14.07.2006- Mexico (Mexico D.F.)

Report by Daniel

First I get the info that tey were coming to Mexico, I went mad I knew I had to be there because I had waited for soooooo long (since the very begining in 2002 when TATU was released in America)... OK I like them a LOOOOOT let`s just pt it that way...

Then it resulted that they were only coming to the capital city... I live in Monterrey so that`s a 12 hour bus trip (24 in total the whole thing)... so I was a little dissapointed...

Then I get the info about the showcase and I went mad, it turns out a friend of me who lives in the capital works in Telehit (one of the organizers of the concert9 so I was like YOU HAVE TO GET ME TICKETS!!!! He was like sure I will...

After that the next issua was I had no money, I live in Monterrey because I`m studying university here so the next thng that came to my mind after looots of thinking was to tell my parents that I had to go to the capital for a school trip, my dad said that sure I could go... after that I got serious guilt issues... but I came to the conclusion that this was one of my dreams and that it was truly important for me to be there, even if they only sung like 3 songs in the showcase (at this point no one had any idea), and well I had to take the chance because you never know what could hapen tomorrow you know?

There were A LOT of issues concerning my trip I almost go alone to the capital (wich by the way it`s famous for it`s insecurity, assaults and stuff) but I didnt care for any of those things I had to be there...

It turned out at the last moment my boyfriend`s mom told him he could go... so that was awesome...

So on Monday night we started our trip, we got to the capital on tuesday at like 8 am or something... after that our friend went to pick us up... we went to his house, I had heard about an autograph session but I didnt know where it would be so we checked the mixup (the store) website and it said that it would be in Polanco at 2 pm, my friend was like that store it really close, and I was like lets go nooowww, I took my dvd and cd and almost like run my way to the store like 20 minute walk from my friends house... we got there and it resulted that none of us had checked the date of the autograph session hahaha (in my hurry you know)... Anyway we went to a Starbucks near the mall and had some coffee because I was sooo tired and needed some energy, my friend told us that maybe he could do something to get us into the press conference, then we went back to his house and he called one of his friends at the channel and told him that they were already on the hotel, my friend asked her if he could go to take some pictures and she was like ok but you have to come Nowww... we got out there fast and after some buses and stuff we got to the Four Seasons Hotel... we went to the main entrance and a guy told us we had to go to other door on a side of the hotel (sorta secretish) wich was the door for the press.. we went there and we sticked to a group of reporters that were there too, then we had to register, now I thought we would not pass this one because we had no kind of identification for the channel os anythign except my friend who had his gaffet from work, he said we were with him and that we didn`t have our work gaffets yet... the guy then told us (me and my bf) if wehad any kind of identification, so we gave him our ID`s the he gave us a sticker to have access...

After lurking around the Four Season to find the hall were the press conference would take place we finally find it... fist we got to the place where the press would take pictures of the girls because atthe actual prees conference no one cold take pictures (supossedly)... we tried to get in all three of us, then a lady told us only one of us could stay to take pics, so my friend stayed and we went to the other room (to the press c.) then my bf told me you could have stayed there and took the pictures, then I like yessss so I run back to the room with the photograpers and then my friend went out and gave me his camera so I stayed... Of course at this point I could not believe what was going on, you know what I mean...

After like 5 minutes the girls came out... I was so shocked and exited and everything, the both looked BEAUTIFUL, more than I expected, Lena looks sooo gorgeous and perfect in person, Yulia is soo thin again, I was really overwhelmed so I starded taking pics, I was so nervous so some of them came out a little blurry but the point was that I WAS THERE you know?

After that and practicly walking on clouds I got to the press conference, in a short time the girls came out... Lena bumped when she was walking in, so she took her shoe off and walked up to the table... The press conference started and I was like anybody in here can ask something, I have to do it take this chance... the thing was I didnt know what to ask... you know in those moments it really hard to thiink I finally decided and took my turn, I asked that in the beggining Ivan Shapovalov had created the initial image of TATU and that now that they had left him behind what they wanted TATU to be, what were thay aporting to the concept now... but aparently the question was wrongly translated (really bad translator by the way) and theyresponded that they didnt wanted to aport anything in specific, that they simply waked up every day with new ideas that they wanted to do, and thet they didnt work with Shapovalov anymore (I was like, I knew that already), some reporters were really stupid, they asked about the lesbian thing like 5 times... something that was really funny was when one guy asked about the controversy and blah blah and about the video where Lena masturbated (BAD BAD reporters I tell you) trying to shock like everyone in the room, Yulia responded that masturbation was a really normal thing, and that if she feels like masturbating she do it, then she asked the reporter what, dont you masturbate? everyone started laughing, the Yulia said if you want to I can help you do it... That was so funny... All in all they talked about how like the idea of TATU right now is to bring realituy to the group, do the things that are going on right now in the world and use them as an idea... someone asked about the anime movie, they sais that it had stayed only has a proyect with Ivan but it had never come true... They were also asked what was they opinion about music sharing in the internet, they said that they aproved it that it was a great medium to hear thing you usually dont have access to... I though that was really cool...

When they finished a girl runned up to them to ask them for an autograph of course that after her a lot of people (including me of course ) went to them too... In the hurry I got my Screaming for more DVD, and my Dangerous and moving booklet, my bf took the poster that come inside the DVD and the poster that comes with the D&M special edition... I gave my DVD and a marker to Yulia she took both but instead of signing with the marker she signed my DVD with a pen, the Lena signed it and gave it to me... My bf managed to get both posters signed... then Y gave my booklet to Lena and she took it and signed unfortunatly someone else took it and I did know were it ended up... also in the hurry my friend tols me he had gave me the cd case were I had the D&M cd and my 200 Po vstrechny cd, I lost them too, I didnt even remember my friend gaving them to me... Anyway we were like we will go to the autograph session tomorrow...

Well after the conference we came back to my friends home and then we ate something, later we prepared to go to the showcase...

When we arrived to the Salon 21 (the venue) the was a REALLY LONG line, we could hear from the outside that they were rehearsing Friend or foe, we got on lineand we waiteed and waited... till people finally started to enter, the place slowly started to fill, we were right in the midle of the crowd, we tried to make it more in the fron but the crowd was really violent a lot of people pushing and stuff, so I decided to stay in the midle from a good point of view I had already seen them up close...

The atmosphere in the place was awesome, you could feel the excitment, then the people hosts of both Telehit and Alfa came out and anounced t.A.T.u., The first accords from the D&M started and the crowd went wild, then Yulia and Lena came out (Looking awesome by the way) and started singing All About us...

The energy was awesome, they both were really impressed, when Lena started singing Obezanka Noll Yulia directed her microphone to the audience and you could see the shock in her face when the people started singing along with Lena (Including me), the whole thing was amazing, I had thought that they would sing like 3 songs liek they have done in other countries but I was wrong they sung 9 songs:

Dangerous and Moving (Intro)
All about us
Not gonna get us
Obezyanka Nol
Perfect Enemy
Friend or foe
Chto ne hvataet
Loves me not (Russia Version)
Dangerous and Moving
All the things she said

I could not believe they sung perfect enemy in english and I went crazy when Ctho and Loves me not started...

The whole concert was excelent I read on the main page that in obezanka Yulia missed the note or somethiing, honestly when I was there I didnt even noticed... You could see how happy they both were, their energy and the public energy mixed in a perfect way...

In one part the audience started shouting YULIA YULIA! Lena started shouting along with the audience, then Yulia started shouting LENA LENA! the audience followed, then they both started shouting MEXICA MEXICA!! and then Lena shouted VIVA MEXICO! the crowd went wild...

On All the things She said the whole venue was singing along it was awesome...

After that they said goodbye and told that they would come back next year to a concert and that we were an awesome audience with a lot of energy...

During the concert my friend from Telehit was taking pics, during Chto ne hvataet he told me he had got us VIP bracelets, but I decided to stay down because the whole thing with the audience was excelent. the VIP gave you access to the part on top of the venue and like you could have all the drinks you wanted or something like that, when the concert finished we went up to the VIP area, a few celebrities (here in Mexico) were there, nothing really important...

We went homee really tired to get some sleep, I hadnt sleep in like 36 hours or something like that, next day we woke up at 7 am, the thing with the autograph session was like this: at 10 am the store would open, the first 400 people would get a bracelet that would garantee them that they would get their autograph, the autograph session would start at 2 pm...

So we woke up at 7 and changed, I was really tired so while my bf went to the Starbucks to get us some coffee I went ahead to the mall along with my friend, to my suprise the line was huge already like 2 floors up from the store all the way to the parking lot, people had arrived at 5 am or sleeped there you know, we decided to stay because maybe we could make it to the 400 first ones, unfortunately a lot of people sneaked into the line, a guy from the store csame outside and told us that the commitment with the group was only 400 autographs, that if we didnt make it into the 400 it was our responsability to stay in case they accepted to sign more copies, we stayed and sadly didnt make it to the 400, we were in the next 20 after the 400 so we decided to stay... The organization was pretty bad the people of security of the mall were everywere, the guy that organized the thing was going mad of stress, after us another like 600 people were in line and Im not including the people that wasnt on line that was in front of the store just to see...

After a reaaaally long time we started moving, after we were right beside the store Yulia and Lena came out and greeted the people outside the store, I got really scared right there because I thought they were leaign already, the whole place was a chaos everyone screaming people trying to sneak in the line but we finally did it and we entered the store I was really exited, the people from there told us that we could have the booklet signed anythign else and that no more pictures were allowed, the whole band alogn with the girls were signing the cd`s, when I was in front of Yulia all I could say was Yulia you are beautiful, she smiled and said thank you, then I said I`m learning russian cause of you (OK when you`re there you cant think in a lot of thinks), she smiled and said said really? thank you, Lena said thank you too, when I wasnt even with her yet, then I told her Lena you are beutiful too! she also smiled and said Thank you then she gave me her hand!, I could not believe it!!! (Whoever who told that Lena was boring can shove it!!! she is the nicest girl, they both are so nice and kind) I got out of there the happiest guy in the world...

While we were walking outside the store I could hear their people running and saying we have to wrap this up... then we walked out we tried to see if we could catch them going to their Van but we could not make it...

While we got back home I could not believe everything that had happen, I was one of the few lucky fans in Mexico that got that close with them and Im still so happy, now I love TATU even more than before!!! TATU rulessss!!!!

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