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That picture of you in the astronaut helmet is so awesome!!!

How did I not see this thread before?! I love the mubbins so much. Thank you Sofi for uploading all of these! I've been hoping to see them! I made some mubbin necklaces for the Mika show I just went to, and I really want to make some figures or something, so I'm so glad to see these.

He came outside after the meet and greet at this show! From what I hear, he comes out a lot. It just takes a little while.

Next time you will! You're very welcome, I'm glad you liked the necklace! My Astor one is so broken, haha so I'm going to have to make another one. Maybe next time I'll make a lot and just give them out. If people like the Mubbins that much...I hope they do...we'll see. I loved seeing you too! It had been way too long. Let's not wait until another great show comes along. My arms are completely bruised too. I keep hitting things and it hurts until I remember how I got them. But maybe I'll try to reign in the arm movement next time. I doubt I'll be in control though I love the crutch pictures! I really liked when he did the helicopter thing with it around his head. Did you get any video? I don't know how anybody manages to take pictures and video at a Mika show. Mine would all be mad blurry if I tried.

Ah! That's a great video, I love that. Thanks for posting it.

I didn't get to tell you this, but I love you guys so much for doing that! You helped cure my boredom, I was having so much fun popping those, haha. So, here's my report. It'll be mostly rambles, so I apologize in advance. I got to the venue at about 8:45am, so I knew the day was going to be long. It was really nice though, just hanging out with everyone. I knew a few of you guys by board name, and it was really nice meeting you all. <3 John came out during the day, and I was way too timid to even get up and speak to him. :/ Anyway, super fast forward to inside the show, I got right up to the barricade, a little left of center, popped bubbles until Gary Go came on and I thought he was really cool. I liked his guitarist's moustache. Also, with a name like Gary Go, I thought he'd be very dance pop, but that was not the case. SO, after Gary Go leaves, they bring out the couch, and lamp, and TV and I'm pretty much salivating. This was my first Mika show, and it was so hard for me to wait those thirty extra minutes. At one point, Lucy (BangBangLou), Patty (pattycakes), and I began counting seconds. We counted for about seven minutes and then stopped, haha. That strategy didn't work as well as we'd hoped. But it was so exciting just knowing what was going to happen soon. So, a bit after 9:00, the band comes out and does their AMAZING intro, I loved that so much. Also, didn't expect to see my favorite wizard Ian McKellen on the TV. That was quite a nice surprise. Then, the tv explodes and the curtains part and a man comes out in an astronaut costume (which we alllllllll knew was Mika ) and everyone's screaming and yelling and I think I was just in shock, that he was right there in front of me. He had on his foot brace, but didn't look that affected by it at first, and then he went of stage after de-astronauting himself, and Relax came on. He started singing off stage and then came on and...that was when I started screaming, and I did not stop until the end. I didn't even know I could scream that loud. All I can really say is WOW. Seriously...there's nothing like seeing Mika. I mean, I knew it was going to be mind-blowing, but I guess I wasn't ready for it, because when the man came on, I lost my everloving mind. After Relax, it was Big Girl, which is one of my favorite songs, and oh man, it was so great. This feeling of absolute happiness just washed over me and I was singing and dancing and screaming and it was just so much fun. He is such an amazing performer and with that boot on, wow! Earlier, when I had heard that he hurt himself I expected him to be pretty stoic, or at least take it way easy, but he shocked me and danced like it wasn't there. I'm glad it didn't slow him down but I really hope that he didn't injure himself further, but he looked pretty okay... No, you weren't hallucinating. He was really engaged with the crowd. I didn't expect that. Gah, I keep saying "I didn't expect that" and I'm sorry this is so repetitive. I guess you can't expect anything at a Mika show except an amazing experience. But back to the eye contact...man. I don't know what it was, but that made me even more excited. I've been to shows where the bands just look out at the back wall of the venue, and it's not as fun, you don't feel as connected, but with Mika, you know he knows you're there and he gets really into it with the audience. I love that. I, of course, embarrassed myself during Blue Eyes when I met his eyes and then stumbled on the lyrics. He smiled at me, but in my head I was like, "I know the words, Mika, I swear!" Other than that all other eye contact moments and connections with the crowd were lovely. I loved the Blame It On The Girls crowd war, our side lost at first, but we came back with a vengeance. That was so much fun! All of the songs were so amazing to hear live. I love the confetti before Rain, and I loved, loved One Foot Boy. I loved every song. Pick Up Off The Floor was so great to hear live. I had been watching the Life From Jools Holland video of that song forever and to see it live...amazing. Love Today was amazing, there was such a great energy during that song. Everyone, including Mika, was jumping around like crazy (even though we all shouted at him not to!). I really liked when he stopped the song in the beginning and had to start over. So cute. I loved We Are Golden, just because he seemes so happy that everyone was singing it with such passion. I think we sang more of that song than he did and he just had this lovely big ol' grin on his face and he looked really happy, and that made me happy. Haha, and I like when he layed on the stage floor while we all sang, that was funny. I could go on about the concert for hours, seriously, so I will wrap this part up by saying...man what can I even say. I don't think there's a word to describe how great this was. Great isn't good enough. It was supercalifragilisticexpialidocous to the infinite power. I will never forget this, my first Mika show is definitely going to be the first of I hope many more, because there's no way I can only see him once, and no show will ever top this. Ever. Unless all of my favorite musicians get together, even the dead ones, and do a free show in my living room. I'm pretty sure that's not happening. But even then, that'd be a really close second compared to Mika. I haven't been this happy in a while, and I'm so glad that it happened. So after the show, we (Lucy, Patty and I) make our way to the merch booth and grab some stuff. We notice the group of MCFers grouped together, but we didn't know everyone in the club was invited (didn't get the memo), so we exited the venue. Patty and Lucy left and I went around to the side of the building to wait for Mika outside, I was prepared to wait forever, but it turns out I didn't have to. Met a few other MCFers (Sara, Alyssa and Nick) out there and we wondered about the meet n' greet and then Sara (Sarac) called Andrew and he came out and brought us inside to the meet n' greet. -Thank you guys so much for that, Andrew and Sara. So when we got down to the basement, everyone else was already there and I saw Mika standing in the hallway, and it took me a minute to realize it, and then my brain was like, "That's Mika." We were brought into the room where the line started and I was like, "I'm going to meet Mika. This is insane." I got out the present I made for him (a mubbin necklace, sans Mubbina because she broke ) and then I waited in line, fretting too much about what I was going to say. When it was my turn to go up...man. Hah, I don't even know. Okay, so Mika said hi to me and then I said, Hi. I told him how wonderful the show was, I told him it was better than Prince and his eyes got a little wide, and then I gave him the green chinese take-out box, which he opened. He read my card and we talked about how I was from Denver and then he got to the necklace and he liked it and said his sister was going to freak, and I said I'd make her one and then I said something about mubbina not being there and he said it was okay and made a joke and we laughed and then we posed for the picture (Thank you SO much Alyssa for letting me use your phone camera!) and he gave me a little squeeze then I went to leave, he said "Travel safe" and I thanked him again and said that I hoped his ankle felt better and then he smiled and then I left. As I was leaving the basement, it all came down on me, and I just felt...wow. He was so nice and lovely, and I can't believe how lucky I was to meet him. He's a really special guy. He seemed pretty tired but he still did that for us, and I think that's so amazing. I saw him again when I was waiting outside for my ride. I thought about getting something signed, but I just watched from afar. Then I went home and went to bed. This experience almost didn't happen for me for many reasons and I'm so glad that I made it out to the show (from Denver) and that it was so wonderful. It was all that I had hoped for and more, and I am so grateful for that, to Mika, to John, to the MFC, to everyone there, to the universe for making everything perfect...I can't wait to do it all again. Mika & I:

Best show I've ever been to...and I got to meet the man. Jeez. I definitely have to go to sleep now, but will report back with much more detail later.

Ahhhhh it's so soon! I have a feeling that my heart will stop at least once during this show. I still can't believe that I'm finally gonna see him live.

I absolutely love it!

I can't believe it's only eight days away!!!!!

Ooh sorry haha. Have you tried Google maps or anything? I'm getting so so so excited for this show. I'm skipping Zombie Crawl and Zombie Prom just for Mika and I even made my own hat!

I think the For Theater website has a list of close hotels/motels in the area.

I'm still waiting for mine. :/

No, I've never seen him live! So, I'm really happy about this. I might even drool a little. Yes!!! It'll be so cool to see you, it's been toooooo long. <333 I'm excited to meet the rest of you MFCers too.

I'm so so so excited for this show!!!!

Thank you!!!

I bought a ticket to this show, even though I don't know if I can make it, haha, but I hope I can!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!!! There is, but I'd have to skip some important days of school. But as the day gets closer, I'm leaning more and more towards bunking off just to see Mika. Haha, he's better than school.

This whole thing is so cool! I'm jealous, but it's so amazing that Mika did this

Hi everyone! I'm Cherelle, and I first heard Mika a couple of years ago. Love Today was the first song I heard and I liked it a lot. After I heard it, I explored the rest of his music and got hooked immediately. There hasn't been a day where I don't listen to Mika. I love when music can instantly grab me and not let go and that's when Mika's music does for me. I love, love, love it. It wasn't until recently that I was aware of MFC, and I've been lurking for a while but I finally decided to join! I'm excited Anyways, more about me, I'm from the USA, I've never seen Mika live, but I really, really want to. I'm 20, I'm in art school, and music and art are my life. Haha, I don't know what else to say... Hiiiii!