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  1. I can't get enough of Nick, huge fan of the show Gene Simmons and family jewels, can't miss one or i'll get mad for the rest of the week:wink2:

     

    His sister is lovely too, guess monny had allot to do there!!!!:biggrin2:

     

    I love the show haven't watched it in weeks though sooooo busy:tears:

    The kids definitely get the looks and hight from mommy:cool:

  2. Just imagine his face when he sees that! :roftl: :roftl:

     

    I can imagine that he probably does have a good sense of humor! He's Mika's bodyguard, and Mika probably wouldn't have a guard that he doesn't like. :D

     

    probably red and splotchy:biggrin2:

  3. I've created a thread just for mika related questions that may not have answered else where think of this as a mika thesaurus in progress .

     

     

    My Question ,

    I'm probably receiving VIP Mika tickets:roftl: for the nokia show . Do I still need regular tickets to enter and will I be able to back stage and to the after party

  4. I'm not realy a fan of perez though I do respect the marketing machine he is but Mika's mentioned and I thought some of you might like it.

     

     

    A Gossip's Golden Touch

    When Perez Hilton talks music, people listen.

     

     

     

    By Jac Chebatoris

    Newsweek

    May 28, 2007 issue - Mother mother might just be the next big thing in music that you haven't heard of—unless you read PerezHilton.com. Two weeks ago, Hilton ran a post that said, "Mother Mother is one of the most exciting bands in the Canadian music scene." In less than an hour, the band's page views went up by 5,000—amazing exposure for an obscure rock band releasing its first album. "If people are checking out new music that they wouldn't normally have an opportunity to hear because Perez posts something, then thank God for it," says Jennifer Hirst, former A&R manager at Mother Mother's label, Last Gang Records. "I liken it to Oprah's Book Club."

     

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    You may know Perez Hilton (a.k.a. Mario Lavandeira) as the snarky gossip king of the Web, the blogger with 5 million readers a day who dishes the latest dirt on Britney and Lindsay, along with the occasional R-rated post, such as his recent photos of (allegedly) David Beckham in the nude. But that's just his day job. His passion, Hilton says, is music, and he promotes it vigorously—lavishing praise if he likes you, or scribbling loser across your photo if he doesn't. (Talking to you, Avril Lavigne.) Either way, Perez praise is valuable. Scottish singer Paolo Nutini's CD "These Streets" spiked on the iTunes chart after a post in January. "The thing just started moving. I mean, jumping up the chart," says Gregg Nadel, senior director of marketing and A&R at Atlantic Records, Nutini's label. "You sit around and think of all these differ-ent things to try to introduce an artist, and then Perez does this one post and, boom, it lights a fire." He's even one of sideswiping Simon Cowell's idols. Cowell called to thank Perez after he wrote about Leona Lewis, the winner of the Cowell-produced British show "The X-Factor." Hilton, ever the fan, saved the message for a month.

     

    He's actually more of a fanatic than a fan. Hilton was so devoted to the pop singer Mika that he started blogging about him ("Mika's music is just as hot as his model looks. However you describe it, it's f---ing fierce!") months before the release of Mika's debut CD, "Life in Cartoon Motion." In fact, he posted about Mika more than 20 times. The result: in the first two weeks, the CD sold 50,000 copies. "For a brand-new artist, that is unheard of without traditional airplay," says Monte Lipman, president of Mika's label, Universal Republic Records.

     

    The "Gossip Gangster" seems as surprised as anyone by his tastemaker status—"That's very flattering," he says—especially since his Web site is only two and a half years old. Hilton is a staff of one, and he answers every e-mail that comes in to his "office"—the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on L.A.'s Sunset Boulevard. "It's important for me to stay very accessible," he says. "I might take a day, a week or even a month to respond back to people, but I eventually do get back to everyone." And persistence pays off. Shervin Lainez, a 23-year-old photographer from Washington, D.C., fell in love with a little-known indie folk singer named Jenny Owen Youngs. He e-mailed and IM'd Perez several times in a week. Hilton finally listened. Then he posted, in his typically over-the-top style: "If you don't know Jenny Owen Youngs, then you must. You must! She has created what we think is one of the best love songs of all time." "The effect was massive and immediate," Youngs says about the impact on her MySpace page. "I was getting an average of 2,000 [plays] a day, and I got 60,000 in one day from Perez. People at shows were saying, 'I would have no idea who you are if it wasn't for Perez Hilton'."

     

    So what's in it for Hilton? He insists he gets paid nothing for an endorsement—unless hanging out with celebrities counts as some kind of currency. "I get free clothes," he admits, "but no one's ever offered me money." "I wish," says Jennifer Hirst of the post-for-pay idea, "because if that were the case he would just take any music we send." Though Hilton does plan to capitalize on his new noncelebrity celebrity. Next year, he'll program his own night at the massive South by Southwest music conference. He also hopes to start his own record label and launch a "Perez Hilton"-branded tour. Think it's all talk? Maybe, but his words have already gotten him this far.

  5. Mika

    DAVID POLLOCK

    MIKA

     

    BARROWLAND, GLASGOW

     

     

    FLAVOUR of the year Mika may well come off unfavourably in comparison to a recently-revived great of pop performance like Prince, but his penchant for the bizarre yet crowd-pleasing set-piece is developing at such a rate that he might yet hold his own.

     

    It's hard to believe that this is the same artist who played to an audience barely out of double figures downstairs at Nice 'n' Sleazy towards the end of last year. Now he's selling out the Barrowland and working it like it was the kind of stage he was born for.

     

    His appeal isn't hard to pin down - he writes effortlessly memorable pop songs which are full of joy and a dash of sexual innuendo, in much the same way as the Scissor Sisters.

     

    Wearing his trademark outfit of white shirt, trousers and braces, and spinning and flailing around like a madman, he whipped the crowd into almost ridiculous levels of excitement. Each of the big numbers felt laboratory-designed to come close to naïve pop perfection, and the ecstatic reactions to Grace Kelly and Love Today were matched by those provoked by the slightly Elton John-sounding piano rocker Billy Brown and the Freddie Mercury bombast of Big Girl (You Are Beautiful), for which he was joined onstage by a beautiful big girl in a burlesque stripper's outfit.

     

    Covers of Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) and the Jackson Five's I Want You Back showed Mika's back catalogue isn't yet big enough to sustain a full set. Yet, when he and his band appeared for the encore of Lollipop with animal costumes and tickertape, I couldn't help feeling here was an artist with a long career ahead of him.

  6. Mika, Barrowland, Glasgow

    MARIANNE GUNN May 18 2007

    Comment

    Tapping into the cultural zeitgeist at Hogmanay and getting Simon Pegg's seal of approval at Jools Holland's Hootenanny was a wise move. Since then, Mika has been on a whirlwind of a ride around the UK and abroad, managing to avoid being compartmentalised as a Freddie Mercury impersonator. So far, so shrewd.

     

    Facing the heaving, dripping Barrowland Ballroom, however, was a whole new challenge for the man who loves Glasgow's "party people" - and leaving the sodden crowd to stew in their own dew until he bounded on like a small rabbit in the headlights was a provocative way to start the evening. Relax, Take It Easy got the crowd back on side and slid gently into a crowd-pleasing rendition of Big Girl (You Are Beautiful).

     

    Apparently his mum was in the audience so perhaps Mika still gets pre-show jitters, but when he hit the piano for some romantic/acoustic moments, he hit a bum note with Glasgow. If there is such a thing as death by arpeggio, it happened to Mika - albeit briefly. It took cult hit Billy Brown to have everyone throwing their faux-suede cowboy hats in the air, and a version of the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams was a highlight in my book (as opposed to the Jackson Five cover, which must have had every urban fox around the city pricking up its ears).

     

     

     

    A lame costumed finale (very student revue, guys) was luckily saved by Lollipop and bubbles and giant balloons. Somehow Mika's newest single, Love Today, makes Grace Kelly seem like very old news - and a 55-minute set is still not long enough.

  7. i wish i could of seen MIKA getting changed into the chicken suit!!!!:wub2:

     

    well...i was quite lucky because...i got front row at one of his gigs ...and when he came bouncing on...his fly was down...*hehe*

    i was gonna shout..."yo MIKA your flys down!!!!" but then i thaught nahhhh he dosnt need to know...its fine down!!! *haha*:roftl: :roftl: :naughty::wub2:

     

    LUCKY:mf_lustslow:

  8. I was reading the thread and thought it was serious !:biggrin2: :biggrin2:

     

    Yeh I found them a total disgrace and very abusive people , I dont know if it was Mikas actual security people , but the venue people were shocking

     

    <liking the sarcasm>

     

    What should we expect kindness from frustrated rent-a-cops:bleh:

  9. So I just recived a reply with mika video info . Unfourtunatly it wont be in NYC :no: :no: and they didn't bother answering my question about wether or not they will be doing anything like this for american fans. I hope this helps and hasn't been posted already .

     

    ....................................................................................................................................

    REPLY EMAIL

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    Thankyou very much for replying re appearing in Mika's new video.

     

    We don't have a definate location yet, but you would to be in London

    for 9am

    on Saturday the 19th and it will be a full day. There is no fee, so it

    is

    best if you are not travelling from too far.

     

    If you are still interested and can make travel arrangements, please

    respond

    to this e-mail letting us know your name, age and if you are bringing

    anyone

    with you.

  10. Life in Cartoon Motion

     

    Artist: MIKA

     

    (Casablanca Records/Universal Music)

    Reviewer: DAPHNE LEE

     

     

    DISCO! No, Mika isn’t entirely about mirror balls, but the bits of Life in Cartoon Motion that do conjure up visions of platform heels and a tight butt encased in hot pink vinyl are, in my opinion, the best. Turn up the volume and just try to resist the urge to form a conga line and stab the air with your index finger.

     

    Disco is one of my favourite antidotes to misery. It doesn’t solve my problems but it helps me forget and if it’s just for the duration of a cheesy three-minute song, well ... I’ll take what I can get.

     

     

    Remember Cutting Crew’s (I Just Died) In Your Arms Tonight? That song caused some of us to swoon in the 1980s and it’s back to haunt us on Relax (Take It Easy) – no, no, not stolen – and Mika politely credits songwriter and Cutting Crew member Nicholas Eede. This is Mika at his most disco and started out as my favourite track, but ... curses ... I paid attention to the lyrics and, for the first time, disco made me cry. So much for helping me forget!

     

     

    Never mind, skipping back one track took me to the lusciously stupid Love Today, which is a helluva trashy song, lyrics and all. I don’t think I’ve heard anything campier or saucier since Sexx Laws from Beck’s Midnite Vultures. Mika alternates between a histrionic falsetto and an angry, rather insane shout. The former brings to mind the Sugababes and, come to think of it, this song reminds me of Overload, but I also have visions of Mika dressed like Eliza Doolittle at the races. Who knows why? Who am I to argue with the power of music to cause hallucinations?

     

     

    I could do without Mika going all low-key as he does on tracks like Any Other World and My Interpretation. He’s more entertaining and convincing when he’s throwing the musical equivalent of a hissy fit. The chart-busting Grace Kelly, for example, has him doing a mean impression of the king, erm, I guess I mean queen of camp, Freddie Mercury. This is a rousing number that has Mika singing nonsensically poetical lyrics at a galloping pace. I can picture him mincing and spitting a whole lot and somehow that’s a diverting picture, as is the thought of him, in the next track, sucking too hard on his Lollipop.

     

     

    What a funny boy he is. He can be a scary lad too. On Happy Ending, he sounds like he could be a big-breasted woman called Jamelia. I’m avoiding that track in the future!

     

     

    Stuck in the Middle is pure Scissor Sisters, well, if the Scissor Sisters were actually good. And I love Mika’s venomous lyrics here: “I sit about and think about the day that you’re gonna die.” An excellent song to listen to while you’re plotting the vilest revenge.

     

     

    Mika rocks. No, make that struts!

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