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Dear MFCers, This is not related to Mika in the way you might thought it was! But I need your help anyway! I decided to participate in a contest that if I win can give me the opportunity to win some money, to photograph James Morrison and to stay for two nights in London. I am a photographer and I love photography. I don't have a way to explain you better how awesome it would be for me to win this! So, for this contest we had to submit a photograph related to a show. After seeing all my photos, I chose one from Mika. Like always I was reluctant, but my boyfriend said it was a good photo and I decided to take a risk. So, let's go straight to the main thing. I need you to vote on my photo and if possible convince your friends to vote too. You can vote both through facebook and twitter, it would give 2 votes per person. http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a80e9f8e4d67df0e283358d0742e7536/322 You would make me really happy! Thank you all!

Isso dito assim...! :naughty:

Não faz mal. Estás à vontade! A bandeira é suposto ser do fórum! Eu tirei a minha. Já não gostava dela e estava farta que me perguntassem porque é que ele estava assustado. Como estou sem ideias não pus mais nada. lol

Pronto trabalho ela já tem. (Só agora vi a tua assinatura. Muito munita )

Bem, isso da cirurgia cardio-torácica é uma ideia muito objectiva mesmo! Eu não percebo nada, mas foi o que me pareceu! lol Depois quando escolheres a especialidade avisa-me, para ver se tens paciente! LOL

A mim incomoda-me sempre o facto de em qualquer religião a mulher ter sempre uma importância e um papel inferior ao do homem. Mas pronto, esquecemos essas questões por agora. Eu achava que já tinhas alguma coisa em mente. Que tinhas ido para medicina com planos já feitos até seres velhinha! Mas se tens tempo fazes bem em tomar uma decisão ponderada. Eu se estivesse num sítio cheio de gente, com essa mesma gente aos gritos, militares e filas não sei do quê, achava que era o fim do mundo. Desde que vi o filme 2012 que tenho medo de tudo. Eu gosto de especiarias e picante!

Oláááaaaaaaaaaaaaa Isso é muito fixe, só o meu curso não tinha dessas coisas. Estás ou vais tirar alguma especialização? Eu gostava de explorar as arábias, mas isso dos lenços, burcas e afins não me agradam muito. Sou um bocado revoltada com isso! Aliás determinadas questões religiosas revoltam-me muito, não são só os lenços. Porque é que apanhaste um susto?

Eu sou cusca.... que foste lá fazer? Deve ter sido uma grande aventura!

Pára tudo!!! Foste para as arábias?????

Ninguém se lembra de ninguém já. Isto está em coma há muito tempo!

Olá Penso que não há novidades nem dele nem de ninguém. Está tudo de férias e o nosso tópico está adormecido há algum tempo!

A cake and a sandwich are more important than me!

Great report!!! (With some mistakes on it) (Just kidding)

You're welcome!

My only video!

Obrigada! Acho que foi o maior que escrevi até hoje! Mas também foi uma viagem grande!

Thanks Silver! I don't think we need barriers! People just need to know how to behave! Is it so complicated? In Belgium, as far as I saw in the video there were no barriers! Here in Portugal I followed so many bands and never needed a barrier or a security to tell me how to behave! I followed a band that unfortunately ended a few months ago and people who usually went to the shows became like family. We were with the band when it was possible, we had to understood they needed their time and space. Believe me...more people in Portugal knew this band than they know Mika and I never saw fans having this kind of behave! I'm not saying that we are like saints, for example, teenage bands are used to have these kind of fans and this craziness around them! But with Mika, it's like people feel they have to scream to the world and specially to Mika that they are there, they did more concerts than other fans, they travel to far away countries, bla bla bla! It's all about the competition! At least is what I'm seeing and hearing each time I go to a Mika's gig! It's sad! Yes! Brixton 26th he immediatly jumped into his car! Smart boy! Like you, I doubt he would be so relaxed, chatting with everyone! You guys were really lucky! In the first seconds I was having doubts if it was him! I don't know! There's only one man that I want to touch and he's enough for me!

For me, the first and scarier experience was in Brixton! But we were able to call his attention when we talked to him, so I didn't saw his hypnotic state! I wish both Porto and Benidorm would have been like Belgium! I saw Mellody's video, even before Porto's gig and I thought that was such a cool attitude, not only from Mika but from the fans! I think people should calm down. If he come out of his car and give us a little of attention because he wants to, that is a good sign and he isn't going to run away from us. People don't need to get stressed! It's his choice, he could perfectly go away to rest on his hotel, but he does that for us. I don't know if I'm making any sense! I don't want more misunderstanding.

Thank you! Yes, we had such wonderful days in Spain and Gibraltar (that I didn't know it belongs to UK )! We arrive at Portugal still speaking a little bit of spanish! I'm sorry for not been so connected to internet, but it's quite expensive if we don't find a wi-fi! It wasn't supposed to be interpretated like that! I wanted to distinguish the spanish people from you, a foreign person like me! I'm sorry! Blame it on my stupid english! In Porto I didn't wanted to give up so easily, I just did in the group pic! But when he signed my photo (like I said without even looking at it or at me) I went to the back, waiting for him to finish the signing thing, to take the group pic with us! Till today, I think that I'm having the correct behavior, not pushing or being agressive when he appears, but probably some people who act like that, think they are right and they are laughing right now! And I'm glad I'm not the only person notice the zoombie hypnotic state that he usually have! The first time I saw it, I thought I was being neurotic or something!

Part III After the show I found the Spanish group in the middle of the crowd. We exchange some comments about the gig and then decided to find where were the artists’ entrance. I got lost from the group and found the entrance in first. Sent a message to Rosa and then she called me, now imagine how it was to explain in Spanish where I was and how she could get there! I’m very bad in giving directions to people, especially if it’s not in Portuguese. Mika took a little longer to appear in comparison with Porto and more people were gathering around the entrance. Like I said to Mary through message, it was a bit calmer, but still… I think the name "Meet&Mess" fits perfectly! I love the fact that, after a tiring show, Mika decides to appear and give some attention to his fans, but this could start to be a “dangerous” thing to him. First of all, people will start to expect him to do this always, and when he won't do it, it will be the end of the world. Besides, if people know by antecipation that he might appear to give some autographs, more people would appear and consequently, it'll become messier. In Marés Vivas I could manage an autograph. This time I just gave up. I didn't wanted to be in the same circle of confusion like the last time. I was in the back of the people in my tiptoes, trying to see him and if I had the chance that he look at me, saying a quick "hi". I think Mika is afraid of being surrounded by so many people, specially when they are really near him, touching him, calling for him all at the same time. I think he's lucky for having that high. I just noticed that, in these kinds of moments, Mika is completely hypnotic, signing photos and other stuff, coming back into the real world when he sees someone that he knows. I think this is a way of protection. Because of this hypnotic state, the bodyguards were really upset (I heard them talk) because they were trying to force Mika taking a pic with a security woman. She was leaning on him, smiling to the camera and Mika continued signing photos that people put in front of his face. They gave up of the photograph and said that he wasn't very nice. These meet&mess killed my nerves because of the security people. In a certain time, they were denying me to be near Mika, put themselves in front of him because they wanted to take photos of his face and then of the security women and Mika. They were supposed to guard him. Besides the security people, some fans went crazy, like I expected. Nothing special besides pushing, talking loud, not leaving him even after having their stuff signed. I loved this experience. It was really tiring, especially because I had to drive so many kilometres each day, but I saw fantastic places. I wish I could do this again in a few weeks, because that would mean that I would see Mika again! I don’t know how I will handle without gigs till next year! I’m sorry for my giant report and please forgive my english errors! I guess I never wrote anything so bigger! (Besos grandes for my Spanish girls!)

Part II I went to Marés Vivas but I felt like I didn’t saw him for ages. It was so good to see him again. I was super excited to this gig as I was to Marés Vivas, although I felt less connection in Benidorm. :boxed:I know some people wrote the opposite, but that was how I felt. Like I said to Rosa in the end of the show, people around me weren’t as excited as me, neither as the people that was around me in Marés Vivas. They were just clapping and singing the singles or when he asked to. I’m not saying they were a bad crowd or they didn’t like him, or it wasn’t a good gig, I’m saying (in my opinion) it wasn’t as good as Marés Vivas. I enjoyed the concert and felt intensely every second of it, since it was the last one of this year, but I didn’t liked the “Torero and toro” thing. I don’t understand why he does that, and to be honest I didn’t wanted to participate in that “competition”. Bullfighting goes against of so many things that I believe. I don’t want to develop this subject since some people may like these kinds of things, but for me it was a very negative thing in the gig. Besides that unhappy moment, I loved to see him smiling and jumping all the time. I couldn’t believe when he said that he only arrived 25 minutes before the show and he was full of energy. Like some people said, the set list was the same as Marés Vivas, but with Touches You. Finally I could hear this song again. I don’t know what is going on between this song and me, but I feel like I’m possessed every time I hear it. :aah:I wasn’t expecting hearing it on Benidorm, since he didn’t play in Porto, so when I heard the first chords I wanted to jump on stage and dance like crazy. Happy Ending was another great moment and Imma was amazing that night, like always is. I was able to record “Touches You” but it isn’t a great video. It was hard to pretend that I was photographing and not filming. So, another great show. No need to queue early. No rain at all. The weather was so good. Everything was perfect for a magical night, but I still missed some of my portuguese friends.

Part I Probably by this time no one cares about my report, but since I said I would do it, now I’m going to write everything that I remember. I have to mention that, this entire journey was made by car with me driving all the time. It was more or less 2200Km. I started in Porto and finished in Algarve, where I’m now. It was tiring but a great and specially a different experience. So, I left home last tuesday in direction to Madrid. It was great to re-visit some of the places that I love in the city. In the next day I had to go to Benidorm, for three days and half of beach, noise, confusion and a lot of more things. These kinds of places are not my ideal of places to be on vacations, I love beach and warm water, but I don’t like to be so surrounded by so many people, but I enjoyed the best that I could. On Friday I decided to sleep till lunch. It rained in the morning, the sky was grey and it was a little bit windy, so I decided to rest that day, since the concert was predicted to end very late. After lunch I went to the beach, took a very relaxing bath, ate a lovely sandwich from sybway and went to the festival. This time, I decided not to queue early like the rest of the people. Honestly I’m getting tired of all the madness in the last concerts and I don’t want to be “involved” on the same “wave” of craziness. I knew the possibility of find a place in front row it would be almost none, but maybe I would get lucky like in Benicassim, where I arrived at 10 p.m. at the festival and got front row with no effort and without stealing anyone’s place. So, I arrived around 7.pm. at the festival and immediately went to say “hi” to Rosa and the rest of the lovely Spanish people. I saw Kath too! Just had a little chat and then I saw that, the front and second row centre was a little bit crowded! I decided to leave there and went to the bathroom. By that time, the concerts were about to start. I saw a little bit of the first band in the middle of the crowd, then I realised that were a free place in the left side of the stage, completely in the left, but at least I was in the barriers. :thumb_yello:So, I could rest my body there without being squeezed and I didn’t had no one in front of me too, so I would have a chance to take a few pics and videos. Like I suspected, most of the people went away in the end of each performance, like in Benicassim. The most positive thing is that, besides front and second row, people weren’t stressed about their place, they were enjoying and having fun, drinking and eating first and then they went back near the stage. So, because of this relaxed environment, I could be sat without anyone trying to steal my place, and went to the bathroom around 10 p.m. with no problem at all. That was like heaven. I really enjoyed the Ok Go’s performance. They were really funny and very entertaining, but I cannot say the same thing about the first and third performance. Security guys were being really stupid with some people. Always complaining with everything. Water or food wasn't allowed, no videos, no professional cameras or big cameras (since they think big is the same as professional), bla bla bla. I saw some of them checking brands and models of cameras and if people were really photographing or filming. After all that, I thought they wouldn’t allow me to put my flag in the barriers (since we weren’t allowed to put our bags there too), but for my surprise they said I could. My beautiful flag that goes with me in all my foreign adventures. 7 till now! The set was being prepared and the excitement was growing… Here’s Mika again!

Thank you! Now it's working!

Olha e eu ontem comecei a escrever o report de Benidorm, quase que adormecia com o pc em cima, tive que o acabar agora! LOL

Thank you very much! I would appreciate that!