Tarja live in Greece! Part 2

*Missing Angel* έγραψε:Και μαλλον (τι μαλλον δηλ..) ειναι και fan!

Ne i sinavlia itan poli kali, i Tarja itan poli kali, elpizoume na tin xanafiloxenisoume...
Efcharistoume gia tin ipostirixi!
Pavlos

TOUR DIARY PART 5
Category: Music
Istanbul's show was brilliant, all the fans were really friendly and we had a great time. Unfortunately, most of the cool looking dudes Andie spotted in the audience were too shy to come to the merchandise stand afterward, not so the girls - photos will be put up soon.
The ride out of Turkey and into Greece wasn't too eventful, only the Carnet office doesn't open until 9am and after having gotten to the border at around 7.30am (having left the venue at 4am) Andie was a bit tired...She then had to wait half an hour until 9.30am until the guys working in that office had finished their tea - they did at least also give her a cup.
Also, the border police wanted to wake everyone to check passports to faces but we managed to convince them not to do that. Poor Tarja's band and crew all had to get out of the bus - at the Turkish exit and again at the Greek entry - the Greek border guy had a bit of an issue with Gunnar (one of Tarja's bus drivers) not stopping at an invisible line but stopping about 1 meter ahead....
But we were in Greece, oh yes!!!! We stopped at a brilliant little Taverna and had great food, Uwe "Scottie" Dittmann (our number 1 bus man) had the biggest Calamari we ever saw!
It took us some time to reach Athens after the delay at the border and we were really in need of a shower, the 'lost boys' Svenom and Sebastian having rejoined us the night before (you'll hear about their adventures on their blog), thanks to Scottie, Lieven and Gary who paid for a cab to take them to a petrol station outside town. Andie took everyone to a nearby hotel for a day room - the concierge being suspicious of a mixed group wanting to all shower in one room made each of us go up one by one....
The Athens venue was cool - nice stage, really nice promoter who managed to handle everything without losing his cool - the dressing rooms an stairs leading up to them were something else!!!! The staircases were very steep and narrow, you could only go up in single file. Saw that Cannibal Corpse are playing there soon, so I guess it's all part of rock 'n roll.
Now to the Athens fans: They were definitely the best and most enthusiastic so far and there were so many girls queuing up to kiss and hug Olivier he was a very happy camper (photo evidence should be on our furnaze.wordpress.com tour diary soon and also on myspace)
Like in Bologna, everyone screamed as soon as we came on stage and everyone cheered throughout the show - we had a GREAT TIME hanging out with all you guys.
One more thing needs to be mentioned: TARJA's absolute professionalism - in Istanbul, not only was the stage small but there was a very noisy disco going on next door - when she started a very quiet song that starts with guitar you could hear the thumping sounds more than anything else - some other performers would have refused to continue until that stopped, so hats off to Tarja to carry on as if nothing happened!