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Mika will be at radio 105 today at 6pm (it's recorded). If you wanna listen www.radio105.it

I tried it too without succes... I think that the only way is to record the audio

You can listen again the interview here at min 51: http://www.105.net/audio/105-friends/121610/Lunedi.html

I think that there are different versions of this repacking. In fact, here's the official tracklist of the italian version..you'll notice that we have more tracks CD 1 - No Place In Heaven 1 All She Wants03:39 MIKA 2 Talk About You (CD Version)03:22 MIKA 3 Good Guys03:23 MIKA 4 No Place In Heaven03:20 MIKA 5 Staring At The Sun03:35 MIKA 6 Last Party03:39 MIKA 7 Hurts03:37 MIKA 8 Oh Girl You´re The Devil02:51 MIKA 9 Good Wife03:18 MIKA 10 Rio04:08 MIKA 11 Ordinary Man03:46 MIKA 12 Promiseland (Bonus Track)02:59 MIKA 13 Porcelain (Bonus Track)03:19 MIKA 14 L´amour Fait Ce Qu´il Veut (Bonus Track)03:25 MIKA 15 Boum Boum Boum (Bonus Track)03:25 MIKA 16 Beautiful Disaster (Italian Version)03:43 MIKA, Fedez 17 Center Of Gravity (Italian Version)03:24 Franco Battiato, MIKA 18 Hurts (Remix)03:37 MIKA 19 Feels Like Love03:04 MIKA 20 Beautiful Disaster03:44 MIKA CD 2 - ALBUM SINFONICO 1 Toy Boy (Orchestra Version)04:05 MIKA 2 Grace Kelly (Orchestra Version)03:20 MIKA 3 Underwater (Orchestra Version)03:42 MIKA 4 Boum Boum Boum (Orchestra Version)03:52 MIKA 5 Relax (Take It Easy) (Orchestra Version)03:11 MIKA 6 Last Party (Orchestra Version)04:10 MIKA 7 Origin Of Love (Orchestra Version)05:02 MIKA 8 Happy Ending (Orchestra Version)05:38 MIKA 9 Over My Shoulder (Orchestra Version)04:53 MIKA 10 Good Guys (Orchestra Version)04:20 MIKA 11 Rain (Orchestra Version)04:09 MIKA 12 Any Other World (Orchestra Version)04:48 MIKA 13 Love Today (Orchestra Version)04:25 MIKA 14 Elle Me Dit (Orchestra Version)04:29 MIKA Link: http://www.universalmusic.it/pop/artista/discografia/?ccidp=31649014999

His dinner?

It's difficult to wake up after a good dream, especially when everything happened for real. Yeah, I'm talking about the marvellous and unforgettable gig in Como where for the first time I could appreciate without screams or electronic advices only his voice and the beautiful sound of a real orchestra. For a moment, I didn't know where to look: the orchestra? The chorus? The conductor? The back vocals? Or just Mika? I was overwhelmed by everything around me. It was like stepping back in time, when I was a little girl of 17 years at my first concert at the Franco Parenti theatre: I focused again on the nuances of his voice: his falsetto, his vocal timbre as baritone during Ordinary Man... He's a real performer, he doesn't need enormous stage sets of million dollars to enchant people. Just give him a piano and he can trap you into his world for two whole hours. I'm totally agree with what Allegra said. That night he went back to when he sang opera at 10-11 years only this time he didn't interpret a work of Strauss but rather his work conducted by one of the greatest conductors of this period. He admitted that at the beginning he was very nervous and with an attentive ear, you could hear that in the beginning he was very tense but sincerely even with small imperfections the gig was the best one EVER! I felt his performances during some songs very strong...very "heartfelt" and in some I also conveyed his melancholy and sadness almost pain like for example Underwater or Happy Ending or Heroes (one of the best song I've ever heard!!). There were moments where he marked more some phrases of the songs almost as if the public had to dwell on them in order to truly understand the meaning of them. Of course, there were even comic moments where we laughed with him or for example in BBB he started to dance forgetting for a second that he were in a theatre By the way, I feel very lucky to be there and I think that I will never forget an evening like that... I really hope that he'll make a symphonic tour cause everyone in my opinion should have the opportunity to listen how powerful and strong the voice of Mika is.

Thanks to Eriko who cutted and uploaded my recording on Youtube

yes it is the same one!

Mika is on Corriere della Sera today with an article about X Factor and the Faccia A Faccia of yesterday

Thank you so so so so much Eriko!!!!

Oh no no there was a fanaction about showing him a flag of their own country that says thanks in their own language (hope I explained it well xD )

The FacciaAFaccia will take place on 20th October! Vivimilano is contacting again all the participants who joined the last time

Mika is on the italian magazine OGGI! You can find here the photoshoot and the scans of the interview Interview:

Usually it's a magazine separated from Le Scienze

On Rockol interview http://www.rockol.it/news-646920/mika-duetto-con-fedez-e-battiato

I just bought the song.... oh well it's not so bad the song even if it gives me the impression that they are two different songs: one about love and one about something that I still don't understand... By the way, it's nice, the sound is catchy and if it will be released as a single it could make success. I'm very curious to listen the Mika's version where there's no Fedez.

You can listen the single on Spotify For now here's what I came up with the italian lyrics Fedez Me lo ripeto in testa giusto per non dormire resta sveglio perché il meglio deve ancora svanire per poi sognare un altro modo per potersi rialzare come la pioggia che cade senza mai farsi male da dove siete usciti lì c’è una voce incerta non lo so ma siamo entrati da una ferita aperta le cicatrici dicono di starcene fra i deboli parliamo col linguaggio dei segni indelebili come ieri tu non c’eri disturbi ereditari sfortunati ereditieri perché spesso chi ti giudica è il primo che poi ti trucida quando lanciare un sasso vale più di una supplica ci hanno detto non è tutto ora ciò che luccica ma l’hanno detto perché è tutto loro ciò che luccica ora, voglio gridare fortissimo, la vita fa schifo il panorama è bellissimo Fedez prendo quei pezzi di vita che ho vissuto per sbaglio e li cambio in emozioni di piccolo taglio chi vive sempre e comunque chi vive chiuso in un bunker chi vive sotto la luce vede l’inizio del tunnel con il cuore di pietra tu con la coda di paglia stanchi di nascondere la testa sotto la rabbia mangiare la polvere condirsi la terra noi che cerchiamo la pace a costo di farvi la guerra con 24 mila baci probabilmente Giuda ci avrebbe sterminati sentirsi inadeguati, sentirsi uno dei tanti un’occasione persa fa l’uomo ladro di rimpianti rapaci nati con l’animo colpevole denuncia la tua vita per felicità ingannevole e a tutti noi cresciuti dentro camere oscure dove ogni stronzo mente e la verità pure

http://www.rockol.it/news-646920/mika-duetto-con-fedez-e-battiato?refresh_ce Mika, duetti con Battiato e Fedez nella riedizione di “No place in heaven” Uscirà il 13 novembre il repackaging di “No place in heaven”, il disco di Mika originariamente pubblicato lo scorso giugno. La nuova versione dell'album del cantante di origini libanesi conterrà un secondo CD con un estratto dai concerti sinfonici di Montreal dello scorso febbraio - che sarà anche il modello della data unica che si svolgerà il prossimo 24 ottobre al Teatro Sociale di Como, sempre per la direzione di Simon Leclerc, e che diventerà una serata per Sky a fine novembre. Ma soprattutto, il secondo CD conterrà 5 canzoni e - come ha rivelato Mika a margine dell’incontro con la stampa, prima del concerto di questa sera a Milano, di cui vi renderemo conto più tardi - due saranno duetti con artisti italiani. Uno, “Beautiful disaster” sarà con Fedez (e sarà presente anche in versione cantata dal solo Mika) e l’altro sarà un duetto in inglese con Battiato, il cui titolo non è stato rivelato, e che verrà pubblicato anche dall’artista siciliano: “Il suo inglese è meglio di quanto canto in italiano”, ha commentato scherzando Mika. Gli altri due pezzi sono una rielaborazione elettropop di “Hurts” (dall’ultimo album) e “Feels like love”. The new version of No Place In Heaven will be released on 13th November, the Mika's album originally published last June. The new version of the album will contain a second CD with an extract from symphonic's concerts in Montreal of last February - which it will also be the model of the unique concert on October 24th at the Teatro Sociale in Como, again directed by Simon Leclerc, and it will become a show for Sky in late November. But above all, the second CD will contain five songs and - as revealed Mika after the meeting with the press, before the concert this evening in Milan, which we will talk tou you later - there will be 2 duets with Italian artists. One, "Beautiful Disaster" will be with Fedez (and there will be even the version sung by Mika only) and the other will be a duet with Battiato in English, the title of which has not been revealed, and that will also be published by the Sicilian artist: "his English is better than when I sing in Italian," said Mika kidding. The other two pieces are a reworking of electropop "Hurts" (from the last album) and "Feels like love".

Here's a new interview from IlMessaggero where it says that there will be a duet with Fedez, a new song with Battiato and the show in Como will be broadcasted before Christmas on Sky! Mika, stronger than TV ThirdItalian year for Mika, dandy Lebanese, Syrian, American raised in France, then in London and now a regular guest here too thanks to X Factor that, from unusual subject, launched from a ditty apt and easy communication such as Grace Kelly (who has now yielded comparisons to freddie mercury for the vocal range and for the theatrical taste), he turned it into a call that fills stadiums. Prudent strategy (he did the same in France sitting in the studio of The Voice) but above all the power of talent, that from the factory of new characters, they have proven to be shortcuts to quickly expand the fame (as his case) or retrieve (as will happen with skins). In short, with his air of cute elf, a musical style that follows well-tested models pop, some originality managed with proper dose of cunning, Mika is now a postar here too, and sooner or later he will easily do it without the judge's chair of X Factor, where, however, he will be busy until the end of the year. For now, though, he says: "I know that the presence on television for a long time can overshadow the rest of the work as an artist. But today I am able to withstand the pressure of television and I can combine the two realities." Thirty-two years, gay icon, ten million records sold, hyperactive artist, waiting to depart with the Italian television commitments. Mika confronts the audience with three concerts in the arenas with no place in Heaven album released in early summer (at the top on iTunes Italia and Top 10 in 17 countries of the world). A particularly favorable opportunity, as it will be accompanied by the catwalk of X Factor. Mika debuted yesterday in Milan, tomorrow will be at the Palalottomatica and Wednesday in Florence "No led, no big screen, no projection. I don't like the shows like Las Vegas, I wanted a show made of simple things, born in 4 days in my kitchen and a stage set with references to Italian Futurism. But actually the show cost too much." He is pleased with it, determined to escape the prevailing rules of staging pop, with a production supervised everything from him, with the participation of the brother (architect) and an Italian company, the Oca Giuliva which realizes wagons for the street theater, as well with a design studio in Antwerp. As for music, he focuses on a schedule that from "all she wants" goes to "talk about you", to "Good Guys", to "L'amour fait ce qu'il veut". But his schedule is full of other deadlines. On October 24, he will perform with the symphony orchestra in Como, the Affinis Consort, and the same repertoire, made of new and old pieces, is from a live album made with the Montreal Symphony orchestra: "it is the project that I'm most proud of.", he said. adding that the choice of a small theater, in Como, is functional to the filming (sky will broadcasted it before Christmas). Again, it is ready a duet with his partner Fedez entitled Beatiful Disaster, and he has launched a collaboration with Franco Battiato. "I will sing with him in English in a piece that will be inserted in the republication of No Place in Heaven to be released on November 13th. It's a great pleasure!"

It's a fantastic news! I just hope to be able to buy a ticket for this show

I'm one of the lucky 160 fans who will be there on Monday. Sincerely I don't know what to expect from that so I really can't wait!

A new micro-interview today on Vivi Milano Mika: "I tell you about Heaven and Hell" The pop star meets readers in Milan. While on the forum's stage he brings the new show (already sold out): "Nothing led screens and projections, climb up on my magic wagon..." A concert, a meeting with readers of Corriere, the episodes of "X Factor." For those who like Mika is the perfect autumn. The pop star is on tour and he will be at the Forum on 27 with his new show. The next day he'll meet the readers. And here he anticipates what there will be on stage. "I had thought of a show with a Zeffirelli style: a scene based on an abandoned factory. When I chose the songs I had a moment of panic: I was a puppet there in the middle. I threw everything and started from scratch. " And what came out? "Some time ago, a girl approached me and gave me a series of photographs of carnival floats about important issues, from the Italian politics to Europe... They interested me a lot but I didn't have her contacts. I searched her via Twitter and I found her. They are the guys of the "Società Oca Giuliva" of San Giovanni in Persiceto. Together with them, my brother (who is an architect) and with designers, who are internationally renowned, of Studio Job have been working for three days without stopping. At least it's a show based on a magic wagon: there won't be LED screens, there won't be projections. We have created a context pop-play that talks about Heaven and Hell, and that leaves open the question of what is one and what the other. " About Paradise, "No place in Heaven" is the title of your latest album: working to the show you've found your place up there? "I won't find that. And once dead, I will return to Earth in the form of a duck. " A duck? "They are the happiest animals of the world. They have everything, they stay always in family and with friends and they are always on vacation in a warm place. " Milan is now one of your second homes. How are you there? "There's a lot of hidden beauty. It is a city that I really like, is almost melancholy. While in Paris when I'm alone I feel very lonely, in Milan it is easier to make friends. It is a city that has all the potential to be important in the world in terms of culture, art, economics. " Since, both in the center-right than in the center-left, there are not candidates, we launch Mika as a mayor. What would you do to develop that potential? (he laughs) I feel a great desire to work and do business. Everyone want that the bureaucracy and the politics fit at last to this enthusiasm. You have always spoken freely about your homosexuality, but tell about gay icons in a song like "Good Guys" and make even a single is even more courageous ... "I didn't do calculations, I did not want to make politics or a statement of intent. For me it is a beautiful song with a text that is honest because it reflects the point where they are in my life. Each artist has ups and downs in his career, but it's always been honest artistically can overcome them effortlessly. "

For now nothing

The part where he talks about Mika is this one: Leclerc a fait un peu la même démarche avec Mika pour ses trois concerts dont on a applaudi l'audace, l'hiver dernier. Même s'il a une formation classique, l'artiste pop britannique a donné carte blanche au maestro montréalais. «J'ai fait avec lui comme avec tous les autres: je lui ai envoyé des maquettes. Après quatre ou cinq courriels dans lesquels il me disait qu'il trouvait ça fantastique, il m'a écrit: «Je m'excuse de te dire juste de belles choses comme ça, mais je suis tellement content que tu aies reçu mon matériel de cette façon-là.»» Lors de leur première rencontre à Milan, Mika avait avoué à Leclerc que c'était très exigeant pour lui de revisiter son répertoire avec le nouvel éclairage qu'allait lui donner le chef, tout en sachant qu'il allait se retrouver devant 85 musiciens qui allaient jouer son oeuvre réorchestrée. N'empêche, avant même ses trois concerts à la Maison symphonique, Mika a relancé Leclerc pour qu'il orchestre quatre chansons de son plus récent album, No Place in Heaven. «On s'entend vraiment bien. D'ailleurs, Mika est convaincu que je suis libanais, même si je lui dis que je suis québécois de souche. Il me dit: «Tu dois avoir un arrière-grand-parent libanais...»» More or less here's what he said : Leclerc made a similar approach with Mika for his three concerts which we applauded the audacity this past winter. Although he has a classically trained, the British pop artist gave "carte blanche" to the Canadian maestro. "I have done with him as with all the others: I sent him some models. After four or five e-mails in which he told me he thought it was fantastic, he wrote: "Sorry to tell you just nice things like that, but I'm so glad you redone my materials in this way. " At their first meeting in Milan, Mika had confessed to Lecrerc that this was very demanding for him to revisit his repertoire with new lighting, while knowing he was going to end up with 85 musicians who would play his work reorchestrated. Still, even before his three concerts at the Maison symphonique, Mika gave to Leclerc for his orchestra four songs from his latest album, No Place in Heaven. "We get along really well. Moreover, Mika is convinced that I am Lebanese, even though I told him I'm from Quebec. He said: "You must have a Lebanese background-grandparent ..."

MIKA: " have broken the wall of Homophobia and I'm not even scared" "I react if attacked, I do not tread on me. And then there is an army of good guys ready to defend myself: Bowie, Cocteau, Cole Porter ...". The British artist-Lebanese-Syrian and judge of X-Factor, talks about homophobic bullies and free spirits. And he confesses: "I sing because I could not write" Rome - If Italy has welcomed him with open arms, he says, it's all about his "caldezza" Mediterranean. "It was a surprise, I did not expect that this country would become part of my life," says Mika, that of his personal esperanto - but now he speaks fluent Italian - made a further element of sympathy. "I was born in England but I have blood in my veins Lebanese and Syrian - all this has influenced decisively my music and my visual universe." When in 2007 he triumphed in the charts all over the world with the single Grace Kelly and the album Life in Cartoon Motion, Italy was the least of his priorities. But then it is taken a mutual attraction, aided X-Factor, which he's the gentle and irresistible judge in this ninth edition. But there is more after ten million copies sold: the success of the last album No Place in Heaven, a book published by Rizzoli in process "which is an extension of the column that I wrote on XL Repubblica", a tour of great theatrical impact made with all-Italian team (September 27 in Milan, 29 in Rome, 30 in Florence), "a bombshell of pop song" just registered with Fedez and a duet "with a super super big of the Italian song which I can not yet reveal the name, " so big that almost the eyes pop out of their sockets for joy, and come to think to Mina or Celentano. Lunar, creative, dynamic, explosive on stage; affectionate, familiar, tender, optimistic on TV, Mika, thirty-two, is a presence that makes you think to the unforgettable Don Lurio. Then the ice of the summer. On a poster of the concert of Mika in Florence an idiot writes with paint Frocio in large letters. Once it would have gone unnoticed, we have seen hundreds of these insults, even on election posters, and not only in Italy. Today is another story, the global village fibril of conformity, different from when in the seventies it was rumored that Jagger and Bowie had fun and no one but the tabloids would warm so much. Today, you're officially homosexual only after coming out - and Mika did it by cutting the head as we say. To amplify any banality the web has the primacy, socials are a sounding board more threatening than helpful. The insult to Mika became the event of the summer. Did you feel betrayed by Italy when the writing homophobic began to circulate on the net? "No. I was angry because when for so long you have suffered this type of violence you sink again and mercilessly in the past. A tremendous emotional reflection: I felt exactly like when as a teenager people made fun of me. In a microsecond I returned to school, when they mocking my sexuality and I had not yet discovered a sexuality. From that kind of feeling you do not come out, it does not change, I suppose it's the same if I had fifty or seventy-five years. " What was your first reaction? At first I tried to ignore it, thinking that silence was the best answer. I did the same of when I was a kid: pretend not to see, look the other way. Then I began to see the indignation of my fan club that grew and grew, and after ten hours I realized that pretend nothing has happened was a privilege that I could not afford. Out there, there are so many 14 years old or maybe even adults who do not have the freedom that I won through art, they do not have the free zone that is the stage where everything is permitted, even be themselves without bias, interferences, bullying. They are not allowed to look the other way, to ignore these insults without paying the consequences. I had to find a way to handle the situation, I began to use that image as a flag, I also slammed it on my twitter profile. I broke the wall of shame and silence, that fly over the bourgeois often follows such incidents ". And the public response? "Amazing, absolutely amazing. I did not expect. Solidarity is not only come from friends or fans, but incredibly even by the press. At that point, the photo with the writing was not something that was all about me but a poster, a J'accuse, a small wave that generated a bigger one and finally an enormous one ". We used to believe that the pop star, who always play with the ambiguity, are immune to this kind of problems. Evidently, one thing is the allusions other is a coming out loud and clear as the one that artists like you, Michael Stipe and Tiziano Ferro did. "I would not make a political fact. A singer is a singer and that's it. My public dimension is the one that I show on stage. I do it with discretion and kindness, I do not want to get into the lives of others or ripping apart families, I respect the choices even when they are diametrically opposed to mine, even when they propose a social or religious model that is not mine - a sort of gentlemen's agreement. But in front of violent behavior, aggressive or abusive my reaction changes. I refuse to step on me, I do not put myself on the mat, I didn't, not even in junior high when I could not follow the rest of the class because I was dyslexic. " How does the music gave you a way to react positively without continuing to accumulate injuries? "The art - film, music, literature - is always a call for tolerance. When I think of David Bowie I see an artist, a giant, who was able to communicate in a fully and powerfully creative way above the politics and sexuality. Ambiguous in the true sense of the word, a banner of freedom, indefinable, not to label ". How could a boy to compensate the fear and discomfort of bullying? With dreams? "They were not dreams, they were movies. It was my reality, my universe, I sank into them every day. At nine I got thrown out of school, I became the target of an hysterical teacher that she had decided to destroy me. Like the other children who had suffered her abuse I had locked in myself and I refused to speak. One day I walked away and I left my bag in the street. It was my sister Paloma to find out the truth and she told to my father. He came to school and told to the teacher what everyone thought of her: "Professor, you are a witch, we found out what you are doing to the kids." After twenty minutes we were to the principal's office, "Mr. Penniman, you and your son can not set foot in this school," he said. What a relief. It was the happiest day of my life, we went home dancing, singing "Ding dong the witch is dead" ("The witch is dead", from the Wizard of Oz). Dad said to me: "Can you not write? Can not read? Sing!". Then, spurred even by my mother, I began to study music, voice and piano, and in that way, free, I worked a hundred times more than at school. After ten months I was singing at the Royal Opera House in London. " The good guys, the good boys of your song - Rufus Wainwright, James Dean, Bowie, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wilfred Owen, Walt Whitman, Rimbaud, Kinsey, Cole Porter, Cocteau - were a small, imaginary army who worked in your defense. "He still is, he sings me a lullaby, with him to the side I could face the end of the world and even the day of judgment." But you sing even: where did all those good gay guys? It means that for gay artists today is more difficult to declare their sexuality? "The reality is that today we do not have many gay icons, people uncomfortable even without being politicians, without meeting leaders and Presidents, without making speeches at the United Nations. Their strength was in what they wrote and sang, acted without thinking of the consequences. The fact of existing was already in itself revolutionary. they are the ones who have turned these strong colors in me, they gave me the courage to lead without fear. " What will you say to the public during the concert in Florence? "No message, no controversy, I will speak through the music and the energy of my fans. We will make noise together, to express joy and tolerance. The response to the insult is: we are here, we are many, we are strong."