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5 year anniversary updates DONE IN THE WEEKS OF Dec 26 2019 - Mar 26 2020: added new entries and extended info entries (see below), made more collages, added many new photos and quotes to older entries, added & updated tour dates, more Mika “research”, made major updates to some entries and countless little edits to others, removed a couple entires i decided aren't important enough, etc. NEWLY ADDED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Alphabeat - Azar, Tristan - Bill Murphy Studios - Boisjoli, Brigitte - Boulay, Isabelle - Cancellalo Amore - Chela - The Cottage Studio - De Andrè, Fabrizio - Drouginska, Tanya - En Direct De L'Univers - Freed, Lance - Gratton, Antoine - Ha-Na, Lee - ICP Studios - Ka Tong Ren Sheng - Knockin On Heaven’s Door - La Fabrique - Loriot, Thierry-Maxime - Moffatt, Ariane - Moukattaf, Austin - Nevsky, Alex - Ofenbach - One Eyed Jack’s - Paola, Danna - Peyroux, Madeleine - Portraits - Theia - Tomalty, Jonas - Viktor & Rolf - Villaneuve, Annie - Warchild NEWLY ADDED ENCYCLOPEDIA EXTENDED INFO ENTRIES Amore Che Vieni, Amore Che Vai - Au Diable le Paradis - Mark Crew - MIKA, Live from Brooklyn Steel - Dan Priddy UP NEXT: things to do maybe someday if i remember & get around to it: somehow changing up the ARTWORK line for all the albums and singles, making more collages for stuff, adding more quotes especially about/by the guests on Casa Mika, linking to more photos and videos (especially the older entries), more researching in old interviews and videos and threads, adding more bits of bio & other info, removing more entries that have info covered elsewhere, quotes and info gleaned from Mika's multilingual dance party cooking videos, and everything more -next update should be in June-ish

thank you for updating us! every so often something will remind me of the merch and i say to myself 'oh yeah, i ordered some stuff ages ago, hmm i should probably check into that'

they've all been cancelled already, all the South and North American dates hopefully he'll reschedule later in the year

good question! i started looking into this too, and this guy seems the most promising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Wasser

i just watched this for like 3 minutes straight NOW YOU CAN TOO! EDIT: make that 5 minutes...

welcome to MFC!! i'm Dee from the middle of the USA 👋 here's a useful thread if you've got Mika questions:

Mika radio interview on Hot30 Melbourne, Australia 2007 https://content.invisioncic.com/r259115/monthly_2019_08/1930976406_2007_06.04Hot302dayFMSydneyAus.mp4.a5b4a148ca1a7e4b9257919153641d2b.mp4 better quality pics cuz he is adorbs: here's the thread:

bad news The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will now take place October 9-11 and October 16-18, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/entertainment/coachella-postponed-coronavirus/index.html Hopefully Mika will be able to come back to California on those dates

here's mine... btw this is only compared other Mika songs. my jars for almost all other other non-mika albums would be pretty much empty xD

Just off the top of my head, without over thinking this... LICM: Happy Ending TBWKTM: Touches You SFS EP: Lady Jane TOOL: Overrated NPIH: Good Wife MNIMH: Dear Jealousy Honorable mentions: Promiseland, Tah Dah, Tomorrow, One Foot Boy

he posted a couple as instagram stories in October. Anne saved them!

less than 2 months left til this gig! Any other MFCers coming to this one? Looks like there's less than 25 seats left, I wonder how close the standing area is to selling out. This'll be my first non-east coast Mika gig (I wonder if it will feel different?) and my first time coming to Denver so I'm super anxious and excited.

i ordered a few things from the shop in late December or so, and it said they'd dispatch it in 6 weeks. i haven't heard anything since I wonder what the big hold up is?!

French lyrics: Bouddha me boude bien trop Moi qui prends tout à coeur Je reste sur le carreau Et pique des colères en douceur Etre quelqu'un de bien je promets Toute ma vie, mon samsara Mais n'ai-je pas le temps d'y échapper Avant le Paris-Nirvana [Refrain:] Personne Ne veut de moi au paradis Personne Alors je reste ici Come on ! Comme on est bien par ici Come on ! Et au diable le paradis ! J'pourrais bien sans relâche Eplucher ton livre sacré Et ton coeur blindé d'attaches Tel un ascète discipliné Mon karma est à toi, si tu veux Me suivre en paix, en silence, Mais n'oublie pas que c'est un jeu Et qu'y a pas de voeu d'abstinence [au Refrain] From: http://www.parolesmania.com/paroles_doriand_68025/paroles_au_diable_le_paradis_1165997.html English translation: Buddha pouting at me too much I, who take everything to heart I'm staying out of the way. And gently pricks anger Being a good person, I promise... All my life, my samsara But don't I have time to escape it. Before Paris-Nirvana [Chorus:} Person Doesn't want me in heaven Person So I'm staying here Come on! How nice it is here Come on! And to hell with heaven! I might as well keep on Peel off your sacred book And your heart with its many attachments Like a disciplined ascetic My karma is yours, if you want it. Follow me in peace, in silence, But don't forget it's a game... And that there's no vow of abstinence [To the Refrain] Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

came across this review today, doesn't look like it'd been posted here before https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/10/10/buttery-new-mika-album-assembles-pastiche-of-throwback-pop-polish/ Washington Blade - October 10, 2019 by Joey DiGuglielmo Buttery new Mika album assembles pastiche of throwback pop polish First, I gotta get something off my chest: despite having released a glowingly wonderful new album, Mika has irritated me. First, his current “Tiny Love Tiny Tour,” which kicked off last month and is on hiatus before resuming in November in Europe, featured a pathetically paltry three dates in the continental U.S. (there were two others in Montreal and one in Mexico City). Um, seriously? Your first U.S. tour in six-and-a-half years and you can only give us three dates? Not even a Miami show, where you actually live and recorded the new album? WTF? I toyed with the idea of trekking up to New York for his show there, but am so glad I didn’t — he only played a paltry 70-minute set and completely ignored his last album, the 2015 masterpiece “No Place in Heaven.” He admitted in a recent Rolling Stone interview he used the no-frills U.S. dates to test material to unveil in a full-fledged production for the European dates. Um, gee, thanks. I mean, yeah, he’s a way bigger star in Europe so no surprise he keeps his eggs mostly in that basket, but this was such an egregious “#### you” to his U.S. fanbase, it’s positively insulting. It’s hard to be too upset however as his new album “My Name is Michael Holbrook” (***1/2 out of four), out last week, is almost as good as “Heaven” and its equally solid predecessor “The Origin of Love” (2012). The 36-year-old openly gay pop singer/songwriter has hit an unfair sales slump. All his big hits were from his first two albums (“Life in Cartoon Motion” and “The Boy Who Knew Too Much”). They’re hook-laden ear feasts, too, but the last two albums and the new one feature a leaner, more sophisticated pop craftsman that sadly hasn’t caught on. Sales for “Origin” and “Heaven” paled in comparison to the first two records and yielded no major hit singles either here or abroad. “Popular Song,” an Ariana Grande duet, hit no. 87 on the Hot 100. His biggest hit, “Grace Kelly” was a worldwide smash in 2007 but only made it to no. 57 here. Washed up at 36? What’s going on here? Thankfully, artistically that’s not the case. Written entirely by Mika (in most cases with a bevy of co-writers) and a new production team (Mark Crew and Dan Priddy) “Holbrook” is a lean, glistening pop gem featuring deceptively tight hooks; logical, cascading chord progressions; witty lyrical observations; tons of trademark falsetto vocals; and an overall buttery, easy-on-the-ear sonic shellac that flirts at first with an impression of slightness but ultimately so bombards you with catchy choruses you succumb to its charms even when you try to keep it at bay. Among the standouts are ‘70s-flavored “Paloma,” which starts off as a slightly out-of-tune piano ballad, kicks into a lite bossa nova shuffle, then builds into a finish with strings and choir; the Fleetwood Mac-ish “Sanremo” with its sunny, loungy vibe; and effortlessly breezy and slinky “Dear Jealousy.” First single “Ice Cream” is a sexy, catchy ear worm. The party continues with “Tomorrow” (“who gives a s**t about tomorrow?”), another falsetto-soaked charmer. Opening cut “Tiny Love,” is catchy but feels a little pretentious and Beatles-derivative. Much later in the album, “Stay High” keeps the party going with a watusi groove and Monkees-esque chorus. Only occasionally does the album reveal flaws — “Cry” is a bit lame (but not horrific) and screams “B-side.” “Platform Ballerinas” gives things some unexpected rock crunch but feels jarring; Elton John-ish “I Went to Hell Last Night” is just OK and was “Tiny Love Reprise” really necessary? It’s different enough to be its own full cut but gets too big, overblown and soundtracky. A kids’ choir comes in, another character enters — it ultimately falters under its own pretentiousness. That might sound like a lot of quibbling for a three-and-a-half-star review, but the stuff that thrills works so exceedingly well, you just kind of take it and run with it. It’s the musical equivalent of delicately curated but highly accessible textile exhibit — there’s a sense that a lot of these pieces could have come from thrift store finds, but there’s just too many of them and almost no junk that you know you were falsely lulled into thinking this was easy to assemble. No single element is particularly original but it’s so expertly executed, you sense a master pop excavator is continuing work at his peak powers.

ok, i'll stop soon

and two of my personal faves....

vintage pink Mika

i found some........

Got my ticket for this one! Awesome! I thought maybe you weren’t gonna come since he’s doing Boston

the one in NYC or Philly is not, unless you pick a balcony seat. I didn’t think Denver was, but I haven’t tried to buy that one yet. DC is seated but it didn’t have me pick a seat so maybe it’s first come first served seating.

Spread out so far apart, and places he’s never been (Nashville?!) or hasn’t been to in years (Miami!)!!! Being a Mikafan in the USA just got a lot more exciting xD DC, Philly and NYC are a no brainer for me, my sister lives in Philly so i’ll tie a visit in with her. However, I live somewhere between Denver and Chicago and sort of St Paul. All are about a 9-10 bus ride away so I’m debating whether or not I should go to one, two or three of these as well. What’s everybody else planning?

Thank you for pointing this out! I’ll add it to my to do list 👍