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Humbert · 21 Apr 2011, 18:14

8 years after their first visit in Bulgaria ( 2003 in Pamporovo ,open air festival) and 4 years after their appearance in a private party for the birthday of a local firm they came again!
2 months waiting after the Moonbase news and finally it’s 20.04. In the morning I open the eventim site to check the news and ..surprice! The venue was changed! In the same building but on 7th floor instead of the 1st. You know the original hall was with fixed chairs but the new was clear of chairs and my first though was there gonna be problems.
The announce said the show starts 19.30 and I checked my last train to Plovdiv is leaving the Sofia station at 22.40 and after a short thought I decide to drive. It’s 138 km from my home to the Venue with 90% of them first class highway. I went at 12.00 and at 14.30 was in the front of the hall.( in fact I lose about 40 minutes to find a parking place which is a real disaster in the center of Sofia) I saw that a lot of workers placed the chairs on the floor and ask one of them what is going on.He explained that they’ll try to keep the numbers of the chairs as they are in the original hall….It’s simply impossible as the first hall is more than double the size of this one. About 18.30 people began to arrive. I spoke with many of them and all seemed very enthusiastic.A very few of them were heard the new album and were very excited to have a look at my CD. At 19.15 I finally sat on the first row with my new friends Andrej and Mirela who came from Romania for the show. But soon the problem began.. A lot of people with a first row tickets were without a place and they started to complain to organizers that want a place on the first row.At that moment the first chairs were on about 3 meters from the stage. Organizers started to bring a lot of new chairs and place them in front of us. Now we from the second (now) row started to complain. And there was another load of chairs which were placed as a first row…Somehow we’d manage to sit on them  And after a big delay the show started at 21.10 .After the first two great songs “End of the World” and “Call Me” Marian felt that the audience is a little upset of the situation and found a genial solution.At the first notes of the DWM he jumped from the stage to us and my God he did literally “dance with me” – we were shoulder to shoulder…Of course everybody jumped from the chairs too and nobody sat back again!!! I didn’t have vision what happened at the center of the hall but the hall itself had a side upper stands and at “Jet Set” I saw all the people there jumping and dancing . At one moment Marian noticed my sign “Silence is golden Music is Gold” and he gave me a smile and waved a hand at me. The guys looked a little surprised from the enthusiasm of the crowd but gave us their best. Maja looked very addicted to the AV music especially at the SLAM performance. Forever young was sung from entire hall and was fantastic. I had a look at Martin’s set list and sadly there was not DWM ballad version. There was not after party too and only Marian gave us some autographs after the show.It was 23.15 and only a few fans were there but we were the happiest fans in the world!

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http://www.alphaville.org/gallery/browseimages.php?c=76

21 Apr 2011, 18:14	#16
Humbert Exclusive Fanclub Member Join Date: 05 Nov 2004 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 116	Concert in Sofia (Bulgaria), Apr 2011 8 years after their first visit in Bulgaria ( 2003 in Pamporovo ,open air festival) and 4 years after their appearance in a private party for the birthday of a local firm they came again! 2 months waiting after the Moonbase news and finally it’s 20.04. In the morning I open the eventim site to check the news and ..surprice! The venue was changed! In the same building but on 7th floor instead of the 1st. You know the original hall was with fixed chairs but the new was clear of chairs and my first though was there gonna be problems. The announce said the show starts 19.30 and I checked my last train to Plovdiv is leaving the Sofia station at 22.40 and after a short thought I decide to drive. It’s 138 km from my home to the Venue with 90% of them first class highway. I went at 12.00 and at 14.30 was in the front of the hall.( in fact I lose about 40 minutes to find a parking place which is a real disaster in the center of Sofia) I saw that a lot of workers placed the chairs on the floor and ask one of them what is going on.He explained that they’ll try to keep the numbers of the chairs as they are in the original hall….It’s simply impossible as the first hall is more than double the size of this one. About 18.30 people began to arrive. I spoke with many of them and all seemed very enthusiastic.A very few of them were heard the new album and were very excited to have a look at my CD. At 19.15 I finally sat on the first row with my new friends Andrej and Mirela who came from Romania for the show. But soon the problem began.. A lot of people with a first row tickets were without a place and they started to complain to organizers that want a place on the first row.At that moment the first chairs were on about 3 meters from the stage. Organizers started to bring a lot of new chairs and place them in front of us. Now we from the second (now) row started to complain. And there was another load of chairs which were placed as a first row…Somehow we’d manage to sit on them  And after a big delay the show started at 21.10 .After the first two great songs “End of the World” and “Call Me” Marian felt that the audience is a little upset of the situation and found a genial solution.At the first notes of the DWM he jumped from the stage to us and my God he did literally “dance with me” – we were shoulder to shoulder…Of course everybody jumped from the chairs too and nobody sat back again!!! I didn’t have vision what happened at the center of the hall but the hall itself had a side upper stands and at “Jet Set” I saw all the people there jumping and dancing . At one moment Marian noticed my sign “Silence is golden Music is Gold” and he gave me a smile and waved a hand at me. The guys looked a little surprised from the enthusiasm of the crowd but gave us their best. Maja looked very addicted to the AV music especially at the SLAM performance. Forever young was sung from entire hall and was fantastic. I had a look at Martin’s set list and sadly there was not DWM ballad version. There was not after party too and only Marian gave us some autographs after the show.It was 23.15 and only a few fans were there but we were the happiest fans in the world! Pictures: http://www.alphaville.org/gallery/browseimages.php?c=76 Silence is golden,music is Gold Last edited by wii; 22 Apr 2011 at 10:44.