mellody

no worries nina, i'm very happy with the kick ass video! like i said, i wouldn't have been able to film it, was busy dancing and singing. the problem with my camera is, that for filming you can use the optical zoom only BEFORE you start filming, and everything you do while filming is just the digital zoom, which makes the quality worse. i was too busy telling you that at the gig, so no worries, the way you did it was just fine. happy to have a recording of the first time i've seen KA live. here are my photos, videos will follow later: http://s778.photobucket.com/albums/yy68/mikafanclub_de/2010%2007%2007%20Udine/

slept all day, since i was feeling really ill again this morning... but now i'm feeling much better. so i've started preparing & uploading stuff tonight. for a start, some videos... i have 3 more (love today shooting, talk before toy boy, and some bits of the m+g), will upload them tomorrow together with the pix. talk & sitm: kick ass (filmed by tiibet): bits of biotg & lollipop: talk & oms: band introduction & happy ending: btw, something i forgot to mention in my report... the support act was some DJ, who was on stage for over an hour iirc... mika only came on about 9:30. some of the music the DJ played was quite good, but in general he wasn't really that entertaining.

part 3: gig and m+g i absolutely love this flower background, which was there during all the gig. so beautiful! no skulls or clowns or videoscreens this time, just flowers. and the inflatable mika letters (ok, there were some skulls on those... ). also those flower costumes of mika+band are so fab! only noticed now that obviously mika has several different flower vests... the one from yesterday had a huge spider on the back, which i only noticed later on the pix... eek!! but i'm sure i hadn't seen that one before on other pix, i'd remember! *g* (haven't seen any pix from the last week though). he mentioned the "dyslexic generation" banner at one point, and said sth like that it's probably the weirdest banner he ever got. and the best. and at another point he said that he messed up so many words, and that he thinks that touring makes you stupid. before toy boy, he said that he has dreams about this piano part going on for one hour, and while everyone would be booing and leaving, he'd still be sitting there, doing this piano part. got those talking parts on video, and also some songs, will upload them probably tomorrow. the gig seemed a bit too short for me, though i really don't know why... he played almost as many songs as on the other tour, and talked almost as much as well i think. but maybe it really was just those 2 missing songs (ggg and aow) that made the difference. no idea. i just know that the arena tour gigs had the ideal length for me, and this gig seemed shorter, so i somehow had the feeling that something was missing. but guess i'm just spoiled from the arena tour. still of course i had a fab time. in the end, mika bowed to the crowd (like ), so i guess he enjoyed it too. so, after the show, we went the long way around to the back of the venue, where the backstage entrance was. there would've been shorter ways to the back, but they were blocked. so we waited at the back, and it quickly became more+more people, since the public parking places were next to the backstage entrance. guess it was ca. 100 people waiting. we didn't have to wait long, until john came and talked with the security guys how to best set up the queue. they found a way, and john left, and the security guy tried to set up the queue. what was weird though, he said everyone would get a picture with mika, that's why he said we had to form ONE line, so everyone could get the pic. we knew this couldn't be true, guess that guy must've misunderstood what john said. inside of the barriers, there was a group of people, who later turned out to be the group with that dyslexic banner. mika arrived in a van together with his family (i think most of his siblings were there), and got out behind the barrier, to meet that group, took a pic with them, and chatted with them for a bit. then he came over to us. there was one line behind the barrier, and then the line was going on along the street. mika seemed in a hurry, and it first looked like he wouldn't go along the whole line at all, but just to those directly at the barrier. he shook everyones hands and at the beginning mostly just quickly said hi to people, but later also chatted to some for a bit longer, and enjoyed getting presents. anyway, i feared he'd get in the car after greeting those directly at the barrier, since the car was waiting there (it followed him along the line later). luckily he didn't, but came to me to shake hands, and when i asked him how he was, he said sth like good but he needs some sleep because he had to drive to serbia. and he told me he liked my outfit. :-D i was wearing a long colourful dress with flowers, and some flowers in my hair, round my neck and in my face. and i told him i loved his flower background. ok, that's basically it i guess. and since i can't keep my eyes open anymore now, i wish you all a good night. ;-) will post pix+vids tomorrow.

part 2: queuing and gig i guess this must've been the nicest queuing i ever had, in this beautiful setting of villa manin, quite warm but not too hot since we got a place in the shade, watching the stage being set up and later the soundcheck (didn't see mika though, just the band, although i think i heard him one time... ). at some point i saw imma and david standing between the stage and the barriers, and i went to the barrier and called for imma, since i had bought her a little bday present in lido di jesolo... they had so much hello kitty stuff there, that made me think of imma, and since it was her birthday just last week, i bought her a hello kitty stick with a fan on the one and a lollipop on the other side. i thought a fan wouldn't be a bad idea with those temperatures! some more people joined me waiting for imma, including luca, who had made a banner for her, which she adored. she liked my present too, and even tweeted me about it (which i only was able to read today, but i was told about her tweet), so sweet of her! fast forward a few hours, at 6 we had to leave the area where the stage was and go outside of the walls of villa manin, where barriers were set up, and the numbered people got an extra entrance again, and were let in 10 minutes before everyone else (thanx john! ). of course with my good number, i got a front row centre spot - but since at the very centre, there was some cable thing on the floor where it wasn't easy to stand, i went to the barrier left to it, and tiibet ended up on the centre spot on this cable thing... guess it was impossible to jump on that thing (or was it, tiibet?), i had to be really careful myself, at one point i hurt my foot a bit when slipping off the barrier platform sideways. well, but i don't wanna complain, that centre spot is perfect for getting lots of eye contact from mika, and taking some really good pix+videos. and i had nice company too, with faballa on one and tiibet on my other side. so, the gig... mika was in such a fab & silly mood, joking around and all - like, during sitm, he pulled out the plug of martin's guitar and jimmy stole his microphone, that was hilarious! from what i remember, the setlist was: relax big girl sitm dr john blue eyes billy brown touches you rain biotg kick ass oms happy ending love today we are golden toy boy gk lollipop it was so fab to finally see kick ass live! actually tiibet wanted to film it, but since the battery of her camera had died, and i knew that i wouldn't be able to film it, due to an acute uber-enthusastic dancing and singing syndrome , i just gave her my camera, so she filmed it with that one. (thanx tiibet! ) tbc...

ok, will try a report now, although i'm still a bit ill (caught a stomach flu that kept me up most of last night), and hadn't slept properly for a week or so (never again a camping holiday, at least not by train! ... or that's what i say NOW, until i forget the bad sides of this experience... ) part 1: my holiday / pre-gig well, i left for italy / lido di jesolo on july 2nd, to spend 4 days sunbathing at the beach before the gig. travelling with that ca. 30kg bag on trains and buses was horrible, but once i was there and had set up my tent, the holiday was quite nice, apart from millions of mosquitoes, and lack of sleep, since in a tent the sun & heat wakes you up in the early morning (and you know me, i never make it to bed in time to be fully awake so early, lol!). but you don't really need sleep, if all you do all day is sit/lie at the beach and be lazy. got a nice tan as well. allegra was so kind to find+book a nice+cheap bed+breakfast for us in codroipo, right next to villa manin, for the night of the gig... but considering all the options, i decided that i wanted to go there already 1 day earlier, instead of dragging my heavy bag through a bunch of trains and buses on the gig day, and therefor arriving late, sweaty, and totally knackered. so i called the b+b, and since that woman only spoke italian and french, i had to rely on my very very basic french knowledge and am still surprised that i managed to ask the price, book a room, and tell her my time of arrival and that i'd have a room the next day too with my friends, and it really all worked out!! the things mika makes me do. making a phone call in french. i'd have told anyone they're crazy, if they had said i'd ever do that, lol! so, i arrived at the b+b the evening before the gig, and went walking around a bit, to see where all the entrances were, and generally what the whole area looked like. actually the gig was not even in codroipo, but in passagio, which consists of the villa and of about 20 more houses, 2 bars and 2 restaurants, and that's it. i guess that's the only time i can say that i saw ALL of the "town" that mika was playing in, lol! anyway, the raw stage was already standing when i arrived, and they only added the decoration and details the next day. the b+b was really lovely, very comfortable, and a nice owner, who had 10 cats - of which 2 came into my room when i left the window open. aww i love cats!! there was one fluffy one too, but she chose to ignore me, and ran away when i tried to come close, pfft. well, she probably knew i'd fluff her to pieces if i got hold of her! then, gig day. i was used to waking up at 6-7am by then, so that's what happened there too - and so i arrived at the villa at ca. 7:30am. guess that's the earliest i ever started queuing for a mika gig! no one was there when i arrived, but i wasn't sure where the queue would be, so i went around the venue 1x, to see if there was someone anywhere else - there wasn't, but when i came back, there was a curly guy with a golden hat sitting in a chair, it turned out that he was luca, who is also on mfc. (hi luca! ). we decided to start with the numbers, chatted a bit, and soon after, faballa arrived, and a bit later, while i was at the b+b, the girls from rome came with their bus. i got an update from them about the rome gig (kick ass shirtless? why wasn't i there, arrgh!! xD ), and we also chatted a bit, before they went off to get their stuff to their rooms. later when they got back, i handed the numbers list to them, to go on with it, since it was easier for italian speakers to explain the system to newbies. tbc...

no flowers? i hope he has them back in italy!

wonderful pix, thank you!

ah yes, that pig mask covers just half of your face, it's much easier to see through that. thanx everyone for your reports!

thanx... oh my, ingie was wearing the same outfit like me in paris... i'm wondering how she managed to dance madly with that cow mask on... i couldn't see a thing when i was wearing it, and hardly dared moving, out of fear i'd knock someone over! :aah:

dunno if they've been posted yet? some fab pix here: http://twitpic.com/photos/Love7Poppi flowers AND the clown face!

here it is for you, just quote my post to be able to see+copy the whole code.

quoting from the other thread here: how about if we put a link to the introduction post of that rep? so for mine, that would be (click):

yeah, that's what i meant... we don't have internet shops like that here in germany (or europe? i don't know of any... ), it's fantastic that you can have such things made with your own design!

yeah, i thought so that you designed them... but how did you make them? they're made of plastic and LEDs i think? i wouldn't even know how to make one of them, let alone 500!

OMG i LOVE those mika manga characters, they're sooooo cuuuuute!! - and john as the fairy for dr john - this really is hilarious, no wonder mika loved it! how did you get those name plates and lollipops, can you order them like that in korea? looks fantastic! how many of the crowd had the lollipops? just the first rows / fan club members, or everyone? i bet mika was really happy bout the presents.

how good that we're not going to the same gigs - he can play TY and PUOTF at the ones i'm going to then, and AOW on the ones you're going to. we definitely can agree on that!

hehe, did he pull jimmy across the stage on his coat? looool! why did he put that on? and during which song?

it's weird though, he played it at the last japan gig i think? why not in korea then, can't believe he hasn't seen the many tweets that asked him to play it there since they had a surprise for him. maybe he mixed up the 2 gigs... fab that the fans were so flexible though and threw the planes for happy ending instead. but generally, i don't need AOW on the setlist... would prefer pick up off the floor.

vermutlich mitm bus zum zug und dann per zug nach codroipo... so muss ich das jedenfalls ab lido di jesolo machen weil in den strandorten direkt gibts ja keine bahn-anbindung. zum glück hat wenigstens codroipo einen bahnhof. werd das konzert dann auch als abschluss meines urlaubs nehmen, die letzte nacht in codroipo verbringen und von dort dann per zug direkt wieder heimfahren. klar!

he's a popstar, that's his job!

i love this video of kick ass (youtube user mynameisnottommy1) blue sky's is better picture quality i think, but in this one you can hear mika's voice better. arrgh, i'm gonna have that intro stuck in my head for the next few days. or weeks.

GOLDEN total freak, please.