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about KA being played after the show... it's played quite loudly, not like background music, so i guess most people notice that it's something special... they just can't understand what's going on if they don't know the song or don't know that it's by mika. i heard from a friend who was at the munich gig and didn't know KA before that he didn't know whether the show was finished now or not, or what that all was about... graciosa filmed it, no worries, either her or me will upload it at some point & post the link on here... just give us a few days, we were still on tour til today. btw, hi, i was the lollipop girl. were you one of the 2 girls with the pink feathers in your hair? i have a pic of mika where you can see those feathers but sorry there were too many people standing in between so you can't see more. will upload the pic together with the others some time during the next few days. i'm innocent this time. he was nice and played it at every gig i went to. might've been sariflor or mana in scandinavia, i think they said sth about mentioning it to him.

ah thanx, i didn't hear that... did he say it to you, or during the show? maybe it was one of the french things he said that i didn't understand. forgot to mention yesterday, he sang parts of GK in french, and at the beginning he just spoke english+german (which sounded a lot better than in germany ), but at some point realized that there were lots of french speaking ppl in the crowd, and changed to a mix between english, french and german. and the support act "the fires" were fab! 3 very young guys (about 14?), who played great rock'n'roll music, i never danced so much during a mika support act! they started with "great balls of fire", ended with "johnny b goode" (both of which belong to the top 5 of my fave rock'n' roll songs ever!), and in between played some more covers and some own songs as well. i wouldn't mind at all if mika had them as a support act for every gig!

to answer to your questions from the pre-show thread: yes, mika does have a few days off now (i asked john), but not much, rehearsals are starting next week. you could see/hear that he was ill tonight if you know what he's like usually (i bet those for whom it was the first gig didn't realize! )... but he still managed to put so much energy in this show, no idea where he takes that from, it was fantastic! even took time for signing stuff after the gig, didn't think he would - was quick, but like usual he was all smiley and lovely. the thing with the tickets before the gig was pure hell though. first we were told the box office would open at 5 the latest, and we'd be let in at 5:25 (i.e. 5 minutes before unnumbered people), which would've been fine. but at 5:15 the box office still wasn't open and we were really worried by then... i asked some security guys and was told it'd open only at 6! so i texted john about the problem, and he came to our rescue. they held up all the queues until everyone got their tickets, so everything was fine in the end... but this was definitely the most nerve-wrecking queuing/ticket experience i ever had! btw, the reason why we didn't get sent the tickets was because they were stuck in customs. but well, like i said, in the end we were all fine, thanx to john. i gave him a little chocolate easter bunny after the gig to thank him (he asked whether it was with alcohol, lol! ok i'll remember that for the next time ). gave mika a bunny too, and a cd with german songs - and he liked our kick ass make-up/dresscode thing (it was mariposa, graciosa, hasibobberle and me in those outfits). :-) ah yes, and for the mikagasmics: blue, like in hamburg. and yes, i have a video+pix of wag again. ;-p off to bed now, really tired... night everyone.

no didn't notice that, lol, thanx. off to bed now, gotta get up early tomorrow as i still have a 3h drive (by train) to basel. night everyone.

finally finished uploading all my videos from stuttgart: talk before SITM: biotg singing competition (this time before the song, not in between): dr john intro / talk, with suitcase not opening one of the funniest parts ever, his talk before OMS with "i'm a mess" / "i may be kaputt but i ain't soft!": i didn't get the "i'm a mess" thing first, thought he meant messy because he looked at all the stuff lying around on the floor. good that he said it in german then. part of touches you (sorry 4 bad quality, chose the wrong video setting ) - before that, it was the part where he mixed up the song like violet mentioned... he said sth to david and then said sth about wrong song... sorry i missed that, hope graciosa or someone else maybe has it? band intro part 1 (wrong video setting again, sorry...): "Apfelsaft gespritzt" lol, i first had no idea what he meant, violet was that the part you were talking about? we should teach him "Oachkatzalschwoaf"! band intro part 2 - his microphone stopped working sorry it's not complete, battery died in the middle of it! but got the funniest parts i think. maybe someone else has all of it? LT intro: first 1,5 minutes of relax: first 2,5 minutes of WAG: interesting that this time he just pulled up his boxers, and not his trousers. talk before toy boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9SA9Kf4MQ short clip of M signing autographs after the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQ9yxg0Kg0

forecast for tomorrow: 65% risk of rain showers in the morning, clearing up during the day, but only 1-9°C, brrr!

part 2 a girl from the crew was the 2nd lollipop girl in the end, and M pulled her on stage and danced with her. jimmy danced with me, and gave me his plectrum in the end. the band and us stayed for a bit into KA, but at one point jimmy grabbed me and pulled me off stage. btw, mika was spying again on the reactions to KA, but apart from a few ppl at the front, no one was partying to it, unfortunately. we got changed and waited for a while, standing in everyone's way, as it was just a small corridor - i had asked anna whether we should wait in the catering area, where there was lots more space, but she said we should stay there. after a while mika came, shook our hands, and we asked whether we could get individual pix and he said sure as we're only 3 it's ok - so we got our pix, and then i asked him about basel, as he had said in the show that it's the last time they're doing that show - but he said no, he wanted to say last time in a club... well, whatever, he was really really tired, not in a "i wanna leave and go to bed soon" way though, but more in a "ah yes, anything you say, i'm too tired to realize anyway" way. if you know what i mean. he seemed to me like a little boy who's overtired, i felt like hugging him, stuffing him in a bed and reading him a bedtime story. the boy who was a BG told M something about a tattoo he wanted to get and asked him whether he had an idea... and M drew something for him, a heart with an exclamation mark and a question mark... that's what i mean by saying that it wasn't at all like he wanted to get away soon, looked like it was fun for him drawing that. really cute. i then asked something for the mexican fans (yes lui, he got your present! ), and then whether he'd play KA at the new shows, and he said "i don't know". maybe he just haven't thought about it yet but first wants to enjoy his time off before he starts thinking bout his new setlist... (well i HOPE he has some time off!) anyway that's a bit how his answer seemed to me. well, we'll see - at least it wasn't a "no". then he left, and i went outside to join the others. at the outside m+g of course i only took a few pix from the back. he took his time for everyone, really sweet! here's my first video from the show, the talk before SITM: - will try to upload more during the day/evening.got one really funny bit on video, where he says "i am a mess ... ich bin kaputt" and then when some ppl were going "aww!" he said "no don't! i may be kaputt, but i ain't soft!" and boxed a bit in the air with his fists - that was sooo funny! and what he said before TB was funny too, about the puppet, that maybe that's what he'll look like when he's old and something about botox and silicon from supermodels and hair extensions. got that on video too. ;-) ok, off now for a bit, will be back later.

ok, will try a little report, though i still can't think properly coz i'm so tired... i really wonder why i'm still so tired, although i got enoug sleep the last 2 nights. guess i still have to catch up with sleep from last week. or maybe it's just all those weather changes, from 20°C to 2°C and back, and back again in just a few days. part 1 decided to be a lollipop girl yesterday, as a) i figured chances would be good at that small gig and b) i wanted to wear that fluffy LG dress and see if it fits me too (it does! :-)) arrived at ca. 4pm, got no. 16 (like marion mentioned, very relaxed queuing!), and when john came out bout half an hour later, i told him i'd go for being a LG. they indeed had problems finding any that night, they even had a competition in a local newspaper but seems that no one applied! i asked him what they'd do if they didn't find anyone else, and he said they'd dress up the crew. there were a guy and a girl sitting on the steps and the guy immediately said he'd go for being a BG if he was allowed to - and john said ok, so one of the BGs last night was a boy! :-) his (girl-)friend joined him then, so there were 2 BGs and me as the only LG. anna instructed us, we practiced the death march on stage (with jimmy fooling around, as always.... ;-p), and listened to a bit to the soundcheck - but only by the band, mika couldn't make it for soundcheck. i had a little chat with jimmy backstage, he asked me about the dmfc yearbook popup thingie and i told him that antoine had drawn it... and i also quickly got to say hi to the rest of the band, kept bumping into them backstage, it was such a small place! (shame that mika wasn't there yet... ). ah yes, and paloma was there too, just saw her quickly before the show though, more afterwards. after we had put on our costumes (me still without the petticoat and the shoes, would put them on later...), we were told we can sit down in the venue or go outside or whatever we wanted. we didn't get passes/wristbands, but somehow the security staff always let us in+out, even if they didn't know who we were - probably everyone could just have gone in there, lol! marion had texted me that there was a thunderstorm coming up, i told anna, and she contacted john about it on her walkie talkie, whether they could do anything for the numbered people. i didn't think it was possible, as the venue was just one hall, no extra foyer... but they did let them inside, in a special area on the side, from where they'd go on towards the stage shortly before the doors opened. all worked out perfecly. i waited til they had all taken their places and then still got a good front row spot at the side where the piano would be later. it just all became incredibly hot and sweaty during the gig, as i had to wear my (long sleeved) jacket over the LG dress so no one would see it. urgh. would've enjoyed the gig more with one of my usual sleeveless tops... but well, it was fun anyway, and really worth it being a LG. :-) originally we had planned the dresscode day of the dead and i wanted to wear the gray skelly costume, but since i was a LG and graciosa who also had a fab jacket according to the dresscode took that jacket off due to the heat, i guess no one realized that we had a dresscode. shortly before the gig, anna came to where i was standing and told me the death march would be cancelled (i guess coz the stage was too small... the snow machine was there, just didn't see it first - they just cut off the march part of the LT intro) and we'd only have to leave during toy boy. fantastic, otherwise i'd have missed some of the funny talking bits, and the shirtless wag! ;-p it was a bit complicated though to get out during TB, at first we were told to meet up at the back, but due to the change, we should come to the side - which was the other side from where i was standing. so i thought i'd just go through to the back and then on the side to the front again - but easier said than done, that venue was PACKED, there was no space whatsoever! so i couldn't get through on the side without pushing my way through & disturbing everyone, and so had to go via the door at the back, where luckily the security guy let me in, after i'd explained my situation to him. tbc

just posted a pic of wag on twitter. off to bed now, hopefully there's a report thread tomorrow then where i can post. night. http://twitpic.com/1c27b0 edit: and here's my pic with mika, as it was just 3 of us, we got individual pix. i just wished he looked a bit less skeptical on mine but well, he was really tired. like he said at the gig "ich bin kaputt!" http://twitpic.com/1c2a0p

this was one of the funniest gigs ever! mika was in such a silly mood, i guess the kind of silliness when you're just so tired and don't care if things go wrong but just laugh your a** off about it! i filmed most of those funny talking bits, but apart from that only parts of songs because security told us before the show not to film - and when i told him that normally for mika you are allowed to, he said well ok but not too long, only short clips. so that's what i did, no whole songs this time.

no report thread?! ok, so i'll wait with my report and the new WAG pix.

wow, suddenly 12 people on the yes list?! it was 8 when i looked last week... anyway i'm sure we'll all fit in front row, and all the non-fanclub-members won't arrive before 4 pm or even later. like mariposa said, it's not a weekend but a workday. i think/hope that the queuing in stuttgart will be quite relaxed, and you won't have to be there at 2pm or even 10am to get to front row... i myself can't be there until 3 or 4, as my train only arrives shortly before 2 and i gotta get my luggage to where i'm staying. so don't scare me, mariposa! i'm sure the queuing will be even more relaxed than in hamburg, where all of us could've come 3 hours later and still got to front row...

well it does work mostly at the shows, and i like it that he tells the story before it, as the song really stands out among the others. i just said that i can understand if he gets such criticism for it, as i also think that it cools down the atmosphere, the song fits much better to an acoustic show. it doesn't matter that much to me, as i know it'll get HOT again later but i don't blame the journalist for writing that.

another newspaper review: http://www.tz-online.de/aktuelles/muenchen/tz-mika-zenith-schoensten-sausen-sind-lila-693805.html - this one and the abendzeitung one are in the munich newspapers today too, this one as the biggest concert review of all the concerts that took place in munich this weekend (e.g. ronan keating).

well, like i said in another thread, i could do without OMS, because i also think it cools the atmosphere down in a way that isn't necessary... i'd prefer PUOTF instead... but obviously doing OMS is important to him, so if he wants to do it, that's alright with me. i think this song might've been what they meant, as it's a slow song like in a classical concert, without any show to it (wouldn't fit of course...), where you can do nothing but listen. for i see you there's a show with the umbrella, and i really hope they didn't mean happy ending, as that one's really fantastic and bombastic, and i'm sure no one got bored during that. and well, those 3 are the only slow songs in the show anyway. edit: ok i forgot any other world, which i liked more in munich too than at the other gigs, as he made the crowd sing for a bit, and they were clapping to the faster parts as well iirc.

if mika speaks austrian german at the gig, can someone please please film that? i love the austrian dialect, would love to hear him talk like that! have fun everyone!

newspaper review: http://www.pnp.de/nachrichten/artikel.php?cid=29-27548419&Ressort=feu&BNR=0 - it's generally a good review, but they didn't like the slow songs, said it wasn't good for the atmosphere.

video list complete now: and hasibobberle posted a few nice pix on the dmfc, i esp. like the ones with the chair! http://www.mikafanclub.de/forum/index.php/topic,2186.msg240328.html#msg240328 edit: ah, i see she posted them here too.

here are all my videos of the gig: rain: talk before SITM: SITM trumpet solo: biotg singing competition: dr john: GGG: talk before OMS: LT intro: most of wag: talk & toy boy: lollipop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcV8QYWzvzs bit of band+LGs/BGs dancing to "kick ass": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMFWX7Vuks pfft, looks like the last 2 videos can't be uploaded atm because youtube are currently working on their website. will upload them tomorrow then and update the links here. off to bed now, had an average of just 4 hours sleep per night in the last week and guess i'll wake up too early again tomorrow, so i have to go to bed earlier for a change, to catch up some sleep. night everyone.

part 3: aftershow so, after the show some of us bought merchandise stuff, i bought a tbwktm poster, which i wanted signed, and then hang it on my wall next to the signed licm one. wanted to do that in munich, as transporting the poster in the train/plane/... would mean i'd ruin it, i know me, with all the luggage i always have, it'd get messed up! then we went outside and it was FREEZING! it had been raining (luckily didn't during the day or while we were waiting for M, but only during the gig and after M had left... in that way, the weather was really nice to us!), and there was an icy wind, so after a while we were indeed frozen, like those girls in the video sang. security set up "barriers" (just a striped plastic band) to both sides of the VIP entrance, so there was a path in between for ppl to walk through. problem was, it was too many people waiting for mika, there was no space left at that barrier, and of course us (d)mfcers didn't want to push through anywhere, and we wanted to stay together because of the costumes and the yearbook. so we just stood at the side and waited what would happen and how they would organize it. graciosa had told john already in wiesbaden about the costumes and whether maybe we could have a group pic with mika and our costumes. that didn't happen in the end, we didn't ask him as there were so many ppl and it was so cold, we didn't want to bother him for too long and we would've had to take off our jackets and all, it just would've been too complicated. we didn't even take a pic of us all together like we had planned, because it was just too cold and windy. john came out to get leator+sasje backstage... from what leator had told me, the original plan had been that they'd get a champagne m+g, but in the end they told them that sasje would have to say yes first and then mika would come to congratulate them - which he did, and he signed their coke bottle with a nice message. they came out again, we congratulated them as well, and then sasje turned on mika music on her phone (think it was WAG), and we all started singing and especially dancing, to warm us up. it really helped a bit. finally mika came out and went along the line, first on the left, then back on the right, and there they set up another "barrier" around the corner, where finally we found a place to stand! :-) i think john organized this (i think leator told him again inside about our plans...), otherwise mika probably just would've done those 2 lines, it was already a lot of ppl, and he went on quickly. i must admit i took a lot of his time, giving him the yearbook from all of us, and then asking for my personal autograph on the poster (he wrote my name with e again until i asked him to correct it, when will he ever learn?! ). normally i just would've done one of those things, not both, but like i said, i had my reasons to get that autograph in munich... he admired the popup and said he would read the yearbook in the hotel. and he told kanni & co. again how much he loved their costumes. then he went off in the van together with the band, that was new, normally they travel separately... anyway, looks like they had a look at the yearbook in the van, as jimmy got a pic of it for his twitter avatar. so, now i can't decide whether this gig was my fave of the tour so far or still dublin... in dublin i had this feeling that it was really "magical"... yesterday it was amazing, fantastic, brilliant, wonderful... but i didn't get this "magical" feeling. that might just be though because it was still all so new in dublin, and now i've already seen that show a zillion times. anyway the shirtless WAG was definitely better than dublin! btw, leator also said that mika told him that amsterdam would be a completely different show - think someone else has mentioned that about milan already. i'm tempted to look for flights to portugal or spain now, to see that "new" show asap. i shouldn't!! almost finished with uploading my vids, will collect them all in one post once they're all up. ;-)

part 2: the gig it was a WOW! from the first minute on! when the music of rain started, before mika got on stage, martin already jumped and motioned to the crowd to jump too, and mika started running around really soon too. here's my video of rain (without the intro part): like i said, they all were on fire, mika, the band and the crowd. i think he changed around the setlist a bit again, did OMS after dr john, think it was sooner at other gigs? don't remember for sure, anyway it was the usual songs, in whatever order. he did the biotg singing competition, which i think he hasn't done since dublin? anyway not at any of the gigs where i was... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB9K4yxABI0, talked some cute german before sitm (that's what kathy mentioned about being in bavaria, not germany ;-p ... anyway he said that munich is the gig they're always most looking forward to "in this part of the world" (meaning germany i guess...) ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zev45kqDIdM, and did another funny sitm trumpet solo ("it's not rubbish!" ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOjHXNYn2Q. for the dr john intro the coat fell next to his suitcase instead of into it, which made him giggle (unfortunately missed that, only filmed dr john from when he starts singing...), touches you was hot but i couldn't film, had to dance... he also did some nice hip moves during the SITM trumpet solo though. and i think one during WAG... well, i'll just upload my videos (link to SITM trumpet solo see above, WAG will follow...), i'm sure the mikagasmics will find the parts i mean. the LT intro was a bit messy, some walked much faster than others... and i was distracted because right next to us they had to pull a girl out of the crowd who wasn't feeling well, guess due to the heat - that was ok in front row, but a few rows back i think it was quite hot. anyway, the security ppl took ages until they saw us waving to them to come... maybe they were too fascinated by mika. i filmed the LT intro, because silke and statue_of_liberty and nezza (& maybe more MFCers?) were BGs/LGs, and i thought they'd like that on video. the band introduction was nice... it almost seemed to me like he'd read the forum... (if you're here, hi mika! ), as some ppl had mentioned in other german report threads that his "möchte" (would like to) sounds so funny+cute, like "moichte"... - and well, he first said "i'd like to introduce my band", and then the german would be "ich möchte meine band vorstellen" - and he was like "ich m...mm...mmm...mm...möchte", in a way that he was making a huge effort to get it right this time, and said it was the most difficult german part for him. he's so adorable! mika, we love it that you have this cute & unique accent in your german, it would be boring if it sounded perfect! btw, in the newspaper article i posted above, they even said his german was really good - and i also think it has improved a lot since 2007, he changes words now instead of always saying the same memorized text, and he uses a rather everyday-sounding than schoolbook-sounding language (e.g. "ich versuch's" instead of "ich versuche es"). also i think he played the wrong piano keys once during the band intro part and that made him laugh. :-D unfortunately missed fiming the band introduction, hope someone else has it? before WAG started, mika kneeled with his back to the crowd and unbuttoned his shirt... and when he got up, he pulled up his trousers - again me thinking that he might've read the forum, or at least seen the pix from berlin... i really love it when he's shirtless, but yeah i guess i agree that i prefer if he pulls up his trousers. it was nice in berlin to see half of his bum, but i think that calvin klein underwear model shot wouldn't have looked as good if the trousers had been hanging down like that. ;-p well, and like i already said, for lollipop he motioned kanni+antoine+graciosa to come up. got all of lollipop on video, a bit shaky though. for kick ass all the BGs+LGs and at first also the band stayed on stage and kept on partying, that was fab! i got a little bit of that on video too. jimmy wanted everyone to give him the big balloons, and he kicked them somewhere (i think someone on here said the photographers? i didn't even notice there were any at that point... *g*). to be continued with the 3rd (and last) part.

so, will try a full report now, as for a change i'm at home atm. and there's lots to write about! part1: queuing/preparations i heard yesterday that some german fans wanted to come really early, so i changed my plans from coming at noon to coming at 9-10 am. it didn't really work though, i was too tired and couldn't get out of bed. so i arrived at 11 am and got no.14 - which was perfect still, ended up in a good front row place almost in the center. the first ones have arrived before 8 am though, that's crazy! and around noon already the first non-(d)mfcers arrived - well that's the bad thing about saturday gigs. sigh. anyway, the waiting time turned out to be very short in the end... i borrowed my mum's car so i could take chairs and other stuff with me, and got a parking place right next to the queue, so several ppl could leave their stuff in my car during the gig and it also was good to warm up for a few minutes if it got too cold... when the sun came out, it was quite warm (it also warmed up the car), but most of the time it was cloudy and a quite strong and cold wind. i was busy organizing stuff, like doing the numbers (first awine (dmfc) did them, then graciosa, sasje and me shared the task for the rest of the day...), and giving people their coke bottles (thanx again to meggy for buying them for us!) and dmfc badges. went to get pizza, and not long after i returned, kanni & antoine arrived. for those who don't know, antoine was the guy in berlin (acoustic tour) who wore the sophie blackall paper dress, of which a pic was in a magazine (observer?) and sophie posted it in her blog too. kanni is his girlfriend, who is making all those cool costumes. she had been planning and organizing for the last 6 months to turn the complete blackall project into costumes, it was already right after the acoustic tour when she first started looking for people on dmfc who wanted to take part in it - and they ended up doing it in munich, as that was where everyone would come to. antoine was the paper dress girl again, kanni dressed as the big letter thingie, and graciosa was the jungle man. the 3 of them were the most obvious/outstanding costumes, that's why mika got them on stage for lollipop. rauschendes_bächlein was the tax baby, and there were 2 costumes for those worm-thingies (kanni called them worm-girls), of which one was worn by mikaschnegge, and the other one was for nessá, who unfortunately couldn't come because she became ill, so mariposa ended up wearing it. btw, i dressed as the elephant, nothing extraordinary, as kanni didn't have time to make more costumes, but she said the elephant is still missing, so i made it myself... i just made a little mask from paper (like this: http://www.kindergarten-workshop.de/kreativ/karneval/maske_elefant.JPG) and wore grey clothes. the other thing we had planned for munich, as most dmfc members would be there, was to give mika the dmfc yearbook. just a small din a5 book with 60 pages, nothing compared to the mfc one, but we had given mika a yearbook already in 2007 (not 2008 as he wasn't in germany then ), so we wanted to continue that. i had organized the printing etc., and kanni had planned to make a cover for it, covering the book in blue velvety fabric, putting stars etc. on it, and making a popup picture inside the cover. she wanted to do that the day before the gig (because the book didn't arrive in time to give it to her in wiesbaden), but she didn't have time, so all that was prepared when they arrived in the queue was that antoine had drawn the pictures for the popup thingie. they had brought everything with them though, so while kanni was doing the costumes and make-up for graciosa and the others, rauschendes_bächlein, mariposa, antoine and me were busy finishing the yearbook. i covered it in the self-adhesive fabric, and glued on the stars+letters etc., mariposa protected it all from the strong wind and cut out most of the letters, and when we were finished, rauschendes_bächlein and antoine took care of the popup. here's what it looked like in the end: recognize jimmy's new twitter avatar there? btw, the letters on the cover look white in the pic, but they were golden. well, and then we heard that doors would open already at 6:30, not 7 like at the other gigs! and they said they'd let the mfc (well, the numbered...) queue in 10 minutes earlier, so i was starting to panick as i needed the toilet and there was a huge queue there and i thought i only had 5 minutes left! already thought i'd have a quite uncomfortable gig, but obviously the support act roman fischer was rehearsing a bit longer than planned, so finally we got the info we'd be let in at 6:35, john came out to see if we were ok, some more people put stuff in my car, i quickly used the men's bathroom to avoid the queue , and so everything was fine in the end. so yeah, the queuing time went by quite fast with all that stuff. ah, btw, i forgot... when the first ones arrived in the morning, a security guy asked them whether they were from the fanclub, and directly told them that we'd get an extra door. :-) love it that it was already organized in the morning, so we knew right away where to go and where to send people. part 2 will follow...

newspaper reviews about the dusseldorf gig, in case they haven't been posted yet: http://www.wz-newsline.de/?redid=788906 http://www.derwesten.de/kultur/musik-und-konzerte/Mika-in-Duesseldorf-Peter-Pan-feiert-Geburtstag-id2766023.html sorry no time to translate, but google will help you.

a short review in the online version of "abendzeitung": http://www.abendzeitung.de/kultur/blitzkritik/175606 ... no time to translate now, maybe someone does? it's generally positive, though i don't like everything they say. but i've definitely read worse reviews (hamburg... ).

thanx for your report kathy, love reading first mika gig experiences! and thanx for the video, haha, you can hear this group of girls singing, there were 5 of them or so, singing and shouting stuff all the time - like "gimme an M, gimme an I, etc." - it got a bit bothering at some point, but some of it was quite funny like the "we are frozen!" which you can hear in the video - made mika giggle too, haha! it was so f*ing cold after the gig, couldn't have been much above zero, and an icy cold wind! starting to watch & then upload my vids now.