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What a fantastic evening! It was nice to meet many new faces.
We got a good spot in the front row and Mika was on fire. It looks like that he enjoyed the concert. He was joking and talking a lot. I think Mellody has filmed something.

Fran, Graciosa , Statue of Liberty and Daeni where in the Choir.

Filmed a very lovely Toy Boy.

I gave my ticket to a co-worker from me. She filmed two videos:

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Hi guys!

I know I'm not very active on here but I've been an active Mika fan for the past 5 years. Today I got the news that I made it into the choir for Zurich and I am beyond excited!!!

Congrat´s! I'm sure you will have a great day!!!

Emerald, the girls will pick me up around 9 a.m. and then we drive to Zürich. I don`t know how long it takes, but I think about 4 hours or more. So I think that we will arrive in the afternoon.

At the gigs in Germany we made numbers and organised the Queue before the entry. But not with the security, only for us. We will see what the fans from switzerland have planned ;-).

The original plan was to hold up the hearts for OOL and the little bit of love part of happy ending, but as those came so late in the setlist, we thought

during OOL I threw a heart on stage, and after the song, before happy ending, mika picked it up and thanked us for the hearts. he asked who made them, didn't look at me, I was too far at the side, but I think dermoment and graciosa got their moment there! this was also when the funny moment happened that tina mentioned... someone had decided to build not a heart but a man's private parts out of the glowsticks and threw it on stage. mika picked it up and joked about it, then tried to give it to tina, who didn't look very pleased – and then mika threw it back in the crowd with the words “she doesn't want it, it's not big enough!” :lmao: that was definitely one of the funniest gig moments ever!! (sorry tina! )

I saw him coming with the glowsticks and thought "No! Not with me!" That was funny!

Back home after an awesome day!

Two days ago I got the mail that I will be in the Polka Dot Choir. Today I was really nervous, but everything went well.

For the smal stage we were a big choir with 10 people. We had rehersals at 4 pm and it sounded very good. After this we have done the Soundcheck with the band.

The Theaterfabrik is a really small Venue, so we don´t get a room backstage. We stayed in the hall untill 8pm and then we went back backstage to get the Robes and then we met Mika to warm up our voices. That was definitley the best moment of the day!!! Singing with Mika and band in his dressing room.

He changed the set list , so we had to go on for the 3. song (Popular). So there was no time to go to the audience, but we were able to watch the show from the side of the stage.

Everything went well. I was the one on the left side in the first row. Mika comes a few times to me, but I can´t see him , because it was at my back.

He quit Elle me dit and everyone of us was sitting backstage when Origin of love begins. We were running to our robes and then on stage . Crazy moment !

It was really hot on stage, I was sweating like hell !

Had a very funny moment with him and a glowstick. Mellody filmed it.

Sadly the concert was over, really fast. The M&G was short , but lovely. I got my picture with Mika and me.

It was great to be on stage with friends and meet new people (Ruth & Husband).

Sadly I have no pictures. I´m waiting badly for them.

Please forgive me my mistakes. It´s 3 a.m. in Germany ;-).

I´m getting really nervous right now. Hope that I can sleep tonight.

Can´t wait to see all of you tomorrow!!!!

Huhu!

Welcome! You will have lots of fun here.

Oh no, that´s sad.

Karin, we will try our best:thumb_yello:.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! I'm in the choir!!!! Totally freaking out! This is so amazing!!

Me , too!!!!

I didn't want to write so much, but of course it got long So, here is my report But photos and videos I don't have, sorry

 

*****

 

We couldn't make it earlier, so a friend of mine and me arrived after 6 pm at the location and ended up 10/11th row. But our view was quite okay for this place. Normally you have like 20 people with a height of 1,90 m in front of yourself (well, at least it feels like it ) - but not this time, only 2 big ones and most of the time I could watch through the gap between them directly at Mika's microphone.

 

In the waiting time a DJ played and it seemed that he would never stop - but finally he did and then the band came on stage. And than MIKA!!!!

 

Strangely my memory of the concert is really blurry. It's like a big mess of single memories and single emotions. But one thing I can say for sure: It was great! Really great! Really really really great! For me much better than my other two gigs back in 2010. I don't know, somehow I was really "in". Right from the beginning I started singing and jumping and arm waving and all the things although I didn't want to do it so much (especially as I can't sing and I didn't want to be so knackered after the concert again ). And then soon the point where I didn't think about anything at all was there, it was simply a reaction to the atmosphere and to Mika, and I didn't noticed anything around me, I just sang and jumped. Don't know, somehow it was only me and Mika and Mika's energy and the energy of the crowd and nothing else.

 

I didn't look more exact at the European setlist, so it was quite a surprise for me that he started with "Blame it on the girls". But I liked it. And I even more liked "Relax" later on because the crowd was already warm at this point and so "Relax" was much better.

 

The first highlight for me was "Billy Brown". Beforehand I was like "why is he playing it again, I rather want more of the new songs". But then he went to the piano and started playing - and it was the moment where it really made "click" between the crowd and Mika for the first time. The crowd was right from the start a more open one, stiff and uninvolved they weren't at no point beforehand, but at this moment big parts started singing very loudly and waving their arms. And so a lot came back from the crowd to the stage. And therefore from Mika to the crowd, especially later on at the concert, and it was this two-way effect. At least I felt that. And it made the gig very special for me.

 

And because of that I was in some way kind of happy that we were standing in the 10th row and not in the front row. Because I could clearly see the reaction of the crowd and most of all feel the energy of the crowd. At the front row you don't have that. Of course I couldn't see his facial expression clearly from our point and there is nothing like a free view. But it really did have had some advantages to be more afar at his gig.

 

And after reading mellody's report I would guess that we had much better sound in some distance from the stage, too.

 

 

 

It's really strange, because one of my notes I made after the concert is how good the sound was and that Mika's voice was really in the foreground (not overlayed by instruments or something like that). For sure part of why I liked the concert so much, I get so much from his voice

 

And it's incredible how much energy Mika has on stage, he was jumping so much and was so sweety. And he simply was radiating so much! I for sure felt the connection!

 

One of the most emotional moment for me was "Stardust"/"Underwater". I really really really love the acoustic version of "Stardust", a thousand times more than the studio version and I was so happy to finally hear it live. And it was impressing that although it's a ballad it has so much power at the end! "Underwater" I heart for the first time live, too. And then I understood why everybody fangirls so much about this song live. And the end of the song was very special, too, because Mika decided spontaneously to prolong it. The Polka Dot Choir already started going down from stage but than he said something like: "I want to try something and with you I can do it [implying 'because you are reacting so much']". And than he made us sing the word "Underwater" - firstly very tender, than more powerful.

 

At the beginning of "Lola" was a funny moment, too. He made us sing that melodies like he does it every time and of course it got more complicated and complicated. And then he stopped and said: "In every other show everybody started giggling here - but you sang it!"

 

Later on was a phase were he played a lot of fast songs, I can't say which one anymore, some of them were "Love today" and "Love you when I'm drunk", and I was like: *jump* - "I really need to recover my breath" - "Wah, now he plays …" - "Whatever" *jump again* Especially LYWID I loved live!

 

And somewhere in this block was "Elle me dit", too. And it was one of my personal highlights as well. I wanted to experience that song live for so long. So I was very happy when he played it in the USA - so there was a chance outside of France after all. But then he didn't play it at all European gigs, so really no knowing if he would play it or not. And then he started talking and said: "Actually I didn't want to play this song today. But, ****, whatever, I'm doing it now, because of you, you are so enthusiastic" (Okay, that weren't for sure not his actual words, but something along the lines like that). And then he played "Elle me dit"! And I loved it. It was this combination of finally hearing it live, the possibility to scream "Pourquoi tu gaches ta vie" on the top of my voice and the knowing that he normally wouldn't have played it and that we it was simply because of us that we got to hear it.

 

Other moments of the gig I really liked were the ending of "Origin of love" (he repeated and variated the "happy, crazy in love part" of the song some times as an outro), the playful new version of "Stuck in the middle", the power of "Rain" (normally not my most favorite song), the loud singing of the crowd at "Happy Ending"…

 

Mika talked a little bit through the songs, too. But nearly no German this time. One time it was about Halloween, which he said he didn't like if I understood him right, but the actual day of the concert (first of November) he liked because it was the day where the dead came back in Mexico. And then a little bit about Sandy and his grandmother and that his aunt now needs a new car.

 

And before "Stardust" some strange story about a guy, who said, that he had written Mika's songs in 1992. Actually the story wasn't that good, but the way he told it was great and funny. Curtis started playing a very melodramatic melody as he started, too, and that hat an great effect And then Mika didn't like the melody and it was quite funny.

 

He talked to Fran, too: "Why is there a Brazilian flag? You are from Brazil? Where are you from? What are you doing in Cologne? You came for the gig?" And than was a big applause from the crowd and Mika was really impressed.

 

At the beginning of "Grace Kelly" he went to his piano and said to Curtis that he wants to do it different this time. But I don't know what was different. Does somebody know who was on concerts before?

 

"Celebrate" he started with the slow piano entry and the sad verses like on the Radio BBC 2 gig. I didn't watch videos, so I didn't know if he would do it or not and so I was very happy because I love it. And of course the china-boy-verses later on.

 

And of course that was the moment where the front part of the crowd started waving the tinsel. It looked really great from the back!!!

 

And then the gig was over. And I was on a total height. Absolute madness. Somehow everything fitted: Mika's energy; the possibility to see him well enough and hearing his voice so clearly (because Mika transfers so much through his voice and body language for me); standing in the crowd and feeling the energy of the crowd; and probably I was somehow in the right mind to "let myself fall". And therefore I loved the gig!

 

*****

 

And at the end a little very strange story, which is not directly related to Mika (but which I personally found much more creepy than the one Mika told ): I'm a big fan of the German band called Rosenstolz (in my biggest fan-phase even much much more than of Mika…). And during the Mika gig 2010 in Düsseldorf I was standing next to two guys and at some point they started talking about Rosenstolz concerts. So of course my ears got bigger and bigger and then I started talking to them. And it turned out that we knew each other from the Rosenstolz forum and we even exchanged CDs per Mail in the past. That was really spooky already back then, I mean how big is the chance that you are standing next to somebody you actually know through the internet in totally different ways? And then in Cologne my friend and I lined up at the queue and then the next people after us arrived - and we look at each other and I realize that it was him again and he recognized me. And that was so creepy - and so funny. Okay, it was not unlikely that we both would be there - but again, how big is the chance that we would arrive right after another and would be standing right next to each other in the queue again? :blink:

Thank you so much for you wonderful report, esp. the talking parts. I stand next to Mellody and the sound was really bad in front of the stage so I can´t understand everything what he says.

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I had two wonderful days in Cologne. We meet a few other Fans the Evening before at the Hostel . Eat and chat a little bit.

On Thuesday morning we went to the Venue to meet the others and finish our surprise for Mika. We bought tons of Lametta (don´t know the english word) and put it together for the Audience. I think we need about 6 hours to finish 500 of it.

Sadly the weather was not very nice. It was cold and raining the whole afternoon.

Tim and Curtis went out in the afternoon to look for Members for the Choir and found some.

Later in the afternoon we organised the Queue and everything went well. No running, no screeming... only walk slow into the Venue.

The Kantine is a small Club in Cologne so the stage was really small. It was sold out since two month.

The concert was fantastic! He was in such a good mood , joking and laughing.

I loved to hear the new songs, esp. Popular Song, one of my favourites. The surprise with the Lametta and Ballons was perfect. He loved it and ask who had the idea.

It was great to see the whole audience sind and dance. Glad that this concert was such an succes for him.

Congrats to the Polka Dot Choir who did a good job on this small stage.

The M&G was nice, he wasn´t in a hurry and asked if someone who comes to Brussels can organise the surprise there two. Bubbles got the job to buy everything. A lot of work to do.

Yay! I did it! Uploaded the better pictures. And basically all of the choir ones. If anyone wants any picture without my name on it just tell me

 

The album is here: http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx92/Statue_of_Liberty/Mika%20Paradiso%2027th%20October%202012/

Thanx!!! Your pictures are fantastic. So your new camera ist a really good one.

I have one spare ticket for the Munich gig (6.November).

I sold the ticket.

 

mika with the present i got for him on the oktoberfest. bine,graciosa,tina and mariposa also contributed to it - he loved it!

 

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What a lovely picture!!! I´m happy that he liked it!!

It looks like that it is sold out!!!

It worked for me!

Wish I could have seen him with his plastic bag from Sainsburys, waiting for the bikes to pass.

Me too!

So this is on the day after the Vienna gig. What is the best way to go to Munich from Vienna? Plane... or train perhaps?

I think the Train. You need about 4 hours to Munich. I´m not sure if there are cheap plane tickets from Vienna to Munich.

Thank you Annie!!!!

I'm writing a column about the listening session and gig in Vigevano for a mag so, as soon as it will be published, i'll put it here

Can't wait to read it!

Clara, what a lovely story!

Oh! I love the pictures !!!

It was such an wonderful experience for me. I enjoyed every second of the session. I closed my eyes and listen to the songs.

I felt honored to be there.

A big "thank you" to Mika and Universal Italia!!!

my tickets for munich and cologne arrived today!

same here => hibbeling

Yeah, mine too! Now it´s more real !

A big thanks for all the reports. Here comes my little report.

Mellody , Mariposa and me arrived in the early morining from Switzerland. At first I went to the Hotel to check in and meet the other fans from Germany. After breakfast we went to Plaza Ducale and meet other fans and sat in the Cafe. The sun was shining and the weather was lovely. I went back to the hotel for an hour and sleep a bit. Then we meet all at a Ristaurante and eat pizza. Time flies by and it was time to go to the venue. The situation there wasnt good and so I decited dont try to get to the front row. Rose, Buttons, Threasa , Dutch Annie and me made many heart glowsticks and gave them to the ausdience. Then it was time to get in, thanks to the girls who reserved me a place on an bench.

From there we could see the whole show!!! I was very happy to see MIka again. It was a lovely summer night (with tons of mosquitos ;-) in a nice venue in Italy.

After the concert it takes a little time until Mika comes. But I decited to wait in the Background, because I have seen him one day before. It was lovely to see him with his fans.

I had a nice , relaxed day in Vigevano. "Hello" to everyone I have meet there! Was nice to see you all.