Jolene

Mika on Rove, Australia. http://www.rovedaily.com.au

satu and avoca and all

You girls are amazing. I have no power left in me today to find the pics of Japan. What you uploaded is fabulous. None of him in the black jacket from the start of his show yet.

 

But I did find the video is partially uploaded as part of the highlights.

http://www.vmaj2007.com/top.html

and when the video of Ai starts with thedrummers scroll along to 1:08 - 1:58, and again scroll along to 16:25 - 17:03...the last one you can hear how breathless he is after running round the stadium!!

Thanks for the tip on when to look out for him! Saved me 20 minutes! Have you come down off your high yet Blue Sky? Have just put a post on the aussie thread as Mika will be on Rove next Sunday night. How exciting!

Hi Guys, thought I would join up here as well!

I am a mum to 2 adorable (sometimes!!) kiddies- Bailey, who turns 4 on Tuesday and Mackenzie who is two and a half. They definately keep me on my toes but have taken a bit of a backseat over the past couple of weeks as I always on here! Blue Sky, can you please add me to the list!!

I fell for it too!! Was thinking, was just on Perez's site and it wasn't there then!! Then looked at the start date of the thread, and thought, hang on a minute..... still had to read into a few pages to figure it out though!!

That was great- I know they were taking the p*** out of him a bit but it always cool to see other peoples interpretations of things! I will never watch that video in the same way! Love Love MIKA!!

OK rest of the report. My kids woke me up early to hear about it...all disappointed I didn't meet him, so I had to act like a grown up for a change, and tell them you can't usually meet pop stars anyway etc etc.

 

So Mika did his two songs (LT and GK) with just him and Martin, as I posted last night, and then got pulled over to the side of the stage for the MTV interview by two Japanese celebrities, and they asked him things about Japan. The weather was so hot and sunny after a day of torrential rain, so they commented on that, and Mika said he had spent some time catching some rays on the steps behind the stage(which was outside).

 

He said he spent an enormous amount of money on Japanese toys. Then he said he really likes J-Pop stars like Bennie K, DJ Ozuma and then he said he is going to write the next Puffy song!!!

 

The strange thing was, he was interviewed with his back to the audience, so I spent the entire time viewing his bum!! He even turned around and sort of laughed at the audience behind him...he probably was thinking how weird it was.

 

Then he was whisked off (with us screaming of course) and I tried to find my seat in this enormous stadium with only one entrance! Meanwhile I walked past a monitor of the live MTV broadcast and saw Mika was on the red carpet with the animal friends. Wish I had stayed outside waiting to see him there!! He looked amazing in his white jacket with the red trim and the red tie (and gold shoes)

 

The inside of the stadium was all standing in the middle, and I had a seat on the side towards the back. The stage was split into lots of pieces, and it was such a TELEVISION event, not a MIKA event at all. They had us fill in time during the ads with games and chatter from a Japanese celeb MC, and they had us practice shouting stuff out and clapping. The artists who won the awards were almost always Japanese, except for a couple of the guest overseas artists. It seemed so artificial, such a set-up...one of the Japanese girls beat Christina Aguilera!

 

The people who got the standing area down the front had special tickets. Down the front they also got given all sorts of props to bring out for the different performers, like little red glow sticks and towels and so on. They were so obviously told to really wave their arms and scream for every artist. For good effects on the TV I guess.

 

The rules were so strict, no cameras, no glowing bracelets or necklaces, no access to performers. It arena like a giant rabbit warren, you couldn't find anywhere to get near to wait, and there was in fact only one exit...imagine a fire (oh sorry that is the mother in me!) So when we went home, we had to queue for 30 minutes just to get out of the stadium!!! (during which time Mika was whisked off to his hotel without me knowing!)

 

Back to the show. It ran for 3 hours of LIVE TV (6pm to 9pm), so we had to put up with all the nonsense that goes with that. The winning artists gave the most boring speeches. They all said "Minna genki???" Is everyone OK? and then just Thankyou. A few said a joke or two. So it was a long wait till Mika came on just after 8. For a couple of other artists the girls beside me got up and danced, and once the girls in front got up and danced, but everyone around me was on sponsor/invitation tickets and soooo boring. I asked to go into the standing area with my friends (who used the tickets I won) and security wouldn't let me. Every section of the standing was separated from the others, so you couldn't get to the front unless you were allocated that separate section. It was all done for TV effect. There was this camera that FLEW at high speed along the wires above everyone's heads, taking amazing shots. We could see the MTV live shots on big vids beside the stages, and the script was running in HUGE writing at the back of the arena. So we knew who was coming out before they read it!!

 

So then MIKA came on, and all the people down the front went wild like they knew who he was!! And the biggest surprise for me was that all his band were there! Cherisse and Mikey and Martin I could see in the lights, Luke I assume was there, couldn't see him in the gloominess at the back. We didn't know they were coming too. But that means they will be in HK and Sydney this week too, I am sure now.

 

And Mika started with Love Today, a great BIG stage version of Love today, in the white jacket with the black embroidery that is in the video from the show. And my friends were waving to me from the arena floor, and so I thought, oh come on, what the heck, I will just get up alone and make a fool of myself. It took a lot of courage, but I stood up there DANCING and waving my MFC poster and singing loudly with MIKA like a true Mika Maniac.

 

Then he did a great rendition of Grace Kelly, with animals, lollipop girls, balloons, giant balls and bubbles. And the big girl with the pink hair and the pink shirt (me) danced her socks off and went wild ALL ALONE in the stadium seats, but I know that MIKA fans couldn't get tickets to be there because it was an MTV show, and next time in July it will be ALL MIKA fans, and we will have much more fun together.

 

And then we had the post show traffic jam to get out the one exit...and you know the rest. No meetings, no autographs, and crushing disappointment.

 

But Mika LIVE was truly amazing, and I know he will be back and be around for a LOOOOONG time yet.

 

Phew, did you stick with me till the end...thanks for reading!!

Thanks for the report! That's great that the band are with him- I was thinking from your earlier report that Martin must have been the only one with him. I sent Luke a message on myspace asking if he was coming to OZ but hadn't heard back. I think it is really cute that his mum and sister come with him as well- what a proud mummy she must be! And now there is footage of you on her camera! I can't wait to see some more footage from the night.

BLUE SKY ... I just posted you on the other thread ...haha ... chasing you around this time !!! After your experience , I know we may not meet Mika ... i mean, he's not in his home town, & is going from hotel to hotel it just must be crazy for them ... ... but we will see him perform... and we WILL represent MFC !!!!!

I posted on another as well! There is always next time Blue Sky...

Please- we need details!!!

I am pretty sure that is Blue Sky, just from the description she has given of herself- look out for pink streaks in her hair!

Hey Blue Sky! You probably are already on your way, but have an awesome night, hope you get some great pictures, etc and we can't wait to hear about it when its over!! HAVE FUN AND DO US PROUD!!!

I did mine yesterday- I said something about how he seems to enjoy doing interviews and did he realise MFC members around the world are using his laugh as a ringtone/ sms alert!! I don't know if that question will be used, but it would be funny to see the answer!!

This keeps getting funnier and funnier!!

We have the chance in Australia at the moment to ask Mika a question on an interview- I am submitting "do you know that your laugh is now the latest ringtone/ sms alert for MFC members around the world!" Ha Ha!! :naughty:

Cheers! That is hilarious! I am going to get some really strange looks! I wonder what Mika would think if he knew people have his laugh as an sms alert!! Cool!

I am sooo excited about this! I can't wait to put this on my phone:biggrin2:

http://music.ninemsn.com.au/feedback.aspx?formid=2378

Hi Guys! Just found a section on Mika on ninemsn music- your chance to ask him a question in a video interview while he is here in Oz!

Let's make sure we get some interesting ones in!

It's not fair!!!! Why can't he come to Western Australia! It's only a 5 hour flight from Sydney..... I am so happy for all of you who are going, will continue to try and get my way over there (anyone got a spare $1000 lying around?)

Thanks for loading Babs! Was going crazy not being able to watch it!

What an awesome night you had! So jealous! Want pictures!!

mika on radio 1 now

Just uploaded the clip of the end of Lollipop that my mate filmed It's currently being porcessed though on youtube so it'll take a while to show up.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghHA8vUm5o

Thanks Jennie- that was awesome! I have just watched it over and over about 10 times! Lucky girl!!

Cheers, that would be awesome!

Was sitting on the computer and could here Love Today in the background and thought that's weird, my phone's not ringing and then realised it was on Channel V2 on Foxtel- number 5 on their Top Pop chart. I think it's great that it has finally been released here in Oz!

I knew it would be too much to expect him to come to Perth but one can only dream... fingers crossed for next time! Make sure you guys get as much footage as poss!

Hi Guys!

Hope this hasn't been posted before but just came across Mika's performance at South by South West earlier this year. You have to skip to a couple of minutes into the video. Hope the link below works, let me know if it doesn't

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Enjoy!

http://search.au.music.yahoo.com/search/?p=mika&m=video