jemappelle...

Thank you for the reports and pictures/vids. Really enjoyed that...

Really? Awesome! So its becoming a thing...

Yes it is... I know I'm going to end up an apple so who am i kidding anyway.

I don't know what happened but here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nboS8U4c-dk Yeah, so i wanted to be apart of the fun so i made my own plane and watched it take flight. HA!

Thx for posting Deb. I have learned about artist form Perez and i am glad that he is getting to do more in the field that he so clearly loves. Maybe he will sign me.

Oh please...Of course, i am. Of course, if i really did hurt your feeling then I'm sorry!

Why am i not surprised that you used these analogies. A couple can also mean a few its just not commonly used that way but i see what you mean, so point taken.

A couple means two.

That's a good article. t4p

Oohp, you won't like my version of relax either then. I mean, everyone was pretty loud but... I'm uploading it now. I really haven't watched my videos yet for fear of hearing how badly i may have messed up but feel free to scold me if you think i messed up the song.

Short and sweet. I like. Thank you.

Very true

No, its interesting. I am very new to this. How do you manage not to sing while filming or does your voice just blend in?

Oh my goodness! I just need to say it was lovely seeing everyone again, honestly, it always is. I didn't get to talk to everyone but for most of the people that queued early, that i got a chance to meet/chat with, it was lovely. Thank you all for being so lovable, not that you even try. Really good experience inside and out. A little name checking, if i can remember all of you: Lucy HollyD JackViolet Cheeseygoodness musicfreak Sariflor Suzy & Husband Lollipopmonkey Standardtoaster Dcdeb Sivan Canboys Mommylovesmika Lily Natalie Foalbaby Thx

I think i will write a report since I'm waiting for my videos to load on YT. Here is the link, you can keep checking back, i have several vids. http://www.youtube.com/user/JemappelleCynthjoyce The videos are uploading slowly but they are uploading. I've been working it at off and on all day its rather new to me so hopefully there are a few when i post this. Picture uploaded on page 10 ps. forgive the singing... I had a vodka and red bull thanks to Standardtoasters suggestions and i drunk sang my way through the concert. I didn't even feel the bruises i had acquired until this morning. I'm really rusty at this, i haven't written a report since '07. So..I convinced my friend Esther to come with me to the concert the day before hoping to convert her to into a fan. Sadly, i couldn't convince her to get up early to queue for the show. We had a plan to join Lucy and Holly at 12am or maybe 3-ish but it fell through due to lack of sleep over the weekend. Anyways, we got there at 11 or 10:45am,( I'm not sure, i think the latter) and were surprised to see that there were so few people in the queue. We were only number 25 and 26 in the queue, which made us feel a lot better about sleeping in. Still, Lucy And HollyD you are amazing! (Do decadent titles get placed for earliest in the queue? Just checking ) We waited in line for about an hour and a half and just chatted with fans passing by, Natalie and Lilly (which was pure fun! You girls are sweet) and people asking about every 10-15 mins "who we were waiting for?" followed by "who's is Mika?" It's surprising all the various ways you can answer that question. After about another half hour of chatting, Lily and I lost Esther and Natalie to Kenny's Castaways, a bar across the street from the venue. After another hour of having very enjoyable conversation with Lily( you were great) i joined them to kill some time. i have to say, there should always be bars across the street from venues. This was a first for me and made the time pass very quickly. There was even enough time to get back in line and sober up. I was still really surprised at how short the queue was even after 3pm. I guess i just imagined that New York fans would have turned out sooner. Then i equated it to the age limit. Otherwise, I'm almost sure we might have been at the back of the line by the time we arrived. I'm referencing this from my Good Morning America experience though, so...who knows. Anyways, after two more hours of interchanging drinks and good laughs with Esther and Natalie the ice cream van pulled up and we thought that it might be important to sober up a bit before pigging out on ice cream. Ok....this is boring blah blah blah... fast forward to letting us in the venue. Oh, just wanted to say that it was very nice to have Fortune and Mama Penniman come around to make sure everyone got ice cream in the queue. I don't know what the situation was but i was sufficiently stuffed. We recently had pizza, long with the ice cream about an hour before. I dont usually overdose on ice cream unless i'm depressed. Haha. The ice cream was topnotch though, wasn't it?! Gourmet. Artisan. I was impressed. Good Choice Mika! Thank you! That was very sweet of you! Much appreciated. To continue, they let us in the venue using the number system which i have to say, worked impressively. What i wasn't impressed with was, we were told they would provide some h'orderves for the first 100, actually 140 people in line (or was that the ice cream),which never made an appearance. Maybe I'm just a little food focused but the ice cream and pizza had sufficiently digested so i was hungry again. Anyway, this is probably just me. The merchandise looked great. I didn't buy anything. i was more focused on getting a chance to sit on anything other than concrete, tables, chair, railings, anything would suffice. Did anyone notice the tables were made of Styrofoam? Yeah! Simple pleasures. They made for great seats as the benches got full. People started pushing up toward the front with numbers of 100 and beyond. It was a little disturbing since there wasn't any food around. I get that they were buying merchandise but they made it a point to stay around the doors which really started making the atmosphere a bit more intense. I just wanted to relax and not hold my place in line but i kept having to get up and move around to find out what was going on. In the end the number system won and I'm really glad that the security guards honored it. Yay number system! So basically the mfc can have pretty much whatever they want, as long as we stay orderly etc as i was telling Esther. She was throughly impressed btw. Despite the brief shouting for everyone to get in line based on their number and the lack of cooperation by the majority, from what i could see, mostly non fanclub members, we still managed to get let in order. Somehow without even trying i manage to be in the front row. At first i was behind what i thought was a new age version of a Celeste, but it was later revealed as the piano for the opening act. I was overjoyed to find out that they were going to move it afterwards meaning, i would have a place to put my purse and sit for a bit before the real show started. Sorry, to jump around again but i have to thank StandardToaster because it seems that under any and every circumstance, you always manage to be cordial and welcoming and i really appreciate that. Thank you! I didn't want you to think that it would go by unmentioned or unnoticed. Very cool. And thank you for keeping everything organized and to anyone else involved. Thank you Dcdeb, i did see you there helping out as well. It's really this experience that brought be back to the forum and mainly due to StandToasters actions. I really appreciate that. Ok, so the show started and with the orchestra/string ensemble finding their places on stage followed by Martin, Dan and Cherisse. Its always nice to get a head nod and friendly smile from familiar faces. I was still wondering how the heck i got to be front and center. Admittedly, i was/am still, completely chuffed about it. I was standing right next to 24 and 26, it was great. You can't image how amazed i was when i realized it and completely pumped. So When Mika came on, its was all too much to take in. I think this always happens whenever he first comes on stage. It last like 3 secs but it mosly consist of me asking myself "when the last time i saw him was?" and recognizing that I feel like its been so long/realizing how good it feels to see him again. Mika is/will always be good stuff. So he started with Grace Kelly and of course so did the crowd. My friend, Esther being the only one who didn't know the words but still, she did a really great job at fudging her way through it. She was telling me mid verse how much Mika reminded her of a young Beethoven. I was thinking Mozart but Beethoven worked to. I don't remember the songs in order i just remember having a feeling of a sing-a-long gathering. It did seem slightly more intimate being so close but a lot closer to my experience to a full show, with getting bruised up and worked out etc, it was great though. Every song took me to new heights and it seemed that Mika was getting more and more energized at every turn. I swear i thought i dropped a few 100 calories from all the jumping i was doing. I was completely drenched in sweat but happy as a kid on Christmas morning. It was very awkward to have Mika shaking his pelvic/ass in my face but i can't complain. I'm sure it was awkward having me practically singing in his eardrum but i was having a blast so no can't complaints. I could hear my voice over the crowd which is a first and i did sufficiently mess up several of my videos with my non-stop singing even when i thought i was being quieter during songs like Lady Jane and Lonely Alcoholic. I was actually more concerned with being on key since i was singing a lot of harmonies. In my head, i was thinking well this might be the closest opportunity i get to singing back-up with Mika, so might as well make it good. It wasn't good. I doubt that i could have been as drunk as i was. Still fun though... I felt so bad about cheering for him to come back after he mentioned his voice was shot. I'm just glad he mentioned that it was worth loosing his voice for us. That was rock star! Four encore performances...i think. Anyways, really amazing and sadly i only remember half of it. I'm glad i have video to document some of it. Entirely, the whole show was ****ing amazing. It never ceases to amazing be how brilliantly and fluently Mika recreates his look and performance for each tour even one as small as this. I really will miss the smaller venues but since we all now Mika is going to be legendary and we never know what to expect as he's always out doing himself, i'm totally looking forward to the future. The End ps. If i remember more i will write more later. its hard to remember song for song experiences but I'm pretty sure all the reports will manage to cover all the juice details. Thank you for reading. pss. If someone has the full version of Blue Eyes or Love Today please let me know. Thx

The opening act was good, i thought. It was a solo artist name Diane or Diana Burke. She preformed 4 songs from her new album/EP (can't remember)Bible Belt. her songs sounded very similar except the one she mentioned was going to be her single. She has a good voice though. Its really hard for me to judge music when i first hear it. I tend to try to give it a few listens before i can really say. Her music got me moving ,so thats something.

Sorry, this is all i have. I have videos I'm uploading to YT. I will post the link when they are finished. Amazing gig! I'm really sad that its over for awhile.