Pideh

Det gör han säkert, han gillar våra nordiska länder och har varit här uppe fler gånger än i många andra länder!

 

There's is only one thing I'm worried about and that is that I think Mika's popularity is shrinking in Northern Europe. Just look how enthusiastic people are in France!

We have never had that!

And I don't know how it is for you but when I try to talk about Mika and his music people doesn't seem to know how he is. After thinking about it for a long while the best they come up with is: " oh that's the Grace Kelly-guy right"?

He is not played much on the radio, or do I listen to the wrong stations here?

I don't think he has had a complete breakthrough in our countries jet!

 

Sorry to invade the vikings thread with English but personally I have a hard time to understand Danish or Norweigian!

I totally agree with you. whenever I talk about seing mika they're like: Mika who?

Det kan ju i och för sig vara en fördel för honom att han får vara lite för sig själv och kanske synas bättre.

Kan ju också vara en nackdel att folk som är riktigt musikintresserade kommer först efter föreläsningarna...

Är det inte en konstig planering av festival-folket?

 

Hehe, undrar om Mika vet om det själv?

jo det är lite dåligt planerat det känns som att han spelar då för att få fler musikfolk dit på den dagen också

Jag tror inte ens att mika spelar på musikdagarna xD han spelar dagen inna musikdagarna startar. och det är inte så många som spelar den dagen det är mest en massa föreläsningar den dagen. den enda andra personen som jag känner igen som ska spela då är Julian Casablancas

har den festival ikke allerede været der?

Nej! då hade jag missat den mika spelar den 30:e alltså nästa vecka

Jag ska

awesooome!! då ses vi där

Hej hej! Jag hade planerat att gå men tyvärr ser det ut som om jag kommer vara utomlands då. Men jag förväntar mig att se massor av bilder från P&L

ah va synd! men hoppas du kommer ha superkul! och såklart kommer det massa bilder

Awesome! Which country?

cold Sweden

I'm definetly gonna help

Hejsan gott folk! undrade om någom ska gå på peace & love? jag ska bara dit den dagen mika spelar för jag är inte så förtjust i festivaler

btw gud vad ovant det känns att skriva på mfc på svenska:aah:

I dreamt that Mika was holding Yasmine that was crying and his mother was there too. You could see that mika was crying a bit too. they were on a funeral...

that was a really bad mikadream!

8 hours... holy!. Dont wanna think how many t will take from me. takes 1½ to get to the airport ...

The show here is at a fewstival. He will be the last one to play that day.... of course! the best till last... I will get my tix paied (vip + show tix) if Mika updates his festival list on MS, facebook or myspace before Thursday next week

Yup! me too. wan't to know it's for sure that he's coming I't would be awesome if you'd come!

He is... On June 4 in Skive (Jylland)

I just checked for that city... i have to take a plane from copenhagen to stockholm and then get from stockholm to there somehow

yeah. You'll have to take the train ( http://www.sj.se ) to there.. I'm going from gothenburg to Borlänge and it takes about 8 hours xD

btw. is it a festival he's doing or an own gig?

Would love to go but he is doing a gig here too this summer Where in sweden is it?

He is?! Well that is Awesom!

It's in Borlänge and I had never heard of that city before!

YES YES YES PLZ!!!!!!!!

U should so come to sweden this summer to the peace and love festival! But I'm not even sure I'll be able to go

Well that's wht my parents say anyway but do the honestly think that I wouldn't go to a mika gig in my own country? would'nt think so

Yoo! I would wanna join! I'm from Sweden ad looking for someone who's not in scandinavia

I found another recension from this gig:

 

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konsertrecensioner/mika-pa-annexet-i-stockholm-1.1065501

 

It's from Dagens Nyheter, the biggest newspaper in Sweden!

 

Translation:

 

 

It is a minimalism start. On stage in front of a full black curtain is only a DESK and a chair. Out comes a young man in college blazer and to Edith Piaf in speakers and a large sketch pad in hand he does a small piece mime teater. Then call it in, the curtain drawn aside, and everything explodes - the colours, costumes, props, lighting, games and of course the pattering bombastic and multi-coloured all-can-love-pop that is Mika.

 

Apparently, the American-British-Lebanese Michael Holbrook Penniman, or just Mika, had a hard time job growing up, and this is his way to adulthood both recognise and treat it. His concert is a great Tim Burton(ish) "Alice in Wonderland" world, with animated films projected in the background, alternatively, Mika himself in a black silhouette of the full moon light. And he sings, jumps, dances, plays the piano, dancing on top of the piano, and speaks decent Swedish with the crowd - which also exploded.

 

 

A justifiable number of little ones jump along with their equally wild hoping parents, girl gangs of young middle-aged, boy gangs, and high school girls. Wide audience, and its enormous enthusiasm, says something about Mika's position in a record number of taste camps. And during every minute of the one-hour and forty minute show, he makes himself worthy of love.

 

Yes, it's a show - multi-mega-show - more than a concert and I think that I have never seen anything like it. Sure, it is overloaded and excessive, to say the least, but Mika still not feels grovelling to the audience. The band is well together, everything is extremely well directed, well choreographed and in some strange way right in time.

 

Almost all songs from the two albums is present, he slips in and out of their roles, tempos and themes, and a little too often into the falsetto vocals. I had hoped for more from the darker and more decadent side who is also Mika - and when songs like "Love Today" and "Relax, Take It Easy," or ballads like "Happy Ending / Over My Shoulder" good will, it will be really more show than a concert - but this is not the night for it.

 

When the artificial snow pouring down from the stage ceiling, when gold confetti and medicine ball-sized coloured balloons spurts out over the audience, when the carnival characters in neon suits and giant heads come in the long parade you should have a heart of stone not to feel invited to Mika's crazy total Party.

Well that was a awesome review!

Best of luck!

Thanks sweetie! gonna pack u down in my suitcase if they take me somewhere near Mika.

I'm gonna force my parents to take me to another gig! seriously! I'm dying here.

Over my shoulder:

crappy quality I know but it is OMS!!

uploading OMS! not the best quality and you have to turn your head but still, It's OMS!!

Lollipopski, that is amazing!

 

 

There is one in my signature - I think the rest of the group pictures are on other cameras.

 

As for the pushing: I'm glad I wasn't at the front this time then. Reminds me of a Kooks gig where I gave up my front row spot before the 1st song and in the end I was glad I did. I don't mind if people get too enthusiastic - good for them, as long as I am not stuck in the middle.

 

Well it was great anyway! The show, Mika, the band, the people I already knew and the new ones I met... To my fellow BGs and LGs: thanks for all the fun and laughter!

I agree on not wanting to be at front when I hear all of this.. too bad that Sweden is the only place I can go for now.. maybe I'll convince my parents to take me to Amsterdam but I doubt that will happen!

I had a great time and I'm actually glad that I didn't follow through with being a BG. it just didn't feel right and I really wanted to be a crazy fan not having to concentrate on keeping my head up for the mask not to fall on the side

you all looket great on stage definetly spooky!

Hey! does anyone have the pictures we took backstage with the big girl costumes?

And btw. I will try to post some videos and pictures later I think the sound of the videos are rubbish

My sister was in the middle in second row and she said that the most of the girls around her were fine but thete was one girl who kept hitting and pushing people to get one step further, she and her friend even said oh! I think I dropped something at the front do you mind if I check? to a girl at front-row. seriously! how dumb can you be?! second row is kind of AWESOME. and they still act like maniacs.

EDIT: Ooops! She wasn't hitting herself xD

I don't agree with the whole "I will sit outside in the cold and rain/snow from 7am till the doors open" though...I mean...that's pointless...most people don't start turning up till the freaking afternoon. On the second Hammersmith date I arrived at 3:30, was number 40 something in the queue and was front row.

 

I mean...COME ON.

I know.. I arrived at two I think and I was number 52. It's not necessary to wait so long.