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The venue has a capacity of 1,000. http://www.theaterfabrik-muenchen.de/ Theaterfabrik is one of many halls / clubs that are located on a former factory site. This area is called Optimolwerke, the address is Friedenstrasse 10. You can find a map here: http://www.optimolwerke.de/anfahrt Nearest public transport station: Ostbahnhof (all suburban trains, underground train U5, tram, buses) Parking: around the area for free, if you find a place. And there are a lot of parking spaces inside the area, but they're not for free. Age restriction: If you're under 14 you have to be accompanied by a guardian. No entry for children under 6.

the volkshaus zurich has different halls, but it's likely that mika will perform in the biggest one, which has a capacity of 1,100. it seems like tickets for this gig only go on sale mid-august. http://www.volkshaus.ch/mieten/theatersaal.html

the venue has a capacity of 800 people, according to wikipedia.

ah good you've found it. sorry i'm not home, so i have only limited internet access, didnt see your dm.

germany and switzerland venues are about 1000 each. vienna might be bigger,not sure?

i just bought a ticket to the luxemburg gig... it's a tiny venue (a club with 800 places max.), and the atmosphere at the last luxemburg gig was fantastic!

Luxemburg is new, i think? We already had the others... though they mixed up the Vienna date, it says on the 4th whereas on the ticket website it says teh 5th.

as there's a day in between munich and zurich, i think i'll go to this one... only a 4 hour drive from munich.

i'd click the like button now, if there was one. edit: tickets bought for both gigs!

tickets for munich are available now: http://www.eventim.de/mika-Tickets-muenchen.html?affiliate=EVE&doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&fun=artist&action=tickets&key=396326%242263073&jumpIn=yTix&kuid=2641&from=erdetaila&language=en edit: tickets for cologne as well: http://www.eventim.de/mika-Tickets-koeln.html?affiliate=EVE&doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&fun=artist&action=tickets&key=396326%242263725&jumpIn=yTix&kuid=2641&from=erdetaila&language=en

they probably want to avoid having to cancel gigs again or moving them to smaller venues, like they had to do on the last tour. if he does a small gig that's sold out, it's good marketing for him, and if he really does europe again in early/mid 2013, people will buy tickets for that one in time if they couldn't go in nov because it was sold out. maybe though if the album does well they can indeed move it to a bigger venue right away. would be interesting to know which strategy they have...

i updated the first post with the links to and capacity of the venues. just 1000 in munich isn't much, the zenith where mika played the last 2 times he was here has a capacity of 7000! and it was quite full... but maybe they'll move it to a bigger venue if they see that there's enough demand. happened also on mika's very first german tour in april 2007, he was supposed to play in a small club with a capacity of a few hundred people, and then the gig was moved to a bigger venue for 1500 people.

thanks... i opened a thread for them.

http://www.eventim.de/mika-Tickets.html?affiliate=EVE&doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&fun=artist&action=tickets&erid=396326&xtcr=1&xtmc=mika 1.11. Cologne Kantine Kulturbetriebe GmbH, http://www.kantine.com/ 6.11. Munich Theaterfabrik (@ Optimolwerke), http://www.theaterfabrik-muenchen.de/ both venues have a capacity of ca. 1,000. Tickets for both gigs are available now on the above link to eventim (you can choose your language in the upper right corner of the website). so, not 4 but 2... anyway, happy that he's coming to my hometown! thank you @ DerMoment for posting the dates first here on mfc!

ah ok, thanks, i still didn't have time to watch that yet... well i just thought he could do south america when he does the US, as it's nearby. but ok, 2013 then...

yes, that'd make sense... there wouldn't be enough time between the last date in france and the one in london for an asian AND an US tour... and iirc he said to yuna that asia would be end of nov / beginning of dec. so maybe it's the US and south america in october, mainland europe in end oct/nov, asia in end of nov/beginning of dec and UK in dec.

they just write a few things about mika, nothing interesting... if you want to buy tickets, you can alternatively do so on this website, here's the link to the english version: http://www.oeticket.com/en/tickets/mika-wien-planettt-bank-austria-halle-gasometer-272200/event.html.

where's that from? i think there's more voice distortion in your clip than in the one from the radio, and it might be a fuller sound (more bass / deep frequencies), but not sure as it's not really loud...

i couldn't go the last time, as it was too close to the german gigs - but if it's not in the same week as germany this time, i'll definitely consider it! vienna is a lovely city, been there twice but unfortunately i haven't seen much of it yet. so i'd definitely include a day or two of sightseeing this time. and i gotta say i just love the accent people in vienna have, it reminds me of castles and waltz and lovely gentlemen (küss die hand!) and pretty cafés with flowers... (yeah i guess i watched too many of those old movies with my mum when i was a child! ) don't say that too loudly, or you'll have a bunch of MFCers invade your flat. (btw, would you have a place to sleep for me if i can make it there? )

pfft, i hope not! but even if there are only 2 in germany, there's not enough time left now in the 2nd week of november, so they have to be either before or after all the others. i could imagine one in the netherlands in that week though, as it's close to brussels.

t4p daeni! i might consider this one, it's a small venue with only 1,100 places.

This time it really is Vienna in Austria, not Vienne in France! seems like there are already tickets available, here: https://www.musicticket.at/index.php?id=1544&eventid=1340094168795 edit: here's a direct link for buying tickets (english version of the website): http://www.oeticket.com/en/tickets/mika-wien-planettt-bank-austria-halle-gasometer-272200/event.html

ah, so that's why in germany there hasn't even been the slightest article about the single or anything. well, as long as he comes on tour here even if the album's not doing well, i'll forgive him. (i don't mind small venues... at all... ) thank you for the translation so far, looking forward to the rest!

just think of a gay couple and what the church says... it's really smart, a metaphor he takes from the bible itself, to criticize the church! LIKE adam and eve... god didn't think they deserved it... he (...) made them hide... i love how this part stands out from the rest, musically (surely not a coincidence...), and thus it's the first of the verses i knew by heart - and now that i've fully realized what the song is about, i love this bit even more and see it as the centerpiece of the song.

i have a feeling that the german dates might be in the week before this, but if they aren't, i might consider going to one of those. maybe a romantic weekend in rome with my bf, it's still quite warm in rome in november...