mellody

same here. it's so fab that mika is doing this column, it's just like a blog. AND even better, we know that we'll get a new one every month. btw, do we know for how long this is going? end of this year? 12 months? longer?

what, i'm a hardcore fan?! who told you?! i had a similar problem with the mika tickets for italy, shipping was 20 or 30 euro - and so the tix for the first italian gig i got from one of the italian mfcers (they bought them for me at the box office), and for the 2nd i bought them when i was in italy for the 1st one. for helsinki there were print-out tickets, so no shipping, and in riga there was an option to pick up the tickets at the box office. so well, i always had other options... but if that's the only website that sells the tickets, they don't offer other options, and you don't know anyone who lives in that country - i guess there's only the chance to either get tickets on ebay, or buy them on the day of the gig when you're there. for mika gigs, there are nearly always tickets left, if not at the box office, then you'll get one from someone in the queue. but of course i have no idea what that's like for mgmt. and of course it's always a certain risk.

what does it say? will mika's wax statue be there from sept 20?

it definitely was.

thank you marina.

aww, only just seen this, that's sweet! t4p!

ok, that's not really a voting, but i just found a competition on the web where you can show that you're the biggest fan (of any artist), and win a trip to the mtv awards in madrid: http://www.swift-fanaward.com/en/home/ - there are mainly tokio hotel fans on there so far, i guess it'd be a good promotion for mika, if some mika-fans took part as well. we definitely have a lot to add to that "biggest fan" thing, with all the things we do for mika.

LOOOOOL!!! thanx for translating!

thanks for that! this made me remember that i read an URL on some photographer's clothes, and indeed there are more pix on there: http://www.konzertbilder.ch/ and at least one pic on the festival website as well: http://www.summerdays.ch/galerie.php# and tina, the clothes you made were absolutely fab! my mum even thought you were a professional seamstress when she saw them. edit: ah, there's a pic of nezza! http://www.konzertbilder.ch/details.php?image=17153&menu=2

not sure... if he took pix, at least he didn't use a flash. so i thought he was videoing - but maybe statue or someone else has seen it better? edit: i noticed that the LT shooting scene (with dr jimmy ) hadn't uploaded... here it is again:

thank you everyone for the comments about the present, i'll let the others know, who aren't on here. also wanted to open an extra thread for it, telling the whole story and everything, but with all the discussions that followed arbon, i thought/think it's better to wait a few weeks with that. btw, love it that he remembered marianne's mika-ken-doll! we hadn't done much with the dolls themselves, most were bought on ebay for 1-2 euros, and we just did their make-up/hair, and of course the costumes. so marianne, if you ever feel like making him dolls for the band too, he can substitute our ebay barbies with really goodlooking ones. although i really must say kudos to statue, who did the white face-make-up for all the dolls with my paint marker at 3am in the morning, and it looked fab!

really? that's weird, we didn't see him. well, like i said, we only spotted him when he was talking to you, so in any case it couldn't have been saskia who let out a startled shout. totally agree, the cake was delicious!

haha, your clogs conversation made me LOL! wondering bout the first sentence i quoted though... mika wasn't there when we walked in, was he? it took about 5-10 minutes til he came, we were all sitting around, and saskia+me only noticed him when he was already talking to you. actually, we first noticed that john had come back, and then... oh look, there's mika too!

thanx for posting the pic of the banner! i hope mika got it, shame you couldn't hold it up during the show - which i still find weird really, i mean, they let kids in front of the barrier, and even let us put our plastic bags there, once mika was on - but banners they forbid?! i thought the one of dada ante portas was rather cute, maybe monie meant him? (3rd from the right, though i guess it's not the most favourable pic of him ) they're blurry, i'm sure you'd have better ones if you had caught the right moment. guess next time i'll warn you "there's a jump coming now!", instead of trying to take a pic. thank you.

my pix+vids didn't turn out as well as usual this time, it's easier to keep a steady hand in front row than it is in the 2nd... though i definitely can't complain bout my place, i had a very good view since i stood behind tina, and during mika's gig itself there hardly was any pushing where i was standing. anyway, here they are: talk before SITM and trumpet solo: touches you (VERY shaky, sorry bout that): biotg: LT shooting scene, with dr jimmy aow: martin, cherisse & jimmy looking at our present: mika receiving our present: some of the vids are still processing, no idea why that's taking ages today, but you might have to wait a few more hours til they're visible. i also have one of yasmine looking at our present, won't post it publicly, but if anyone's interested, let me know. and my photos are here (just 12 this time ): http://s778.photobucket.com/albums/yy68/mikafanclub_de/2010%2008%2028%20Arbon/ edit: if anyone's interested in seeing pictures of the present and the "making of", they're in this album: http://s778.photobucket.com/albums/yy68/mikafanclub_de/2010%2008%2028%20Arbon/Mika%20birthday%20present%202010/ (more will be added when my pc is working again)

monie, i love that pic of jimmy with the sunflowers, really beautiful! :-) couldn't find the energy to write a report til now, due to all the discussions in the other thread, but i've uploaded my pix+vids now, and can post some impressions of that day, for those who want to read it. ;-) about the show i agree, it was good, but we had the feeling that mika was in a weird or bad mood. don't think it was just the tiredness, he must've been at least as tired the following day in poland, and from what i heard, that show was absolutely fantastic and energetic. :-D maybe it was the crowd, apart from the mfcers it just didn't click between them and mika. and i guess he gets lots of his energy on stage from the crowd. for the first time in ages i stood on jimma's side of the stage, 2nd instead of 1st row for a change, since because of working on the present til last minute, we only arrived at 1pm. imma was so sweet, when they left at the end of lollipop, she took a (full) water bottle from the stage and gave us an asking look whether we wanted it. she then threw it, but it went too far, so those behind us got it. didn't matter though, as we had enough to drink in the car. :-) mika said before SITM that this was the last festival of the tour, and the day after wouldn't be a festival but a gig. this confused us a bit, and well, indeed we were right and he was wrong. i was absolutely tired and knackered, since the last days and nights before the gig, i had done nothing but trying to finish that damn present we had for him, a barbie-doll-sized toy theatre of his arena tour stage set, which we had started planning already back in april. i never would've thought it'd be THAT much work, and already was thinking that nothing and no one would be worth all of that! but of course that was just the stress - simply seeing our finished project made me really proud and happy, apart from the last few stressing days it was lots of fun to make it, and some of us even said we'd love to keep it to ourselves instead of giving it to mika. and mika, well, he was the best, as always. he spent ages looking at every detail, even asked most who were there which part they had done, and he said he'd show it to es devlin. and that it was no problem for him fixing the broken parts (the keyboard had fallen off its platform during the transport), since they had to do that with their stage props all the time. i doubt that he'll in fact do it, but him saying it was very sweet. it was also very sweet when he went a bit sentimental after telling us that the set had been destroyed because they wouldn't use it anymore, and said "you make me miss the show now!" well, you can see all of that in the video we made of the m+g, if you're interested. ;-) then we took 2 group pictures, which statue already posted, and when mika suggested how we'd arrange ourselves there (that he'd stand next to statue and i should come over to his other side), it turned out that he indeed knows my name. i had told it to him a few times during the spring tour, for autographs, but i had no idea that he in fact remembered it - aww, that made me sooo happy! he then thanked us for coming to the concerts, and said he'd be back in maybe 1,5 years, to which we looked disappointed and said "it's sooo long!", and he said "it's sooo short! so much work!" - LOL! very funny to see this difference in his and his fans' perception. *g* i think statue has posted the rest of the conversation already. ;-) the drive back to munich went only well because statue kept me awake by chatting all the time... if she hadn't been there, i'd have had to sleep a few hours in the car before driving back, since i was so incredibly tired. xD but we arrived safely back in munich around 5am iirc... and since then i'm trying to catch up with all the sleep i missed. and i can't believe that this should've been the last time i've seen all of you guys for the next 1,5 years! *tears* i deliberately forbid myself that thought when we said goodbye... and i'm sure we'll find a way to meet - like an mfc xmas party or something like that. :-D (though a summer party would be warmer, lol! *rofl*). big hug to all of you!! *huglove* pix + vids will follow in my next post. ;-)

yeah, just thought of that too and edited my post.

thank you for this. he mentioned this in arbon, when he said he'd be away for 1,5 years now we asked whether he could keep us updated on twitter (to which he answered that he hated twitter), or in blogs/vlogs... to which he answered that he didn't have time for that, since he had to write this column, and he hated that too. i guess he just hates writing texts, but prefers writing songs. what i find weird though is that he said it wasn't finished, he also said that on twitter, but it's in the magazine now. and from what i read here, it's a monthly magazine? i've worked for a monthly magazine in the past, and the stuff gets printed weeks in advance - maybe it's different for that magazine for some reason, but from all that i know there's no way that he could hand in an article for a monthly magazine just one day before it comes out, and it still being printed! edit: ok, reading his tweets again, i guess he might've meant the 2nd part of it. that'd make a lot more sense.

arrgh, had already written half of my report, but looks like the power supply of my pc died, it suddenly went off, the fuse blew, and now the pc won't start anymore, guess i gotta buy a new power supply for it! so, gotta start writing a new report from my laptop now...

nah, he was laughing his a** off. just not sure if he liked that kiss, he wiped his mouth when he came running back on stage. don't we all? just looked at my pix, they indeed didn't turn out exactly clear. but will post some anyway. got 2x flying mika, if you don't zoom in it's not that obvious that they're blurry.

still tired? it was david, not martin. love the pic with dr jimmy, and the one where the crew guy with the pig mask is carrying mika off stage - not sure, but i guess it was the one who carried him off stage during the arena tour for the nightmare scene - we figured it might've been his last evening on the mika tour, thus this appearance in a BG outfit & pig mask. he was kissing mika (with the pig mask on of course), and then picking him up and carrying him off stage.

thank you graciosa for the pix! mine didn't turn out well this time i think,haven't had time to look properly yet, but think they're all quite blurry,just can't keep a steady hand in 2nd row. gonna eat something now, and then start posting my report/pix/vids. btw, DA, the answer to the question you didn't ask this time but surely wanna know is no. it was quite cold, imma was shivering when they came on - really cute, and we started shouting IMMA, IMMA..., which brought a huge smile to her face.

it was before billy brown:

i think all i said was "great!", since she asked me something which i didn't understand, but to which statue has given a positive answer before, so i thought it couldn't be wrong. iirc, she asked how i liked the gig. and yes, i remember us singing kick ass, lol! what did they say about the flowers?