Marilyn Mastin

Happy Christmas to you too, and a golden New Year. Love to you from Marilyn, Alan and Steve.

Hi Julia!

Yes they were very special to me. I think, with the London one I wasn't expecting his voice to be good, because we knew about the throat problems, so to me it was a pleasant surprise that he did so well. But people around were happy, and the crowd loved him. I got really upset by the negativity, when everyone knew he wasn't feeling well. Sometimes I really think some people expect too much from Mika, who is a human being, not Superman's love-child.

I think he sould do what Graham suggested and enter Eurovision. That one gig would up his fame everywhere and he wouldn't need to half-kill-himself to sell his album and singles. Plus, he'd deffinately win! Love from Marilyn

Hi Julia! Yes I'm looking forward to The Roundhouse, and also the next day in my hometown of Manchester. Alan and I are going to both gigs. The last one I went to was The Apollo, Hamersmith. That was Feb 2010, so its been a while. Love from Marilyn

Just tweet @BBCR1 and ask them to play Celebrate on Radio One, also ask for a ReeTweet by adding RT. I've been begging people to do this as Celebrate isn't doing well on iTunes. But so far very few have bothered. If everyone would do one tweet to R1 it might make a difference. I've tweeted several times, but coming from the same username all the time is not going to do anything but make them call me a nutcase fan. But if others do it, they can't surely refuse.

Have you heard the album? Have you got it yet?

I don't know. I just hope it stays true to the show. Some good bits from Phantom were cut out when they made the movie of that show. It was done in order to try and make Roul appear to be more than the boring wet-blanket he is. It didn't work, and ruined the movie. Btw. I've seen the sequel to Phantom, Love Never Dies, on DVD. It's really great and well worth watching if you can get to see it.

Yes, Les Miserable is a movie now. It's out soon. I'm really looking forward to it. It seems to be a really good cast. Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter are all in it. Other good actors too.

I'm really looking forward to December. But before that, there's something else exciting I'm looking forward to. I want to see the Les Miserable movie. I love that show and the songs, and I can't wait to see it as a movie!

One thing I have to tell anyone who meets me is that I might not recognize you, even if I saw you the night before in London. I have face recognition blindness. Prosopamnesia, which means I don't retain the memory of a face. I have to learn other ways of recognising people and that can take time. It's harder with people I don't see often, because those I see often, I might recognise them by their voice, hairstyle, eyeglasses etc, but if I don't see someone often, it's much harder. So it's best if you make yourself known to me. "Hi, it's me, Weezey." Then I can place you.

Oh... and before you ask. I didn't recognise Mika when he wore that big hat that pulled down to his eyes, in Hammersmith London. I'd have let him walk past if someone hadn't told me. But once I heard him speak, I recognised that drop-dead-sexy speaking voice of his.

Yes, I have a balcony seat at The Ritz! So I'm looking forward to both Mika concerts, and to meeting you, Weezey, and other MFCers whether I've met them before, or not.

I don't know. Atm I don't know if I can go. The tickets are STANDING and I'm disabled. I'm going to ask if they have disabled seating. If they don't, I won't be able to go.

Will see you there then Weezey!

Right you are. Did you know Mika will be in Manchester on the 14th December at The Ritz! I'll be coming back from the Roundhouse gig that day, but must see His Royal Awesomness in my home town!

Yes, I love that one too.

I've decided I'm going to bump the UK Promotion of Mika thread, to get UK ppl contacting radio stations. I'll also mention the trending day. 16th September isn't it?

For me, Stardust is one that sounds more like the Mika of old. It's got the high chorus. For me, it reminds me a bit of Love Today. I love it already.

For me, Stardust is one that sounds more like the Mika of old. It's got the high chorus. For me, it reminds me a bit of Love Today. I love it already.

Yes I've heard the bits of the songs. I'm so thrilled. The album is going to be even better than I expected. So many of the songs would make great singles!! I love KIDS and Step With Me. I love what he's done with EMD ( now Emily) I think I will adore Heroes and really like the new Overrated. Tbh, I love them all so much!!!

Yes I've noticed that I've been ignored a lot. It's an eye opener really. I mean, a fan is a fan, whether they are new or have been around for five years.

I could bump my, long ignored, UK Promotion of Mika thread. But that would only do for the UK. Wheras other nationalities might want to target their own radio stations.

Meanwhile, I'm loving what's happened on the GLEE Campaign thread! It seems like they might sing Grace kelly! That's a dream come true if it happens!!

I haven't seen a new one. Let's leave it a day or two, to see if it appears. If it doesn't, and the radio stations arn't playing Mika, we can think again about it. Maybe bump an older one. There should be something. Meanwhile, try and get your followers on twitter to join in and tweet @BBCR1 etc. Ive tweeted them, I also tried to get Mika Freaks to RT one of my tweets, but I don't think anyone did. Maybe because they don't know @Good&Golden is my account. I'm going to have to take a leaf out of Mika's book - and come out of the closet - and say I'm @Good&Golden if I'm going to be of help.

It is a bit confusing. Celebrate is out, I think, end of September, or October 1st. But that's what the thread is for, for everyone to discuss tactics ahead of time and share the information we need in order to decide how best to do this. Yes, I agree we should try and trend #TheOriginOfLove just before it's released in September.

So Just start a thread with the basic reason, to mobilize fans to tweet, or otherwise contact Radio One, or other stations they know of, to get Celebrate played during September and give it a chance in the charts. They could post links on the thread, to various radio stations for us all to contact.

Btw my new twitter account is @Good&Golden my other one was too easy for undesirables to target, since it was in my own name.

The thread will need to go in the Chat About Mika section. I'll keep an eye out for it and so onto it as soon as I can see it.

I think TBWKTM has sold 2 million worldwide. I could be wrong about the amount so far, but it's definately not less than 2 million

We coiuld do that. My new twitter account doesn't have many followers, but you could start a thread, unless you'd prefer me to do it. If you want me to do it, let me know, otherwise, just go ahead and start one.

Basically, we need fans to send at least one tweet to @BBCR1 to ask them to play the song. They could also tweet other radio stations they know of or the individual DJs of R1 or other stations. It's also a good idea to suggest a trending day for #Celebrate. Later on we could trend #TheOriginOfLove, but first things first. Let's get a good launch for the single.

I do too, but 1,000,000 is a good start.

Let's hope the 1,000,000 views translates to album and single sales.

It needs to happen BEFORE that. The single needs to get airplay this month, to get people hearing it. I'd say, we can start by tweeting Radio One and then, in about a week or so, if R1 arn't playing the song, maybe have a trending day and more tweets to Radio One or the individual DJs.

Hi David. I just wanted to let you know that the @Good&Golden account you've just followed is my own new twitter account. My last one got targetted by a twitter bully, so I cancelled it, waited a bit and set up my new one. I don't want anyone apart from MFC members to know it's my account.

Anyway... I tweeted @bbcr1 to ask if they're going to play Celebrate and I wanted to suggest other UK people do the same. If they realise there is a desire for the song they may play it, and he does need Radio One if he's going to chart high.

So I just thought I'd suggest it. If as many as possible tweet them, or the individual DJs he might get played.