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Mika @ Vorst Nationaal Brussels(Belgium) - 13-11-2007: REVIEWS!

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Hello everyone!

 

I know I don't post much (:blush-anim-cl:) but I'm happy to share my videos of the gig!

The vids aren't great and sometimes you hear an awful male voice singing of some guy who was standing next to me. Ashame :thumbdown:

 

http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=Saturnfrost

 

This is my YouTube account and I've uploaded 15 Mika videos, I hope you enjoy them I sure have enjoyed my first Mika gig x-X-x

 

thanks!

from the vids i watched, i really think it is the best gig ever , so many ppl singing along, like a choir :blink::thumb_yello:

And i love any other world

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-OfOQObMCPQ

it is so warm though there was a male voice singing very loud...:mf_rosetinted:

but i know he enjoyed it anyway :biggrin2:

 

Ok, here are some first video's more to come later when I have more time on my hands.

 

-Love Today, the Intro with the skeleton puppet and Mika with an umbrella

http://stage6.divx.com/user/stien87/video/1855675/Love-Today-intro

 

-The end of Lollipop where everything is falling down (balloons, snippets,...)

http://stage6.divx.com/user/stien87/video/1855707/het-allereinde-van-lollipop

 

-After Lollipop Mika and the band come up to bow, you can really see how happy he looks!

http://stage6.divx.com/user/stien87/video/1857598/mika-groet-het-publiek

 

 

More to come:

Happy Ending were he sings right into the camera!

Flemish-spoken introduction of Billy Brown

 

thanks!:biggrin2:

but seems like i have some problem with divx.................

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I think the gig in Brussels was one of his biggest so far. (8000 people) But the concert was already sold out somwhere in july. And on ebay a tickets went up to 120 euros.

 

So I think that he also would sold out the sportpaleis (Antwerp)! (from 11000 up to 17000 people, it depends on how they build the podia, platforms...) Next year mika? :bleh:

 

Ow or why not the koning boudewijn stadion? (Brussels, 50 000 people) ow now I am dreaming a bit too much :biggrin2:

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I think the gig in Brussels was one of his biggest so far. (8000 people) But the concert was already sold out somwhere in july. And on ebay a tickets went up to 120 euros.

 

So I think that he would the sportpaleis (Antwerp) also sold out! (from 11000 up to 17000 people, it depends on how they build the podia, platforms...) Next year mika? :bleh:

 

Ow or why not the koning boudewijn stadion? (Brussels, 50 000 people) ow now I am dreaming a bit too much :biggrin2:

 

I personnaly hope he'll keep doing small venues... Wouldn't go to the Baudwijn stadium, yuk!

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I personnaly hope he'll keep doing small venues... Wouldn't go to the Baudwijn stadium, yuk!
ok ok the boudewijn stadion is too big, but why not the sportpaleis? Or 2 X forest, that can I go 2 times :biggrin2: Or the lottoarena... (4000) Next time one in Brussels (forest), one in Antwerp (lotto arena) and one in Ghent (Flanders Expo). LOL
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ok ok the boudewijn stadion is too big, but why not the sportpaleis? Or 2 X forest, that can I go 2 times :biggrin2: Or the lottoarena... (4000) Next time one in Brussels (forest), one in Antwerp (lotto arena) and one in Ghent (Flanders Expo). LOL

 

these venues are already too big!! And the sound sucks to boot. I'd rather have him in de kruidtuin actually... 500 people, that would rock :biggrin2:

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these venues are already too big!! And the sound sucks to boot. I'd rather have him in de kruidtuin actually... 500 people, that would rock :biggrin2:

 

Yeah ok! 500 people is fun! But howmany concert do you want to give? :P Now the concert was already sold out in july..

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Ow or why not the koning boudewijn stadion? (Brussels, 50 000 people) ow now I am dreaming a bit too much :biggrin2:

 

50000 ppl in a stadium??!! wow!!

that's pretty awesome!!

but i think ppl in the peak area only can see him on screen......

well i prefer 1 to 1....:das::yay:

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Lief artikel/ sweet article

Gig Brussel

 

http://damusic.be/reportage/972

 

Patrick Van Gestel Niet voor kniesoren

Vorst Nationaal, Brussel - 13 november 2007

 

“Do I attract you? Do I repulse you?” De eerste woorden van Grace Kelly weerspiegelen perfect de meningen over de Libanees/Engelse artiest, die met zijn ‘Life In Cartoon Motion’ niemand onberoerd laat. Er worden vragen gesteld bij zijn stemcapaciteiten, bij zijn relevantie, bij zijn originaliteit. Hoewel bijna geen enkele recente band meer echt origineel klinkt, wordt net Mika verweten dat hij een flauwe imitatie is van Freddy Mercury en/of Robbie Williams. Hoog tijd dus om de criticasters van repliek te dienen.

Met de hopeloze verkeerssituatie is het haast onmogelijk te voorspellen of je het voorprogramma van een optreden zal halen. Neem daarbij nog de belachelijke parkeermoeilijkheden in Vorst en u begrijpt waarom wij verbannen worden naar de nok van een eivol Vorst-Nationaal wanneer het voorprogramma al aan zijn laatste nummers bezig is. Het geluid zit wonderlijk genoeg vrij goed vandaag, al komen de bassen, zoals steeds in deze betonnen bunker, van alle kanten op je afgeëchood.

 

Tijdens de pauze krijgt het publiek nummers voorgeschoteld die meer dan de helft van de aanwezigen enkel kent van covers of samples uit de nieuwste hiphopnummers. Toch stammen behoorlijk wat toeschouwers van een vroegere generatie en zijn ze al dan niet vergezeld van hun (vaak nog erg jonge) kinderen. Gewoon maar om aan te tonen dat Mika een generatie-overschrijdend fenomeen is.

 

 

Wanneer de zaallichten worden gedoofd, veren alle aanwezigen recht om een glimp van de held van de avond op te kunnen vangen. Het podium wordt rijkelijk verlicht met kleurrijke neons achteraan en feestelijke peertjes kriskras over het podium gehangen. Centraal achteraan staat een reuzegrote kartonnen boom, van waarachter steeds opnieuw de meest vreemde creaturen en voorwerpen tevoorschijn worden gehaald. Nog even moet het publiek geduld uitoefenen terwijl de aanwezigen er met Dolly Partons Nine To Five op gewezen worden dat ze de dagelijkse sleur even achter zich mogen laten. Met een uit een wereldbol spattende danseres wordt de spanning opgevoerd en uiteindelijk klinken de eerste noten van Relax (Take It Easy).

 

Wat meteen opvalt, is dat de man moeiteloos en erg zuiver de hoge noten haalt die sommigen op zijn album zo charmeren en anderen de bomen in jagen. Bijgestaan door een vierkoppige groep (gitarist, bassist, toetsenist en een kleine, maar erg felle drumster) klinken de nummers erg goed. Op basis van slechts één album een volledige show presenteren, is geen sinecure. Toch slaagt Mika daar quasi moeiteloos in met behulp van de nodige kunststukjes. Tijdens Big Girls (You Are Beautiful) is er de reusachtige opblaaspop, die samen met enkele fraai uitgedoste volslanke meisjes die uit het publiek geplukt zijn illustreert dat het schoonheidsideaal erg relatief is. Maar er zijn eveneens confettikanonnen, op vuilbakken uitgevochten drumduels, enzovoort. Hoogtepunt op theatraal vlak is wel het schimmenspel dat voor eerste bisnummer Lollypop wordt getoond: hilarische toestanden met bad bunnies en wrekende krokodillen.

 

Dat op al deze toestanden uitzinnig wordt gereageerd, spreekt voor zich. Uit voorgaande beschrijving blijkt duidelijk dat Mika (en de bijhorende marketing machine) weet hoe een dergelijk gevarieerd publiek aan te pakken. Er wordt veelvuldig meegezongen. Zelfs bij een nieuw nummer (How Much) slaagt hij er in om het publiek weliswaar eenvoudige dingen vol enthousiasme te laten meekwelen. Bovendien spreekt hij vlot Frans (zelfs in die mate dat hij het refrein van Grace Kelly in het Frans zingt) en meer dan behoorlijk Nederlands.

 

 

‘Life In Cartoon Motion’ slaagt er al in om je humeur van zwaar bewolkt naar hemelsblauw om te toveren en ook het optreden is een bron van energie om de verdere werkweek door te komen. Een kniesoor die dan nog gaat zeuren over flauwe imitaties. Kching!!

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Do I attract you? Do I repulse you? The first words of Grace Kelly reflect perfectly the opinions concerning the Lebanese/English artist, who left nobody unmoved whit his `life in Cartoon Motion’. Questions are asked about his voice capacities, about his relevance and about his originality. Although there is almost absolutely not 1 recent band who sounds more really original, Mika has been blamed that he is an insipid imitation of Freddy Mercury and/or Robbie Williams. It’s about time therefore to put the criticasters in one's place. With the hopeless traffic situation it is almost impossible to predict if you will be on time for the support act. Take with that the ridiculous parking difficulties in forest and you understand why we banish to the cam of Vorst-Nationaal /ForestNational when the support act is already playing its last numbers. The sound is marvelous well today, this is exceptional for forest because of the bad acoustics in the building. In the pause the public gets numbers served up which half of the people present only know of covers or samples from the newest hip-hop numbers. nevertheless there are people off a former generation and they have been with or without company of their (frequently still very young) children. I say this simply to show that Mika is a “good for every generation” phenomenon.

When the room lights are extinguished, all people present bounce right up to be able to catch a glimp of the hero of the evening. The podium is abundantly lighted with colored neon’s. In the central back of the stage there is a very big cardboard tree. The public has to be still a little patience while Dolly Parton’s Nine To Five let the public know they can leave the daily grind behind. The tension is intensified by a femaile dancer who splashes out of a enormous ball and eventually sounds of the first notes of Relax (Take It Easy).

It’s immediately notable, that the man obtains effortless and very purely the high notes who some adore and others hate from his album .

Assisted by his group a gitarist,a bass player, and a small, but very powerful drummer girl, the tracks sounds amazingly good. On the basis of only one album, it’s no sinecure to present a complete show. But Mika succeed in this seeming effortless with little art add-ons. During Big Girls (You are Beautiful) there, is the giant Big girl doll, together with some lovely dressed up chubby girls who were picked out of the audience Mika shows that the beauty ideal is very relative. But there’s also confetti, on garbage cans has been battled out playing the drums duel, etc. The high light of the theatrical event is the bunny shadow show for the first bis number Lollypop , hilaric situations with bath bunnies and revenging crocodiles .

That ,to all these situations has been amaizingly reacted, speaks for itself. From previous description becomes clear that Mika (and marketing machine) knows how to entertain such varied public. everybody sung along. Even at a new number (How Much) he succeeds to let the public sing along simple thinks full enthusiasm. Moreover he speaks smoothly French (even that degree that he sings the refrain of Grace Kelly in French) and more than considerable Dutch. `Life in Cartoon Motion ‘succeed already for making your mood from heavily cloudy to kolorfull working magic .also the live performing is a source of energy to the further week at work. Back off to the people who keeps on complaining about pour imitations.K’tching !!

 

 

En hier staan de foto's die bij het artikel horen;

Pictures "Vorst" from this article;

Foto's: Jonas Demeulemeester

 

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