Mikafish

Well it's looking incredibily likely that I'll be doing this one now!

Talking to my bloke about maybe making it a long weekend but I'd like to be at the same hotel as the MFC regardless.

Has anything been decided yet?

Had an amazing time last night, so want to be doing another (I fact checked if I'd have time to drive to Bristol after I finish work! Lol!)

will try to write up Newcastle and Birmingham when I get home.

I'd never have got my moment if it hadn't been for you Jazz, cannot begin to thank you enough.

The look on his face and him saying "It's beautiful" will forever be ingrained in my memory!

We were supposed to leave at 9 but still sat in Viv's kitchen eating Hobnobs!

Just woken up, still totally buzzing from last night! Don't have time to write a full report but in brief:

fab crowd, everyone, particularly the MFC, really got into it and we totally rocked it, the floor does indeed bounce! Lol

So much eye contact, not just from Mika but either. Imma stuck her tongue out at me at one point! Hehe

Quick M&G afterwards, asked Mika ho be the first person to write in my personalized book, he wrote "She Fell down..." so have decided it shall be the start of a story! Imma has contributed the next line and I hope to keep it up!

We had a chat with the band which was really great, Martin had scarppered tho, think we must scare him!

Well gotta be getting ready for the drive Brum to do it all over again! Lol!

I've taken a turn for the worse, so I'll miss you all

 

HAVE A GREAT TIME ALL OF YOU

Awww no!

oh goodness. Bless him, he doesn't deserve to be ignored by record stores. He's trying to make a living like everyone else. I feel really sorry for him, I'd hate that if it was me. I mean, he's done promotion for it, so I don't understand at all...

I'm concerned that it's not available ANYWHERE on physical release, it seems like something has gone wrong, either it was never available on physical release or there has been a distribution problem. HMV don't even have a record of it on their system which is really odd. It should be on there if it's been released even if they aren't stocking it!

OMG you questioned him? what did you/he say?

There's a vid of it somewhere! I said that lots of us wanted to know where we could get BIOTG on CD as we couldn't find it.

He said he didn't know!

Ooh, what do the vests look like?

They have a feather and Blame it on the Girls on them, Jazz bought on a sheffield maybe she can post a pic?

You can just see on in Iona's merch pic.

So far I've only bought a blue tour t-shirt (which I'm sat in right now! lol) but I really want a hoodie! My friend was telling me she paid almost £50 for a tour hoody a few weeks ago so maybe they are in line with merch prices but seem quite expensive. I get paid before my next ig tho! Lol!

I looked for the single in my local HMV a few days ago and they haven't stocked it, and that's where I get ALL my Mika singles from. I think I've posted this news before, but I couldn't remember, so I'm posting it again.

I haven't been able to get it anywhere! I've looked everywhere on the highstreet and online, that's got to have hit sales.

My mum was aying she really liked it but couldn't find it anywhere (she won't know an MP3 player if slapped her in the face so the only way she'd buy it is on CD.

When I asked Mika about it at Sheffield he did have a slightly concerned look on his face, I think this kind of miss management is going to hit him hard if it's not sorted.

In total shock that BIOTG hasn't made the top 40.

I have a few more pics but my comp is not behaving at the moment.

As for the BGs well, I had a rather unpleasent encounter with one that was trying to put her LEG up on the barrier to save spaces! I was not having that after Qing all day! I had no problem with them being there but the girl i encountered semed to think that being a BG made her something extra special. Really annoyed me!

Still I got front and centre and the grins and eye contact were worth being crushed and bruised! The main problem being that when the BGs and LGs moved to go back stage about 10 people tried to fit into each of the spaces they left!

I was too tired to wait fot the M&G afterwards as I need to drive home but had a great night despite a few hassles!

and most importantly, the Oyster card holder (perfect for any other type of travel card, too, I think)

..can't remember the price.. £5 , I think

Ah yes, Viv got one for Vix at Sheffield! Very nice they are!

Keyrings and notebooks??? I didn't see them. What kind of notebooks?

Didn't get a close look but they had them at Manchester, looked like excercise books used to use at school. Didn't see them before Manchester.

Im seeing Mika for the 3rd time on the 4th march @ Bristol, colston hall.

 

Can Someone tell me (who has seen him this year) What things were for sale on the merc stand, because i have no idea of how much money to take with me.

Thanks

Tour t shirts £20 (don't know how much in Euros!)

BIOTG vests and long sleeves Ts £25

blue/purple hoodies £45

keyrings £3 I think

notebooks £8 I think...

Still feeling worse for wear but dragged myself in here to show a few pics.

My vids won't upload right now and most of them have the beginning cut off because I forget I have my camera and am just to caught up in the gig!

Anyway:

Emailed Sheffield, there WILL be an O2 Priority Q, all you need is a phone that is connected to O2.

Tried to phone the venue but I'm not good on the phone because of my hearing aids and couldn't make head nor tail of the options!

It reminds me of one the early gigs I did .. he played Birmingham and we were all in the Q , then ANOTHER Q appeared .. everyone that bought a drink in the bar there (carling it was) had priority:shocked:

Yep, I remeber that, it was my first ever gig, I was very annoyed!

Well, see you all tomorrow - packing to finish, train to catch etc

See you tomorrow, have a safe trip!

I have spare O2 sim cards, and may have a spare O2 phone. So if anyone wanted to queue with us and wanted one I'd be happy to do it for an MFCer. Then just give me the handset after you're in?

I'm going to look for it now. (:

I'm on O2 but I'm really not sure having a Sim is enough, think you have to have bought your ticket thro 02 Priority. But would be great of you to do that, any chance we have we should go for!

I doubt if non MFCers would queue early - and we may get leapfrogged by O2 priority people so not end up on front row anyway - I may check on things around 11ish.

Hmmm...I may give the venue a ring today see if they can shed any light on that!

Wow. That's pretty impressive queueing.

Although I do hope no-one is there that early at Sheffield !!! Lolz.

I really hope so too! I really doubt anyone will but the problem is it only takes one person to start the Q forming. Could have turned up at 1/2pm and have been in a similar position tho because it was just MFCer that were arriving that early! We really do bring it on ourselves!

So you queued from about 9am?

Yep! Went down to check out the venue and try to meet some people who were ariving that morning (no phone so couldn't co-ordinate via twitter) and when I arrived a Q was already forming, I was number 7 (not that it mattered in the end as I was a BG) but it was a LONG day!

As for the Qing question it depends on 2 things, how bothered are you about being front row and how long do you really think you can bare Qing for?

In Dublin I Qed for about 10 hours with 2 short breaks, it's not the most fun of tasks, you will get cold, your legs will ache and you'll ask yourself more than once "why am I doing this?" but once your in there all that goes away!

For me the actual bit I was on stage during LT was a total nightmare but it was SO worth it for the rehearsal bit!

phew! thanks- and congrats on big girling- what colour were you?

I was the green one that probably looks very unstabe in the vids....