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Thank you Kath!! can't wait to meet the other 38 insane MFCiers in London

Hi everyone, I am a big advocate of tolerance, and although I have tried my best not to get involved, I feel I have no option but voice out my concern and open this thread.

http://www.nrjlebanon.com/events/concerts_index.php MIKA IN BEIRUT Beiteddine Festival in collaboration with Baalbeck Festival & NRJ - July 27 MIKA Mika wants to set the bar for fantastical, 3 dimensional pop at his own height. Which is over 6’ and statuesquely sculptured, since you ask. Welcome to his world: where some louche dilettante is throwing the greatest party in the universe and everyone is invited under his very own cherry moon. Mika is a songwriter, performer, producer and orchestrator and he has unleashed his debut album to the world. Both astonishingly musical and profoundly thoughtful, his tunes combine a heady euphoric rush with darker unexpected elements: daytime melodramas and night-time tales of love, loss, abandonment, hope and happiness. They all jostle together for attention, each one a pure pop golden nugget. Mika is a true young internationalist. Born in Beirut in the middle of the 80s, Mika’s family soon found themselves having to move to Paris at the height of the war. When his father was subsequently taken hostage and held at the American embassy in Kuwait the family eventually settled in London. An inevitably turbulent experience for our young hero, he found himself bereft, lost in the chasm of a displaced upbringing. “It was the combination of moving as well as a horrible time I had at school in the first few years of living in London that lead me to forget how to read and write, and stop talking for a little while. I was pulled out of school for over six months; in order to sort my self out and find a new school. This is when music really became important. It got me back on my feet.” He says now that by the age of 9 he knew that songwriting was his destiny. The electric performances that would win over some of the most hardened musical ears on the planet would come later. A self-taught piano virtuoso, gymnastic vocalist and born entertainer, Mika has music in his bones and at a prodigiously young age he was ready to show out and let go. Mika wasn’t hunched over a radio under his bedclothes or seduced by the glitz of "Top of the Pop’s" on the TV screen when he had his first performance awakenings. Instead, he was catapulted onto the stage of a Richard Strauss opera at 11. After near complete social exclusion at school - “I wish I could say I was a self-imposed loner but it was imposed on me” - this was a life he fell in love with, instantly: “It was a magical world that you could live in. A parallel universe for people that is illusory and enchanting and amazing.” For the last 12 years of his life he has followed his maxim of a parallel universe to its natural conclusion and is now presenting his dynamic, idiosyncratic and unashamedly personal debut album. “I grew up listening to every thing from Joan Baez and Dylan, to Serge Gainsbourg and Flamenco. My musical tastes have become more eclectic as I’ve got older, but I'm always going back to great artist songwriters, people who make great records to their own vision. Prince, Harry Nillson, Elton John, even Michael Jackson. These people make amazing pop records that couldn’t be performed by anybody else and that’s what I always wanted to do.”

This has been posted before in "News" section. I think it is worth adding it to gigs to get a clear idea who is attending and give people a thread to discuss where to meet, where to buy tickets and to write reports. http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/prog.asp?lng=en Sunday July 27th 2008 Mika Pop Concert In Co-Production with Beiteddine Festival & 2U2C Martyr's Square Mika is the new genius of pop music. Born in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and living in London, he writes his own lyrics and music. He is often compared to Robbie Williams, Scissor Sisters and Freddy Mercury. His first album «Life in Cartoon Motion» introduces such songs as « Grace Kelly», « Relax, Take it Easy» and « Love Today» and has beaten all records in Europe and the United States. His music is fabulous. His four-octaves voice drives the crowd wild. The rest of the program will be announced soon. Tickets are not yet availbale online but will be soon on http://www.ticketingboxoffice.com/Default.asp I will keep you updated.

This has been posted before in "News" section. I think it is worth adding it to gigs to get a clear idea who is attending and give people a thread to discuss where to meet, where to buy tickets and to write reports. note to Mods: can you please PM me how to add the RSVP section. http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/prog.asp?lng=en Sunday July 27th 2008 Mika Pop Concert In Co-Production with Beiteddine Festival & 2U2C Martyr's Square Mika is the new genius of pop music. Born in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and living in London, he writes his own lyrics and music. He is often compared to Robbie Williams, Scissor Sisters and Freddy Mercury. His first album «Life in Cartoon Motion» introduces such songs as « Grace Kelly», « Relax, Take it Easy» and « Love Today» and has beaten all records in Europe and the United States. His music is fabulous. His four-octaves voice drives the crowd wild. The rest of the program will be announced soon. Tickets are not yet availbale online but will be soon on http://www.ticketingboxoffice.com/Default.asp I will keep you updated.

http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/showbiz-spy/93d8517449ff81e50e5c

am enjoying my easter holiday as well.. I so needed the long weekend.. all is well here, I think am going to the beach tomorrow.. too lazy to do anything more active

hey! how are you?

It is almost 3:00 am here.. have work first thing tomorrow morning... hate my insomnia! talk to you later.. good night xxx

hello... I know.. I saw you guys standing on the side next to Luke's corner.. I actually spoke to you briefly... I saw Mika the first 5 minutes when he came next to the bar (I was standing there to get a drink) and he started his toast... before the crowd got bigger... when it did.. I moved away.. and started socializing with the others as it was almost impossible to even hear what he was saying ... I actually asked you politely to take a picture of me and Luke... I hate to say that.. but I am not even a fan of Luke.. and ended up deleting the picture :blush-anim-cl: I did it out of boredom.. as there was absolutely nothing to do while waiting for "the others" to calm down... I have to admit though.. I met lots of nice people (those who were standing on the side avoiding the crowd).. and I ended up talking to cherisse and Sarenayd