2010 - Mika @ Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland - 23 AUG - REPORTS/PICS/VIDS

[julia2a]

thanks for the links

[shoni]

And the story begins...

That was my first time to use a train in the UK and the subway as well. With some lack of orientation I couldn't catch the planned train.

One great factor key of tickets is the fact that you have the chance to catch any train for the specified date. And in the return trip, you have one month to return, if you change your mind by returning in the previous established date.

At 12:00 pm I finally got myself inside the train to Edinburgh. It was a 5 hours pleasant trip by the way. I arrived at 5:00pm. A bit late for the queue and meet up before the gig. So any plan of going on stage was by now lost.

When I arrived to Edinburgh it was raining, what a reception. A blessed one, some would say in a marriage ceremony context.

My mobile phone was almost dead, I had no GPS working, because with low mobile battery, GPS doesn't work. I had to do the check in at the hostel and I felt... lost! Unknown city, alone and without technological resources. I had a map but in that time wasn't much help.

Despite all these factors I've found my hostel and made the check in, just though: "Now I can charge my mobile... not". I had no converter for the UK plug. Sometimes it works without it but that wasn't the case. So I had two things on my mind:

1) Find a universal converter

2) Find my way to the gig

 

No converter was found, I've crossed main street (Princes Street) to find my way to the gig. I had a smooth notion of the direction, but I had no idea how much it would take to arrive there.

7:00pm (time of the gig: "I'm sooo late!!!), I grab a cab, he done almost the way I did by walking (a way that I had to go back to catch the cab). Then he turned left and I though "Oh well, I was so near!".

He left me at one door where I did see no one, except two keepers. I asked them about the gig, they pointed me the way and I saw a huge queue line (more than 50 people maybe). So I'm not that late.

I thought, while I was passing through people: "let me see where are MFCers" (they were already inside). So my conclusion: "Late and I'll have a bad spot to watch the show".

That was so wrong and glad to be. The gig space was quite small, maybe would fit there 5000 people or less and I was in second row, so great! At previous gig (In Festival SW TMN, I was in front row, but there was a huger space between me and the stage). I was at left side, in front of Martin.

I saw some MFCers but no one to whom I usually wrote to, just later on. I couldn't wear my T-shirt that was made for the gig. Just after the show I could wear it.

Anyway I enjoyed the gig a lot, Rain, Kick Ass live, but some of my favorite songs. Any Other World or I see You, weren't present.

After the gig there was the Meet & Greet with Mika! The first time was on 11th May, I got my TBWKTM booklet signed but just that.

This time, I could deliver him two gifts, one mine with my own message and poem and some messages from other fans. The other gift was from Brazilian fans, a birthday video.

I could record the moment and got my T-shirt signed... And spoke with him.

For the first time as well, I took a photo with Imma and with other MFCers. Unique moment, unique night, that got so cold at the end.

After all but without buying the Tourbook (I only had in my mind the Meet & Greet), I went back to the hostel. There I saw the pics and videos, I felt so excited by living those moments, where we enjoy a show, where we meet people that has the same music taste, where there's a unity of happiness and other emotions. I also took with me the memory of those that weren't present physically as well as those that couldn't be present in my gift for some reason.

 

PHOTOS:

 

http://picasaweb.google.pt/feiticeiro76/MikaEdinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCPHDuofUp_u7DQ&feat=directlink

 

THE GIFT:

 

http://picasaweb.google.pt/feiticeiro76/MikaPrenda2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCOiZk7XTno3JUQ&feat=directlink

 

VIDEOS:

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Relax, Take It Easy + Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dU-7wbF4_U

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Dr. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLCLcI7wIuU

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vVJ_6wrbY

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQOnZwaBf0

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYblXBPqkMU

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Over My Shoulder + Happy Ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Dwl46XeIQ

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV248AiSMlA

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Sweet Dreams + Kick-Ass + Grace Kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZYk6bxLMLs

 

MIKA - ED 2010: My Meet & Greet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApKIJ44ttQ

 

That's it! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

:mf_lustslow:Aw thankyou soooo much for these pics and vids, it brings back lots of happy memories of a wonderful day !

[Treasa]

And the story begins...

That was my first time to use a train in the UK and the subway as well. With some lack of orientation I couldn't catch the planned train.

One great factor key of tickets is the fact that you have the chance to catch any train for the specified date. And in the return trip, you have one month to return, if you change your mind by returning in the previous established date.

At 12:00 pm I finally got myself inside the train to Edinburgh. It was a 5 hours pleasant trip by the way. I arrived at 5:00pm. A bit late for the queue and meet up before the gig. So any plan of going on stage was by now lost.

When I arrived to Edinburgh it was raining, what a reception. A blessed one, some would say in a marriage ceremony context.

My mobile phone was almost dead, I had no GPS working, because with low mobile battery, GPS doesn't work. I had to do the check in at the hostel and I felt... lost! Unknown city, alone and without technological resources. I had a map but in that time wasn't much help.

Despite all these factors I've found my hostel and made the check in, just though: "Now I can charge my mobile... not". I had no converter for the UK plug. Sometimes it works without it but that wasn't the case. So I had two things on my mind:

1) Find a universal converter

2) Find my way to the gig

 

No converter was found, I've crossed main street (Princes Street) to find my way to the gig. I had a smooth notion of the direction, but I had no idea how much it would take to arrive there.

7:00pm (time of the gig: "I'm sooo late!!!), I grab a cab, he done almost the way I did by walking (a way that I had to go back to catch the cab). Then he turned left and I though "Oh well, I was so near!".

He left me at one door where I did see no one, except two keepers. I asked them about the gig, they pointed me the way and I saw a huge queue line (more than 50 people maybe). So I'm not that late.

I thought, while I was passing through people: "let me see where are MFCers" (they were already inside). So my conclusion: "Late and I'll have a bad spot to watch the show".

That was so wrong and glad to be. The gig space was quite small, maybe would fit there 5000 people or less and I was in second row, so great! At previous gig (In Festival SW TMN, I was in front row, but there was a huger space between me and the stage). I was at left side, in front of Martin.

I saw some MFCers but no one to whom I usually wrote to, just later on. I couldn't wear my T-shirt that was made for the gig. Just after the show I could wear it.

Anyway I enjoyed the gig a lot, Rain, Kick Ass live, but some of my favorite songs. Any Other World or I see You, weren't present.

After the gig there was the Meet & Greet with Mika! The first time was on 11th May, I got my TBWKTM booklet signed but just that.

This time, I could deliver him two gifts, one mine with my own message and poem and some messages from other fans. The other gift was from Brazilian fans, a birthday video.

I could record the moment and got my T-shirt signed... And spoke with him.

For the first time as well, I took a photo with Imma and with other MFCers. Unique moment, unique night, that got so cold at the end.

After all but without buying the Tourbook (I only had in my mind the Meet & Greet), I went back to the hostel. There I saw the pics and videos, I felt so excited by living those moments, where we enjoy a show, where we meet people that has the same music taste, where there's a unity of happiness and other emotions. I also took with me the memory of those that weren't present physically as well as those that couldn't be present in my gift for some reason.

 

PHOTOS:

 

http://picasaweb.google.pt/feiticeiro76/MikaEdinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCPHDuofUp_u7DQ&feat=directlink

 

THE GIFT:

 

http://picasaweb.google.pt/feiticeiro76/MikaPrenda2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCOiZk7XTno3JUQ&feat=directlink

 

VIDEOS:

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Relax, Take It Easy + Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dU-7wbF4_U

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Dr. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLCLcI7wIuU

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vVJ_6wrbY

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQOnZwaBf0

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYblXBPqkMU

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Over My Shoulder + Happy Ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Dwl46XeIQ

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV248AiSMlA

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Sweet Dreams + Kick-Ass + Grace Kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZYk6bxLMLs

 

MIKA - ED 2010: My Meet & Greet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApKIJ44ttQ

 

That's it! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Great pics Paulo. You should post some on the oldlings:thumb_yello:

[Littlelady]

Shall I answer not lady-like? Paulo: Geil

[ilseh1983]

great news, with my new notebook it seems easier to edit my edinburgh vid so can put them on youtube.

i tink i can get them all on youtube and here within now and a few weeks (the complete show , though i 've said it before, sound isn't great and sometimes even non existent )

[Feiticeiro]

Grande aventura, Paulo!!

 

Belas fotos, parabéns!

 

Verdade, foi mesmo. Obrigado =)

 

 

thanks for the links

 

Your welcome Julia

 

 

:mf_lustslow:Aw thankyou soooo much for these pics and vids, it brings back lots of happy memories of a wonderful day !

 

Yeah, so true, lots of great memories

 

 

Great pics Paulo. You should post some on the oldlings:thumb_yello:

 

Sure =)

 

 

Shall I answer not lady-like? Paulo: Geil

 

Okay, what that mean? =P

 

 

great news, with my new notebook it seems easier to edit my edinburgh vid so can put them on youtube.

i tink i can get them all on youtube and here within now and a few weeks (the complete show , though i 've said it before, sound isn't great and sometimes even non existent )

 

Hi Ilse, long time... In deed editing videos give some work, but after finding the proper software its easier, anyway always take time, specially the frame selection.

Most important is sharing so I don't doubt that your video is great.

[Louiza]

And the story begins...

That was my first time to use a train in the UK and the subway as well. With some lack of orientation I couldn't catch the planned train.

One great factor key of tickets is the fact that you have the chance to catch any train for the specified date. And in the return trip, you have one month to return, if you change your mind by returning in the previous established date.

At 12:00 pm I finally got myself inside the train to Edinburgh. It was a 5 hours pleasant trip by the way. I arrived at 5:00pm. A bit late for the queue and meet up before the gig. So any plan of going on stage was by now lost.

When I arrived to Edinburgh it was raining, what a reception. A blessed one, some would say in a marriage ceremony context.

My mobile phone was almost dead, I had no GPS working, because with low mobile battery, GPS doesn't work. I had to do the check in at the hostel and I felt... lost! Unknown city, alone and without technological resources. I had a map but in that time wasn't much help.

Despite all these factors I've found my hostel and made the check in, just though: "Now I can charge my mobile... not". I had no converter for the UK plug. Sometimes it works without it but that wasn't the case. So I had two things on my mind:

1) Find a universal converter

2) Find my way to the gig

 

No converter was found, I've crossed main street (Princes Street) to find my way to the gig. I had a smooth notion of the direction, but I had no idea how much it would take to arrive there.

7:00pm (time of the gig: "I'm sooo late!!!), I grab a cab, he done almost the way I did by walking (a way that I had to go back to catch the cab). Then he turned left and I though "Oh well, I was so near!".

He left me at one door where I did see no one, except two keepers. I asked them about the gig, they pointed me the way and I saw a huge queue line (more than 50 people maybe). So I'm not that late.

I thought, while I was passing through people: "let me see where are MFCers" (they were already inside). So my conclusion: "Late and I'll have a bad spot to watch the show".

That was so wrong and glad to be. The gig space was quite small, maybe would fit there 5000 people or less and I was in second row, so great! At previous gig (In Festival SW TMN, I was in front row, but there was a huger space between me and the stage). I was at left side, in front of Martin.

I saw some MFCers but no one to whom I usually wrote to, just later on. I couldn't wear my T-shirt that was made for the gig. Just after the show I could wear it.

Anyway I enjoyed the gig a lot, Rain, Kick Ass live, but some of my favorite songs. Any Other World or I see You, weren't present.

After the gig there was the Meet & Greet with Mika! The first time was on 11th May, I got my TBWKTM booklet signed but just that.

This time, I could deliver him two gifts, one mine with my own message and poem and some messages from other fans. The other gift was from Brazilian fans, a birthday video.

I could record the moment and got my T-shirt signed... And spoke with him.

For the first time as well, I took a photo with Imma and with other MFCers. Unique moment, unique night, that got so cold at the end.

After all but without buying the Tourbook (I only had in my mind the Meet & Greet), I went back to the hostel. There I saw the pics and videos, I felt so excited by living those moments, where we enjoy a show, where we meet people that has the same music taste, where there's a unity of happiness and other emotions. I also took with me the memory of those that weren't present physically as well as those that couldn't be present in my gift for some reason.

 

PHOTOS:

 

http://picasaweb.google.pt/feiticeiro76/MikaEdinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCPHDuofUp_u7DQ&feat=directlink

 

THE GIFT:

 

http://picasaweb.google.pt/feiticeiro76/MikaPrenda2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCOiZk7XTno3JUQ&feat=directlink

 

VIDEOS:

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Relax, Take It Easy + Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dU-7wbF4_U

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Dr. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLCLcI7wIuU

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vVJ_6wrbY

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQOnZwaBf0

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYblXBPqkMU

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Over My Shoulder + Happy Ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Dwl46XeIQ

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Fans on fire 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV248AiSMlA

 

MIKA - ED 2010: Sweet Dreams + Kick-Ass + Grace Kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZYk6bxLMLs

 

MIKA - ED 2010: My Meet & Greet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApKIJ44ttQ

 

That's it! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Lovely report!!! And thanks for the pics and vids as well:thumb_yello:

[Feiticeiro]

Lovely report!!! And thanks for the pics and vids as well:thumb_yello:

 

Your welcome Louiza

[Ruth]

 

 

MIKA - ED 2010: My Meet & Greet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApKIJ44ttQ

 

That's it! Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, you're an MFCer? Excellent. I'm rvleevee from YouTube and I'm so grateful to you that you captured my moment with Mika. I'm from about one minute to 1:18.

 

Lovely, thanks for sharing it :-)

[Feiticeiro]

Oh, you're an MFCer? Excellent. I'm rvleevee from YouTube and I'm so grateful to you that you captured my moment with Mika. I'm from about one minute to 1:18.

 

Lovely, thanks for sharing it :-)

 

Yes I am =)

Great to find out who you are!, I was wondering about that =)

Your welcome, that night really was full of magic!

[ilseh1983]

i'm uploading my vids to youtube now and once they're all uploaded i'll put the links in here

hope you'll like them

[dcdeb]

Yes I am =)

Great to find out who you are!, I was wondering about that =)

Your welcome, that night really was full of magic!

 

It really was a special night! I'm sorry we didn't get to meet -- don't know

how I missed you! And thank you posting your videos -- nice to relive the

memories.

 

i'm uploading my vids to youtube now and once they're all uploaded i'll put the links in here

hope you'll like them

 

Can't wait to see them, Ilse!

[ilseh1983]

It really was a special night! I'm sorry we didn't get to meet -- don't know

how I missed you! And thank you posting your videos -- nice to relive the

memories.

 

 

 

Can't wait to see them, Ilse!

 

dont expect too much hun

 

like said, quality isn't great and sound's just bad and when i zoomed in or out, sound didn't record, so...

 

well hope you like them anyway

 

 

edit: oh wait, i think you're in my meet and greet vid

[Louiza]

dont expect too much hun

 

like said, quality isn't great and sound's just bad and when i zoomed in or out, sound didn't record, so...

 

well hope you like them anyway

 

dont worry i'm sure we'll love them. they'll remind us of the Edinburgh gig and thats what matters the most:wub2:

[Siu]

Thanks to everyone for the pics, vids and reviews! It's been great to relive it all, especially after being so overwhelmed at the concert. Looking back, it rather seems as a dream than reality.

 

Tons of hugs to everyone!

[dcdeb]

dont worry i'm sure we'll love them. they'll remind us of the Edinburgh gig and thats what matters the most:wub2:

 

Exactly! I actually searched for them last night and took a peek at a few They weren't so bad -- you're your own worst critic, Ilse!

 

 

 

edit: oh wait, i think you're in my meet and greet vid

 

Oh, didn't see that one... I don't know whether to be glad or scared!

[ilseh1983]

Exactly! I actually searched for them last night and took a peek at a few They weren't so bad -- you're your own worst critic, Ilse!

 

 

 

Oh, didn't see that one... I don't know whether to be glad or scared!

 

 

thanks :

 

i haven' t put that one online yet, it'll be the last one i'll upload

with a bit of luck all my vids will be online by this evening:wink2:

[ilseh1983]

well here are my vids from the Edinburgh gig, (finally )

 

hope you'll like them even with the bad and sometimes missing sound

 

1.Relax

 

2.Big Girl

 

3.Stuck in the Middle

 

4.Dr John

 

5.Blue Eyes

 

6. Billy Brown

 

7.Touches you

 

8.Rain

 

9.Blame it on the girls

 

10.Over My Shoulder

 

11.Happy Ending

 

12.Love today (part 1)

 

13. Love Today (part 2)

 

14.We are Golden

 

15.Sweet Dreams

 

16.Kick Ass

 

17.Grace Kelly

 

18.Lollipop

 

 

19. Meeting Mika

Edited October 26, 2010 by ilseh1983

[dcdeb]

Thank you, Ilse!

 

(Especially for #19! )

 

They're great, despite what you said -- and it's cool to see what you

saw from your angle, all the way on the other side of the stage.

[ilseh1983]

Thank you, Ilse!

 

(Especially for #19! )

 

They're great, despite what you said -- and it's cool to see what you

saw from your angle, all the way on the other side of the stage.

 

thanks

 

love the 19th too, just too bad i couldn't say anything

(why am i so shy )

[robertina]

thanks

 

love the 19th too, just too bad i couldn't say anything

(why am i so shy )

 

just the opposite here

thanks so much Ilse

[ilseh1983]

just the opposite here

thanks so much Ilse

 

 

you're welcome

 

edit: too bad im' a bit shy in RL, it's a whole different story here on MFC

[dcdeb]

 

you're welcome

 

edit: too bad im' a bit shy in RL, it's a whole different story here on MFC

 

I'm actually pretty shy as well, so I know what you mean.

[ilseh1983]

I'm actually pretty shy as well, so I know what you mean.

 

but you didn't seem shy at all when talking to da boss

[eloise.shaw]

I could barely say anything too him. Its quite scary talking to him