george1234
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Hello!! I am so happy!
and that's because I had the change to attend at one Vanessa Mae concert (for those who don't know her - which is kinda impossible- see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Mae) and its was Beyond AWESOME!!!! 
. It was held at the Herod Atticus Odeon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeon_of_Herodes_Atticus which is a Roman-times theater which the Emperor Herod Atticus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodes_Atticus) build as present to his wife Rigillis, which as far as I have heard used to have a roof but was burned at some point so only the rest remained, and since it was restored at some point its used for various shows during the year, mainly theater and musical events. Its great but has 2 weak points: most of the sits don't have back so you cant relax and you would have back pain from some point, the second is that the show held there are always expensive, and in the case of Vanessa it was even more. so the ticket were VIP zone 180E, A zone 120E, B zone 90E, G(Γ) zone 70E, and Upper zone 50E, and Disabled zone 30E.
So i gone at the 50E one along with my 3 years older brother. In which as far as you have booked ticket you can see at whatever place you want within the zone providing its not fill with people already so we sat at the left side as closer the center as possible.
The theater got full which was quite surprising for us since we didn't knew so many people here knew of her. People's ages were from 17 to 70 years old and there were a few younger than 14 around too but no babies. Most didn't seemed to be big fans since they were complaining to each other with whispers every time she was opting her violins and didn't clap much (something at Greek people usually do) but only between the songs.
The show was scheduled to start at 21:00 but ended up staring around 21:30 for some reason.
The view wasn't very good at our position but we could see the basic things. Vanessa had a 15 members band, 10 strings of all kinda (violins, viola, cello, contra basso etc) borrowed from the National Philarmonic Orchestra and 5 others, one was playing around 6 types of percussion, among them drums, 1 that was playing e.bass, guitar and e.guitar, 1 that was playing various wind instruments (from whistle to clarinet and flute) and 1 at keyboard. Anyway there were so many different instruments in such a short stage (around 40mx15m) that I couldn't believe it.
the scheme was like that
{-------------------strings----------------------}
{percussions, wind, Vanessa, guitar, keyboard}
{-------------------Vanessa----------------------}
Herself had 2 violins, one classical and 1 electric and was wearing a silver long dress with shinny diamond looking things (most possibly fake) and same type of high-hills.
They played around 20 songs but most of them seemed quite long. I didn't knew the songs and their titles apart from the first which was rearrangement of Vivaldi's 4seasons (winter). But most should had been from this one http://www.amazon.co.jp/Choreography-Ro ... 942&sr=8-3 (her official site is still in making btw
) since the description of the album fits the what I found at the internet and the advertising leaflet which had the album's cover image on it, there seems to have been played songs by Bach, Beethoven, Brams, Vivaldy tango indy music, and Vangelis. http://www.newpost.gr/post/52317/Η-Vanessa-Mae-το-Σεπτέμβριο-στην-Αθήνα-/ and http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/3/42820.She started with 4 season, then passed to a soft balladish one, and to a latin and a jazzy, then arabic and then she passed at some more popish ones. Then I dont remember XD. She was changing from classical to electric violin every 3-4 songs so she needed around 1 min to opt each every time XD
At some point at a song called Hocus Pocus before the interval the title of which we learned at the end, the e.violin's string broke so she had to get another one
so she promised as that she would play 1 more song at the second half and she actually replayed the song at the end.At some point she said that she had come for the first time in Greece 17 years ago and that she comes every 2 years, and that she has come for vacation as well.
I was beyond AWESOME and Im definitely going to buy her CDs if they are available in Greece and download them if are not.
I have got some photos and a short recording of 1 min (since lots of people were also doing it even thought was not permitted).
I will post them asap.Forgot to say that she seemed a really nice person and she was so modest! compared to her popularity worldwide!
Too bad she didn't played any of her Sailor Moon songs
[EDIT]
Here the photos :D
sorry for the bad quality
&vid (reuploaded straight) ?3cjr9ec9ywrdrez
Also I've found a look-like fansite for her here http://www.vanessa-mae.nu/
[EDIT2] So I watched all her Youtube videos and I think that I found most of the songs though I still miss some :(. For some i'm not sure if they were in. the line is random the only sure which I remembered were the ones played are the first 2 and Hocus Pocus.
I would like to buy them eventually...unless their overpriced like the English track ost 
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