Droopsy Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 (edited) Here is a little interview (in Estonian) with Mika from today http://publik.delfi.ee/news/muusika/mika-mu-ema-on-toenaoliselt-see-kel-vaike-pudel-viskit-garderoobis-peidus.d?id=64596084 Seems like there will be probably some kind of action with audience or surprise for us... Thanks for the translation! Here is a translation (sorry if there are many mistakes), hope it's a bit better than Google version:teehee: Mika: my mother is probably the one who has a little bottle of whiskey hidden in dressing room! On 5th July Mika will perform at Õllesummer main stage, he did it couple of years ago as well where fans made a memorable surprise to him. Today Mika is on phone while sitting on garden chair in London, he is speaking and laughing that probably his mother has got secretly a bottle with her although alcohol is not allowed on backstage at their show. It was a big surprise that Mika was really chatty and open while talking about Eurovision... What do you remember about the concert in Estonia few years ago? I remember the surprise which fans made to me, when they threw balloons in to the air (there should be “bubbles”, I think editor made a mistake whit translating). When you are on a tour and and all days are so similar, then you remember days like this. Foe example, a half year ago at Seol gig in Korea fans threw 3 000 toilet paper rolls into the air, it was like toilet-roll-firework. Do girls have a chance to go on stage with you this time too? Yes, probably. Everything is not sure yet, but we always try to do some kind of action with audience or a surprise for them. But it won't be exactly the same like last time. Are you planning to hang around the city after the show? Yes, absolutely! I didn't have any idea how beautiful Tallinn is. But last time I found many cool places where hang around and I'll go there probably this time too. You don't allow alcohol on backstage at all. Why? Where did you hear it already? Actually yes, because alcohol and drugs are the source of danger. Few years ago a team member drunk too much and I want it won't ever happen again. I don't care what those people are doing outside of tour, but when they need to set up a show which lasts two hours and do their job every night, then alcohol is not good. Backstage have to be clean and okay. We thought that maybe your mother is strict and it is her wish... (Mika has a mother with him on tour, last time she was looking from audience for the girls who could go on the stage – editor's remark) (Laughing.) No, no, my mother is probably the one who has a little bottle of whiskey hidden in dressing room. Do you watch the Eurovision? This year while ESC I was in studio in New York and streamed it on the Internet with those people there, because they even hadn't heard about ESC before. In their opinion it was the most terrible thing they had ever seen. Do you remember Estonian song and what do you think about the English song? Unfortunately I don't remember Estonian song, but English... Bad. Awful. Terrible. Horrible. There are two potions: whether people went there to make a joke or sing, but you stand out more with joking. In my opinion people under 75 shouldn't be allowed to participate in the ESC. Russian song was awesome! Everyone should be like this. Would you take a part in the Eurovision if you could have a chance? Never – I don't have the something that you need for it. Maybe I could make a joke and watch, but I won't attend seriously for sure. Mika will perform at Õllesummer at Tallinn Song Festival Grounds next Thursday, on 5th July at 11 PM! Second interview: It's ready !! Sorry for my bad English and there might be mistakes too !!! „On the stage, I’ve been thrown by many bras and condom packs.“ Says popstaar Mika about his fans. Mika will give a concert again in Estonia next Thursday. „Once someone took a bunch of naked pictures and made a book of them and threw it to the stage“, remembers mika. „It looked so innocent that I took it with me and put it on my dressing room table. There were many fan letters so I couldn’t have time to open the book. Of course my mom came there, looked the letters and found the book.“ Mika laugus:“36 pages of pornographic pics. She looked at them at she was pretty startled.“ One time audience decided to surprise Mika during „Lollipop“ with throwing lollipops to the stage. „It sounds sweet, but reality is that, lollipop is a hard candy on a stick and it someone throws you with a lollipop from 10 metres, it’s not really nice“, admits Mika, so he asked fans to stop throwing them. „And once (Mika underlines word „once“), when I threw lollipop back to the crowd, it flew into an eye of a girl!“ sighs Mika. „They took the kid away quickly, she missed big part of the concert and finally her dad wanted to sue me. Then I though, f*ck those lollipops, they only bring back luck.“ „A boy sent a long letter, why he hates his sister“ Fans, also fanletter and –gifts are very important to Mika. „I get Everything for gifts: once I got 10 000 folded paperbird, then I got a camera. One girl was obsessed with me that I had to take it,“ remembers Stinger and says that the price of the gift is not important to him, important is that the gift or a letter would touch him. Touching letters are ones which make Make to react. „I answer to lettrs, but not all of them. We used to thank for letters before but now we can’t do it anymore. Too many of them. From time to time I get fanletters which are very touching. For example once a young girl from the UK sent me a letter how she fell down from the swing and is paralyzed now. I sent her a video,“ says Mika. „A 9-year old boy sent me a long letter of why he hates his sister,“ laughs Stinger. „And then I thought why he would sendi t to me, it’s not my business but in some reason he thought it is.“ Mika says that he’ll get letters from fans in age 25-91. „It’s amazing ’cause if someone does something like that, it reminds me that the music and things I do and create, traavel very far and this inspires me.“ Some times Mika has surprised his fans with visiting them. „But if I do something like this, then I ask to keep it a secret ’cause I’m not doing it to advertise myself.“ „Once, someone wanted to rob my dog.“ „Fans don’t have to be afraid of that I’m throwing their letters and gifts away. We have storage for them,“ says Mika. „It’s full of every kind of things what peole have made – there are dolls, sculptures, paintings, letters, books,“ he counts. „By the way, that storage was a suitcase in the beginning. Then it was a closet where I kept things and in last 5 years i have got so many things that storage is same big as a apartment with one bedroom.“ Not all Mika fans are with good personality. „I have had some not so nice experiences.. – I’ve been threatened and people have hidden themselves near to my house,“ he says. „Once, someone wanted to rob my dog. It’s the weirdest thing in the world – why would someone want to rob a dog?!“, wonders Mika, admitting he doesn’t take some extreme incidents seriously. „I believe that those people just need help.“ „I hope that Estonian fans surprise me again!“ „When you stend on the stage and during some song thousands of people blow bubbles, you’ll remember it for the rest of your life. Since I do one concert arter another, then fans are doing those kind of things for me to remember the concert. And it helps! I hope that something like that will happen again!“, says Mika , who’ll perform on 5th of July at Õllesummer and he hopes that this time fans will do something that amazing like it was the bubble blowing two years ago. When Mika performed in 2010, then it was one fan’s idea on the internet to take bubbleblowers to the concert to blow those during „Happy ending“. „When people do something like that it means a lot to me,“ says Mika. „Couple of yeas ago I had a concert where people threw about 2000 paperplanes to the air and at the ohter concert about 3000 people started suddenly to throw toilet paper rolls towards the stage.“, says mika about his brighter fan actions. „These kind of moments are very special and sweet.“ Edited June 28, 2012 by Droopsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzie Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 ...interesting... following the convo from the gig thread, it seems to me that the 'surprise element' is something the journalist asked him about because of his previous shows and he is neither confirming or denying it but says that it won't be the same as last time - meaning the BG / LG parade, I guess. so 75+ is only allowed for Russia in Eurovision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Droopsy Posted June 26, 2012 Author Share Posted June 26, 2012 (edited) ...interesting... following the convo from the gig thread, it seems to me that the 'surprise element' is something the journalist asked him about because of his previous shows and he is neither confirming or denying it but says that it won't be the same as last time - meaning the BG / LG parade, I guess. so 75+ is only allowed for Russia in Eurovision? Yeah, probably no more LG/BG but it's time he shakes things up a little Anyway, I'm ready to be surprised Edited June 26, 2012 by Droopsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 You will not allow any alcohol backstage, why so? Where did you hear about this already? Actually, yes, so that the alcohol and drug use while on tour there. A few years ago one team member drank too much and I do not want that to ever happen again. I do not care what these people are doing outside of the tour, but if they need a two-hour show every night and put up the job done, then the alcohol is not good. Backstage must be clean and tidy. interesting... hmm, i wonder if that was someone of the (2007) band and if that was the reason why they (for us suddenly) had to go... :rolls_eyes: t4p! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poisonyoulove Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 You will not allow any alcohol backstage, why so? . . . Mika appears at Beer under the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds next Thursday, 5 July at 23.00! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 A few years ago one team member drank too much and I do not want that to ever happen again. oh yeah.. he suddenly forgot how HIMSELF got drunk and couldn´t perform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 oh yeah.. he suddenly forgot how HIMSELF got drunk and couldn´t perform huh? when was that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milda Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 oh yeah.. he suddenly forgot how HIMSELF got drunk and couldn´t perform Maybe he's talking about himself here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariposa Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 A fun interview I must say. But Russia being the best at this year's ESC? And he can't remember the Estonian song? I can Already looking forward to reviews from this gig though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 huh? when was that? At the beginning of his career... I don´t remember now where exactly he told that, but it was something like "my manager locked me in the green room so I couldn´t go perform and make a fool of myself" or something along the lines... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Maybe he's talking about himself here I think he is ALWAYS talking about himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine64 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 At the beginning of his career... I don´t remember now where exactly he told that, but it was something like "my manager locked me in the green room so I couldn´t go perform and make a fool of myself" or something along the lines... it was after his performance but before interviews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 it was after his performance but before interviews oooh!! thanks!! HEY, MIKA NEVER GOT DRUNK BEFORE A SHOW,K???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 At the beginning of his career... I don´t remember now where exactly he told that, but it was something like "my manager locked me in the green room so I couldn´t go perform and make a fool of myself" or something along the lines... I thought it was afterwards and they didn't want him talking to people. Not sure. Think he mentioned it once in a written interview and then embellished it on a TV show in mainland Europe around 2009/2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I thought it was afterwards and they didn't want him talking to people. Not sure. Think he mentioned it once in a written interview and then embellished it on a TV show in mainland Europe around 2009/2010. Blame it on the language Most likely I got it wrong... or maybe my memory is not what it used to be anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiibet Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 huh? when was that? It's one of those old stories he tells, can't remember the exact details. I can very well understand if he wants no alcohol back stage though, it's busy and hard work. Or maybe he wants new healthy habits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Blame it on the language Most likely I got it wrong... or maybe my memory is not what it used to be anymore It's okay I'm pretty sure at least 50% of that story was about Gertrude if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 It's okay I'm pretty sure at least 50% of that story was about Gertrude if you know what I mean. Maybe I get your point (sorry if I don´t use the Mika-with-rosetinted-glasses, but it disturbs me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiibet Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Maybe I get your point (sorry if I don´t use the Mika-with-rosetinted-glasses, but it disturbs me). Hahah, I can't use them either, they are seriously disturbing, lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Hahah, I can't use them either, they are seriously disturbing, lol! Those glasses are almost the same color as the pants today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 At the beginning of his career... I don´t remember now where exactly he told that, but it was something like "my manager locked me in the green room so I couldn´t go perform and make a fool of myself" or something along the lines... it was after his performance but before interviews ah yes, i remember now... iirc it was a london gig, for a tv show or something... and i guess christine is right about it being a gertrude story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basicamenteyo Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 ah yes, i remember now... iirc it was a london gig, for a tv show or something... and i guess christine is right about it being a gertrude story. And now we have a new expression here. "Gertrude story" will be that sort of question that newbies will ask for years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 And now we have a new expression here. "Gertrude story" will be that sort of question that newbies will ask for years maybe the mods should update the "mfc in-jokes" FAQs with things like this, or "mikasoon". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mari62 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 ah yes, i remsember now... iirc it was a london gig, for a tv show or something... and i guess christine is right about it being a gertrude story. here's the video interview, where he tells that story, it's dubbed in German http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22771 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiza Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Interesting interview, thanks for posting:thumb_yello: It's a very good decision not to allow alcohol backstage. The band and crew should always keep it professional and not treat the backstage area as a party zone. Also I really like that he answers the question about participating in Eurovision with a never. Btw wasnt Estonia's song called Kulla? I remember it cuz in Greek Kulla is a name and the way this guy was singing it looked like he was calling someone named Kulla LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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