The Frankfurt and Mark Owen Concert Post

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I've finally had some time to write up my fab trip to Frankfurt and my Mark Owen concert experience.

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[moth2fic]

That sounds really great! Thank you so much for putting together such a comprehensive illustrated report for us! I'm so glad it all went well and that you had such a lovely time.

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Creating this post was entirely enlightened self interest on my part. It let me revisit a fantastic night, and put together a permanent record of it. *g*

[sunshine_2525]

What a brilliant report, well worth waiting for :-) And what a brilliant weekend you had!

Your pictures are so good, beautiful :) Of course Mark is looking at you in that pic!

You were very lucky that he wore a nice white jacket instead of that other one *g*.

How rude of the people coming late jumping the queue like that! It sounds like a really scary moment too, with the chaos that followed :( Luckily it turned out great for you anyway. It had been awful if you had ended up not seeing anything considering the fact that you had been queueing all day.

I loved that about the glow sticks and star-shaped confetti! What a fab idea!

It's really good to hear that you had such a great time, especially when travelling all the way from Canada :)

Oh, and that ticket is so much cooler than the one I got for the Sheffield gig. Mine is just a plain ticket, without the artwork or picture of Mark. Lucky you who also got the mug!

Thanks for a lovely lovely report. It put a big smile on my face on this otherwise dull Monday afternoon :)

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It was a completely brilliant weekend, and the post was fun to put together.

Most of my pics were dodgy, but these ones turned out nicely.

I have to admit to wishing bad karma upon the queue jumpers. Especially since they were utterly unrepentant when it was pointed out to them that the rest of us had been waiting all day. But in the end it all worked out. (It was a small enough venue that there were multiple places we could have watched from. But we definitely scored an awesome spot.)

The glow sticks were brilliant. (The Sweetie was impressed by the organization of those fans, and so was I.)

I'm glad I lucked out with the ticket. And the mug! We all got one, but only by buying them before the gig started. They were sold out afterward. (Here's hoping he sells it online.)

Glad I could put a smile on your face. Thinking about the gig certainly made me happy again. *g*

[sunshine_2525]

I'm also hoping they will be selling the mugs online later on. In Sheffield, when I got inside the venue I also first went to the merchandise stall, but there was already a bit of a queue there and as I wanted to get a good spot for the gig I didn't want to wait in that queue. I thought that it would be no problem shopping after the gig instead. The annoying thing is that the mugs sold out just a short time before it was my turn :( Oh well, at least I got a good spot for the show, which was more important than getting a mug :D

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We had a double-pronged attack for the mugs. Since soundofthesurf didn't want to be close, she was going to buy an extra mug for me. But after we'd staked out our spot, I hit the loo and realized there was no lineup at the merch table, so I picked up a mug too. (I figured that there would be someone who wanted it if we ended up with an extra.) In the end, they sold out before rangerke could get one, so she took the extra. It only worked because there was more than just me, though.

And yes, a good spot for the show is the most important thing!

[moonlightmead]

Hiya. Thanks for this - I really enjoyed reading it, which is all the more remarkable because I don't actually know anything about Mark or his music. (Try not to look too appalled :)) But it was brilliant and somehow it now seems completely reasonable that you should spend a day in a queue after crossing the Atlantic.

I've heard that queuing arrangements for big events can be half the fun. Or, well, not half the fun, but at least some fun :) Delighted to hear that was true for you. Well, until the queue-jumpers arrived. Grr. I've ended up in great conversations in queues for events, so I can only imagine what it's like when you multiply it by however many people are in the queue around you.

Fab photos, too.

Really enjoyed, thanks.

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I don't actually know anything about Mark or his music.

Oh, you don't know how hard I'm restraining myself from doing a potted history of Mark and his music for you. (That's how halotolerant reeled me in. *g*)

But I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the report. And yeah, approached with the right attitude the queue can be a fun part of the adventure.

[asilia]

I'm so jealous - we didn't get nice tickets like that in London :(

But I do have that mug as well :D I always end up buying mugs at concerts, I have like 10 TT ones at home from their tours, lol.

I find it funny that I always know quite a few of the people who are queuing at Mark/TT concerts - I recognise a lot of them on that pic you posted ;) In London, people were actually camping outside the night before - crazy!!! I don't really see the point in such small venues, tbh.

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Ah, but you got Howard in London. Surely that's worth the loss of fancy tickets. ;-)

This is my first concert mug, and it's a beauty. (I usually go the t-shirt route, but I find I'm not wearing them as much these days, and they're also not making them in sizes/styles that fit me right. I'm too wee, in the wrong ways.)

I imagine it's like any community, where you get to know the players. (I'm like that with Toronto film events, where I've got to know a number of people who turn up at the same events I do.) The Frankfurt venue forbade camping overnight, or I'm sure some of them would have done it.

I wouldn't normally have waited so long for a venue like that--it was a tiny place, and there were multiple places I would have been fine with seeing the concert from--but since it was quite possibly my one and only shot at seeing Mark solo, I figured I'd go for the whole fannish experience.

[asilia]

I think I only ever got nice tickets for The Circus tour - those were very pretty (but then again I loved the whole theme and the colours so they could hardly go wrong

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I'll bet the Circus tickets were beautiful. That whole album/tour was just beautifully designed.

I tend to wear my favourite concert shirts frequently, though not to work. ;-) (I've got a whole bunch of funky outfits from local designers for work. *g*) I just try to embrace their ephemeral nature and not worry when they eventually die. :-/

I reckon if I ever make it to a TT tour--which I'm determined to--I'm just going to go for reserved seats. I don't want to do that sort of crazy queue, especially if I've got Ros with me.

[angel_ci5]

Excellent and impressive report! And what a fantastic view you had!
Lovely pics (I much prefer that white jacket to the one he wore in London).

And didn't he sound great? I loved hearing the old and new songs, thought they sounded fantastic. :)

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I couldn't have asked for a better view. And was quite happy we got the white jacket. ;-)

And yes, he and his band sounded fantastic. I went in with high expectations and prepared to be a bit disappointed, but Mark lived up to my hopes and then some. And he nailed both the old and new songs. The One was one of the highlights for me, and that wasn't even a song that had jumped out off the new album for me, but it was killer live. And Shine was just genius, of course. :D