskau2462

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What was the price to become as a first? ✌️😹

As you have mentioned Pink Floyd a number of times, you should react to the Nightwish version of High Hopes kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqN5ptCPlby_qbA.html

It is time for high hopes from nw….

NW isn't nightwish without the real drummer of the band. The two albums after Imaginarium suck bad. On the studio albums, tarja and annette are way way way better too, floor is better live.

Another grrrreat reaction, thx!!!