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Thank you! (Like always, so quick! )

Oh, yes... I had sometime read about it, when I read it about Mika... Is it a common expression in English, or only in MFC?

What's the meaning of OCD?

By Freddie: Ohhh no that would be my nightmare "ill think about it next week" .. im mega OCD with wanting things organised

What does the voice say at the beginning (intro)?

I would really like to have a thread about the meaning of the shows, the concept; do we have already one? I mean... about the meaning of the intro, the drawings on the background, the coat in Dr John? Has Mika made an interview about it?

Do we have a thread with the explanation of the concept of the show? I mean, the meaning of the beginning, the writing on the background, the coat in Dr. John? (Or did Mika already explain it anywhere, interviews...? ). Thank you.

Freddie, you said that: "Can I come on a dig next year?"?

I don't understand the meaning of dig here...

"I would DEFO come , keep me in the loop"

What does DEFO mean? And "keep me in the loop"?

No, my english ist not good enough...

Freddi, you were right! There are no age restrictions for this venue.

Thank you Freddie(sdouble)!

(So quickly... great! :thumb_yello:)

Hello everyone,

do you know if little children are allowed to this gig in this venue?

Do they need a ticket if they are very little?

Thanks!

What's the meaning of "overran"? I don't understand this sentence, from http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22120

"And he says accusations that he overran failed to take into account that he had more to do than simply sing on the recording, which also features Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, Alexandra Burke and Susan Boyle."

Is the quality of these new t-shirts as good as the first ones?

sorry, no tickets from team mika for us this time. thanx to the mfc mods/admin for trying anyway!

will try to tweet mika again then, but only for those who come anyway (6 ppl now), sorry to the others, but we can be glad if anyone gets in!

sorry this is short, am on my way to baden-baden with graciosa and awine (dmfc).

Even if it didn't work for us, thanks for trying it, Melody. And thanks to the mods/admin!

I think you 6 will get in! I wish you lot of fun!

Any news???

Melody, do you think, we could get any news on a sunday? Did you get any "maybe" or something ?

actually i'm just organizing the list, the rest is up to the mfc mods, ie mana, who has the contacts and agreed to try to help us.

 

about your daughter sm09, how old is she? children under the age of 6 are not allowed into this gig. apart from that, the first ones who would get tickets - if at all - would be fanclub members, and only if there are tickets left you might get another one for a non-mfcer who wants to come with you.

 

and guys, the list is finished since yesterday. some who will come without tickets, some who can still make it if it's a last minute decision and some who need to know at least 1-2 days in advance. if you decided you can't go, fine, but apart from that, no changes to this list can be made anymore, sorry. so if team mika says that only the 7 ppl get in who will be there without tickets, then it's those 7 who are on the list now, and not others who decide to go last minute.

 

so all we can do now is hope.

So I' m hoping!

Thanks for your answer, it's good for me to know, that I don't have to think about going without tickets or not...

Thank you Mellody!

I don't understand how you kann organize these things, but it doesn't matter, thanks for all!

21 ... On one side, I think, it won't be possible... but on the other side, I still hope it works!!! I also think about going even without tickets:blush-anim-cl:

... and then I think, I cannot be so crazy

I'm also thinking about taking my little daughter with me (instead of my husband...) Do you think, it would be ok? I'm sure it would be sooo amazing for her!

I keep waiting und dreaming...

ok final list is 21 people, of which 7 will be in baden-baden in any case. let's see how many we can get, if at all. it's probably gonna be a last minute decision as i didn't have much time to plan during my holiday, and the gig is already on monday.

 

more infos about the gig:

 

- all winners of the radio competitions have been notified by now, so if you don't have an e-mail, you're not among the winners.

- if you're under 18, you need to be accompanied by one of your parents (or if you're 17, it can be another person of age, with the consent of your parents).

- there are absolutely NO photos/videos allowed at this concert - as far as we know, not even by mobile phone. reason is that it'll be recorded for TV, they probably don't want the lights of cameras/mobiles on their recordings. we'll see how strict they are, if they're gonna collect all cameras+mobiles at the entrance, but that's the info we have for now.

ok guys please everyone who will go to baden-baden without tickets and everyone who would go if they had tickets, please let me know (and which of those 2 options). i know about those who have posted it on the german forum, and here about fanny. anyone else? sabine? violet_sky?

 

will *try* to organize something with mana's help, but it can't be for many ppl, don't know if any non-germans can go, and nothing's for sure at all. but just let me know pls, don't want anyone to feel left out afterwards. thx.

If I had tickets, I would go with my husband! But I think I'm not the only one who would go with tickets, am I?

Thank you mellody! Would you take us in your list? :blush-anim-cl:

How big is the venue? For how many people?

And what happens with the "Magic Points"? How do we get points, if we buy tickets in another place?

Has anybody received his signed (or not signed) copy from play.com???

I got a mail on Thu, 17. Sep 2009: "your order has been posted" ... "Please allow 3-5 days delivery".

I didn't receive anything...

How big is this place? Is it nice?

I don't understand...

How is "Spektrum" like?

Is it big, is it small? Why do you think, there would be not so many people there?

Mika On 'We Are Golden' and 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much':

 

"(We Are Golden) is such a good starting point for the story I'm telling on the record. It's about my feelings I had when I was a teenager, and no matter how bad anything got, I always turned towards music to make myself feel like I was worth something. My second album is about feeling comfortable with the fact that I write my kind of pop music, and not apologising about anything, and in the process enabling me to drop so many of the complexes I've had over the past few years, if I'm dancing around in a bedroom on my own for my music video, it's for a reason, especially if I'm in my underwear, it's for a reason, it's a statement on my part saying, "you know what? This is how I got here, and this is how I'm gonna celebrate the fact that I am here, and keep doing what I wanna do, for the reasons that I started doing them in the first place."

 

Mika on "Toy Boy":

 

'I read this interview with Paul McCartney once and he said how he always likes to combine dark lyrics with happy sounding music and he called it empowerment, and I clung to that theory and one of the people I'm really influenced by, Harry Nilsson, in a way to me is the ultimate master of doing that, very dark twisted lyrics, but with the most embrasive, almost nursery rhyme like meloldies, and it really hits you harder, it exaggerates everything really. I guess I like to combine quite dark or bitter sounding lyrics, lyrics that are quite tied down to realistic situations, but then combine it with really happy sounding music, really joyful sounding pop music, and it's that combination that I think is becoming a bit of my signature in songs.'

 

Source: The album's 'Making Of' interview.

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here are the links to the "making ofs" of Love Today and Happy Ending

HE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipkPjJquKVg

LT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBuenuqlP-E&feature=related

 

on this site you can find what he said about many LICM songs http://www.songfacts.com/artist:mika.php

 

and you'll find more infos in this 3d http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18841&highlight=songs

I think this is fantastic, and the thread about "Mika songs-the facts" is fantastic too!!! That's what I was always looking for!!!

And thanks for putting all together on the first page!

It's very difficult to find this Information together. When I was searching for the meaning of a song (the meaning for Mika, what "he" wanted to say, or what was he inspired by) I had to read pages and pages in forum, and sometimes I only found opinions, not what "he" meant.

It will also be very helpful for newbies... I always feel like a newbie, I'm always new in knowing things about Mika...

I think this thread is fantastic!!! We should always update it!!!

Yes, I had seen them. Thank you! But it was no interview, they were just commenting the album... Aber thanks again!

Was anyone hearing Bayern 3 on saturday at about 1:00 pm? They started talking about Mika, they would talk a bit more about the new album... and I "had" to go!!!

Do you know what they said, did anyone record it?