lollipop_monkey

Thanks for posting Robi!

 

Goldling

 

It's interesting though, and he talks about the internet affects friendships, in the sense that it gives you an opportunity to talk and connect to people in a way that you wouldn't in real life. You can contact people you wouldn't have the guts to speak to in real life.

 

Ooh I can't wait for the original. In the mean time, I can haz translated summary?

 

Thank you! But I can't see it...

 

Oh that's too bad. How about here? It's a different photo hosting site so maybe that might help?

Remember your 'seat'?

 

Biggest ripoff EVAR. Trust Sandbag to start selling tickets from the far ass-end of the row rather than the middle.

 

Oh well, it turned out okay in the end. And I got to hang out with you lovely Dutchies which was an added bonus.

 

Dammit, now I want to go back to Amsterdam.

You just want any excuse to post a video of your boyfriend Dan

 

Maybe. Dan.

Ehm, I know it´s weird, but which blood type Mika has?

 

Red.

 

Beyond that I have no idea. I don't think he's ever announced it.

'Songs For Sorrow' acoustic tour @ Het Concert-Gebouw by Sven Aaron Miller

 

Thanks for sharing. This was a really great gig.

After watching the vids from this gig, it wasn't the NYC Le Poisson Rouge show it reminded me of but that footage from Latitude Festival - y'know, where he was just rocking out with a bunch of people in the woods.

 

If you haven't seen this video before, Mika's at the left of the frame standing behind the piano.

 

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Thank everybody for their reports, pics and videos

 

Here are my pics and the videos I took:

 

 

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3355484#post3355484

 

here I posted a video of my pop-up book!

 

Wow! No wonder Mika wanted to keep it.

It's breathtaking, just imagine how beautiful Happy Ending vid must be!

 

That GK video is phenomenal. Now I'm dying to see the rest of the gig.

rolled up trousers

rolled up trousers

rolled up trousers

 

 

See, Mika? If you stop giving us something new to chew on, this is the madness your fan club descends into!

(Men getting their ear pierced originated with pirates; the value of the earring was meant to pay for their burial if they were lost at sea and their body washed ashore).

 

SO, I guess MIKA's ear ring is to pay for that gun or cannon he recently said he wanted!

 

 

I reject that hypothesis. Clearly Mika is telling us he's a pirate!

 

Has anyone posted Vanessa's videos yet? She was sitting on the other side of the piano.

 

Oh lovely! So nice to see it from another point of view.

My theses: It was Mika's evil twin, playing the MN gig.

An earring, no curls, forgetting the lyrics? ...Seriously:mf_rosetinted:

 

And Mika, if it was really you on that gig; one earring is just the beginning. Here's a future scene of what you will look like in a few years (or just months?)

 

 

What's this? Mika's turning into Adam Lambert?

 

• Happy Ending. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Mana would have cried.
  

 

Yeah, you're probably right.

 

Thank you so much for such a detailed report! I'm really hoping Mikasounds posts all the footage and not just some snippets. The YouTube vids people have posted are amazing of course, but to see a pro recording would be such a treat.

 

I agree with what you were saying about loving Mika's voice when it's more restrained like it was at this gig. It's fine for him to go all out when he's on a stage in front of thousands, but the way he sang at this gig was just so fitting. It's also funny you should mention that it was really acoustic. After the acoustic tour I started thinking that Mika's definition of "acoustic" simply meant "without backing tracks".

 

I love the way some of the songs came together in what felt like a spontaneous random act of music. I can't believe Only Lonely One is just Mika singing and beating on the piano, David playing the same few chords over and over, and Cherisse playing that little drum thing. It's beyond my comprehension how something so simple can sound so good, but I just love it.

 

The videos where he's standing behind the piano (Only Lonely One and Lollipop) remind me of those videos from Latitude where he was just standing behind a random piano in the woods, rocking out with a bunch of people.

 

Ooh, Martin looks really good with glasses, doesn't he? They suit him.

 

Nina, I shared your Only Lonely One video on Facebook and some distant friends that I barely talk to posted favourable comments, which is especially nice since he's so unknown here. One even wrote:

 

"I have to say cause of your posts on here with his music it got me to download it!! My 3 year old as been rocking out to big girls for months she can almost sing the whole song."

 

World domination baby.

It's 4am here and I probably should go to bed, but staying up to watch Nina's videos is far too tempting to pass up.

yes!! I'm back in Mexico and dead XD

 

ok I'll upload them then

 

Thanks. Don't you know that beggars can't be picky.

 

Oh, and I loved the bit in Billy Brown where people were like "MEXICO!!" I assume that was you and your guests?

 

It reminded me of the Roxy gig in LA where the same thing happened, all the Mexican fans cheered when he sang the "island off the coast of Mexico" line.

Anyone else find it interesting that he kept messing up Toy Boy, which he's played a gazillion times over the last 22 months... but he had Only Lonely One pretty much spot on? How funny is it that he nailed this obscure B-side from a four year-old single and yet acted horrified at the prospect of doing Ring Ring, which he's done live for entire tours.

 

I wonder if he's been working with Only Lonely One and intends to unveil some new version of it on the new album. What he did live is quite different from the demo, and it screams "potential". I could see him arranging it in a way that puts the song in the same general vein/flavour as

by Jason Mraz and by Train, which were huge on the US charts, and When the Night Feels My Song by Bedouin Soundclash which was huge in Canada. North America is eating this stuff up... just sayin, Mika.

 

I'm so tired... but I promise as soon as I can I will upload some pics, I have videos but they are really bad quality

 

Can't wait! Are you back home already?

 

And if you don't mind, I say post the vids despite the bad quality. I think we're hungry enough to take what we can get.

The main thing that struck about this gig is how powerful Mika's voice is. Most so-called popstars today would be inaudible without a microphone.

 

And what a wonderful voice it is too

 

Inaudible without a microphone, and unbearable without a copy of Autotune.

 

I agree, what a wonderful voice indeed. All the skeptics who accuse him of lip-synching can take these videos and suck it.

I just spent an hour of my life looking up Mika's official vids on YouTube, reading what "normal" people have to say about them, and nearly peeing myself laughing.

 

Grace Kelly:

"Anyone else replaying that 'kachinga' over and over? He sounds like a Pokemon!"

 

Rain:

"Goal: outdance and run down Mika. Status: fail."

 

"i don't give a sh*t if he is gay or even a martian."

 

"RUN MIKA RUN!... lady gaga has spawned with herself... and they have come to get you! RUN!"

 

We Are Golden:

"he had a cupcake suit before lady gaga had a meat suit ha!!!"

 

"who said all british people were conservative"

 

"so THATS what Mika does in his spare time..."

 

"what's up with the diaper?"

 

"He's so hot. I love the lasers coming from his junk."

 

"thumbs up for laser liberty!"

 

:lmao:

thanks again Nanou

it looks like a "live@home" only for you

you're very lucky...thancks for posting the vid!

 

That's what I was thinking too... it reminds me of that "live@home" performance from France. Amazing.

here is "Relax" then

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3lSjR4EqU

 

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!

 

We poor fans in the Americas faced the prospect of waiting ALL evening for videos as Europe slept, then being asleep ourselves when you all wake up and start uploading. So I really appreciate you staying up late to post this.

 

Wow, wow, wow. What a great vibe. I can't believe he didn't have a microphone! Oh, to hear Mika sing without any amplification... have I mentioned lately that I love that man's voice?

 

I'm all fangurly now.

Oh that's a beautiful pic, Nina! Thanks for sharing! Melachi is adorable.

 

I was working on the yearbook last night and read one of your reports (after one of the arena shows) about how you dream of intimate acoustic performances. I'm so glad you were there for this.

 

Have you decided yet if you're going to upload your videos?

I hear a rumour that he performed one of the demo tracks... one that was released on one of the LICM singles.

 

But, as that's only secondhand info, I'll wait for the gig-goers to share their reports. :biggrin2:

 

Oh and apparently they had a pro videotape the gig, so hopefully that will be on Mikasounds at some point.

It's from a little interview from the TBA gig back in 2007 http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/29965882

 

Whoa, blast from the past. So nice to watch that one again.

Did I say I was on this red carpet as well with hotdlp, lollipop_monkey and sariflor? I did?:aah:

 

Best moment evar. Do you know how many cool points that gets me back here in Nowheresville, Canada? "Yeah, I got to walk the red carpet at the exclusive European premiere at Leicester Square, in London."

 

Strangely, as I post this Toastie is watching Kick Ass. Spooooky!

So he was telling the truth about the blue catsuit after all...

 

 

Yes, that's pretty much how it looked in my head when I read that.

 

OMG I've actually wore a blue catsuit!!!!

 

 

Looks a lot better than Mika up there ^^.