Meet & Greet in Hamburg
Ok dears, here is the promised M&G report from my point of view. If anybody of the other participents has sthg to add or to correct, please feel free to do so.
To discribe it in one word : fantastic.
the end. (being perttuish here)
No, don't worry. There was lots more to it. With witch mummy (Perttu made this my official title on the autograph I got!) one apprentice witch and the druid of Apoland attending.
Of course we were wearing our Apoland T-Shirts, which made us stand out already, and had the surprise bag for the guys ready at hand. A big thanks to Bengel at this point again for making the shirts.
When we entered the M&G room, Mikko was already there. Eicca followed shortly after, greeting everybody personally with a handshake, followed by Paavo. Last but not least - Perttu in a very babbeling mood. Which our little group really did profit from, because he remained with the Apolanders for the entire time of the M&G - so did Mikko by the way. So we didn't get much of Eicca and Paavo, but a perttuish overdose instead.
Since we knew that the M&G would be fairly short, we came straight to the point, passing out Apo's Shirts, along with the playboy-wine-gums (those are wine gums in naked playboy forms). The shirts for the guys have Apoland written on the front and their Apo offices written on the back. They all seemed to like them very much. Especially Antero's as Chairman of Covert Operations which caused much laughter - even from Eicca who did seem to be a bit subdued.
Perttu being the way he is - had one look at his shirt - grinned at me and asked:
"Minister of the Arts? Shouldn't that be Minister of the Farts instead?"
Next came the City CoA. We had intended to get them all signed individually, but the guys - especially Mikko - liked them so well, we let them keep them and Perttu decided to have the Capital CoA signed by all of them.(and along the way adorning my arm with a heart)
Next came the individual autographs. Bengel asked for Ozzy's one. I asked for the Forum in general, Jane's & MJ's - it's a special one for MJ because I told them that you were originally to attend. At this point hugs from all the guys to you - because they thought it a shame for you not to be there. The one from Perttu was delivered in person via myself. Believe me it was a long and cuddley one hahahaha.
Oh I almost forgot about the "tutt on Perttu's nose" from Jane also being deliverd. Perttu was actually very cute about it. Because when I told him what I was supposed to do, he immediatly stuck out his nose towards me. "Tutt away"
What next, oh the Apoland map. Mikko had never really seen it, so he was more than fascinated about it. Funny little interlude with him and Pee while studdying the map:
Mikko:"Oh I'm down there. So I'm Cape Horn?"
Perttu: "You're more like Cape Horny!"
In between it all Cyan actually managed to give Perttu some lyrics of his. From the look of their conversation - who knows a Perttu-Cyan cooperation? Actually Cyan was a bit secretive about it, except that he and Perttu will stay in touch...hmmmmm!!!!
Photoshooting was next - you have all seen the results. Personally I like the ones with Cyan and Perttu best. They really hit it off. Especially with all the girls doubting that he would sit on Perttu's lap. As if those two would have a problem with that hahahaha.
All too soon it was over and we had to depart. Not without a quick hug from Perttu - he reallyis soooooooooo cuddely. And a last thank you for the presents from Mikko.
On the contrary - Thank YOU guys.
November 2007
Andrea Lambert
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Meet & Greet in München
It was a nice Saturday afternoon at round 5pm when Tini and I arrived at the concert hall to wait for the M&G-group which was supposed to meet up one hour later.
But time was passing quickly, Sturm und Drang was smoking pipes, Eicca shortly appeared to bring his luggage to the bus and Tini and I were guessing if we're really at the right entrance, because she had the important responsibility to control if everybody was there and also owned a ticket.
Well after half an hour we placed ourselves in a more representative pose at the side-entrance and punctually 5 minutes after 6pm we were complete (15 people) and ready to face the Apocalypse. But not without making a group-photo for which we had plenty of time, because due to some problems we had to wait outdoors until 6:50, but in our nice company the time was passing very quickly.
Finally Uli came to control our tickets and let us into a separated part of the hall and somehow it happened that I was the first one entering and I simply walked to the guys who were already waiting and asked them how they were feeling (Perttu's answer: WHOOOUU) and how the tour had been so far.
Then I realized that I was the only one in the hall with three Finns…actually a nice thing but...just only three?
While Eicca was explaining to me Paavo's missing, the other peeps who were stuck at the entrance dared to come closer.
And after the shy beginning everybody quickly got warm and it became a nice and chatty
atmosphere.
The reason for Paavo's missing was that he was out with friends and got stuck in the traffic and every of the guys ensured us that his *ss will be kicked for that.
I let signed my WC-album and the awesome B-day present Tini made for me: a ceramic-plate with a wonderful artwork of the guys by kivii *huuuge hugs again to you both, I love it!! :D*, shook hands and made photos with them. It was really cute how Eicca was extra tightly hugging a very shy girl. He and also the other guys are simply so awesome with their fans!
I asked the one and other little question, among other things I was curious how they managed to make Antsa play the co^ol cello and Eicca told me that he was into that from the beginning on and that this was his special sense of humour. At the end we made a huge group-photo where I ended up kneeling next to Perttu who started to make very funny noises and I simply couldn't hold and shouted "A MONKEY!!"
All in all we had round 20-25minutes but the sad thing is that they opened the doors before we were finished and so everybody was running to get a halfway good place because there were already many peeps in the hall. I shook a last time hands with Perttu and threw myself into the fight about the places. And we pretty succeeded: 3rd row.
November 2007
Tamara Löwenstern
apocalyptica.com