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Thank you. It's a Nikon camera that disappointed me completely. I have more photos all blurred and smudged.

Here's my video of Mika founding the solution to happiness in Ostrava...

The audience was great. They just didn't know all the songs and it's a good sign cause I think they recognized his energy and effort to give such a great performance. Don't forget letting the fans smear glitter on his face. I couldn't see well what happened. It was on the screen briefly, and then he came on our side of the stage. His face was golden. I have to tell you that I saw you during the concert. You were on the left side of the ramp, weren't you, standing with the taller blond girl? I couldn't see her face. I wanted to come and say hi after the concert, but when it was over I couldn't find you in a crowd. Then I gave up and went back to my husband. He had some problems with his leg and he went back to the stage where Electro Delux performed. The oldie needed some chairs.

Here are some of my pictures. In the first one you can see the cameraman who blocked my view. Poor guy doesn't know how I hate him. This one is the photo of the screen but it's so I had to post it.

More pictures here https://www.facebook.com/colours.of.ostrava/photos/a.10153525571284901.1073741969.102362984900/10153525571324901/?type=1&theater

I'm home and I'll try to put some impressions here although I'm rather tired, but I want to write while it's all fresh. I was in Ostrava as a winner of a competition which was held here in MFC I believe in February or something like that, and I got two tickets for four days of festival. So I have to thank our Ticket Fairy for this wonderful, wonderful experience. I won't write the whole story about my trip, since I'm sure you want me to skip first days of festival and talk about Mika, but I have to say it's a strange and impressive venue. The festival is held in an old industrial complex and it's a bit scary and definitely monumental. Great idea to organize it there since it's such an attraction. It's well organized, really safe, but I have to say there are not enough information in English which is the problem of the whole town not only festival, but that's some other story. Mika was closing the festival and he performed at the main stage. It was a tall stage and I was a bit late so I think three or four rows in front of the ramp were already full , but I was able to find my spot in the front row on the left side, which was not such a good idea and I saw it when the gig started. There was a camera man in some kind of a trench right in front of Mika blocking the view all the time. Luckily Mika was on the move so he was in front of us many times. After the closing words and cheering a lady who I think was someone from the festival organization, the band was out an first I noticed there was some other guy on the bass, not Max. Than Mika came out and I instantly understood why these suits all the time. Because he looks stunning in it and much, much better in person, so it's obvious why. The colour of the suit is deep and fits so perfectly. The hearts are such a sweet and funny moment. I won't question this decision ever. They started with Grace Kelly which was a surprise, but later he explained that it's his first concert in Czech Republic and he is going to play a little bit of everything to catch up. So not so many new songs. Just Talk About You and Last Party, I think. Everything is a bit blurry in my memory, but I think you can understand me. There was a cute episode with a walking stick. He said he got it from someone in the back stage, and he is going to be 32 in couple of weeks, but he is not that old. I think I have it on my camera, but I have to check out. My videos and photos are dreadful but I'll upload some at least a bit decent. There were a bunch of photographers there, so I expect there will be a lot of photos. Nevertheless I made some just to have my own (even if they are a mess). He played WAG, Billy Brown, BG, Lollypop (with big balloons thrown into the audience, of course), Underwater... He said he must play something in French, so it was EMD. And than it started to rain cats and dogs, and he got an umbrella from someone in the audience so he sang under the umbrella for a while. But he was already wet and suddenly there was wet Mika, rolling on a wet stage. He finished with Love Today with a blast. He changed his outfit, I'm not sure was it cause he was completely wet or it was planned. He was wearing a dotted t shirt (I think he was wearing it the night before in Paris) and a glittery jacket, and he commented that people in the back don't need screens when he is wearing this. I think audience has gone completely wild at the end. There were confetti cannons and I was right in front of one of them, so you can imagine where I found confetti when I came at the apartment All in all it was short and sweet. And I already started to plan how to organize myself to visit a proper gig and not the festival one. There's not enough Mika for me at festivals. It wasn't my first concert. I saw him in Budapest two years ago and it was different. He was as good as he was back then. I think I heard some new layers in his voice and new colours and I really, really loved it and it's not about Mika or band but in Budapest, I think everybody new all the songs by heart and I really enjoyed being in a such crowd where he was so appreciated and well known. This time audience was positive and reacted really good, but in my surrounding nobody new any songs except maybe GK, WAG and Lollypop. I was singing all along (I can't help myself, what can I say :doh46: ) and all alone and I saw some surprised faces when they realized I know all the songs. Can you imagine what happened when they saw that I know the lyrics to EMD? All in all I was enjoying and jumping and screaming and singing like it's the end of the world and I won't be able to see Mika again, just in case. And he really left his heart on the stage. I'm impressed with his energy and with the fact that he performed the night before in France and he can be so fresh and wonderful the day after in another country. He spoke Czech, quite few sentences and he was thanking in Czech. I believe he also said something like "You are maniacs." I'm impressed how he remembers all that. I'm sure he made himself some fans in Czech Republic last night and I'm really glad. Now I'm going to sleep and I'm sorry if I made mistakes, I can't go back to check. We had a 9 hours ride by car and I don't have Mika's energy. Bye, bye.

I just came from the festival to my appartment. It was...I can't find words. Mika was more than amazing! I'm too happy to sleep and too tired not to. Tomorrow is a long trip in front of us and I'll write my report when I come back home.

Before During After And a massive thank you Subtitling team!!!

Yes. I just thought the same while reading.

Translating team and some in advance.

WOW! That's great! Good luck! Have a wonderful time!

They found little Mika singing for British Airways? Really!?! I have never heard this! And he is telling the story how he waited on the phone listening to this? Am I right?

He would never sing at Eurovision!

I just realized this supposed to be something we call here snenokle. I thought it's some kind of salty dish with bread.

Well, well. MFC was right! Congrats to Sweden!

Thanks.

I haven't heard any of the songs except Serbian and the press is glorifying the performance and the acceptance of the song and Bojana. So I'm here to see if anyone mentioned Serbian song. Now I can see how journalists lie. Is it over? Is Sweden a winner, like I assume it's predicted here?

That's it?

I'm listening too!!!

I found a room in a place called Relax centrum. http://www.relaxhavirov.cz/

Hi! Thanks for answering. I just wanted to know is it far away from the festival venue? We got tickets for the whole festival and we are planing to stay, so I just want to know is it going to be too much fuss to travel every day to Ostrava. We are coming by car and it looks like the road from Havířov to Ostrava is OK.

MIKA official Felice Felice Così!!!!! ‪#‎XF9‬ X Factor Italia e anche così #XF9 X Factor Italia e per elio sono così #XF9 XfactorIT Felicissimo di tornare!!! Ehhhh maccarena. Si... Sono jet lag a New York. Ho perso un po' il mio 'compus mentus' ma va bene!!

Hi, Mara!

I think this one is tiibet's. Last Party https://youtu.be/vnWXoG678sk

Hi, Marika!