REPORTS/PICTURES/VIDEOS - MIKA @ Festival Mares Vivas, Oporto, Portugal:16 July 2011

Fmbm · 16-07-2011, 11:28 AM

PORTUGAL!

Tell us all about your Mika experience at the Festival Mares Vivas!

Please keep chatter to a minimum.

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REPORTS
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superstar
Mary,Mary (Part 2)
pipinhaslovemika
IngievV
77red
willywonka
sharonkitten
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PICTURES
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Radio Commercial
David Oliveira blog pics
Porto24
Rui Oliveira blog pix
Blitz Photos
From Facebook
superstar
pipinhaslovemika,pipinhaslovemika (part 2)
Palco Principal Flickr
Mary,Mary (part 2),Mary (part 3)
Nelson Tiago's Flickr
sharonkitten,sharonkitten (part 2)
marinamay
Pro pics,Pro pics (part 2)
More pro pics,More pro pics (part 2)
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VIDEOS
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liliana:
Dr. John
Blue Eyes
Rain
Happy Ending
Kick-Ass
Love Today
Elle Me Dit

basicamenteyo:
Meet & Greet,Meet & Greet (2)

Mary:
Happy Ending
Meet & Greet
Elle Me Dit
Big Girl

sharonkitten:
Elle Me Dit
Grace Kelly

marianmay:
Elle Me Dit
Big Girl

pipinhaslovemika:
Meet & Greet
Happy Ending
Elle Me Dit (part 1)
Elle Me Dit (part 2)
Dr. John
Music of Marés Vivas

Jazzy
Happy Ending
Elle Me Dit

TVI 24 (pro vid):
Relax & Big Girl

superstar · 17-07-2011, 04:51 AM

Sorry, just posted in the other thread! Here we go. Also, we have some pics etc but I can post them tomorrow. Need to sleeep!

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have just gotten back from Mares Vivas festival, and it's 4:23 am. I'll give a pretty short report before bed, let's see...

So after the awesome meetup yesterday, we had all made some plans for a "gathering"

around noon for picnic, etc. Indy (77red) and I showed up at the festival gate at noon and mingled with fans. We were initially numbered but Ingie + Mary + crew showed up around 12:30 and sorted things out. Yup, NO NUMBERS! We all put "1" on our hands though

So we hung out, basically just groups of people sitting outside festival gates. We sprayed the red in our hair (to make fun of Mika), had to listen to Cranberries fans play all their music....Around 4 they moved people out into the street and we were up against barriers while they set up the entrance lines. When they opened the gate, they were SO SLOW searching bags. Once you got through the initial gate it was basically every fan for him/herself...I just remember SPRINTING towards the second barrier and the people at the beer stands were all cheering everyone on. I should have brought running shoes because mine were NOT made for the race of your life.

Luckily I got onto the front row of the second barrier as well. They opened those up within aboutt 5 minutes and it was another mad dash, complete chaos. My sister and I were next to Jazzy (?) I think... and luke and sharon...hm. but front row! It was around 6:30 now and we got some drinks (thank you for the water!) and pizza.

So then we waited for a long time.... FINALLY Aurea came on about 8 or 8:30. She was quite good live, very energetic, but the real fun was watching her bassist do the stupidest dance in the world.

Then we waited some more (pretty quick set changes overall, though) and came TINDERSTICKS.

Let me just say. I have seen some bad shows. But TINDERSTICKS was LITERALLY the WORST SHOW EVER! It was about as interesting as watching someone sleep... because WE WERE WATCHING THE LEAD SINGER NAP ONSTAGE. Oh god. Tindersticks was just so bad. Literally all of the applause was meant ironically. I won't go on. But wow

Then was Cranberries... I forgot to mention, through all the shows it had been drizziling a little bit. We were worried that it was too wet and they may cancel the later shows (ie Mika) but they rolled out some mat before cranberries. And during cranberries show the lights kept going out and stuff... you can imagine what I was like

Cranberries were decent but SO loud. Or there was just something wrong because I hadn't peed in like 8 hours.

It was that point of the show when the only cure for what you're feeling is for Mika. Cranberries seemed to go on FOREVER but after the THREE SONG ENCORE they were finally done. We shifted around a bit as fans shifted and then.... the last brutal half hour.

It was still raining and pretty hilarious watching the stage managers struggle with putting up the set. They have these canvases that look like paintings, and they were hanging em up but the paintings all kept blowing around and getting caught amongst eachother.

So they took them all down but one... for some reason... anyways. Um. So. Uh. Where do I even.

The band was coming on and they started Relax. Well you know how it goes. I told Ingie after the show, I forgot he was real.... and then he walked onto the stage, dressed in white like an angel. And seeing that, feeling that he is REAL, he is LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU is the best feeling in the world, I swear. It was 1am, we were cold and wet, I had to pee, but it was PERFECT!

Let's see if I can remember the set ( i think Mary has the setlist) Relax, Stuck in the Middle, Love Today, BIOTG, Dr John, Billy Brown, Grace Kelly, WAG, Elle Me Dit, Lollipop...yeah no I can't remember. But no Karen or Weather (even though we yelled about it, haha). WAG was fantastic and 2nd show, my side won BIOTG. All me, of course....

. Loved Elle Me Dit live (lots of jumping around and yelling gibberish because you dont know french). Lots of jumping around in general. Love Today flashmob was kind of a flop, because we all did the dance but Mika kept looking away. Beyotch

Anyways, after the encore (which was Elle Me Dit and Lollipop) they bid us farewell. Seriously, that 1.5 hours was the best time I've had in a long time.. maybe since october 2009? Har har.

We managed to meet up with other fans after the show and we all paraded out of the festival. We had lollipop boy with us (Frank... dont know if he is on MFC?) and all the drunk people loved him. So we got out of the fest and onto the street, walked ALL THE WAY along the fence into the parking lot exit.

We waited for a while and then a big grey van pulled past the exit and stopped for a while. Yup, it was Mika. Last time I did an M&G it was very organized, so it was my first time in the Mika mob scene. It was, em, interesting and I think I prefer the other way (as does Mika, probably). But someone mentioned something and as Mika was signing, he looked up and said "Where are the Americans?" My sister and I YELLED for him and we got to go up... he signed our stuff and I was talking to him.... like he said he remembered us (even if he was lying, I don't care

) and we were asking him when he'd come back to the states (next record) and everything. It was wonderful. Mika asked for us.... hmmmm......

He took 1 pic w the portuguese fan club and then departed ( oh how sad). We hung around for a bit and took an MFC pic with those of us who were left. And now i am here!

So basically, festivals are a bit insane but it was all worthwhile of course.

Night everybody!

dcdeb · 17-07-2011, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by superstar

Sorry, just posted in the other thread! Here we go. Also, we have some pics etc but I can post them tomorrow. Need to sleeep!

Oh, thank you for posting something before you went to bed

Get your rest, but get back here pronto with those pics, young lady!

Quote:

Originally Posted by superstar

and then he walked onto the stage, dressed in white like an angel. And seeing that, feeling that he is REAL, he is LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU is the best feeling in the world, I swear. It was 1am, we were cold and wet, I had to pee, but it was PERFECT!

Awwww

I remember that feeling! Lovely!

Quote:

Originally Posted by superstar

Let's see if I can remember the set ( i think Mary has the setlist) Relax, Stuck in the Middle, Love Today, BIOTG, Dr John, Billy Brown, Grace Kelly, WAG, Elle Me Dit, Lollipop...yeah no I can't remember.

We actually could listen to it live so I have the set list:

Relax
Big Girl
Stuck in the Middle
Dr. John
Blue Eyes
Billy Brown
Rain
Blame it on the Girls
Happy Ending
Kick-ass
Love Today
We Are Golden
Grace Kelly
Elle Me Dit
Lollipop

Anyways, after the encore (which was Elle Me Dit and Lollipop) they bid us farewell. Seriously, that 1.5 hours was the best time I've had in a long time.. maybe since october 2009? Har har.

Quote:

Originally Posted by superstar

But someone mentioned something and as Mika was signing, he looked up and said "Where are the Americans?" My sister and I YELLED for him and we got to go up... he signed our stuff and I was talking to him.... like he said he remembered us (even if he was lying, I don't care

) and we were asking him when he'd come back to the states (next record) and everything. It was wonderful. Mika asked for us.... hmmmm......

How amazing is that? Lucky girls!

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Originally Posted by superstar

So basically, festivals are a bit insane but it was all worthwhile of course.

Night everybody!

Sweet dreams! Can't wait for your photos!

BiaIchihara · 17-07-2011, 05:14 AM

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BiaIchihara · 17-07-2011, 05:15 AM

Tweets from iMMa and Cherisse:

@iMMamusic: Happy Ending sung through me tonight.... 'twas but raw emotion... loved it!!! Not sure if I hit all the notes - but GOD! it felt good!

@Cherisse2312: Had a gr8 gig in Porto wot an awesome crowd!Was rainin quite a bit tho-my drums&cymbals wer drenched :0 made the gig weirdly more fun! :P

liliana · 17-07-2011, 05:16 AM

I just arrived home and despite that I have took a very hot and relaxing bath, I'm still mad.
This day ended up worst than I thought. I'm too tired to write a proper report today, but let me tell that some people are being more stupid and disrespectful each day. We (portuguese fan club) finally manage to ask if we could take a group pic with him, in the end you only see 2 persons from the fan club on the photograph.
I mean, the show was amazing, he likes the portuguese crowd and we like him and I really missed to see him performing live, but I just hated the all day in general.
Probably Mary or Wonka can tell you in a calmer way the all story.
By the way, I loved too meet some new fans and see some 'old faces'. I'm sorry that I didn't say goodbye to all of you, but I was really tired and sad with all this.
Going to sleep now!

willywonka · 17-07-2011, 05:17 AM

****ing amazing gig & M&G...

Now i'm wasted, need my sleep, be back tomorrow...

willywonka · 17-07-2011, 05:26 AM

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Oh, lookie, that's me in the pink coat...

BiaIchihara · 17-07-2011, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by willywonka

Oh, lookie, that's me in the pink coat...

Such a famliar face to me now

liliana · 17-07-2011, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willywonka

****ing amazing gig & M&G...

Now i'm wasted, need my sleep, be back tomorrow...

It's only me that thinks that wasn't a meet and greet?

Now I'm really going to sleep.

racinghorse83 · 17-07-2011, 05:42 AM

I listened to a bit of the show, and aw, sounds like so much fun! Stoked 'the Americans' had a good time too, fantastic report Kira!

Yuna · 17-07-2011, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by superstar

Sorry, just posted in the other thread! Here we go. Also, we have some pics etc but I can post them tomorrow. Need to sleeep!

_________________

have just gotten back from Mares Vivas festival, and it's 4:23 am. I'll give a pretty short report before bed, let's see...

So after the awesome meetup yesterday, we had all made some plans for a "gathering"

around noon for picnic, etc. Indy (77red) and I showed up at the festival gate at noon and mingled with fans. We were initially numbered but Ingie + Mary + crew showed up around 12:30 and sorted things out. Yup, NO NUMBERS! We all put "1" on our hands though

So we hung out, basically just groups of people sitting outside festival gates. We sprayed the red in our hair (to make fun of Mika), had to listen to Cranberries fans play all their music....Around 4 they moved people out into the street and we were up against barriers while they set up the entrance lines. When they opened the gate, they were SO SLOW searching bags. Once you got through the initial gate it was basically every fan for him/herself...I just remember SPRINTING towards the second barrier and the people at the beer stands were all cheering everyone on. I should have brought running shoes because mine were NOT made for the race of your life.

Luckily I got onto the front row of the second barrier as well. They opened those up within aboutt 5 minutes and it was another mad dash, complete chaos. My sister and I were next to Jazzy (?) I think... and luke and sharon...hm. but front row! It was around 6:30 now and we got some drinks (thank you for the water!) and pizza.

So then we waited for a long time.... FINALLY Aurea came on about 8 or 8:30. She was quite good live, very energetic, but the real fun was watching her bassist do the stupidest dance in the world.

Then we waited some more (pretty quick set changes overall, though) and came TINDERSTICKS.

Let me just say. I have seen some bad shows. But TINDERSTICKS was LITERALLY the WORST SHOW EVER! It was about as interesting as watching someone sleep... because WE WERE WATCHING THE LEAD SINGER NAP ONSTAGE. Oh god. Tindersticks was just so bad. Literally all of the applause was meant ironically. I won't go on. But wow

Then was Cranberries... I forgot to mention, through all the shows it had been drizziling a little bit. We were worried that it was too wet and they may cancel the later shows (ie Mika) but they rolled out some mat before cranberries. And during cranberries show the lights kept going out and stuff... you can imagine what I was like

Cranberries were decent but SO loud. Or there was just something wrong because I hadn't peed in like 8 hours.

It was that point of the show when the only cure for what you're feeling is for Mika. Cranberries seemed to go on FOREVER but after the THREE SONG ENCORE they were finally done. We shifted around a bit as fans shifted and then.... the last brutal half hour.

It was still raining and pretty hilarious watching the stage managers struggle with putting up the set. They have these canvases that look like paintings, and they were hanging em up but the paintings all kept blowing around and getting caught amongst eachother.

So they took them all down but one... for some reason... anyways. Um. So. Uh. Where do I even.

The band was coming on and they started Relax. Well you know how it goes. I told Ingie after the show, I forgot he was real.... and then he walked onto the stage, dressed in white like an angel. And seeing that, feeling that he is REAL, he is LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU is the best feeling in the world, I swear. It was 1am, we were cold and wet, I had to pee, but it was PERFECT!

Let's see if I can remember the set ( i think Mary has the setlist) Relax, Stuck in the Middle, Love Today, BIOTG, Dr John, Billy Brown, Grace Kelly, WAG, Elle Me Dit, Lollipop...yeah no I can't remember. But no Karen or Weather (even though we yelled about it, haha). WAG was fantastic and 2nd show, my side won BIOTG. All me, of course....

. Loved Elle Me Dit live (lots of jumping around and yelling gibberish because you dont know french). Lots of jumping around in general. Love Today flashmob was kind of a flop, because we all did the dance but Mika kept looking away. Beyotch

Anyways, after the encore (which was Elle Me Dit and Lollipop) they bid us farewell. Seriously, that 1.5 hours was the best time I've had in a long time.. maybe since october 2009? Har har.

We managed to meet up with other fans after the show and we all paraded out of the festival. We had lollipop boy with us (Frank... dont know if he is on MFC?) and all the drunk people loved him. So we got out of the fest and onto the street, walked ALL THE WAY along the fence into the parking lot exit.

We waited for a while and then a big grey van pulled past the exit and stopped for a while. Yup, it was Mika. Last time I did an M&G it was very organized, so it was my first time in the Mika mob scene. It was, em, interesting and I think I prefer the other way (as does Mika, probably). But someone mentioned something and as Mika was signing, he looked up and said "Where are the Americans?" My sister and I YELLED for him and we got to go up... he signed our stuff and I was talking to him.... like he said he remembered us (even if he was lying, I don't care

) and we were asking him when he'd come back to the states (next record) and everything. It was wonderful. Mika asked for us.... hmmmm......

He took 1 pic w the portuguese fan club and then departed ( oh how sad). We hung around for a bit and took an MFC pic with those of us who were left. And now i am here!

So basically, festivals are a bit insane but it was all worthwhile of course.
Night everybody!

No Karen No Weather....
He may have spotted many critical comments about those two poor songs in MFC or twitter....