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OK - I have only just got home (only live 30 mins from Camden!) from what I can only describe as a freakin awesome night! I was at the front, stage left... and yes Mika only did 10 track, but they were brilliant.. what made the evenine even better.. (apart from meeting Jemmalee properly!!!) was.......... GETTING IN TO THE AFTER SHOW PARTY!!!!! There is just too much to write at this late hour.. and my midnight snack is getting cold!! Will post more tomorrow.. but.. here is a teaser... Brian May was there!!! I'll leave you with that for now... I have some amazing pics and videos which I will post sometime tomorrow... Time for my snack... am ravenous!! nite nite!! xxxx

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Yep yep! Would have been Tuesday in Brighton if not for nasty flu! I hope he's going to be bouncing with energy after a well deserved rest!!! Getting butterflies just thinking about it.... less then an hour to go and I am off to get changed.. put my going out face on (currently have pretend to be working face on) and head on up to Camden!! woooohooooo!

According to Mika's MySpace.. all is good... the tour kicks off TONIGHT at KOKO Yay!

Cool, thanks for posting that! This day seems to be dragging on and on!!

News & Star Published on 22/02/2007 Mika isn’t a conventional musician. His incredible life history to date, five-octave vocal range, unruly hair and neatly manicured nails ensure that he isn’t your average pop star. When Simon Cowell says he’s “strangeâ€Â, there’s a part of you that has to agree. “He told me that my songs were strange – he said something to the effect that I might as well not bother,†says Mika, smiling. “At the same time, he said I had a distinctive voice and that could help me out. I got upset to a point, but I realised he was clearly not the person to work with me. This was before his Pop Idol fame. “But I saw him at a party recently and he congratulated me.†Luckily, Mika (pronounced Mee-ka) wasn’t put off by Simon’s comments, but he says he’d never go on The X Factor. “Music speaks for itself, egos just get in the way of it. If I went on the show, I’d be kicked out in the first round!†the 23-year-old says. “I’m the worst karaoke singer in the world – that’s why I write songs that are practically impossible to be sung in karaoke.†Born in Beirut, Mika emigrated to Paris with his family as self-imposed exiles because of the civil war. They settled in London when he was nine. “Moving here was hard. I went to a French school when I first came here and had a really hard time,†he admits. “Moving over to the English system was better because they were more sympathetic to my dyslexia. I was bullied, and verbally abused.†Rather than fighting the bullies, Mika coped by writing songs to deal with his feelings. “I dealt with it quite passively, much in the same way as when I went in for a meeting with a music company in London after they heard a demo of mine, and they sat down for an hour telling me how I had to write songs like everybody else in order to be accepted. “I got angry and wrote Grace Kelly when I got home. “I could have been brash and loud and rude and told them to f*** off, but I didn’t, I put it in the song instead, and then it worked for me. It’s the perfect example of this passive aggression that I seem to practise in my life.†As his debut single, Grace Kelly knocked Simon Cowell’s latest protege, Leona Lewis, off the No 1 spot. “It’s amazing to get a No 1 and I’m absolutely over the moon about what has happened on the strength of downloads alone,†he says. “I always go on about the power of online media and sharing your music on the internet, and I’m really thankful that now I have some sort of ammunition to prove that everything I’ve been saying about online media, from the smallest blogs to the biggest entertainment fanzines, are really driven by passion. “It’s going by strength of word of mouth, and people making up their own minds after they’ve listened to the songs online. That’s amazing, particularly since I haven’t won a show, I haven’t got in trouble or done anything particularly scandalous so I don’t have tabloid inches on my heels.†So he hasn’t done anything to be ashamed about then? “Of course I have. But you’ve got to work for your living and I’m certainly not going to make your job easy,†he grins. Not content with writing and orchestrating songs, Mika is planning to branch out into animation, creating cartoon characters from his songs. Lollipop Girl comes from the song Lollipop, Billy Brown and Big Girl from songs of the same titles. “I always wanted to create a visual world that could take on a life of its own and that could really develop with boundaries I could really push, once the album is done. They’re fantasy characters but they’re a platform for storytelling. “In a way, the album becomes the soundtrack to that visual world. I’ve no idea what will happen with the characters, but believe me, there’ll be some dramatic Hollyoaks-style twists and turns.†Mika insists his creations are more than musical characters like Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz: “Gorillaz are purely aesthetic representations of their pseudonym. Mine have nothing to do with my performance as a live artist and they have nothing to do with me as an artist. “They are simply another fantastical dimension to my project. They can exist solely on their own. They even have their own MySpace pages!†He’s already been described as the next Freddie Mercury, but this is one label that Mika is reluctant to accept. “Other people have compared me to him. I name-check him in Grace Kelly but I would never really compare myself to him, simply because I admire him far too much as a musician and a songwriter. In my mind, he’s untouchable,†he says. “I’m lucky that I’m being compared to someone I admire. It’s a bit scary but quite an honour. I could never believe it, I’m too much of a fan. If I started to believe that, you can be sure that you won’t be hearing from me in 2008!†He admits that he does feel some pressure to live up to Freddie’s reputation, though, saying: “It does put me under pressure, but at the same time, it’s a platform that I’m very thankful to be standing up on, and I just have to prove myself now. “You have to be careful what you wish for in life because sometimes you actually have to carry it out! I can only do what I do, and I just have to make sure that I’m making records the way I want to make them. “Music has to speak for itself, so as long as I keep on making good music, I can be stood in good stead to be around for quite a long time.†Mika plays at Northumbria University, Newcastle on Saturday

yea.. you shouldn't say that all the time Naughty! Hello Ciss! It's great that Mika is starting to gain a fanbase over in the far east! My aunt has a record/cd store in Hong Kong and I am trying to get her to look into stocking Mika's album! HK is so full of rubbish cantopop, but there is a growing underground indie punk rock band thing going on over there which is so refreshing!! (actual bands!! no manufactured rubbish! http://www.ibradio.net/ for more info ) Welcome!!!

I hope to be in the area around 6ish.. grab a bite.. Tickets say doors open at 7pm, but Mika's last MySpace blog said doors open at 7:30pm.. so will see!.. I couldn't sleep!!!! When I did get to sleep I was dreaming I was at the gig!!!

I'll see what I can do today... if not today, I'll def do it at the weekend

Freddie is awesome! Funny, witty and charming! Don't ever change!!

Date: 21 Feb 2007, 17:43 Subject MIKA TOUR Body: Hello! MIKA's tour officially kicks off tomorrow at London's KOKO! Doors open at 7:30pm! MIKA's Brighton gig will be rescheduled for sometime in May, you will all be the first to know when we have an official date, it's most likely that it will be tied in his tour in May. Supporting MIKA tomorrow is Kitty, Daisy and Lewis For all the other dates MIKA will be joined by the wonderful Leon Jean-Marie - Head over to his myspace and listen/add! Also, some of you MIKA fans from the first tour MIKA did might remember Luke Toms! - Follow that link to go to his MySpace page, add him and you can win tickets to go and see him with Thirteen Senses! That's all for now! See you all on the road! LOLLIPOPS ALL ROUND (literally tomorrow!) mikamyspace xxx

Can't wait!!.. I hope he's feeling 100% tomorrow!!!

Thanks for posting! Interesting bit about the new Love Today video cos I don't think we're heard anything about it yet! and loved the Billy Brown message he got haha!

Metro London Wednesday, February 21, 2007 A poorly Mika was forced to postpone a gig in Brighton last night after coming down with a rather nasty bout of flu. But all is not lost for the chart-topper's fans in the seaside town because the date will be rescheduled. And the Beirut-born singer hopes that a day in bed and a dose of Vitamin C will be enough to get him well again so he can perform for his gig at London's Koko in Camden. A spokesman for Mika said: "I don't know how long he'll be ill for. But he should be better and [the gig] should be going on." Mika's single Grace Kelly is enjoying its sixth week at the top of the UK singles chart and his album Life In Cartoon Motion is in its second week in the top spot. The star beat off competition from Brits winners to hold on to the double.

Good interview - covers some of the usual.. parentage, international up bringing, Simon Cowell, etc. Also learn that he is an eBay nut and his take on dating celebrities (although he chose Kermit the Frog). Have uploaded an mp3 recording here (12 mb - tried to record at lower quality to reduce the size but it was rubbish!)

I'll get on to it CW. The streaming for me was a bit slow.. so will see how I get on here at work

Great! Thanks.. Nice way to start the day

The Sun - Bizarre February 21, 2007 A FLU bug forced MIKA to postpone a gig in Brighton last night. The pop wonder has been burning the candle at both ends since topping the single and album charts. But the date will be rescheduled and the camp singer is hoping a heavy dose of vitamin C will have him fighting fit in time for his gig at London’s Koko in Camden tomorrow. It’s not Mika’s week though  his tune Grace Kelly has been knocked off the top spot in the midweek singles charts by KAISER CHIEFS’ Ruby. And AMY WINEHOUSE’s Back To Black has pushed his album from No1 too.

According to Brighton Concords website, its been rescheduled for 21st May

According to the Brighton Concordes website, the gig has been rescheduled to 21st May

The London Paper - thelondonbuzz Tuesday 20th February 2007 The fanbase of chart sensation Mika is growing at a record pace - even the oldies love him. Former Queen guitarist Brian May has praised Mika, who tops the singles and albums chart, and told him to ignore his detractors. "I think all those jealous critics are doing him a great service slagging him off," he says. "Its building his notoreity - not that he needed it - but those who try to hurt us make us strong." Although he has never met the young star, May thinks that he has got what it takes. "What was it Freddie Mercury used to say? 'Talent will out'," he says. thebuzz thinks that Brian just likes Mika's big, curly mop top. ************************* There is a gorgeous pic of Mika in the paper, but its not on the web!!

Lucky you!! Flu is evil... it can take down the best of us!! Wouldn't wish it on anyone!!

*sending out good health vibes and anti flu cuddles to Mika* I sent him a message to say he should take all the extra time he needs to get better I won't get mad Sooo looking forward to KOKO....if it does get postponed (if!!) I hope its not rescheduled for when I've booked holidays

Darn flu!! He has been so busy with promo in the US.. lets hope this isn't a sign that he's overdoing it!!

have just posted latest myspace blog.. other dates this week will not be affected