MIKA @ Sadlers Wells, London - June 8 2009 - Gig Reports, Photos & Videos

[Tia]

That was an amazing report Deb:biggrin2: It was great meeting you. I think wot made the gig so special was how relaxed it was and that everyone was getting up and having a chat! I met more mfcers here than at any other and sadly there where a few i missed!! We should have made badges or something:roftl:

 

and sorry again i stepped on your toe:teehee:

[Gatagordinha]

Aw I am sorry I am not on your list Deb , I did see you briefly in the foyer before and knew instantly who you were but didn't get around to saying hi . Next time I will!

 

I found the whole thing a bit overwhelming at times...so many people I recognised but didn't 'know'...quite a challenge when you are on the shy and hesitant side .

[Laurel]

Aw I am sorry I am not on your list Deb , I did see you briefly in the foyer before and knew instantly who you were but didn't get around to saying hi . Next time I will!

 

I found the whole thing a bit overwhelming at times...so many people I recognised but didn't 'know'...quite a challenge when you are on the shy and hesitant side .

 

I never spoke to you either There was just too many people

[Tia]

Aw I am sorry I am not on your list Deb , I did see you briefly in the foyer before and knew instantly who you were but didn't get around to saying hi . Next time I will!

 

I found the whole thing a bit overwhelming at times...so many people I recognised but didn't 'know'...quite a challenge when you are on the shy and hesitant side .

 

i saw a few ppl i thought i knew but wasnt sure enough to say hi, i also walked up to someone and said r u from the mfc and she said no

 

can anyone remember who the LOVELY lady next to me was? she was sat on here own between me and blue eyes. She did say but iv 4gotten.

[BexxY]

i saw a few ppl i thought i knew but wasnt sure enough to say hi, i also walked up to someone and said r u from the mfc and she said no

 

can anyone remember who the LOVELY lady next to me was? she was sat on here own between me and blue eyes. She did say but iv 4gotten.

 

Awww you have changed your avvie....thats sooo cute

 

My problem is i recognise many people off the mfc BUT i cant put forum names to faces

[Gatagordinha]

I never spoke to you either There was just too many people

 

Likewise!

 

Ewokwicket and I only arrived lateish in the foyer, there were SO many people, and there just wasn't time to work out who was who, so I just picked out a few 'obvious' faces (well obvious to me!) and did what I could..

[Neiobi]

My videos:

 

 

 

Blue Eyes

 

Toy Boy

 

Good Gone Girl

 

Big Girl

 

Happy Ending

 

Lollipop

 

Gig Intro

 

Stuck in the Middle

 

Lonely Alcoholic

 

Intro Lollipop

Rain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIADmo395Ag

 

Relax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afPqgqqc7Fw

 

Stage Invasion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-r2mpFoUw

 

M&G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj-jZF6XAGw

 

M&G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528_UfX1KEo

 

M&G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttE7O6PF2Qk

 

 

You might see diferences in the quality of the videos, because they were shooted with two diferents cameras.

And some videos have some stoped frames because I was taking a picture in the same time I was filming.

Lils!

I'll definitely watch all these when I can:wub2: Loved the M&G ones!

At the last one... I can't help to point out... At 1:26 he says he remembers me:teehee: I don't even care if it's true or not really... It was just great to get to chat to him for a bit:biggrin2:

And that "maybe, when the new album comes out" Such an automatic answer!

 

You are forgiven :huglove - I couldn't remember everyone - I didn't even try to list them :naughty

 

:blink Not sure if that is a good thing or not I caught the sun when I was in Suffolk - it was very hot and I was in areas without shade. I'm usually much paler :blush-anim-cl

Hehehe:roftl:

 

It's good, it's good!

Well I think getting some sun did fit you well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PViWShCy1kQ

 

:wink2

 

Thanks Dani, lovely vid!

The reaction to Marianne's Mini Mika is hilarious!

 

Btw, I liked your report Debs! And such a huge ammount of people, wow.

[RAK1]

My videos:

 

 

 

Blue Eyes

 

Toy Boy

 

Good Gone Girl

 

Big Girl

 

Happy Ending

 

Lollipop

 

Gig Intro

 

Stuck in the Middle

 

Lonely Alcoholic

 

Intro Lollipop

 

Rain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIADmo395Ag

 

Relax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afPqgqqc7Fw

 

Stage Invasion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-r2mpFoUw

 

M&G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj-jZF6XAGw

 

M&G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528_UfX1KEo

 

M&G http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttE7O6PF2Qk

 

 

You might see diferences in the quality of the videos, because they were shooted with two diferents cameras.

And some videos have some stoped frames because I was taking a picture in the same time I was filming.

 

 

You have no idea how much I love you right now!

You have the bit of the video, after FD gave the Aussie petition, where he says hi to me, and his face lit up. He's never greeted me like that before, and I botched it up when I was videoing it!

But you got it, and I'm SO grateful, got it on my favourites now:thumb_yello:

[liliana]

Lils!

I'll definitely watch all these when I can:wub2: Loved the M&G ones!

I know! I have too much videos!

 

You have no idea how much I love you right now!

You have the bit of the video, after FD gave the Aussie petition, where he says hi to me, and his face lit up. He's never greeted me like that before, and I botched it up when I was videoing it!

But you got it, and I'm SO grateful, got it on my favourites now:thumb_yello:

You're welcome!

[Marianne84]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PViWShCy1kQ

 

 

 

Oh my God! (Like Mika said.) It seemed to last longer than it did. Ahem, damn paparazzis.

 

I didn't remember what he said exactly. This helps enourmously! Thank you for posting!

[mari62]

First of all, let me say up front, that this was one amazing evening!

 

Not only did I get to hear Over My Shoulder LIVE for the first

time ever, I also heard Relax acoustic AND, unbelievably, Lonely

Alcoholic! I was beside myself. I really really enjoyed the show,

and had an absolutely awesome night in every way.

 

HOWEVER, other than mentioning the fact that he was on stage

performing, the rest of my report is actually relatively Mika-free.

 

First of all, I did NOT get any of the much-ballyhooed "eye contact."

In fact, because of where we sat, on the end of the front row,

I didn't see much of Mika's face at all -- mostly saw the back of his

beautiful head as he sat at the piano.

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Aw thank you sooo much Deb for yr lovely report!

 

I'm sorry you didn't have a great view from where you were sitting, but I'm glad you enjoyed the gig so much!

It must have been awesome indeed!

 

And I'm totally with you in what you say about MFC! In Milan I had the time of my life, and it wouldn't have been the same without all MCFers who were there!

 

Can't wait for next tour!

Oh and thanks for telling about Helen!

[Miro]

liliana, your pics are amazing!

 

 

Love the lights here

 

 

 

 

A flying flower

[liliana]

liliana, your pics are amazing!

 

A flying flower

Thanks!

 

Did you see the videos too?

[RAK1]

First of all, let me say up front, that this was one amazing evening!

 

Not only did I get to hear Over My Shoulder LIVE for the first

time ever, I also heard Relax acoustic AND, unbelievably, Lonely

Alcoholic! I was beside myself. I really really enjoyed the show,

and had an absolutely awesome night in every way.

 

HOWEVER, other than mentioning the fact that he was on stage

performing, the rest of my report is actually relatively Mika-free.

 

First of all, I did NOT get any of the much-ballyhooed "eye contact."

In fact, because of where we sat, on the end of the front row,

I didn't see much of Mika's face at all -- mostly saw the back of his

beautiful head as he sat at the piano.

 

I didn't get any photos or videos, because I didn't bring my camera.

Which, again, given our position, is just as well. I would have had a

lot of photos of brown curls and a peachy-pink colored jacket.

And some amazing sparkly blue shoes! (I really did L-O-V-E those shoes -- they

were incredible!)

 

I didn't get to speak to him after the show, nor shake his hand, nor

even give him the small gift I had brought. Nope, no Mika face

time for me.

 

But then, how, you might wonder, did I manage to have such an amazing

evening? The answer is quite simple -- the MFC.

 

From the moment I arrived at Sadler's Wells, I began meeting MFCers who

I had previously only known as names on a computer screen.

 

It began when I spotted Blue Eyes (the original, Jules!)

and her hubby JesterKevin over

at a table. I marched right over and introduced myself, and we spent a

delightful while chatting and struggling to get my Mika rosette pinned

onto my bag. Thanks, Kev, for eventually coming through! And

thanks, Jules, for the small badge! You're both so lovely!

 

After that it was a whirlwind of MFC faces -- mostly new, but

some familiar faces I hadn't seen for a year or two! And I got to meet the amazing

Helen @ sandbag! In the flesh! She was just as lovely in person as she's

been to deal with via email -- seriously, the woman has just been

fantastic.

 

I roamed around the lobby before the show, randomly introducing

myself like it was one big cocktail party. It was wonderful to get

even just a few minutes with so many of you! In all, I counted that

I spoke to about 60 of the 92 MFCers who were there! Can you imagine?

 

I met everyone from some of the longest-timers like Tia and Kata to

some of the newest like childishlady! And everyone was so wonderful

and charming -- I was so thrilled to have the chance to say hello,

bonjour, and ciao! to so many of you from all over the world!

 

Once we finally took our seats at the venue, I turned around and

looked behind me, and down to the other end of the row, and all I

could see were familiar MFC faces (well, plus those of Imogen Heap and

much of Mika's family as well ;-) and I thought, Wow. Just freakin' wow.

 

It made me realize, as I said to Danika when she

was interviewing FD and me for Ingie's documentary, the MFC has become

about so much more than JUST Mika. Obviously, he's the main event, the

light at the end of all tunnels (or Chunnels, as the case may be), but

it's so fabulous to meet people from all over who share this

"thing" of ours! What a special group to belong to! Ooh, it gives me the

warm fuzzies.

 

The concert itself has already been described in detail, plus by now

you've seen the videos and pics, so I don't need to tell you that it

was an incredible performance. Mika's voice was sheer perfection,

the strings section was so unexpected and lovely, the shimmering

silvery staging just magical. There wasn't a moment that I felt things

were "off," not even when Mika made a few obvious flubs like when

he attempted Any Other World -- the entire performance was spectacular

and I'm running out of superlative adjectives but you get the idea.

It was f**in' fantastic!

 

Every now and then during the show, I would look to my right

at Rose and Robi and Kata

and see nothing but smiles and jumping and clapping, then I'd look to

my left and see FD and Caz and bab and Christine and Mana and Sariflor

and Aurelien and and and ... you get the idea -- the joint was jumping

and if Mika didn't feel the MFC love bubbling up from under his feet then

he just wasn't paying attention!

 

I think this is the first of the four Mika gigs I've seen that I didn't

feel went too fast -- it lasted exactly the right amount of time.

That doesn't mean I wanted it to end -- of course not! But I didn't feel

like it was hurried at all -- we just had this amazing, almost leisurely

experience that we were able to sort of soak in for a while before

having to go back out into the cold, harsh reality.

 

After the show, there was a bit of confusion as to where Mika

would be coming out, and by the time we got there queue

was quite long. But it didn't matter to

me -- it was enough for me to just watch him walk down the long line,

smiling and signing and shaking hands, and seeing all the fans who'd

never had the chance to talk to him before... that was even better

for me than speaking to him myself... well, almost

 

And all too soon he was gone, whisked off in his black car, leaving us

in darkness once again. Reminds me of an old Monty Python line that

went something like:

"Your majesty is like a jam donut -- your arrival gives us pleasure and

your departure only leaves us wanting more."

 

Anyhow, I said goodbye to as many folks as I could and then went off to

have a chat with some of my fellow mods -- the first time we'd all

had the chance to spend some time together. I must say, I

still like them all enormously!

 

I know some of you laughed when I said I was ticking off names on my

list, but I really did! And I SO want to give out a great big

SHOUT HELLO to the following MFCers who I met (or re-met) on Monday

evening -- you all made the evening such a memorable one for me!

 

-Jennie-

Abby

agnieszka

Aurelien

Axie Dentelle

babspanky

Becky

bettasan

BexxY

Big Girlie

Blue Eyes

CazGirl

charlottechristy

childishlady

Christine

clara85

daisylou

DANI56

DarkLight

FREDDIESDOUBLE

Greyceli

hjbsrbab@hbibby.orangehom

hotdlp

Humphrey

jemmalee

Jesterkevin

joeee

KamIva

Kata

kath

Laurel

Leator

liliana

lillibet

lollipop_monkey

Marie-Thérèse

Mikafish

mikas_gal07

Monie

Naectegale

Neiobi

nikjass

olga

RAK1

robertina

Sarahlou1973

sariflor

Sasje

shady

Shaza!

sienna

silver

sparkly1

suzie

tauruslady

Tia

vickylovesmika

violetsky

vixenbbw

allegra

Dazzle

Laura

 

And for those of you I didn't meet... what happened? How did I miss you?

Ewokwicket, Soaring Simpson -- you were pointed out to me but I never

got the chance to actually say hello. And Titania, were you even there? I

so would have loved to have met you! Oh well... next time! I'm sure we will

all eventually meet!

 

So yeah, seeing that Mika dude was a big thrill, but I have to say

that equally as special to me is being able to say that I attended the

biggest MFC get-together yet! And it was A-MAAAAA-ZING!

 

 

I'm confused!

I was sat beside you, and he came over to us quite a few times, I got eye contact a couple of times!

[Kata]

I'm confused!

I was sat beside you, and he came over to us quite a few times, I got eye contact a couple of times!

I was even further out and I had a much better view than when I was front row/centre at Brixton This is frankly as good as it gets if you don't collect enough points for that living room gig

[Marianne84]

Haaa brilliant!!!

 

Love the reaction when he sees Mini Mika "OMG It's ME!!"

 

 

Yeah...

 

Maybe I should have said: "Hey Mika, this is you in the future after I will have played some of my voodoo tricks on you."

[-Jennie-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_6eqx6PXe0 My video from on stage Sorry the filming all goes to pot towards the end but it pretty much sums it all up I think.

[Miro]

Thanks!

 

Did you see the videos too?

Nope not yet but I will

[CazGirl]

After the bit with greyceli when a girl wanted to take a pic standing beside him and he goes all NO NO NO

 

The girl in the grey top right? I mentioned her in my report. She's actually a member here but is not a regular user. She knew who I was though which made me LOL!!

[CazGirl]

By the way Debs - lovely report! Honoured to be on your list It was lovely meeting you

[dcdeb]

Aw I am sorry I am not on your list Deb , I did see you briefly in the foyer before and knew instantly who you were but didn't get around to saying hi . Next time I will!

 

I found the whole thing a bit overwhelming at times...so many people I recognised but didn't 'know'...quite a challenge when you are on the shy and hesitant side .

 

I am actually rather quiet myself, but I was determined not to miss

this opportunity! When I was in Glasgow, I let the jetlag overwhelm me

and I didn't meet as many as I might have -- I wanted to make up for

it this time. Sorry we didn't meet, but hopefully there will be a "next time!"

 

 

Btw, I liked your report Debs! And such a huge ammount of people, wow.

 

I was so happy to meet you Carlota!

 

I'm confused!

I was sat beside you, and he came over to us quite a few times, I got eye contact a couple of times!

 

I didn't say he never came over -- he did. But IMO he spent about 75

percent of the time with his back to us. And if you caught his eye, Rose,

you're lucky -- I definitely didn't It didn't spoil the gig for me, not

in the least! But that's how it was from my perspective.

 

By the way Debs - lovely report! Honoured to be on your list It was lovely meeting you

 

Likewise, Caz -- I was just as happy to meet an MFC legend

[CazGirl]

 

Likewise, Caz -- I was just as happy to meet an MFC legend

 

LEGEND lmfao!!! Surely I don't deserve such a compliment?! You're the mod, Debs!

[Karoli^^]

here are the group pictures and m&g. I can't show them here, dunno why:blink:

 

you know how I HATE you Carlota

ahaha,just kidding,you're such a lucky girl

[laura*]

Yeah...

 

Maybe I should have said: "Hey Mika, this is you in the future after I will have played some of my voodoo tricks on you."

 

 

Don't you dare touch my boy with voodoo pins! :lightsabre:

 

[liliana]

Deb, thanks for the help!