mellody

yup, a bit of my hair is visible behind his shoulder. ah, i was already wondering what trousers he was wearing while signing autographs, i didn't see them, just saw his shirt - and he was wearing the same shirt the next day at the airport. different trousers though - also somewhat baggy, but it was more like jeans, beige.

maybe mika thinks, as it's the small acoustic gigs now, the stage invasion wouldn't be that mad as in big concerts. or he thinks, people didn't invade the stage during the first hour of the gig, though it's only a few steps away, so they know how to behave. whatever, i think he's lucky that so far no one has been hurt, and as long as it stays like this, he'll probably keep doing it. obviously it's not a big problem for him that people keep grabbing at him, or at least he's willing to give that sacrifice for giving his fans the chance to be on stage with him. or maybe he likes it, a kind of danger, like others doing bungee jumping.

so from that comment i guess it has been posted already? sorry, haven't seen it... am at work now+ don't have time to read the whole thread. yeah, they grabbed at him in milan too, he fled on the piano from them, but they still grabbed his legs. maybe in london he didn't make it to the piano... i didn't see though how he got away from the stage in milan, it all happened so fast. i also didn't see at the milan m+g that he almost fell over, just saw that he was suddenly surrounded by a mob after talking to mfc, and hurried to get to the car. stupid ppl, why do they have to ruin everything?! if she wants to hug him, why doesn't she ask politely, i'm sure he would've done it!

a few bits from leators report on the german forum: - obviously they had technical difficulties with the sound system - when mika got "any other world" wrong, he said (according to leator): I'm such a motherf***er... I really said motherf***er, didn't I? Well.... f*** - seems like some fans were quite rude during the stage invasion, pushing mika in a corner and grabbing at him. leator said that, when mika left the stage, he looked quite unhappy.

Leator_Sasje Were on Stage with MIKA! Too bad he had to flee for grabbing hands about 1 hour ago from txt so, another stage invasion!

photos continued: i've uploaded more, if you use the image link and add the numbers from 01 to 51, you can see them... or as soon as i managed to link to them with thumbnails on my website, i'll post that link here too.

more photos:

the first 2 of my pix... the mfc flag with the milan mika signature, and a pic of our new mfc-member with mika

agree with that.

my videos: lady jane (complete except for first line): toy boy (complete): happy ending (first 1,5 minutes, sorry for shaking at beginning...): 15 seconds of relax: i had a fantastic place, could just keep the camera on my knee, without looking through it all the time - i prefer watching mika without a camera in between. though towards the end of toy boy, i had a wrong angle, so for a short while you can't see his eyes. btw, i just remembered another quote from him at the airport. i asked him "how's the tour been for you so far?" and he answered sth like good, and "we're getting better". only can agree with that (and wish i was in london... damn, post-gig depression started since i heard he did lonely alcoholic in london! )

aaah, thank you! on that one you can even see his face, not just his back - great!! i first thought that it was while he was drawing the gray skelly, but it's not my EP he's signing there, i let him sign a different page of it.

as agnieszka said' date=' he took a lot of time for everyone. i just asked him to sign my EP "to karin", he did the rest. separately. there were others who didn#t get the card, they just went there again and asked for it (same in milan, btw), and got it then. but i guess it's not possible anymore now, as we didn't get receipts for the EP.

aah, great video! i still don't understand "secret gigs" though, but "secret things". he said "the tour is a little later, but there'll be so many smaller things happening before ... secret ..." and here i still understand "things", not "gigs". both words sound similar, so there's the reason why i understood it in a different way than you guys. but you're probably right, as you all - including the native speakers - understood "gigs". at least now i know that i'm not stupid, but that it just was easy to misunderstand that. who recorded that video? it's just great to see it all again, so thanx a lot!

i forgot to mention another thing he said while chatting to us, which i found quite interesting... i think it was related to the many complaints about the ticket handling and other things going wrong. he said it's things that have never been done before, including the ticket preordering and the magic numbers, and sth along the lines that it takes time to work properly. don't remember what he said exactly, but the sense i understood behind it was "sorry for the inconveniences, but we have no experience with that, so please bear with us until we get it all established." actually, looking back, the ticket difficulties turned out as a good thing, because it was that what made us start the detailled number system in berlin, and it all went so well with those numbers, in berlin as well as in milan.

that was already in 2007, ibiza. looong ago, so it was time for another airport meeting. so he said secret gigs? pfft, he must have thought I'm completely mad about what i said to him at the airport then! about the living room gig, he also added that it would cost a lot of points... so maybe it's something you have to save for for years, even if you go to all the gigs. what i find interesting is that i don't even have a post-gig-depression yet. wondering if that is cause milan was so fab and i'm satisfied for the next few months, or cause i've seen him again today so the depression will start tomorrow. at the moment i'm just happy about the berlin and milan experience and also happy to be back home, though of course i'd love to go to london, but more to meet the MFCers there than because of mika. guess i'll change my mind though if anything spectacular happens on the rest of the tour, like special mfc meet+greet - then i will surely regret a lot not having been there!

will upload my pix+vids tomorrow night, don't have any more time now i filmed 2 whole songs this time, can't believe it. toy boy and lady jane.

ok, i see that you all were very fast with your reports, i quickly scanned through the front page links, and decided that i'll focus on what he said after the show, cause there haven't been said much about that yet. but first of all, very special thanx go to... - ROBI - you were a hero yesterday! i never thought crazy italian fangirls could behave so well like they did for the queuing. and all thanx to you! so sorry that you didn't get a chance to meet mika after the show, you really would've deserved it!! - allegra, thanx for all the milan info and the "survival kit" - it really helped us! - tiibet, i was lucky to have you as my roommate, we wanted to get up and sleep always at the same time, couldn't be more perfect. hope you had a great sightseeing day today+have fun in paris! now, about what he said to us in the queue... sara mentioned sth about secret gigs in sept, but i didn't understand it that way... i think he just said there will be sth special in sept, and it's still a secret, and the tour will not be in sept but later. did i understand that wrong? what did the others who were there hear? or maybe someone filmed it, so we can listen again? anyway, i asked him "so you'll be back in september - for a tour?" and he said, "no, the tour is later" and then what i said before. and because he mentioned secret, i asked whether it'd have to do anything with the magic numbers/secret codes, then he first started to tell it, stopped again, and then sara (i think?) told him he already started telling us, so he couldn't stop now... *g* and so he told us that it will be like virtual money, for which you can buy real things. including a private gig in your living room, but of course that will cost a lot of points. today i met him again at the airport. i was on the way to my check-in-terminal (that self-check-in thing), when i saw john standing at the counter next to it. i just went to check-in, but of course was looking around... and there behind me walked mika. i said "mika..." and when he looked said hi+waved, so did he and went to john. i got back to checking in, when mika started talking to me again across the barrier thing that was between the check-in-terminal and the counter. he asked me "how are you" and "where you're going back to" - so i told him i'd go home to munich and unfortunately couldn't come to any other shows due to work. he thanked me that i've been to the 2 shows, and then i asked about september again... as i said, i hadn't understood that he'd said gigs, so i asked, if it's not a tour, will it still be possible to see him in sept, and he said, he doesn't know, and sth like there's nothing planned for sure yet. later when we said goodbye, he said "maybe see you in september". i also told him i liked his new songs, and most of all good gone girl, and he seemed surprised by that. after talking a bit, he went to his counter, and i finally got to finish my check-in. then i had to drop off my luggage, and for that had to go to the same counter where john, mika, mrs p. and andy stood, as it was the self-check-in-baggage-drop-off-counter. so i queued behind them (it was only them+me at that counter), and felt a bit weird, standing there+watching mika+his mum trying to get an umbrella into a cardboard box. oh yeah, andy said hi to, and told me he was tired, that it hit him today. i wonder why, i didn't see him filming at all yesterday... anyway, when they left, mika came to me again and said "have a safe flight" and "maybe see you in september". it was just lovely to meet him again today, especially since it was so mad yesterday after the show (though i can't complain really, as he stopped at our place for the longest time in the whole queue i think).

damn, didn't have time anymore now to read all the old infos on here, but i'm sure thanx to allegra's "milan-kit" i'll be fine. am off to the airport now... prob. won't tweet much from milan, as in foreign countries it's expensive. but maybe a bit, if sth mentionable happens tomorrow night.

thanx robi! as i PMed you before, i'll decide tomorrow whether i'll join you, depending on the situation. but i'll def. keep that place in mind: PIZZA!

after the gig? it was midnight in berlin when mika left, and milan will start even 1 hour later, so... no, not for me, thanx. so no pizza for lunch then?

oh man i wish i could go too! fanny said she had spares, maybe she still has them? sara, thanx for your report, loved reading it! big girlie, nice new avatar... btw, i forgot to sign the flag - gotta make up for that in milan!

you said that the lunch place is not a pizzeria, but do they still have pizza? *wants original italian pizza margharita*

as you probably all know by now, the EP is available at the concerts, so i could listen to the HQ toy boy version. my favourite part of the song now is where he sings "she pulled out my insides with an old safety pin", and in the background the disney flutes trill a beautiful melody, this is just hilarious!

same here. flash makes no sense at a concert anyway, unless mika is standing right in front of you. and i understand that in a church or fancy theater flash isn't allowed, like in a museum, cause it's not good for the paintings etc. i'm wondering about the no filming thing though. "team mika" started taking films off youtube, which they haven't done before. but at the same time, they encourage us to post our (youtube) videos on mikasounds. makes no sense to me really. maybe they just don't want the new songs to be spread all over the web before their release? but then they should state this clearly, and not just a general "no filming".

my weather forecast currently says rain for the whole day, up to 22 degrees. they'd better change that in the next few days! i'm not too keen on heat either, but i'd definitely prefer it to rain and storms! anyway, i'll take my summer dress to milan, and if it's too cold for queuing, i think the hotel is so close that i might be able to go there and change before the show. damn weather won't keep me from wearing my summer dress AGAIN!