11.10.2006 Ukraine (Kiev)

Report

t.A.T.u. performed at Freedom Casino. The tracklist is included below.
Intro
Lyudi Invalidy
All About Us
Loves Me Not
Friend or Foe
Gomenasai
How Soon Is Now
Chto Ne Hvataet
Show Me Love
Polchasa
Ne Ver Ne Boisya Ne Prosi
Ya Soshla S Uma
Nas Ne Dogonyat

Before the concert Troy updated his official site with the note:
Well we'll be leaving for the train station shorty to catch the #5 train to Kiev, Ukraine. Another 12 hrs on the train. It seems everythign we do when it comes to traveling for us guys is 12 hrs. hehehe
I'm looking forward to seeing a new place. We'll be playing 3 shows in the Ukraine, I can't wait to meet some of the fans.

A report from Odette
Yesterday morning at 08.30 Yulia & Lena arrived at the trainstation. I was in contact with a guy from the Ukrainian forum and he picked me up at my hotel. There were around 12 people at the trainstation. They arrived on time. They looked very tired coming out the train, but were kind enough to give some autographs. I filmed about 2 minutes, cause the bodyguard was in my way all the time. Yullia's dad is here too. He's really nice. We walked with them to the car (they walked hand in hand all the time) and they left. We went to get something to eat en walked around the city. The weather was great yesterday.
At 15.00 the gave a press conference in their hotel. We couldn't go in, cause you needed a presscard, but we waited outside. They promised to give us some time for pictures etc. Well the press conference took about 30 minutes. First the band came out. We chatted and took some pictures. After that the girls came out. They were really nice and all smiles. We took some pictures with them too and they gave autographes again (everything's on video). They went to the car after about 5 minutes and left for the soundcheck.
Well around 21.00 the concert started. It was in a really small place. Like 500 people. Everyone had their own table, but when Tatu started, we just stood in front of the stage. The show lasted about 50 minutes and it was really good!!! They had so much energy. There were a lot of sweet, flirty YuLen moments. At Gomenasai they slowdanced and gave eachother sweet looks and at ATTSS they spinned eachother around (like in the old days) and Yulia almost threw Lena of the stage. LOL. They were laughing about it, gave eachother a hug and a kiss (it's on video, don't worry). Yulia was dancing really wild all the time (she lost her earplugs twice by jumping up and down). Crazy girl! She threw her top of at Show Me Love. I know there's a lot more to tell, but I can't remember everything right now. They sang 12 songs. They laughed so much at the concert. Lena once forgot to sing while laughing about something Yulia said.
After the concert Troy came to us and he took us to the bar of the concerthall. The other bandmembers joined us and we were drinking beer (shouldn't have done that, my head..ouch). Pictures were taking. I talked a lot with Troy (about an hour). He said they plan to record the new album in January in San Fransisco. The also plan a clubtour through Europe (Troy mentioned France, Italy, Belgium and Holland). But he also said it takes some time to plan everything. He couldn't say when this will happen. He said they will play Ty Soglasna and a new version of Perfect Enemy at tonight's concert (this concert will be about 90 minutes). Can't wait to hear it. He asked me to meet him today and he tries to get me in at the soundcheck. The guys rock! Especially Troy. He gave me a big hug when I left and told me he loves me. OMG. LOL.
Well as I said the whole concert is on video. I was really close to the stage, so there are all good closeups. I'll try and post everything this weekend. I'm leaving Kiev tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed reading my story. I'll try and get some more sleep and at 3 o'clock I'll go down to the concerthall. The report of tonight's concert will follow asap.

Report of Natasha Sokolova for KP (Ukraina)
Group 'Tatu' almost fought with the frontier guards
The provocating group 'Tatu' is in Kiev again. This time they arrived with four new musicians and Yulya Volkova's father, who wanted to see Kiev on the daughter's bill.
At the arrival the tatugirls planned to have a walk to the city and show Yulya's father the local sights, but in fact they were worn out the whole day and so they didn't go anywhere. For all of this the Ukrainian frontier guards are to blame.
"We just woke up", the girls complained (three o'clock in the morning - comment of author). "We didn't sleep the whole night in the train, because we cursed and quarrelled with your frontier guards."
It turned out, that during the night the customs officers entered the compartment of the tatugirls with the frontier guards for inspection. They were checking thoroughly the luggage of the stars and musicians.
"We slept and we didn't understand immediately what they demanded", told Yulya and Lena. So they were annoyed even more about that. When they said to them "Don't you really know the girls, they are the group 'Tatu'!", they answered "We don't know. Who are you exactly? 'Tatu'?" So it began and went on...But more than those girls the father of Yulya, Oleg, was annoyed.
"How is it possible, that they don't know 'Tatu'?" he was aggrieved. It's good, that Yulya restrained herself to the best of her ability and did not begin to be rude. - she is very hot-tempered. I'm afraid there could have been a real fight."
After the press-conference the depressed tatugirls went to the hotel - to sleep.

Troy updated his blog with two entries about the show (October, 13 2006 and October 16, 2006), you can see it right here.

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