Quite a few new tour dates have just been announced -
http://www.ewafarna.pl/koncerty
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Friday, 14 March 2014
ON EFUK THE FACEBOOK PAGE
Being of a certain age, i must confess that it took me some time to even understand the whole Facebook 'thing' let alone try to use it or figure out how it worked.
Eventually i did and i enjoy it. I've made some good friends from all over the world and caught up with people who, in some cases i haven't seen nor spoken to in years.
It took me quite a while to open a FB page for EFUK for a variety of reasons. Time and the chance that no one at all would use it where major factors.
Truth be told the EFUK page is doing ok. In fact it's doing a lot better that the Blog is which is a most pleasant surprise. I never in a million years expected to have 10 members let alone the over 200 that are there now. One disappointment is how few of those members are actually from the UK and i do find it slightly frustrating that there aren't more comments than there are but all in all it's been a positive experience.
One of the things i've noticed about FB and FB page owners in particular is how obsessed they are with the number of 'likes' their pages get. Not a day go by without several 'Hey we've 1000 likes' posts etc'.
Personally i would rather have 1 genuine like that 10k who come to the page once and never return. I don't stress over the numbers and barely take a bit of notice of them.
One thing i can't quite figure out, however, is the 'Unlikes'. It happens from time to time and i always spend a little time wondering why? What have me and Paulina done differently today than we did yesterday? Is there something in particular the person isn't happy about? A particular post or something other than that?
What i would love to happen is that if a member has decided to leave that they email/message us and tell us why? If nothing else we would class it as constructive criticism? We are always open to suggestions as to how to improve both the Blog and the FB page. Your ideas would be very welcome and we don't bite (not unless you ask us too!!).
Eventually i did and i enjoy it. I've made some good friends from all over the world and caught up with people who, in some cases i haven't seen nor spoken to in years.
It took me quite a while to open a FB page for EFUK for a variety of reasons. Time and the chance that no one at all would use it where major factors.
Truth be told the EFUK page is doing ok. In fact it's doing a lot better that the Blog is which is a most pleasant surprise. I never in a million years expected to have 10 members let alone the over 200 that are there now. One disappointment is how few of those members are actually from the UK and i do find it slightly frustrating that there aren't more comments than there are but all in all it's been a positive experience.
One of the things i've noticed about FB and FB page owners in particular is how obsessed they are with the number of 'likes' their pages get. Not a day go by without several 'Hey we've 1000 likes' posts etc'.
Personally i would rather have 1 genuine like that 10k who come to the page once and never return. I don't stress over the numbers and barely take a bit of notice of them.
One thing i can't quite figure out, however, is the 'Unlikes'. It happens from time to time and i always spend a little time wondering why? What have me and Paulina done differently today than we did yesterday? Is there something in particular the person isn't happy about? A particular post or something other than that?
What i would love to happen is that if a member has decided to leave that they email/message us and tell us why? If nothing else we would class it as constructive criticism? We are always open to suggestions as to how to improve both the Blog and the FB page. Your ideas would be very welcome and we don't bite (not unless you ask us too!!).
Thursday, 6 March 2014
EWA IN DUBLIN (3)
Quick update -
I've been contacted by a few people concerned that after the cancellation of the UK dates that the same fate has happened to the Dublin show?
I can confirm that it is still going ahead as planned this coming Sunday (09/03).
Nothing has changed.
Some good and welcome news!
I've been contacted by a few people concerned that after the cancellation of the UK dates that the same fate has happened to the Dublin show?
I can confirm that it is still going ahead as planned this coming Sunday (09/03).
Nothing has changed.
Some good and welcome news!
Friday, 7 February 2014
EWA IN THE UK (6)
So there it is. It's all ended it tears.
No UK dates. All cancelled.
It's a huge disappointment but you'll be glad to know that i'm not going to spend the next few minutes 'having a go' at the organisers.
There are clearly things that have went on behind the scenes that we know nothing about and probably never will. I don't know the organisers and have had no contact from them but at the end of the day they tried and i'm 100% sure that their intentions to bring Ewa to us were good. Ultimately it failed but hopefully lessons can be learned for the next time. And hopefully there will be a next time.
Personally and for EFUK however, i'm both embarrassed and angry.
Embarrassed because i wasn't able to fully cover the proposed tour in as much detail as i would have liked to have done.
EFUK has been here (in all it's different forms) for almost 5 years now. In all that time we have tried our very best to promote Ewa in the UK and in other English speaking countries. Whilst i realise that we are totally unofficial are are just a fansite and Facebook page we work as hard as we can, not for any recognition but for Ewa. Nothing else matters.
For a UK tour to be announced and for us to know very little about it was embarrassing and disappointing. Like us or hate us we are the only fansite out there for Ewa in English. Let us do the job. Help us to do it.
Had we been involved or included in any way surely we could have helped and would have been more than willing to do so. It strikes me that anyone knowing that Ewa was in the UK would try and find an EFUK to find out more about it. I humbly apologise that we were unable to do so.
The fact that none of the venues responded to my messages and that i also got no response from either of Ewa's official sites is also something i just can't understand? Over the years we have never had any assistance whatsoever from anyone in Ewa's 'Officialdom' and that makes me angry. It makes me seriously question the entire purpose of actually doing this at all. I would have naturally presumed that if UK dates were being arranged that it would only be logical that would at least try to keep us informed of what was going on? Not for the first time that didn't happen.
As i've stated many times in the past i don't speak or understand Czech or Polish and so doing this site is extremely difficult for me. Paulina has been very busy with various other projects and helps as much as she can but the daily task of having to wade through news sites, blogs and facebook pages written in 2 languages that i don't understand is sometimes very tiring. We have asked time and time again for new contributors to come on board and it hasn't happened. I would have thought that after all these years someone, somewhere would have been interested in the job?
So where do we go from here?
I just don't know at the moment. Is there actually any purpose in keeping this whole thing going at all. I don't know the answer to that right now.
The UK tour experience has left me very very bitter and totally lacking in enthusiasm right now. I so wanted to help but wasn't able to do so. That's just not right. In any way.
No UK dates. All cancelled.
It's a huge disappointment but you'll be glad to know that i'm not going to spend the next few minutes 'having a go' at the organisers.
There are clearly things that have went on behind the scenes that we know nothing about and probably never will. I don't know the organisers and have had no contact from them but at the end of the day they tried and i'm 100% sure that their intentions to bring Ewa to us were good. Ultimately it failed but hopefully lessons can be learned for the next time. And hopefully there will be a next time.
Personally and for EFUK however, i'm both embarrassed and angry.
Embarrassed because i wasn't able to fully cover the proposed tour in as much detail as i would have liked to have done.
EFUK has been here (in all it's different forms) for almost 5 years now. In all that time we have tried our very best to promote Ewa in the UK and in other English speaking countries. Whilst i realise that we are totally unofficial are are just a fansite and Facebook page we work as hard as we can, not for any recognition but for Ewa. Nothing else matters.
For a UK tour to be announced and for us to know very little about it was embarrassing and disappointing. Like us or hate us we are the only fansite out there for Ewa in English. Let us do the job. Help us to do it.
Had we been involved or included in any way surely we could have helped and would have been more than willing to do so. It strikes me that anyone knowing that Ewa was in the UK would try and find an EFUK to find out more about it. I humbly apologise that we were unable to do so.
The fact that none of the venues responded to my messages and that i also got no response from either of Ewa's official sites is also something i just can't understand? Over the years we have never had any assistance whatsoever from anyone in Ewa's 'Officialdom' and that makes me angry. It makes me seriously question the entire purpose of actually doing this at all. I would have naturally presumed that if UK dates were being arranged that it would only be logical that would at least try to keep us informed of what was going on? Not for the first time that didn't happen.
As i've stated many times in the past i don't speak or understand Czech or Polish and so doing this site is extremely difficult for me. Paulina has been very busy with various other projects and helps as much as she can but the daily task of having to wade through news sites, blogs and facebook pages written in 2 languages that i don't understand is sometimes very tiring. We have asked time and time again for new contributors to come on board and it hasn't happened. I would have thought that after all these years someone, somewhere would have been interested in the job?
So where do we go from here?
I just don't know at the moment. Is there actually any purpose in keeping this whole thing going at all. I don't know the answer to that right now.
The UK tour experience has left me very very bitter and totally lacking in enthusiasm right now. I so wanted to help but wasn't able to do so. That's just not right. In any way.
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
UK Dates Canceled - Translation
"Cancelling of Ewa Farna UK Tour
Because of reasons independent from the organizer and big effort in preparing this tour I am forced to cancel Ewa shows in three UK cities.
Because of reasons independent from the organizer and big effort in preparing this tour I am forced to cancel Ewa shows in three UK cities.
Despite the determination of the organizer, agreed all the details about places, taking care of safety,
publicity events and good cooperation with media patrons, there are some complications about third parties.
Contention for my decision are lot of slanders and as well posting untrue information in few social media sites (connected eg. with discouraging to buying the tickets) by one Nottingham company.
Because of that some companies resigned from cooperating seeing all that mess with shows.
Due to that, thinking about possible low interest of show which could cause unpleasant opinions to Ewa, organizer and clubs where shows were supposed to be and because of impossibility of setting dates convenient to all interests I decided to cancel (probably fateful in effects) Ewa Farna UK Tour.
Next Tuesday (04/02/2014) will be released official info about refund for a ticket.We sincerely apologize all Fans and people interested of participating in show and we promise to draw the consequences from people responsible for the failure of shows
Organizer of EF UK Tour
Przemek"
Because of that some companies resigned from cooperating seeing all that mess with shows.
Due to that, thinking about possible low interest of show which could cause unpleasant opinions to Ewa, organizer and clubs where shows were supposed to be and because of impossibility of setting dates convenient to all interests I decided to cancel (probably fateful in effects) Ewa Farna UK Tour.
Next Tuesday (04/02/2014) will be released official info about refund for a ticket.We sincerely apologize all Fans and people interested of participating in show and we promise to draw the consequences from people responsible for the failure of shows
Organizer of EF UK Tour
Przemek"
Well... good news is that Dublin is still on!
Paulina
Paulina
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
EWA IN THE UK (5)
It appears that the forthcoming dates here in the UK have been cancelled.
An announcement has been made here -
Unfortunately it's in Polish so i can't read it :-(
Must admit that i'm not at all surprised.
More reaction later.
(Thanks to Patryk for the info).
An announcement has been made here -
Unfortunately it's in Polish so i can't read it :-(
Must admit that i'm not at all surprised.
More reaction later.
(Thanks to Patryk for the info).
Thursday, 30 January 2014
EWA IN THE UK (4)
Just a very quick update tonight on the ticketing information re the UK dates -
Further info and tickets can be purchased here -
http://thebetterhalf.5k20server.info/
Unfortunately it's all written in Polish but it's easy enough to navigate.
At the moment it's looking fairly unlikely that i will be able to attend any of the shows as it's really too late now for me to make the necessary arrangements.
Further information as and when.
Further info and tickets can be purchased here -
http://thebetterhalf.5k20server.info/
Unfortunately it's all written in Polish but it's easy enough to navigate.
At the moment it's looking fairly unlikely that i will be able to attend any of the shows as it's really too late now for me to make the necessary arrangements.
Further information as and when.
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