paula.pop Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2007/06/11/mika-once-and-the-tonys/ Monday, June 11th, 2007 (...) Mika was phenomenal live. Just a great entertainer. Seemed rather chuffed how many people in San Francisco, this being his first proper show here, knew all the words to his songs. The crowd was dancing and singing along, just a great party vibe. It almost seemed like the audience and performer were all in on the same secret of his music, surprised we were all in a room sharing it, and that so many people that will be hearing him live in the future don’t even know who he is yet. He played all the killer cuts from the album, with covers of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These)†by the Eurythmics, and “I Want You Back,†by the Jackson 5, both of which served his amazing falsetto well. Short show, given him having only one album, so I drove Jeremy back to the train station to catch the late train home. En route, I was thinking, there’s no way he’ll come out of the venue that fast, I should go back. As Jeremy was getting out of the car, I said, you might want to leave your poster with me. I think I’m going to swing by The Fillmore and see about getting it signed. Again, I think Mika is just a massive talent, and this may be the easiest time to ever get his signature on something (I say this now just for how ironic will be when we’re dating at some point). I get back to the Fillmore, and it looks pretty thinned out, but then I see about a dozen people standing around with posters. Score. Eventually, a road manager or someone comes out, says Mika is not feeling well, but will sign everything for us. He just won’t pose for posters or be able to talk. We can take photos as he’s signing, just no posing. He comes out a few minutes later, with a grey sweatshirt hood over his head, still hot as hell, though (although the same look on Eminem looks tough… eh, not as much with Mika). I had chatted up the guy in line behind me, so he was going to snap pics of me and Mika and e-mail them to me, and says he’ll still try and get them. My turn arrives, and I mentioned that I wrote a great review of his album and have been giving him lots of love on my gay youth website. He smiles. I tell him that I initially was going to interview him, but decided that since it is a gay youth site, I didn’t want yet another version of that same interview he has to give on that topic. (Now, I thought this was a bit of a slam, since I don’t want to interview him in Oasis because he’s not openly gay, and the point of the site is providing role models to kids). But Mika turns around what I say and makes it sounds supportive. “So, you’re just focusing on the music and not all of the rest… sounds great.†On the sexuality front, I also mentioned that I took one shot at him in the review. He wanted to know what I wrote, very playful, though. He didn’t seem bothered by it at all. So, I told him that if someone wants to change themselves, and their first go-to is Grace Kelly and their fallback is Freddie Mercury, well… would you even have to wonder if they’re gay. He just smiled, as he’s gotten a lot worse from reviewers, heh. I see the guy snapping photos of us talking, and tell him I’ll probably post the pic of us on Oasis, so he goes into PR mode and poses with me for one pic (didn’t get it yet, we’ll see what it looks like). I’m the only person to get a picture taken with him outside, though. As he was leaving, I told him it’s the best debut album I’ve heard in a long, long time, just killer stuff and that he’s so talented. I told him I’ll be pushing him on Oasis with everything he does. We shook hands, and that was that.(...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiteKat Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 OH ! Thanx for posting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaMango Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Very enjoyable read. Thank you for posting! That guy was lucky to just "swing by the Fillmore", and get to talk to Mika before he left. I'm a little jealous about that one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kata Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 http://www.jeffwalsh.com/2007/06/11/mika-once-and-the-tonys/ Monday, June 11th, 2007 (...) Mika was phenomenal live. Just a great entertainer. Seemed rather chuffed how many people in San Francisco, this being his first proper show here, knew all the words to his songs. The crowd was dancing and singing along, just a great party vibe. It almost seemed like the audience and performer were all in on the same secret of his music, surprised we were all in a room sharing it, and that so many people that will be hearing him live in the future don’t even know who he is yet. He played all the killer cuts from the album, with covers of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These)†by the Eurythmics, and “I Want You Back,†by the Jackson 5, both of which served his amazing falsetto well. Short show, given him having only one album, so I drove Jeremy back to the train station to catch the late train home. En route, I was thinking, there’s no way he’ll come out of the venue that fast, I should go back. As Jeremy was getting out of the car, I said, you might want to leave your poster with me. I think I’m going to swing by The Fillmore and see about getting it signed. Again, I think Mika is just a massive talent, and this may be the easiest time to ever get his signature on something (I say this now just for how ironic will be when we’re dating at some point). I get back to the Fillmore, and it looks pretty thinned out, but then I see about a dozen people standing around with posters. Score. Eventually, a road manager or someone comes out, says Mika is not feeling well, but will sign everything for us. He just won’t pose for posters or be able to talk. We can take photos as he’s signing, just no posing. He comes out a few minutes later, with a grey sweatshirt hood over his head, still hot as hell, though (although the same look on Eminem looks tough… eh, not as much with Mika). I had chatted up the guy in line behind me, so he was going to snap pics of me and Mika and e-mail them to me, and says he’ll still try and get them. My turn arrives, and I mentioned that I wrote a great review of his album and have been giving him lots of love on my gay youth website. He smiles. I tell him that I initially was going to interview him, but decided that since it is a gay youth site, I didn’t want yet another version of that same interview he has to give on that topic. (Now, I thought this was a bit of a slam, since I don’t want to interview him in Oasis because he’s not openly gay, and the point of the site is providing role models to kids). But Mika turns around what I say and makes it sounds supportive. “So, you’re just focusing on the music and not all of the rest… sounds great.†On the sexuality front, I also mentioned that I took one shot at him in the review. He wanted to know what I wrote, very playful, though. He didn’t seem bothered by it at all. So, I told him that if someone wants to change themselves, and their first go-to is Grace Kelly and their fallback is Freddie Mercury, well… would you even have to wonder if they’re gay. He just smiled, as he’s gotten a lot worse from reviewers, heh. I see the guy snapping photos of us talking, and tell him I’ll probably post the pic of us on Oasis, so he goes into PR mode and poses with me for one pic (didn’t get it yet, we’ll see what it looks like). I’m the only person to get a picture taken with him outside, though. As he was leaving, I told him it’s the best debut album I’ve heard in a long, long time, just killer stuff and that he’s so talented. I told him I’ll be pushing him on Oasis with everything he does. We shook hands, and that was that.(...) Great Stuff! Thank you paula.pop! So the person who wrote this is 'Jeff Walsh'? Wonder if he's a member of MFC or lurked/posted here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tako Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Again, I think Mika is just a massive talent, and this may be the easiest time to ever get his signature on something (I say this now just for how ironic will be when we’re dating at some point). Haha. As we all will be. Aw I wish I could have stayed after the Fillmore show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel_tinydancer Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 fun read! thank you for posting this paula.pop!!! xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Sky Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Paula.pop I see in your new sig line that your Japanese CD arrived??? Cool isn't it? What are you ging to do with your teensy stickers?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paula.pop Posted June 30, 2007 Author Share Posted June 30, 2007 Paula.pop I see in your new sig line that your Japanese CD arrived??? Cool isn't it? What are you ging to do with your teensy stickers?? I am very tempted to stick them on my mobile but been talking to Sou and we decided they are to precious to use:biggrin2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queenie Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Thanks for posting, paula!! Very interesting read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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