maggie112

31 minutes ago, Mikasister said:

A friend of mine has contacted the festival organizers and they have replied that Mika's concert is going on. My friend has told them that Mika said he wouldn't do any concert this summer and they have replied that if he has not canceled, his performance go ahead and  when they definitely receive Mika's  cancellation, we will be informed. 

I hope it won't take that long 🤷‍♀️

I am quite confident gigs are not happening, in Italy and Spain either, we just would want to have clear answers more than "2020 is gone" 🤦‍♀️

33 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Probably more like "Who is Mika?"

But it seems Mika gave up on wanting to play his neighbour's piano, in the last interview (and in his IG post) he said he's listening to a lot of music now, instead of making music. That's also important for a musician, might be an inspiration for his own work.

I also think that if he really wanted, he could have got at least a keyboard, so, if he didn’t, it was his choice 🤷🏻‍♀️

5 minutes ago, mellody said:

@maggie112 For South America there's the project with Danna Paola, but not sure that's possible yet. Travels outside the EU are still very restricted, and South America is hit hard by the virus. I don't remember hearing him talk about Asia, apart from his cancelled tour there - he said something about Lebanon, wanted to make an EP, maybe a collaboration with a Lebanese artist? But same for that, I don't think he can make plans for anything outside of the EU yet.

 

There's still the documentary, he said he was working on that. And who knows, maybe when he said he started writing again in quarantine, he meant his book?  Ok I won't hold my breath for that, but it's an option, apparently he didn't mean writing songs, when he says he doesn't sing and doesn't have a piano there.

Danna Paola is Mexican, do you think he meant the same thing? 🤔

@mellody yes, XF is on Pay tv. 
I also would laugh a lot if it would turn out not to be true, but I think it is, since a lot of press seems really confident he is doing it, so I would find it weird!

I hoped until last week it was just a rumour, because in a live he mentioned other projects he planned to do (if he was able) in Asia and South America, and he did not mention Italy or tv either (of course he could not say the word “Xfactor” 🤣 before it was official) 

he could also do both things, it depends on what it is, he could do them before live recordings, or if they are stuff that he could do in few days between one recording and the other 🤣 who knows 

Of course, I hope he did not mean talent shows in Asia or South America 😂😂😂 

I think they can set up XF without audience, or with little audience keeping safe distance (and since it wasn’t easy to attend live recording with the regular audience, I think it will be even less easy this year, so, its not likely to be chance for fans to see Mika In person and maybe meeting him) 

They are also considering not doing it in Milan but in Rome, we will see how the situation goes on when they will have to do the live recordings 🤷🏻‍♀️
 

About Mika doing Xfactor again, I get that gigs are not happening this year, so in that period he wouldn’t have toured anyway because of covid, and for him it’s money, which he can re-invest for music and touring of course 😃
In my honest opinion, I’m not really a fan of seeing him (again) doing that show in Italy. Because I am not enthusiast of seeing him being recognized by the main audience as a “tv showman” related to talent shows more than a singer (of course, we got that many dates in Italy because of tv shows, and I’ve been happy, so I know I am sounding really contradicting) 

Before XF, for TOOL tour 2012/13, we got 3 Italian dates (just in 2012, none in 2013) and then he became really popular doing XF.
Now, I think that even without doing tv stuff anymore, we wouldn’t ever return to the 2013 situation, with no Italian date at all (or very few dates), since I think he got a very loyal Italian fanbase, even if not as big and loud as in XF years 2013/14/15. So, for just my opinion, enough is enough 🤣

I would have rather preferred him doing a talent show in another European country and gaining fans also there, since I am confident that Italian fanbase (and French as well) is stuck there, even without Xfactor or any other talent show 🤣

Then, I know it’s just talking about my preferences and my “fanfictions” about what I would see him better doing, without really knowing anything about what he is offered and in which terms! I guess that he was offered to do that in Italy, not in another country, and he accepted for the reasons we said, of course, it’s okay 

8 hours ago, mellody said:

 

 

I suppose it'll depend on the decisions by Italian government. In France everything is cancelled until mid-July, in Germany and Belgium it's end of August. I didn't hear anything about Italy yet, as for gigs and festivals, but I doubt it'll be less strict there.

Yes, the government didn't say anything at the moment. 

I would think the whole Summer season will be cancelled, and maybe the whole 2020. 

In the happy path scenario we will have a vaccine at the end of the year, so 2021 will be ok, but at this moment we don't know

19 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Who, the neighbour? Well, I can understand that he doesn't let his neighbour Mika into his flat to play piano, in Germany it would even be forbidden these days. I'm not sure I'd keep to this rule if Mika knocked on my door to use my piano  ... but for his neighbour, Mika probably is just a random guy, so it's understandable.

 

 

No, I was meaning Andy forbidding Mika to get a piano/keyboard to play 😅

also because you can actually play the keyboard with headphones on, so nobody would be bothered

6 hours ago, mellody said:

 

Yes, or a Greek SIM card for his mobile with fast internet, so his neighbours can't steal his bandwidth.  I suppose he's using Wifi in the apartment, as he says the connection is bad because his neighbours are downloading and it gets worse on the balcony.

About the keyboard/piano/whatever, maybe he even bought one but it takes time to be shipped 🤣 maybe at the beginning he didn't think he would have needed because we all hoped it wasn't going to last long, but well, it's not what we hoped 🤦‍♀️

I don't want to think that "the other guy" doesn't want him to play and forbids him 🤣

11 hours ago, Mikasister said:

As you say, we have to wait and see what will happen but I have one thing clear ( I speak for myself) I do not want to risk my health among 2000 or more people I don't know if they can infect me and  it's not just gigs, going to a summer festivals it means traveling, taking flights, trains, hotels etc...and the way things are right now,  I see it risky.

 

At concerts I want to enjoy every moment and not with fear thinking where can I catch the virus, so I don't know how things will evolve but I would prefer that they all be postponed to 2021.
 

I think that it's not likely that we will be even allowed to leave the country during the Summer 🤷‍♀️

Just now, mellody said:

 

If he says that in the first weeks he drank too much red wine, who knows, maybe that got him in the mood to do happy cooking shows for us.  If that's the case, then it's better if he doesn't drink too much, even if that means no cooking shows. 

 

 

Yes, broken or without batteries - it already was like that during the cooking shows and the other Italian interview.

 

With all the things he keeps saying that are missing in the apartment, I do wonder if deliveries of online shopping are also blocked in Greece atm - I mean, isn't that what everyone does these days if they need something while the shops are closed, just order it online?  Here some local shops, like our local bookstore, even offer delivery while they're closed, that's certainly the better option than ordering from Amazon.

I also wonder why he didn’t buy even a keyboard to play 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

19 hours ago, mellody said:

 

Ah yes, I understood that too, just forgot, that he's doing sports with a friend via Facetime. So apparently for that his internet connection is good enough, but for the interview it kept freezing - maybe that's why there's no more cooking shows.

 

 

My guessing is that he’s not in the right mood to do them at the moment 🤷🏻‍♀️ 
about the connection, he could pre-record them, I think he could find solutions, but who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️
its really challenging for everyone to be in good mood in this situation 

Really bad connection 🤣 but very nice interview ❤️

I would love to have IG lives again, who knows if he will ever be in the mood 😊

1 hour ago, Anna-is-golden said:

I really hope it won't be canceled🥺❤️❤️

Of course everyone hopes, but while I was saying "August is still many months away" now it seems really not likely that it will safe to allow gathering 20K people in an arena 🤷‍♀️but even if it was a small gig with just 1000 people 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, it's Italian government which decides, before Mika 🤷‍♀️

14 minutes ago, Mikasister said:

Maybe the show does know why he didn't connect, but he didn't have to tell others why. Anyway, I'm not worried about any of that.  When he has the need, he will say something.

it could has been the show production itself to ask him to delete all posts and not tweet about it 🤷‍♀️

of course, if he doesn't tweet anything for 3 days, is a different thing and he has his reasons, but about the show, it could not be his choice 🤷‍♀️

2 minutes ago, Mikasister said:

 

I'm not sure about that. 

someone worries also after just 1 day, but over the years we have been even something like 1 month (or close) without any tweet 🤷‍♀️

I think people are quite stressed because their own situation, so, if Mika doesn't entertain fans, they overreact easily 🤷‍♀️

Without quarantine I don't think people would worry that much for 2/3 days without any post 🤷‍♀️

I think his connection is becoming quite bad 🤦🏻‍♀️ 

In the first IG live it was ok, in the second it was ok until he called fans to join, in the third it was quite bad 🤦🏻‍♀️
And the Epcc episode was pre-recorded, so, no problem 

well of course that’s just my guessing 🤷🏻‍♀️

No, not yet 

2 hours ago, carafon said:

 

Could it be that Andy is working there or/and wished to be closed to his family as well ?

They talked about an andy's great aunt in the IG live (that they were sharing some spinach pie with her)

I don't think he is currently working because of the lockdown 🤷‍♀️

1 minute ago, mellody said:

 

Yeah, I understood that... so he does mean that he needs the luck, as I thought first? That's what I'd have interpreted from the look on his face, although I don't understand the details of those particular Italian sayings.

Yes, he needs luck 

(as anyone else in the world right now)

3 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Why does he need a wolf?!  Maybe he misses his dogs?

 

 

He said "I need a wolf" since the Italian expression for "good luck" is literally "in the mouth of the wolf" 😅

I’m wondering why they didn’t choose London, because of the not nice situation? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Since the house is surely bigger and he would have a piano 🤔 and closer to Paris 

But since the bad situation In UK, we can guess it wasn’t a bad choice going to Athens 

about the “good luck”: Alessandro said “in bocca al lupo” (in the mouth of the wolf) which means “good luck” and Mika said “I need the wolf” 

Yes, it’s pre-recorded 

About Verona, at the moment the gigs are going on, everyone hopes it will work out but well, who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️ I guess he said something like this 

I think that if summer festivals are cancelled, it’s too far to know at the moment. We can just wait 🤷🏻‍♀️ And hope 🤦🏻‍♀️