Marianne84

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http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24370

I'm thinking of little drawings to accompany the names here and there. Or doodles, if you can't draw. Let's see...

All right, I'm going to start a thread and see how many want to be in!

It's not a bad suggestion. I vote for a name book as Mika's pup's first gift ever. Even if Mika doesn't choose any of our suggestions, he'd surely have a blast reading them all! I'm kinda spamming him with my own suggestions on Twitter already. I think I want to start an MFC project...

Brilliant!

More... Alfie Effin' Clara Spelling ( ) Epic Beirut Paris London Space Mammamia Champs Geez Kicks Calliope Ha Huh Blast Snow At least these from my first list were missing from the first page (I added them a bit later): Vampy Lovett Dumbo Goldfur Nailpaw Sleepy

Hahahha! Where is your signature picture from? Did you make it? I've seen parts of it as Jimmy and Imma's Twitter pages as their profile pics.

MFC! That's brilliant! I second that. Let's all suggest it on Twitter! It could be a short version of something else. Let's say... Magnificent Fan Cub or... Magnificently Funny Cub or... Masterfully Fantastic Cub Other suggestions that came to mind: Bumba Chickeny Chick Pixie Dixie Timotei (Finnish form of Timothy, from Dumbo) Fluffy Giggles Bunny Bites Kisses Elvis Heaven Hugs Huff Miss Snoopy Heart Heather Omen Onyx Ophelia Faun Elfie By the way, I see my earlier suggestions Dumbo and Sleepy are still missing from the list.

My suggestions: Battle Axe or just Battle (You know what puppies are like ) Lili Lulu Luna Una Beauty Furry Narco (After the mubbin) Bubba Simba (The name for my future cat, could suit a dog as well) Nala (What? I love Disney!) Kimba Smiley ( ) Fangs Thumbelina Lumière Beast Sweeney Poppy Bells Fork Daylight Pocket Shock Cogsworth Lilo Stitch Vampy Lovett Dumbo Goldfur Nailpaw Sleepy

I took it off. I thought you were talking about the girls on the speaker, but perhaps not. Anyway, same thing for the girls behind us: they would have been crushed.

Don't mind Mika's face - look at that guy on the left!

I wrote an article about this gig. It's currently only in Finnish, but I'm translating it now. See the link in my signature for the link to my website. Would anyone like me to use their pictures beside the article? I didn't take many pictures with my old camera, so that would be much appreciated! I credit everyone whose pictures I use.

Glad to know he got to hear about that very positive review. I don't suspect he read my translation I posted on Twitter. Hmm... I 'd better post it again.

I thought you were joking about that. Nice report! I still haven't brought myself to write my review. I'll do that tomorrow.

Yes. It means that we were singing longingly. It's a bit daftly put in Finnish. Like in a poetic way.

Mine too! To think about it, my three favourites must now be this one, Gasometer in Vienna and Sadler's Wells in London. By the way, I should have written 'sunflower-lined', or 'lined with sunflowers' in my translation. There was nothing about daisies in it. I double-checked everything else except that.

No, it's by another journalist, a man, may I say. Here it comes. But excuse me if some things sound weird. The grammar in Finnish is so different that frankly: some things are impossible to translate so that they sound the same. In addition, we have so many rich adjectives that I had to think a lot to find equivalents for them. I didn't always succeed. There wasn't a picture, but the review makes up for it. This is the most hilarious thing I've read in a long time! The Spring Man in Full Swing Mika at The Circus on Friday Concert. The audience screams loud when four giant plush letters bound onto the sunflower-lined stage of Circus the nightclub. He is here today and for the first time in Finland, even if it has already been three years since his breakthrough: the Lebanese-born British singer Michael Penniman aka Mika still seems to interest, as there is a lot of audience present despite the quite expensive ticket price of 50 Euros. The audience lives along briskly from the beginning to the end, and why wouldn’t they. Mika is an expressive, funny and energetic showman, who wriggles on stage dripping sweat, with a top hat on his head, springy like a gymnast. He sings convincingly and honks an imaginary trumpet through his fingers. Hilarious to watch. The songs strike clearly better live than on record. The five-piece band backing him up and the swinging dancers in their neon-coloured bride’s veils and masks who have apparently been picked from the audience drive the easy and catchy songs to a fine fly. There is plenty of wittiness: in the middle of it all Mika and the lead guitarist play with the theme of the Top Gun movie, and at the end a giant plush doll is laid on the hands of the audience. The night is opened with the excellent Relax, Take It Easy and the hilarious Big Girl (You Are Beautiful). We hear the Eurythmics cover Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Grace Kelly and the Pop Cabaret type Lollipop in the row of hits at the end. The audience sings longingly along Happy Ending. Musically, visually and as a singer Mika takes a stand where Robbie Williams and Rufus Wainwright are. Judging by the audience Mika is in the favour of sexual minorities. When Mika throws his T-shirt away in the middle of the concert during the saucy song Rain and dances with these Dwayne Wayne humour glasses on he has picked up from the audience, even a straight person is astonished. Handsome fellow, appealing show. Aleksi Kinnunen

There's a REALLY positive review in Helsingin Sanomat about this gig! It made me grin big time! I'll translate it for you, shall I?

Sorry this comes a little late. I felt too broken yesterday to spend a lot of time on the computer. All my fault, I jumped like a lunatic. I translated the article that was in a newspaper called 'Nyt' (Now) on Friday. It comes as an enclosure with Helsingin Sanomat on Fridays. This is the interview Mika mentioned at the end of the concert. The other article next to it is about the concert arranger RL Entertainment. Gig / Mika comes, is anyone ready? (The little text above the picture.) It’s possible to get to dance with Mika. Mika in Neverland The pop star believes that (The) Circus will be crowded and he’s going to pick up his dancers from the queue. “This is my first gig in Finland, and it’s about time. Even if it’s just a little gig”, says Mika aka Michael Penniman, 26, on the phone at Nancy Airport in France. He is on his way to perform at a Romanian beach festival. “This is so weird – we come from a gig that holds 50 000 to a gig that holds 1000. But I’m getting used to it”, he gets excited – and is quite optimistic about the size of the audience of the Helsinki gig. Mika is remembered by the hit song Grace Kelly, that has often been playing on the radio in Finland, too. His debut album Life in Cartoon Motion visited the official chart of Finland on the 11th place, and it has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. His pop rock is exceptionally catchy, but for one reason or another Mika hasn’t become a star of any kind here. Mika describes his gig as the last party of Mad Hatter from the book Alice in Wonderland. “The show is like a weird, dark carnival, where all gloomy stories behind my cheerful feeling songs get revealed”, he advertises. He tells that Love Today, for example, is about a middle-aged prostitute who isn’t getting any more gigs. “Or We Are Golden, which is about me when I was 16 years old and realised that I would have to come up with a direction for my life or I will be driven to the brink of suicide.” There is a big band that is included in the gig and also dancers. The latter are supposed to be picked from the gig queue. Oh no. What if there will be nobody left in the audience? The queue may be shorter than you would think in the hot weather of mid-summer. “They have already sold a lot of tickets to this gig. I wouldn’t come if they hadn’t”, Mika assures. -------------------- How can anyone need assuring? We proved them wrong, didn't we? I'm pretty sure there will be a review in the same paper soon. I'll translate it for you, and I'm also writing my own review for my Finnish fan page in Finnish and English.

Thanks a bunch for filming these. I nearly died of laughter (pun intended) when Toy Boy died and Mika started killing the band members. I was not expecting it at all, as I haven't watched any videos lately.

LOL! The last picture. These are great pictures, and I would love to see more - even if they only have his stomach in them. I'm not writing a long report this time, but I'm going to write a review instead and put it on my Mika fan site.

One more thing that I need to say before bed: I've never seen Mika sweat so much. It must have been HOT for him, too. I've never sweated so much.