Not so much a review, but here is the setlist of Hellendoorn:

Intro
Pictures Of Home
Things I Never Said
Into The Fire
Strange Kind Of Woman
Rapture Of The Deep
Fireball
Morsemania’s/Well Dressed Guitar
When A Blind Man Cries […]

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