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Love this song V-much,i'v loop this song all day. To be honest, I do really not like the "Popular song "(MV version) , that's seems like a "For Ariana Grande Thing"（No offense ：））but this song, I can feel full of MIKA.

who is that girl??

she had a role in Glee.

His schedule is too full. Worry about him . Take good care.

You guys are so lucky could talk with him.

I never see him in real, He had a gig in HongKong once, But I was too young to attend.What a pity.Hope he will come to China again someday.

That was such an awesome show. I've seen Mika 25+ times now, and there was nothing quite like that. I think the closest experience that I've had was the April 2009 secret gig at the Roxy. Or if you've seen footage from that Salt Lake City gig where his gear didn't arrive and he decided to just kinda wing it - it was like that.

 

The opening act was...interesting! It consisted of an ironing board set up at the front of the stage, adorned with old books, french anatomy posters and what appeared to be a taxidermy duck (lolwut?). Max and Curtis came out and did a random DJ set at the ironing board table. *blink*

 

The Gig

 

As we were getting ready to go in, the venue security came out and told us that My-ka (facepalm) said photos were okay, but that he didn't want anyone filming. I didn't think much of it until we got in the venue and the same announcement was repeated over the PA - twice. They said something along the lines of "The performer is excited to share these songs with you, but not with all of YouTube." At first I wasn't a hundred per cent sure that the request had come from Mika - but when he played Century Man, I figured that the request did indeed come from him. As others have said, in 2007 in NYC - which I believe is the only other time he's done Century Man - there was also a request for no filming. Hmm.

 

It was way more stripped down than the June 2009 acoustic tour; just him, Curtis and Max. The arrangements were so vastly different from what I've heard before that there were times when I didn't even realize what song he was playing for the first few bars.

 

The setlist:

Grace Kelly

Toy Boy

Lollipop

Blue Eyes

Billy Brown

Popular

Love You When I'm Drunk

Only Lonely One

Underwater

Stuck In The Middle

Elle Me Dit

New Song (Laya? Leia? Layla?)

Origin

Big Girl

Century Man

Celebrate

Love Today

Over My Shoulder

 

It was so vastly different from the little fall North American tour. That was a proper album promo tour; this was something different. Super intimate, and very much about the music. After the DJ ironing board table was removed, there was no set to speak of other than a bunch of ginormous light bulbs hanging over the stage. Mika's voice was amazing, in perfect form.

 

He completely re-jigged Popular, doing it at the piano. Back in NYC in October I felt that Popular was a little all over the place, because it sounded like he was replicating the CD version - this was just him at the piano. For Lollipop they started it and did the first half a capella. For Stuck In The Middle he told a story about how he studied tap dancing when he was a child, and that those tap rhythms had always stuck with him - and that was what he had in mind when he wrote SITM. He had Max and Curtis tapping out a tap rhythm with drumsticks on the piano - very cool.

 

The New Songs

 

He did Only Lonely One first, saying that he'd never done anything with it since he recorded the demo in Chiswick. It was very much like the version he did at the points gig in London.

 

I think he said the second new song was called Leia, Laya, maybe Layla...something like that? I'm not actually sure, as the sound was quite crap when he was speaking as the front row was actually ahead of the speaker stacks. He had a mic stand at centre stage and he jumped up and sat on the piano, pulling the mic stand close to him.

 

It's a very jazz-influenced number - imagine Pick Up Off The Floor meets Elton John's They Call It The Blues or something to that effect. Ooh! or like that Christmas song Santa Baby. Bum, ba-bum, bum, ba-bum!

 

I really wish we'd been able to record this one as it's very lyrically complex, and I'd love to sit down and work out the lyrics. The one part that repeated over and over that I remember was "I need you, that's all", repeated to fade out. It was like we were in some kind of smoky jazz club.

 

Century Man is classic early Mika, piano based and plinky plonky with a vaguely military beat. The chorus goes "I'm a Century Maaaaaan" with Mika going full voice for the first three words and then up into falsetto on "Man."

 

When I packed for this trip I made a point of leaving my passport at home, knowing full well that the Mika Magic tends to inspire feats of crazy - and I'm glad I did, or I'd be going to Portland. If last night was any indication, this tour is going to be very, very special indeed.

 

The venue was a nightclub, with a strict curfew so they could turn into their club night. Mika did indeed receive a piece of paper at 9:45 telling him that he had to be off stage in 15 minutes. He was all "At 15 minutes out they say 'Dear Mika, please wrap up in 15 minutes". By 10:00 it's all "dammit Mika, get off the f*@! stage!" Hehe. There was no encore, which is really unfortunate because people were going mental.

 

He closed the show with Over My Shoulder, which was such a treat. I was surrounded by Mika virgins, all of whom were spellbound when he hit the money notes. There were some people chatting at the back though, which is something I will never for the life of me comprehend.

 

He disappeared right after the gig, which is unfortunate as there were only about 15 people waiting for him.

 

I'll be back later with pics - my friends want breakfast and they're starting to look at me and lick their lips...

Thank you !

He looks shy in real life.

You're coming just to see Mika or other artists too?

 

This festival is going to be professionally filmed and broadcasted on major national TV channel SBS as well! We can see Mika on giant HD TV screen at home too!

I go there Just for Mika. XD

Already bought the ticket,But I have a question, the confirm mail said that:The festival start in 00:00 17th May.Does that mean I should go to the venue at 23:00 16th May？

I totally don't understand Korean.That's sad.

I think I will be there, Anyone in Seoul? we can together.

The correct link of pre-order

 

MIKA - ORIGIN OF LOVE (2CD/+TOFU FIGURE) HK$129.00 (US$16.54)

http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/rockpop.asp?sku=600568

I just ordered deluxe CD in http://www.mikasounds.com yesterday,why don't I see this information earlier??:C I wanna that mika-tofo doll~