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29 minutes ago, Emily2b said:

managed to get tickets for the standing stalls however idk if the tier 1 seats would have been better as its a long time to stand and idk what kind of view you will get at the back. Unfortunately thats all they have left now so i hope i get a good view. anyone been to this venue before that would know?

i got a ticket for tier 1 seating (stalls standing was avaliable for me but i don't like standing for long periods of time) and i think the view will be pretty good. I looked the place up on google maps and looked at the photos other people have put up for inside the venue and the 360 degree shots of the venue, and the view looks fine. I've been to bigger venues than this one where i've been seated almost at the back and still had a decent view so tier 1 should be fine.

21 hours ago, Charlizabeth said:

Do you think that there will be another UK concert?  I can't make the London one 

someone asked that on the instagram live video he did a few days ago, pretty sure he said he wants to do more uk/london dates, possibly in 2020

made my day seeing him at my favourite tennis tournament. i'm a massive tennis fan, and was watching the french open final at home. also even better when mika posted a picture of rafael nadal with the caption of 'Warrior!' cause i am a huge fan of rafa too, so lovely to know 2 of my favourite people were at the same event. added to the joy of rafa's win with mika being there too

totally impossible to choose one, it really depends on my mood at the time. Rain is special to me though cause it is a song that i put on and sing very loud too whe i'm feeling angry and it makes everything better. staring at the sun, stardust and i see you i can relate too well. good guys i love because of the reference to oscar wilde who is a absolute hero of mine and someone i would love to have met if we lived in the same time. popular song due to its anti-bullying message and promiseland because of how i feel so much different to everyone i know and i hate that sometimes- in particular the beginning of the song 'lived my life as the good boy i was told i should be. prayed every night to a religion that was chosen for me'

if i carry on i think i might end up listing every song

hey
wondering if someone can help me who can speak french.
could you translate this (see photo)? I don't speak a word of french and would like to know what it says
thanks
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i loved his comment about guilty pleasure songs, so good to hear

can't choose one cause it depends on my mood or what i am thinking at the time but heroes because of all the crap going on in the world right now i think it speaks of it all perfectly, no place in heaven and rain

the sonic sunglasses were cool but i prefer the sonic screwdriver

i agree guys we need mika to write a christmas song, it would be amazing. i have certain xmas favourites such as fairytale of new york and do they know its christmas the usual, but after a while i need something else cause it is the same ones every year, mika would give us all a bit of variety!

hi everyone, 

sorry if there is already a thread for this (couldn't find one though) but I was wondering if anyone knows of any christmas songs that mika has sung or covered (in any language). If so could you share them with me please, need to get in christmas mood with my favourite singer!

only just heard this one but i love it especially the china boy part, don;t get why everyone is saying it is a automatic skip on the CD, i've had it on repeat for ages now

i guess i am also a returning member of kind, not to this site but i loved mika when i was younger when licm came out, kinda forgot about him after that (i know, how could I?!!) but then i had to do a school project where we had to design advertising for a concert and i found a download of licm on the school's shared documents and that triggered my memory and ever since i have been a fool addicted

I received my copy of the album repack (French version) in the post this morning (preordered from Mika's store). I haven't listened to the first disc yet (although I did note that it includes the new version of Hurts which I loved when I heard it in London last month) but the second disc is fantastic & I'm really enjoying the orchestral arrangements of the songs

got mine today too, it is perfect, love all the french songs and the new tracks as well, haven;t got round to the 2nd disk yet but looking forward to it

 

Here it is: 

 

Scanned pics by Lucrezia

Translation by me, Alyara and *Vv*

 

 

 

Mika: Hadn't I responded to the insults, I would have betrayed my 13 y.o. self. 

 

When I saw the pic of my dirtied face on the poster in Firenze on Instagram, I felt sad, humiliated. My first instinct was: don’t say anything to anybody, don’t react, don’t move. I'm on tour, I can turn away from it, perform and feel good. I can push away the insults. 

 

But the fans started to talk about it, my friends started to text me. And I realised that my first reaction was the same one I used to have back in the day, it was the reaction of a very young boy who was feeling helpless. That's how I used to be at school: defenceless. Had I responded back then, they would have beaten me and I would have come up with nothing but coming back home with a bruised face. I know about bullying, they would pick on me. 

 

Because of racism, because my mother was fat or because we had financial issues in that period. But mostly, 80% of the time, because of my sexuality. Even before I was even aware of my own sexuality.

 

When you're a kid and get attacked, you think that you can't fight back, because if you do, those things would become even bigger, as big as a mountain. When I was a child my payback has always been slow, mirrored and spread in the long term. I tried to move my focus away from my condition, I concentrated on the future. 

 

When I had to face that poster, I felt like the boy I used to be. And my instinctive response was to lick my wounds, shut my eyes and project myself in the future. It's an automatic reflex, which is shared by most people who are bullied: turn away, keep everything for yourself. 

 

Then I understood. That was one of the few times in my life when I had been forced to choose a direct confrontation on bullying and homophobia, I realised how much things have changed, how much I have changed. It's for people's reactions on socials, for my friends and, I have to admit, for my coworkers. Some of them are gay and got hurt because they are connected to what I do every day: they felt like they had been insulted themselves. 

 

I realised that, yes, there was my automatic response because of what I endured and because of some old defence instinct, but now I'm in a privileged position: I'm on tour, I'm free and surrounded by free people, I’ve built my own world where I can do what I believe in and provoke tolerance through my music and my concerts. It's a huge luxury. 

 

By refusing to acknowledge those insults I would've made a mistake: I would've forgotten the 13 y.o. I once was and I would've hurt all the people who don't have that luxury and that privilege. I can get on stage. But when you're young and that word concerns you, if you look at that billboard and you don't find any answer to shield yourself with, then it means you've been abandoned. You lose hope and you find yourself even weaker. I couldn't allow that, exactly because of the things that changed in my life: I would've left myself and so many others alone. It doesn't matter whether you're 14 or 64, when you see such a thing you react in the same way, because it affects you. 

 

That's the reason why I decided to use that image as a profile pic on Twitter and Instagram. It was exactly what would've scared me at the age of 13. I wasn't that brave back then, I couldn't be. I did the opposite of the thing I would've done at school. 

 

I've been called like that all my life: I used to take those insults, I used to turn them into music, put them in my drawings. Last Saturday was the first time I told myself: why not to put them out there and use them as a flag fluttering above the heads of all those people who write and think like that? This was Oscar Wilde's greatness: he could take hypocrisy and throw it back in people's faces, sometimes there's nothing more appropriate than inappropriate actions! That's why Wilde is one of my Good Guys. 

 

I could have written five thousands words, could have told them to go to hell, could have said that I would never go back to Florence (but not for me, I love Florence!), I could have used my column as an outlet, comparing homophobia to sexism and machismo. But with that “visual declaration”, with that sign which has become a flag, I accomplished it without being violent nor aggressive, without getting lost in sermons. It was beautiful to see how an image could turn out to be powerful. For my mum as well. She didn’t say much, but she reflected herself in this episode, as she faced a tough period when she was a teenager. She’s never been compensated for what she has had to face: this is a sort of compensation for her and came through one of her kids. She stared at me, she squeezed her eyes and smiled as someone who finally found rest.

 

The most complicated thing now, is understanding how we can go beyond that image, downright because of its power. A bunch of people wanted to replicate my deed: they took that image, added their photograph, and the slogan “let’s break the silence”. Facebook blocked their profiles for 30 hours, this goes to show that this word is still sensitive and hard.

 

Therefore: if they offend you, is it right to turn an insult – that remains an insult – into a flag? It is, when it provokes a constructive discussion, when it helps people to think about how a superficial and stupid epithet can make other people feel. Anyway, that word still hurts. It’s still a really strong one, it has many negative implications and can really hurt. We can’t accept it as a normal word. But let’s stop pretending it doesn’t exist: that would be much more dangerous.

 

I am overwhelmed by how amazingly strong mika is and i hope this experience just makes him stronger. he is such an inspiration and i love him loads and loads because of this.

I partially love this bit:

"This was Oscar Wilde's greatness: he could take hypocrisy and throw it back in people's faces, sometimes there's nothing more appropriate than inappropriate actions! That's why Wilde is one of my Good Guys. "

Oscar Wilde is one of my heroes too, I first admired him  through studying his play 'the importance of being earnest' at college. I loved how the whole play was poking fun at high class society with all their silly rules, habits and expectations but what i loved the most is the irony resulted from the fact that high class coiety loved those plays. I think he and mika have a lot in common, and I reckon they would have got on well if oscar wilde had been around today.

I also think he would have been honored to be the centre of such an inspirational and strong song that is 'good guys'.

i have loved all this UK promotion, it is so nice to sit in my living room and watch him on TV instead of my laptop in my room. I have loved having some mika to watch/listen everyday this week- its been good 

can't wait for the one show tonight               

Didn't you get the email from Mikasounds?  Due to production difficulties this version isn't expected until 17th July.

oh okay i don't think i did, my email account does move a lot of emails to the junk folder so i might have missed it, thanks for letting me know

okay so i wasn;t sure where to post this but i was wondering if anyone in the UK who has ordered the special edition signed version of NPIH has received it yet? been a few days now and wondering where my copy has got to

can someone upload the heat radio interview?

aww he was great on BBC Breakfast, just watched it. 

i set my alarm with the intention of getting up early to see mika on BBC Breakfast this morning, but overslept, so i am very glad someone has put it on youtube. I hope that its true that he will be on the one show on wednesday. loving all this UK promotion

wow this song is wonderful- i feel like it was written for me.

favorite lyric: "Prayed every night to a religion that was chosen for me"- this has been me for so many years. mika seems to reflect all my frustrations and feelings in his songs, makes it easier to bare them on my own.

this is such a beautiful song, i instantly connected with it, i fear however that i may break the youtube replay button hehe

hiya everyone, i have been a member for a while now so this isn't an introduction in that kind as such but i wanted to say how i found mika somewhere

the absolute first time i heard him was in 2007 when i was in my last year of primary school. i had a fabulous music teacher in primary school who encouraged us to bring in some of our own music to listen to and he would play a few in the lesson. a boy in my class brought in a copy of life in cartoon motion and played love today, i remember having it in my head for a few days afterwards

i was into him mildly for a bit but then i rediscovered him for real in 2010 when in an ICT lesson we had to design a powerpoint promoting a music concert. i had no idea who to choose so i had a look on the school's shared documents music folder and i found download of life in cartoon motion- all the memories came back to me then and i obviously chose mika to make this project about- as a result of spending a few months looking for photos, watching videos and listening to every song i could lay my hands on i fell for him again and have been hooked ever since

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That is so true! When I hear one of his songs on the radio unexpected I get completely insane. Like something g obsesses me. But in a good way

and afterwards i go around acting all hyper and freaking my mum and sister out by talking non stop about him- he has a strange effect on me haha

may i just say to everyone on here i am so grateful you are all here, i think if i this site didn't exist i would go mad. none of my friends appreciate mika and his awesomeness (stupid i know ) so its good job i can freak out on here instead