Jazzy Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Aww, that's fantastic, thanks, Jazzy! And everyone's reports and photos and videos are so wonderful! Making me even more excited for Monday, if that's possible! I can't believe I'm FINALLY going to see this show in person! Tiibet's got a much longer video of it in better quality, so you'll get even more adorable birthday cuteness when she gets some time to upload. And yes! I can't believe you're coming on Monday either! It's going to be so brilliant to meet you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 yes i'm very happy for you Awww, guy! If I could smuggle you in my luggage I would! You SO need a Mika fix, too! Let's keep our fingers crossed for something soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine64 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Thank you so much for all the reports, vids and pics. I love all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 i'm back home. and i can definitely agree that we had a wonderful day/evening yesterday, and the best aftershow m+g ever. i have to mention one or two negative things as well though - but since the evening over all turned out so perfectly, i want to say first that despite those negative things, i'm really happy and i just LOVE mika, john, jimmy, imma, and all the rest of them, and all the lovely MFCers that i spent time with yesterday! first, let me tell you the story about the surprises. a while ago, statue_of_liberty and me were wondering what surprise we (as mfc) could arrange for mika's birthday gig, since we wanted to do something special, but so many things have been done already - golden hearts, paper planes, glowing lollipops, balloons, confetti, crazy outfits... - it was hard to find something else, but statue had the idea to try and get the whole crowd to hold up flowers, so mika would look on a sea of flowers, and it would fit perfectly to his stage deco. i loved the idea, so we started organizing. we soon heard from the 3 italian girls who were arranging a surprise too, the cake. so them and us got in contact, so we could arrange it all together. their plan first was, to bring the cake for the band introduction, while everyone was singing happy birthday, and get the crowd to hold up sparklers. i already suspected that the sparklers wouldn't be allowed in the venue (they aren't in germany), which turned out to be true - and so we first thought it'd work perfectly to hold up flowers instead, while people were singing happy birthday. but since the italian girls had a plan B, C, D, E and F, we split it up, so our plan in the end looked like this: 1. when mika wants to introduce the band, david starts playing happy birthday, and everyone starts singing. at the same time, the 3 italian girls bring the cake on stage, while the crowd: a) holds up din a4 papers with "happy birthday" on them b) throws confetti c) 2 people in the front row fire off huge confetti bombs with a parachute carrying a small banner with the text "auguri" (congratulations). 2. for happy ending, the crowd holds up the flowers, and those who stand close enough throw them on stage for "little bit of love" 3. golden balloons for we are golden so it was a LOT! of course the cake was the biggest surprise, that was clear right from the start - and it really looked (and tasted!) wonderful! well done to the italians who organized it! nearly all forum members who were there (mfc and italian forums) took part and contributed 5,50 euro per person for it. :-D about the flowers, we had organized over 300 of them - 100 from statue and me, 100 from the money that was left over from the cake (thanx lucrezia!), and the rest from donations that statue, nezza and me collected in the queue (thanx to everyone who contributed! :-)). also, we had contacted the media, to tell all the gig-goers to bring a flower (it was published online and we heard from someone that it was also on the radio on the gig day - but seems like not that many heard it, there were only few flowers apart from ours). we decided that to help the flowers survive the evening, we'd have to provide them with water, so we bought kitchen rolls and aluminium foil, got a bucket of water and started a flower production process - oh my god, this was so much fun, don't think i ever had that much fun while queuing! normally you're just killing time in one or the other way, but yesterday, we were really productive, wrapping 300 flower stems into tissues and foil, and giving them out to everyone. it was like a production line, one person tearing foil, one cutting the flowers, two making the tissues wet, two assembling flower, tissue and foil, and two giving the flowers to everyone in the queue. thank you so much to all the mfcers who helped us with this, without you we couldn't have done it - and i hope you all had as much fun as we did! we're a fab team, huh? and of course also many many thanks to mari, who arranged a special price at a local flower shop and picked up the flowers for us with her car! mari, i forgot my stuff in your car... sorry bout that, but hope you can use it in some way - will pm you about it tomorrow. ;-) unfortunately, despite our efforts, not all flowers survived the evening - some were too delicate, others were treated too badly by their owners - but there still were enough flowers in the end, to make it a nice surprise for mika, he had a huge smile on his face. :-D about the rest of the surprises, a lot of the confetti was already thrown for kick ass, but i think it looked great, indeed fitted quite well to the song... and several of the golden balloons also died too early, because they were already blown up, so it was hard to keep them hidden somewhere until WAG. luckily i got one that wasn't blown up yet, so i could put it in my bag and blow it up for WAG. :-) don't know if mika even noticed the din a4 papers - there were so many happy birthday banners and papers everywhere, i got two different ones and one was hanging at the barrier right next to me - and i was busy singing happy birthday, watching the cake and mika's reaction and the confetti bombs, and trying hard not to get a mouthful of the confetti that was thrown by the crowd - so i almost forgot holding up my a4 paper, lol! but managed in the end. ;-p unfortunately, mika stood with his back to the crowd when the confetti bombs went off, but he caught one of the parachutes - well, i'm sure there are several videos of the surprise out there, so you'll see that. ;-) it was really funny when david came to the piano to push mika away and start playing instead of him! *LOL* ok, sorry this is so long... but i just wanted to tell you the details about the surprises, as i think it was only the 5 of us (the 3 italian girls, statue and me) who knew the complete story, since we organized it all. ;-) will continue bout the gig & m+g in part 2. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Aww, that's fantastic, thanks, Jazzy! And everyone's reports and photos and videos are so wonderful! Making me even more excited for Monday, if that's possible! I can't believe I'm FINALLY going to see this show in person! you're coming to fringe?! damn, if i had known this... i'd have loved to meet you! but i'm broke now. finally, i can officially say that i ran out of money, after all those gigs this year - so the only gig i can go to for probably the rest of the year (IF there are any more at all...) is arbon, which will only cost me about 10 euro. :rolls_eyes: well, hope to meet you some day! enjoy the gig on monday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 (edited) alright, part 2 of my report. we started queuing very early, since we know it's crazy in italy, and the evening before we had already seen lots of mika fans around the city, one of them already with her gig make-up on (sequins), so we were worried that it'd be the same as in helsinki - and we were right. they didn't camp there, but when we arrived a bit before 6, there were already some people who had been there since 4 am. i got number 8, and i think half an hour later we were already at number 20, so i'm happy that we decided to go that early. besides, we arrived before the staff who were building the stage, so we had access all areas, and could sit on the stage, until they sent us away at about 7 or 8. ;-p i took some pix of that, really funny - don't think anyone else than those yesterday can say that they've been queuing ON the stage. fast forward to the evening, i had already told you about our mfc flower production company , and like always, john made sure we got in earlier than the rest. the 3 italian girls who organized the surprises got in before everyone else, so they were front row center, and then they let us in. unfortunately, we were stopped by another security guy a few metres later - we didn't know what to do, sometimes at gigs we're told to queue up again according to the numbers once we're inside, so i tried to arrange people in the order again... but then suddenly the security guy let everyone through, and the numbers were totally mixed up. it was only those until number 20 or 30 so far, so it wasn't that bad, and i really can't complain about the spot i got (left side, in front of mika's piano), but i was a bit angry that the venue staff had messed it up, i hate this hectic when everyone starts running at the same time and you have to be the fastest to get a good spot! the "support act" was a DJ, i quite liked the music he played. at some point, john came and asked me where the italian girls were who organized the surprise, so i sent him over to them and they talked (about the cake organization i think) - and when he came back, he asked statue and me whether we're sure that we wouldn't want to help them deliver the cake on stage (he knew we had organized the flowers)? and we said that we'd prefer to watch the whole gig from front row, and that those should do it who organized it - that's what we had said to the 3 girls as well, right from the start - it was their moment, and they deserved it. btw, all 3 of them got hugs from mika on stage, really sweet of him! :-) i think most things about the gig have been said already... the improvisations, mika+band making fun (at one point, mika ran after jimmy across the whole stage, wanting to throw a handful of confetti at him ), the flying cockroaches - actually, i thought it was just normal moths - but well, i'm sure mika knows better, since it was him who got attacked by them. he behaved like me when i see a wasp - let out some sort of eeking noise, jumped up and ran away, making a disgusted face. i really hope someone has that on video, i think it was during the first part of SITM, when he sat at the piano. one of the moths sat on his vest (i did indeed see it, but it must've looked quite funny for anyone who was further away! ), and when it started fluttering again, mika noticed it and jumped up, while the band kept playing SITM. hmpf, too many smileys... gotta make a part 3... Edited August 20, 2010 by mellody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzy Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Happy Ending - This was after the cake was given, which is at the end of my OMS video, which is still uploading. But he mentions the cake and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graciosa Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Mellody: Thank you for your so detaled report. Also thanks for uploading the vids and the other reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucrezia Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Just returned at home!! I want to thank everyone who helped me to organize the Mika's surprise: Michela (Gracekelly85), Francesca (Fralovesmika), Karin (Mellody) and Saskia (Statue_of_liberty) and a big thanks to those who have worked with me in preparing the balloons, the confetti etc etc: Sarina, Mikabunny, Giulietta, Valeria, Luca and more girls of the other italian forum!! A big thanks of course to Marina for all she has done And thanks very much to John who was so kind with me and Mika As soon as possible i'll write my report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 all of you girls are sooooo f*cking amazing!!!! congratz!! i know how difficult is preparing surprises (we make some stuff in vigo too),so i really appreciate all your effort... MIKA DESERVES IT!!!!!! YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statue_of_Liberty Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 pics say more than a thousand words Photos to come tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sariflor Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Oh wow! What an all round amazing night I can't wait to watch tiibet's long cake video now . He must have been really touched with all the treats, well done. It worked out beautifully . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 you know the trumpet solo cockroach part from jazzy's video - with jimma making fun at him, so funny! *g* and he talked about the cockroaches again before billy brown (it was the "running like a girl" part), i have that on video. ;-) also a very funny bit was when he sat down for OMS, put rose's sunglasses on and said sth like "now i must be really serious!" - he was totally making fun of himself, i couldn't help but giggle all the time through OMS, when i looked at him with those silly sunglasses on! got OMS on video too. ;-) although there were so many funny bits at the show, and we also got lots of eye contact, the overall "feeling" of the show for me was good, but not as good as any of my so far fave gigs (which of this tour were stuttgart, helsinki, luxemburg and dublin). dunno why... for the first part of the show, i had the feeling that mika was always waiting/looking out for the surprise, i'm sure he knew he'd get something. and i was distracted as well, having to take care of my sunflower so it wouldn't get squashed. anyway, the gig was good and fun, but somehow i had the feeling that it didn't click 100% between mika and the crowd, although both were in a good mood, dunno how to describe it better. but thinking of it today, i just remember all those funny parts and improvisations and everything - so, it might not be among my top gigs list, but it was certainly special. :-D so, after the show we noticed that the italians were crowding at the side of the stage, and we got word from someone that "the italian fanclub" would get a backstage m+g, and they had passes. from what i was told, they explicitly told people not to tell us (= international mfcers). this bit i only found out later, but i must say i was really disappointed when i heard it. and i was also disappointed about this random "italian fanclub" thing. if those 3 who had organized the cake had gotten the m+g, fine. if it had been all who took part in the cake surprise, fine as well. if it had been the italians, regardless of the cake thing, well, i even might've understood that, since the gig was in italy... though it really wasn't many non-italian mfcers there... but there were also some italian mfcers (piperita patty and another girl whose name i forgot) who didn't get passes, so, well, i might not have understood the whole thing, but it seemed totally random to me, and since the organizers are on mfc too, i don't understand why they didn't include the 7 or 10 non-italian mfcers who were there. and who had also paid for the cake, like everyone else. maybe someone can explain the whole thing to me, but the way i see it now, they didn't want us there, and i don't understand why. it's not like there were 50 more they'd have to invite, or lots of people who had never seen mika before so it would turn out like in brixton with excited fans jumping at him. anyway, to get back to the positive things, like jazzy already mentioned, john saved us again... and despite of what i said above, a big thank you to the italian girls for organizing the m+g, even if you didn't want us there, but without you it wouldn't have taken place. and thanks to john for letting us join, he's just the best! outside we wouldn't have had a chance to give him our presents, since there were about 300 people, so mika just quickly stopped to wave and maybe shake some hands (i didn't see much of what he did there, just that he got out of the car and quickly went to each side of the waiting fans who were held back by many security guards). so, like jazzy said, we were sitting there backstage, and at some point we noticed that john was organizing the italian fans, i think for a group picture? dunno, anyway, i just said, well, then mika will come soon - and statue suddenly just went, oh, there he is - and he was already standing there for a while, talking to rose, and we hadn't even noticed! he then went over to the italians, while we stayed where we were (he said he'd come back later), then someone brought the cake, and mama p came with a knife - like someone (was it jazzy?) said, she was trying to cut into the styrofoam - i didn't know that either, it looked like one huge cake, but actually it was just 2 small rings of cake on this huge styrofoam thing, and icing on top of it all, so it looked like a big cake! i also had no idea of that, so i absolutely can't blame mama p for trying to cut deeper into the cake, after she was through the actual cake! the cake almost fell off the table in the process, and then fortuné saved us from eating styrofoam by telling his mum that it wasn't the cake anymore that she was trying to cut. those candle/firework thingies you see in jazzy's video is something i brought - i had them at home in a drawer for a while, they're special fireworks for food, but i never used them, so i thought that'd be a perfect occasion, and we could light them when the cake gets carried on stage - they weren't lit then, so i thought why not do it now, before the cake gets completely eaten. so i prepared them (you had to pull them out of that plastic thing and turn them round to light them), got a lighter from someone and lit them. then it occurred to us that mika should see it as well, so we called him over, and sang happy birthday again. the rest of it you see in jazzy's video. ;-) anyway, at some point mika came over to us, then first tiibet gave him her presents, then statue - i told him that it was her idea about the flowers... but i'll let her recall what he said... statue, you're the one with the "recording brain", not me, lol! ;-p , and then it was my turn. i had made another tree necklace, this time a small one from FIMO (a modelling clay that hardens in the oven, so you can make jewellery from it), actually i wanted to make 2, one for him and one for me, but it was so much work, it took me a few hours, because everything was so small, so i didn't have time to make a 2nd one. anyway, i wore it during the gig, and at the m+g i told mika that if it's something he'd actually wear, he can have it, otherwise i'd keep it. ;-p he thought for a second and then said, yes, he'll wear it, and put it around his neck (i helped him, since he still had the plate with the cake in his hand...). and he said something about rose's moose necklace - i didn't get it, statue told me afterwards, it was about which necklace matches his t-shirt better or something. *g* statue, please replay your recording here on mfc, i wanna know all he said, i forgot everything! i also gave him a book (momo by michael ende, for those who know it... when he said he'd like to be able to freeze time, it reminded me of that book, that's why i bought it for him...), and a big card from the german fanclub. told him he'd get our present in arbon, and he asked how arbon is pronounced, and wasn't happy when we said we're not sure - he complained that no one knows it, lol! i told him my version, how i pronounce it and that i guess since it's the german speaking part of switzerland, it might be that, but probably the french speaking swiss people pronounce it differently - and he was joking "arbonnnne", with an exaggerated french accent, lol! aww, he's just the best! <3 we had lovely chats with imma (don't remember now what about) and jimmy (about helsinki, and about food and restaurants in different countries - and he mentioned that meat fest again that he had in dusseldorf, the one he tweeted about, lol!), and when mika passed by me as he left, he touched my shoulder and quickly thanked me for the presents again. so, that was it, and i'm really tired now, since i hadn't slept properly the last 3 nights. xD will upload 2 or 3 pix now, and then off to bed. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 pics say more than a thousand words damn, couldn't you have told me that BEFORE i wrote a novel?! looking forward to your pix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droopsy Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 This one is just More here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mika&w=9978321%40N05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marian538 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 This one is just More here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mika&w=9978321%40N05 nice one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 so, a few pix, and one video... btw, if someone has pictures of the m+g where you can see mika wearing my tree necklace, can you please post them? i only saw pix so far where you can see the leather band (2 of them, one from rose's moose necklace), but not the tree itself. video of mika throwing confetti on his band, and OMS (including flying cockroach talk ): queuing on stage: gig: mika and his birthday cake: more tomorrow. goodnight for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statue_of_Liberty Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 (edited) I love your report, Mellody! Okay, you want me to add things, I'll do the best I can. My Mika-moment was kind of funny as I'd bought one those stuffed flowers that play the melody of happy birthday when you push the leave. When I gave it to him I pushed it and he was listening to the music and ignoring what I was saying meanwhile When the flower was finished Mellody told him that the flower-thing was my idea and I explained that I had it sitting in a tram and then suddenly thought "Flowers!". My original idea was to give a flower to everybody in the crowd but as we failed in finding a sponsor and don't have a garden with somethousands flowers in it in the region of Cattolica (neither at home ) we got a bit more than 300 flowers in the end. So I added "...well, we tried". Mika was so sweet when he answered that you really could see it and that he likes it when everybody else in the crowd thinks "wtf is going on here?!" So even if it wasn't necessary I felt comforted by him which I found really sweet We then told him that we contacted the Media as well and that there was a radio station talking about the surprise (we asked them to tell their listeners to bring a flower if they come to the gig). When he received Mellody's necklace he said that he would wear it and then wore it saying something like "but the moose goes with my shirt". After one second he realised that the tree trunk was just as brown as the moose and his shirt-stripes so he added "oh, the tree as well". When we talked about Arbon and its right pronunciation he complained that nobody knew how to pronounce it correctly. I'm not sure what he said after that. It was either "there are only two and a half million people living in Switzerland" or (that's what I got and it's a lot funnier) "there are only two and a half people living in Switzerland" But now wikipedia told me that there live 7.8 million people in Switzerland so he might have said something completely different I think that was it. End of the record Maybe I find some more data tomorrow when it's not almost three... As everthing else is said I just want to add that this M&G has been my best Mika-experience I've had so far Thank you to everybody involved in that perfect evening, starting from all the lovely MFCers (I'm so proud to be a part of us - we (now officially) rock!) and ending with Mika and his team who are just the best. I'm so thankful to be a Mika-fan and not a fan of somebody who doesn't care that much about his fans. That's really something special And last but not least we should thank our three heroes. John (again!!!!) who helped us organising all the surprises and let us backstage, David who played Happy Birthday and had obvisously a lot of fun kicking the boss from his throne and Fortuné who saved us from eating styrofoam Edited August 21, 2010 by Statue_of_Liberty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toy_girl_mika96 Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I'm gonna be honest.. Reading this thread made me cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 you're coming to fringe?! damn, if i had known this... i'd have loved to meet you! but i'm broke now. finally, i can officially say that i ran out of money, after all those gigs this year - so the only gig i can go to for probably the rest of the year (IF there are any more at all...) is arbon, which will only cost me about 10 euro. :rolls_eyes: well, hope to meet you some day! enjoy the gig on monday! That IS a shame! I thought you were coming to Edinburgh, too! Well, as you said, one of these days... This one is just Oh, you're so right! :wub2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzy Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Kick Ass - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwWu2qITVU OMS and the Love Today shooting bit will have to wait until this evening as I'm leaving for the airport now. UAHIGUAERGHIAURGHUAER It's too early and I couldn't get any sleep. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmbm Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 All of these reports are amazing. So happy for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiibet Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I'm not at home, but I left my videos uploading, if someone wants to check my youtube chanel? I can't do it myself. Sorry I couldn't name them, and I don't have a connection for that at the moment. I have no idea what they are like, but they were large files so give them some time if the quality is not good, especially in last ones (I'm also a bit worried about the sound because bubbles made my camera all wet in Tallinn, but hope it didn't ruin it, lol...). I have also a vid of Mika eating his cake at M&G, I will upload that one tomorrow, filmed it using another camera. Will also read the whole thread tomorrow, thanks everyone for reports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lui Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 it sounds like this day was too emotive congratulations for sharing with him these priceless moments and thanks for sharing this and show us that Mika is still the lovely boy who always have been btw: I read the hole thread but I got lost... is there a video when he gets the cake on stage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allegra Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 (edited) and i was also disappointed about this random "italian a big thank you to the italian girls for organizing the m+g, even if you didn't want us there, but without you it wouldn't have taken place. Mellody please be carefull with words. It is right to ask informations about organization, me too i'm courious since i did not know anything about this M&G. Anyway i for sure know that not italians fans decided about not international fans, because the girls who organized all told me this. Some italians (and we must thank them) obtained the M&G but they told me that they knew it last minute with a strictly limited number of passes!! When the number is limited it is so hard to distribute to all, and maybe this is the reason because, firstly, the management excluded internationals mfcers since they were half number of the number of passes. Sincerely nobody of us know why there were random people on the backstage, we suspect they are friends of local promoters, in Italy there are always people who know people who obtain vantages So. We were very lucky and my happiness was infinite when i noticed that you did not remain outside. Consider that this things always happens with confusion and a bit of randonmess, nobody really would like exclude someone others, and it is hard when you have, for example, 50 mcers attending and 20 backstage passes. Even our nice Rep risqed not to be there because she exit from the venue before we know about the M&g. And consider that some italians fans who partecipated to the cake, mfcers (even if not actives on the forum and in our group of friends) remained outside and this is very sad! So. Relax. Unfortunately everytime there is a M&G someone remain outside Italian fan club does not really exist (there are several forum and one of them is an official forum by Universal Music) It is a way to say "italians fans". Even Mika use this expression in general. And it is a good expression because join italians fans in general at italian gigs. Anyway our young friends who were more involved in organization will explain all better then me. Bye, i on my way to visit Edinburgh, but not with Yesterday rain on motorway, returning from Cattolica, was not nice. Edited August 30, 2010 by allegra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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