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2 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

I've been having a little look through this thread and people's Mika collections are amazing! My own Mika merch is all over the place so no photos at the moment. If people don't mind sharing I'm curious to know what's the most you ever spent on Mika merch (tickets don't count)? In the past 3 weeks I've spent nearly £300 and the most expensive single item is a signed Imaginarium Tour Program which was just over £60! Worth every penny! Also one of the more unusual items I own is 2 Mika prints done on canvas material, still waiting to get them framed.

 

Also does anyone know when the mikasounds website will update with the new Revelation Tour merch?

 

oooh those Imaginarium Tour Programs are kinda rare, aren't they? I only have one because I won it in an MFC contest. What else did your £300 get you?

 

Definitely my Mumu swatch, it was $110. Next would be the 4 pilot pen box sets they were like $85 including shipping from the Netherlands, the Kukulakuku swatch for $70, and my new not pictured Mika hoodie for like $65. After that, i dunno. I got lucky with Songs For Sorrow & only paid like $30 for that, i know they sometimes go for much higher.

looking at my Mika collection one might think i'm a little bit rich but as you can tell from my board & crates shelve i most definitely am not 

I realized my photobucket pics are gone, plus I just moved to a new apartment and reorganized my pretty little Mikathings, so I took some fresh photos.

 

I wanna take the opportunity to say thanks to the MFC mods for several of these things, which i won over the years in our anniversary competitions, and thanks to several other MFCers for gifts like the Compiègne flyer, Topolino mag, all my confetti, Mika necklaces, and more   

 

no more window above the shelf so i could put my posters up again! lower shelf, right side is his design projects and the middle is photos in frames including some i'm in too.

 

Mika necklaces, magnetic board, CDs & DVDs, etc

 

in the cup are Mika stickers i made, MFC stickers, and Mika bookmarks...

 

my shelf of beautiful freaks & other Mika-inspired crap i've made

 

what was hiding in the boxes...... badges, flash drives, and really old Mikaish candy from Dylan's Candy Bar xD

The flash drives are my newest project & i plan to make them a cute container. i couldn't think of another way to include all my intangible Mikamemories (like the audio of my Mikahug ) on a shelf

 

in the magazine holder is random receipts for Mikathings, a brown paper thing a bunch of mfcers signed at the mfc meetup dinner in MTL 2015, some drawings done for me by Mikafriends, more confetti pieces, printed pics i used for Mikrafts, etc

 

things i forgot to add: several Mika t-shirts, three Mika tote bags (one signed), a couple Mika hoodies, a signed TOOL poster, and a Swatch postcard thing WHICH I CAN'T FIND cuz i put it somewhere safe to move it but can't remember where.

 

 

it's still not enough Mika stuff. i'm jealous i'm jealous of everything.... but that doesn't stop me from wanting to see all your Mikastuff too!

 

 

Hello from Nebraska  Welcome to the MFC! You joined at an exciting time, lots going on in Mikaland 

hello & welcome  

"think 'Crazy Cat Lady' but instead of cats it's a Mika obsession" is a good way to put it   i think i might have to use that when people ask me about Mika 

 

there's this thread...

 

1 hour ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Wow that was quick! It's been so long since I've seen this that I forgot about Jo Whiley! Thank you 😀

 

No problem! I listened to this interview A LOT when i became a new fan so i know it well xD

10 minutes ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Hi, not sure if anyone can help with this query but I've been trying to find an old video of Mika in Scott Mills' house it's probably from 2008/09 and it's where Mika finds a whip under Scott's bed. (very obscure, I know) I think Radio 1 did film it but I can't find it anywhere! I can't be the only one who remembers this.

 

It was Jo Whiley's house. Someone had placed a photo of Scott Mills in her bedroom.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012ycfs/p013j3bh

 

 

On 9/27/2019 at 12:42 PM, Kumazzz said:

‘Sì Forever’ pre order now: andreabocelli.lnk.to/SiForever

 

 

This title will be released on November 8, 2019.

 

Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Alla Gioia (Ode To Joy)

  2. Return to Love feat. Ellie Goulding

  3. Un Rêve de Liberté feat. Mika

  4. Ragazzo Mio (Danny Boy)

  5. Il Mare Calmo Della Sera (25th Anniversary Version)

  6. Dormi Dormi feat. Jennifer Garner

  7. Amo Soltanto Te feat. Ed Sheeran

  8. If Only feat. Dua Lipa

  9. Fall on Me feat. Matteo Bocelli

  10. Un'Anima

  11. Miele Impuro

  12. Gloria The Gift Of Life

  13. Vertigo feat. Raphael Gualazzi at the piano

  14. I Am Here

  15. Ave Maria Pietas feat. Aida Garifullina

 

 

this seems to be fake news  i couldn't find any other mention of Mika featuring on this track so i listened to it on spotify and heard no Mika 

4 hours ago, krysady said:

It seems it's from someone who loves Blue 

 

4 hours ago, Mikasister said:

 

Not mine because "Blue" is the less song I like. 

 

yaaaaaay he has the yearbook! 

 

what a gorgeous gift!

interesting song choice since Blue is legit the only new song that doesn't have any piano or keyboards on it 

14 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

It’s quite difficult to get Mika off the topic of that car: a “family mascot” which he still pays an average of £10,000 to keep on the road, although it has done over 170,000 miles “and stinks because my father was so deranged he would wash the car with a hose inside and out so all the colour came out of the upholstery and we had little plants growing in there.” When the Previa finally conks out, Mika intends to have it “chopped into hundreds of tiny pieces and placed into amulets, like the relics of a saint, to give away with the first thousand copies of my autobiography.”

 

 

and it was at this moment that i decided to finally give the Toyota Previa the Mika encyclopedia entry it deserves

 

 

thanks for posting this interview Eriko, i couldn't read it since i'm not a Telegraph subscriber

 

 

On 11/1/2019 at 12:06 PM, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

 

Translation:

 

How do you keep your form?

Mika: I have 4 coaches in 4 different countries. They contact themselves via emails. I do a lot of horse riding. I swim. I run. And I walk. 

 

How do you keep your optimism?

Mika: I am curious. And I am trying to find people which have interesting stories to tell. Really.  It's almost an obsession. And because I am interested by people around me it makes me  engaged and amazed by the situations I find myself in.

 

What you have to have while touring?

Mika: My dogs. Two Golden Retrievers. They are cool. And they travel with me around the world.

 

Where is "at your place"?

Mika: For me to be "at my place" is to be with people I love. With people who make me laugh. And it is the place where the food is. The kitchen.

 

 

4 fitness coaches?! No wonder he can eat so much & stay so thin   Thank you for this translation Anna  (and for all your other translations too, they're so helpful!) 

 

Could you (or someone) please explain what's going at around 12:25 in the interview when those people are addressing Mika? Mika seemed very pleased to see them. I'm guessing the chef is Marc Haeberlin, but who is the lady and why is there another guy in the water? 

"Oh Paloma the skies have not been kind to you

Oh Paloma to weather the storm you’d paint it blue

Silent in your struggle

Living life like there’s nothing wrong

We didn’t even notice

All we heard was the morning song"

I'd been wondering about this bit. I was sure it was about Paloma before the accident, but I didn't understand what all he meant by it--like how could they not notice if she already wasn't OK? why wasn't she OK?!? 

 

Then i read this interview where Mika explained "Her left side is weaker since birth. And it's a big challenge for her. Simple things become very complicated. She had a lot of problems with it. This limited her independence. She is older than me but she had less freedom than me. There were a lot of negative feelings in her. She suffered in silence. We knew nothing about it. We didn't know what pain she had to deal with every day. Often, when she had enough of everything, she would hide and cry. We never saw her cry. We said she was the strongest of us. But that didn't help her. Quite the opposite - it was closing her up more and more."

 

 

On 10/27/2019 at 6:54 AM, krysady said:

He did just Relax?   I spent two hours last night watching Kendji singing, then Florent Pagny, then Kendji, then Yannick Noah, then Florent Pagni, then Kendji, then Yannick Noah, then Mireille Mathieu, then Kendji, then....   then I turned it off and probably that was when they showed Mika 

 

 

omg  i'm so sorry you had to endure all that and didn't even get to see the Mika part!

 

 

Usually i don't approve of Mika doing dangerous things, but i was really hoping he'd jump off at the end

i was looking for lyrics to this song & just found these https://greatsong.net/paroles-danser-entre-hommes-doriand

Dunno how correct they are, but I'll post them here for posterity.

 

 

Danser entre hommes
Mais pas sur du paso doble
Travailler c'est travailler
Quoi de mieux pour la santé
 

Danser entre hommes
De [?]
L'union fait toujours la force
À la sueur de nos torses

Danser entre hommes
Réservez nous le podium
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
C'est pour ça qu'on aime

Danser entre hommes
Mais pas sur du paso doble
Plus on est, plus on est fort
Si les grands se réconfortent

Danser entre hommes
De [?]
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
C'est pour ça qu'on aime

Danser entre hommes
Mais pas sur du paso doble, non, non, non
Les sons veulent tomber nos pioches
Et partons mains dans les poches

Danser entre hommes
Réservez nous le podium
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
Danser, danser, danser, danser
Danser, danser, danser, danser

Et j'aime danser entre hommes
Réservez nous le podium
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
On est tous pareils
C'est pour ça qu'on aime

Danser entre hommes
Réservez nous le podium

17 hours ago, Irem Aytepe said:

Curls..

 

1 hour ago, Starlight said:

From wild to styled! 

 

styled is lovely, but i think i prefer it wild

hello from somewhere in the middle of the usa! Welcome to MFC 

 

What's your cats name? We have a thread for pets if you wanna show them off 

 

 

oh and i too play dnd (well, pathfinder technically but my friends tell me it's basically the same)

7 minutes ago, NancylovesM said:

Did anyone receive their copy of the CD from your concert ticket purchase?. I'm still waiting here in Toronto, almost ready to give up. 

 

I got mine a couple days ago, but the one I had them send to my sister hasn’t gotten to her yet, so don’t give up hope! The email they sent after I submitted my address said it should ship in 7-10 days after the release. I never got an email saying it actually shipped.

2 hours ago, Mikasister said:

 

No, I'm not losing vocabulary but Im afraid if I say what I have in mind about him and these shots, I will end up in th naughty corner  

 

I find the video for Tomorrow much more likely to get me thrown in naughty corner if I was to voice my thoughts about certain parts..... but I better watch this one again just to be sure.

 

EDIT: watching them both back to back I think I prefer Tomorrow because it’s not as terribly backlit and sometimes you can actually see his face. Dear Jealousy has less distracting band footage tho.

1 hour ago, mellody said:

This guy did an IG live of the whole (?) performance: https://instagram.com/skar90?igshid=9k3sszzr5rsi

Mika sang:

Italian song (title?)

Stardust

Tomorrow

Grace Kelly

 

...

I wish I could go to Livorno tomorrow, such a special performance!

I suppose it'll be even fuller there, now that fans know what to expect...

 

 

The Italian song is Lucio Dalla's Piazza Grande. Mika and Elisa sang it together on the first episode of Stasera Casa Mika in 2017

 

 

Seems like the lyrics to the demo version sung by Priscilla have never been posted? 

 

I should've known

When we met at the disco

You and me, dangerous

Dancin' way too close

2am, at your door

Where the kits(?) go

Tell me how in the world

Did I end up with my hand on the barrel

It's time that you paid

I want you to clean up the mess that you made

Like a bitch out of order

Like a bat out of hell

Like a fish out of water

I'm scared, can't you tell

Bang Bang

Put my gun down on the table

Before you try to blow my mind

I used to think it was you

Who was so unstable

But I was always close behind

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

I thought you were good

You painted me bad

The picture was pretty

So I wasn't mad

But then I discovered

It couldn't get worse

You've chosen' my coffin

You're drivin' the hearse

I thought it was you

I liked you the most

But I was just keepin'

My enemies close

I made a decision but I never change(?)

So how did you end up with all of my clothes(?)

Woh-oh-oh

Bang Bang

I should've known

You were too good to be true

You were hidin' your horns

I was green(?) to you

It's not a race

Wasn't trying to beat you

Trip me up, cut me down

When I'm with you

Bang Bang

Put my gun down on the table

Before you try to blow my mind

I used to think it was you

Who was so unstable

But I was always close behind

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

I thought you were good

You painted me bad

The picture was pretty

So I wasn't mad

But then I discovered

It couldn't get worse

You've chosen' my coffin

You're drivin' the hearse

I thought it was you

I liked you the most

But I was just keepin'

My enemies close

I made a decision but I never change(?)

So how did you end up with all of my clothes(?)

I'm not your brother, not your lover

And I'm not your friend

Another covers you're another

Kind of different

A new person

For every cut

And that's my blood in your dixie cup

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

B-B-Bang Bang Boom

 

Bang Bang Boom

I shot you

Bang Bang Boom

I shot you

30 minutes ago, Mikasister said:

 

i've watched this instagram story like 15 times already because of his eyes. i can't look away https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kXnddoEDz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

22 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

I also hope we'll get a translation.  ... the first part, when he talks about illness and death in his family, is very emotional, I think he was nearly crying when he mentioned his mum.

 

Is this when Fabio pats Mika's knee? After the pat Mika blinks a lot & smiles, but then his face... omg my heart   

2 minutes ago, Florine said:

I'm a fan of Cd's and vinyls. It's a totally different thing to have CD's and music on the app like spotify or something !! it's something you can have with you, you can see or feel. It's authentic.

 

I totally agree!  The sound is different on disc & i like to look at the CD jacket and absorb the artwork while i listen.

Plus, its hard for Mika to autograph an mp3 file 

7 hours ago, carafon said:

They offered 250 tickets that we had to order by internet ( very quickly sold out of course)

The schedule was from 3 to 6 pm

Mika was a bit late ,but not that much (I'd say 15 minutes) and he left 20 minutes before 6pm as we were rather quick …..at least most of us

He had quite a low voice and seemed to be very tired but always kind and smiling with everyone

He took a group of chidren on the platform for a picture ,even if they were not registred ,don't know who they are …..and it seems that some people that went without tickets also got a chance to attempt the event at the very end 👍

It was in an open space in the middle of a commercial centre , they played MNIMH all the afternoon long ,I hope that the people in the shops around loved it otherwise they'd probably have a veryyyy long afternoon …...

I'll post some pictures as soon as possible 

 

 

3 hours ago, Florine said:

It was the first time so I was shaking ! But he was so sweet and kind. He had some voice trouble so the staff told us not to talk too much but I felt like he was speaking with his smile !

 

Thank you for your reports & pics! Ofc I'm a bit jealous, but i'm even more happy & proud that he still does stuff like this for the fans & i love reading about your experiences with him. He really is the best 

32 minutes ago, Lexa said:

Hello,

my name is Saskia, I’m from Germany and I’m 31 years old. I’m a newbie here on MFC, but I know and like Mika since 2007, since I heard Grace Kelly on the radio and since I saw Mika in a TV talk show first time 🥰. I’ve also been to some Mika concerts starting from 2010 and got addicted to them course! For the upcoming tour I plan to visti the Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg concert.

Now that I finally singed in here (I never really dared to sign in before, as I always found MFC is so big and I'm rather shy and not such a big writer...), I just wanted to say hello to everyone 🤗

 

Aside from English, I learned French at school and still understand a litte bit. I’m trying to learn some Italian at the moment (will also be useful for Mika interviews etc. ) and I know some words in Croatian due to summer holidays in Croatia for many years. Are there any Mikafans from Croatia here ?

 

From the new CD I especially like Dear Jealousy, Platform Ballerinas, Stay High and Tiny Love, but keep listening the whole album on repeat at the moment every day on my way home from work 🙂

(Actually it distracts me from listening to my Italian audio vocabulary trainer, so my attemps to learn Italian are stagnating )

 

 

Hello, welcome to MFC! Happy you joined us, i promise we don't bite  

 

If you have any questions about the forum or Mika just ask 

 

8 hours ago, Paoletta said:

who in this forum have buy and who have not yet buy the album?

 

I got it from itunes on the 4th. and the North American concert tickets i got came with the CD included, so 4 discs are *hopefully* on the way (but one is going to my sister). The emails said 7-10 days so they should be here any day!  ............if not, i might go to the store and hunt for it