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Mika oficia una missa pop per a 2.000 devots

El músic fa passar una hora i mitja alegre i vitaminada al públic del festival Bona Nit, que també va comptar amb les actuacions de Molotov Jukebox i Caloncho

 

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Actualitzada el 12/06/2016 13:35

 

 

“Senyores i senyors, aquesta nit començaré amb una breu missa: estimat Déu, aquest món ha creat gent molt diferent. Espanyols, anglesos, catalans… [ovació] i libanesos. M’he adonat però que l’única cosa que fa del món un lloc més feliç és que hi hagi 'big boys' i 'big girls'”, comenta en un català impecable —domina quatre idiomes, i s’ha preparat la visita a Barcelona— Michael Holbrook, Mika, sota una llum tènue, poc abans de la mitja nit. Vestit amb esmòquing, llacet i sabates llampants, l’artista libanès aprofita la introducció per llançar "Big girl (you’re beautiful)" i per guanyar-se, ja d’entrada, els prop de 2.000 persones que han vingut al Poble Espanyol al festival Bona Nit. També aprofita per justificar l’enorme rètol que corona l’escenari: “Heaven”, s’hi llegeix. No sabem com deu ser el cel, però està clar que Mika s’ho fa venir bé perquè el camí sigui el més planer possible.

 

Persones d’Itàlia i França han vingut a Barcelona per veure’l. Fins i tot una de les voluntàries del festival comenta que, al llarg de la jornada, gent amb la cara pintada s’ha passat el dia fent voltes —pagant, religiosament, l’entrada al Poble Espanyol— pel recinte per veure si el localitzaven. Autèntics devots, els 'MikaFreaks', com es diuen a ells mateixos.

 

Mika no és un fervent catòlic, o sí (es declara poc ortodox). El que està clar és que disposa de tots els elements pop, principalment cançons curtes i vitaminades dels seus dos primers discos, per fer passar al públic hora i mitja entre saltirons i rialles. Al cel, per la via ràpida, que dirien. Poc capriciós, el seu repertori esdevé un repàs agraït pels seus seguidors; n’hi ha ben poc de 'No place in heaven' (2015), el seu últim llarga durada. El cantant prefereix fer ús del fotimer de cançons efectives dels seus anteriors discos: ¿Què pots fer davant d’un inici que encadena "Grace Kelly" i "Rain"?

 

Més enllà de les cançons, el principal encert del directe de Mika és una banda de cinc músics que permet al libanès exercir de frontman en total llibertat, escurçant i allargant els temes al gust, i descuidant (amb freqüència) la veu. Fins a tres coristes recolzen els salts al buit del baríton. La resta del temps, farceixen de glam o dance un repertori avesat al ball, que només troba descans cap al final del concert, amb "Happy ending": Mika acaba la cançó 'a capella', amb els braços apuntant ben amunt. La missa ha estat un èxit.

 

Ball sostenible

 

Després de passar pel cinturó de Glòries, esdevenint una aposta més massiva al 2015 per encàrrec de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, el festival Bona Nit tornava en aquesta quarta edició als seus orígens, al Poble Espanyol. “Volem una nit d’estiu: amable, agradable. I conscienciada”, respon Jorge Gosálbez, director del Bona Nit, mentre fa un cop d’ull al recinte, farcit de plaques fotovoltaiques i ple de paradetes de menjar veggie, a més de missatges de vehicles elèctrics que conviuen amb eslògans en suport al transport públic. Game-based learning, li diuen: passar-ho bé i aprendre alhora.

 

L’ideari del festival es manté intacte, aquesta edició però ha deixat de banda el pop nòrdic i el folk per apostar pel ritme. Abans que Mika es fes seva la pista, els mexicans Caloncho, amb el seu pop farcit de sintetitzadors i sonoritats llatines i, sobretot, Molotov Jukebox van posar en moviment el Poble Espanyol. Els britànics, que presentaven disc ('Tropical Gipsy', 2016), no van acabar de fer-se amb l’escenari amb la seva fanfàrria hereva de bandes com Gogol Bordello i capitanejada per l’acordió —inaudible en certs moments per culpa dels bombos— de la també actriu Natàlia Tena.

 

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It looked great, wish I could have been there! an't wait to see more pics and vids (especially the EMD one :das: ) and read the reviews :wub:  :wub:  :wub:

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It looked great, wish I could have been there! an't wait to see more pics and vids (especially the EMD one :das: ) and read the reviews :wub:  :wub:  :wub:

EMD with fan so much fun! That song is a must in any gig, such a pity he assumed all fans in Palladium didn't want it :(

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It was a great show like all he does in Barcelona and Spain. Another special, magic and unforgttable night for a Mika fan. :wub: remembering Mika's gig in Pedralbes. I wanna thank to my friends and all the MFcers I met there, especially Grazia. She was so kind withe me, sharing TAY spanish version and teaching others how to sing it.  I will try to write a report tomorrow because my mood at the moment is low. It's really hard back to the reality after a Mika's gig like the one I lived yesterday *sigh* 

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Mika (Bona Nit Barcelona) - Poble Espanyol - 11 juny 2016

 

Mika ha tornat a Barcelona, com a part del cartell del festival Bona Nit Barcelona, que aquesta vegada s'ha celebrat al Poble Espanyol.

Mika, ha presentat un repertori amb alguns dels seus èxits i tot i que no estava al nivell vocal d'altres ocasions, el públic s'ho va passar d'allò més bé, tot recordant temes com Grace Kelly, Lollipop, Happy Ending o Love today.

 

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VÍDEO

El popular cantant Mika prega en català al concert de Barcelona

 

L'artista es va dirigir al públic abans de començar la seva actuació

 

 Mika va actuar aquest dissabte a Barcelona dins al Bona Nit Barcelona. Abans de començar el concert va oferir una peculiar pregària. Adreçant-se al públic en català va assegurar que Déu havia creat "gent baixa, gent alta, malparits, àngels (...) anglesos, espanyols, catalans", entre moltes altres categories, i va acabar amb un tradicional "amen".  Tot seguit, es va posar a cantar la cançó "Big Girl". El discurs comença al minut 1.35 del vídeo.

El Bona Nit Barcelona va omplir el Poble Espanyol aquest dissabte. Apart de Mika i van actuar Caloncho, Molotov Jukebox, Brika, Acció i Two Smoking Fellaz.

 

Mika a Barcelona

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Well well well what can I say? What a gig! 

 

I don't usually write reports, but I feel I have to do this one!

 

"Quick" report:

 

So, in general, the day was amazing. It was Rosa (basicamenteyo) bday and we spent such a great time with her. I met my old friends and so many great new people from maaaaaany countries and we talked a lot about everything! The weather was perfect, the venue as well. The stage was in the middle of the open square of a mini "city" inside Barcelona, Poble Espanyol. You had to pay 13 euros for entering (thank you Valeria, Grazia and Myriam for the tickets btw!), but inside you had cafés, restaurants, boutiques, chilling areas... and toilets! :clap:  Everything was beautiful. Even if you could see the stage, that area was closed until the festival time, but anyway, it was cool!

I was having such a great time... until lunch time, when I started feeling sick and having stomach problems again (i've been suffering them for 2 months now, and it's a terrible pain, but no idea why...). I knew it could be worse along the day so i was pretty worried I had to leave the venue before Mika's gig. Fortunately, my body did a good job and resisted until the end!  :groovy: I wanna say (again) thank you to everyone who offered me their help & support; I'll never forget that  :huglove:   Valeria and Saskia painted some animal faces, it was an amazing work! I had a chicken hat that I used during TAY and SATS, but it was too hot so I had to take it off... 

 A bit later than expected, they finally opened doors and I got front row with a very nice view. We could enter with water and food, amazing! People respected their places and space so you could go to the toilets or buy something to drink or eat without any problem at all, which was nice! I didn't move cuz I was still fighting against my own body anyway  :glasses2:

IMO, the other artists were nice in general. Maybe too many bands for me... I'm always tired and 4 bands before your artists doesn't help at all! And if you already have 0 energy... just imagine. The first band, meh, ok... nothing special. Brika, really good voice but a bit boring... or maybe it was because I was already exhausted and still feeling sick...  Then Caloncho, a Mexican band, I liked them a lot! Good music and lots of energy on stage!; and finally Molotov Jukebox with Natalia Tena (from Game of Thrones and Harry Potter)... I loooooooooved them. I knew some of their songs so I had such a great time! Then Mika!

I have to say that he was in a very very VERY good mood last night. My pain disappeared for a second once Mika took the stage :lol3: Big Girls, first song, and a bear from the festival suddenly appears next to Mika. Both started dancing... The bear thing was a bit weird but, as I said, Mika seemed to be in a super good mood and that only means one thing... naughty Mika in da house! That moment when he put his hand in the bear's butt was... priceless  :teehee:

He sang TAY in Spanish... well... at least he tried  :roftl: . It was worse than Madrid, but we forgive him! Then he sang other songs (not in order) like Good Guys, Good wife, relax, grace kelly, sats, live your life, lollipop, love today, underwater, rain, we are golden, elle me dit ( :biggrin2:), happy ending, origin of love, last party *bows* etc etc (No Promiseland, tho  :sad:)

And well.. the Elle Me Dit thing or how did I end up dancing and tapping on stage...

I have to thank my lovely friend Miri for giving me the perfect Tshirt! It has 3 flamenco dancers emojis on it and Mika saw it, I did a flamenco movement with my arms, he loved it, and the next thing I remember was the guard coming for me to take me to the stage... good :lmfao:  I've always wanted to dance EMD or BBB on stage, so imagine my face, I was so excited I totally forgot about my tummy & stomach thing... I entered from the backstage, and that means I had to run so I didn't miss the song... as he was already singing EMD... After losing a shoe on my way to the stage, I arrived and, well, he took my hand so gently. I wanted to dance but he had other plans for me... I sat on the piano and waited. While I was there, my stomach decided to be a b*tch and suddenly I felt the urge of vomiting. Uh oh. I couldn't believe this was happening to me... I was in a hurry... Then Mika put me a hat on and started singing next to me, face to face, leaning on my legs while putting his head under my chin and (omg yisss thank god) I forgot that awful painful feeling! He sang the wrong lyrics during the whole song basically (I helped him once, he was so lost xD). Then he told me to stand up and we did that thing of "I don't wanna dance" he always does during EMD, but I was so happy I just had to move my arms and legs or whatever! Btw, one thing was clear, you cannot hear anything properly when you're on stage, Mika's talking and Joy and Ed are playing the drums BUT you can see every single face of the audience!

Suddenly I see Mika pointing at my feet with his microphone. The first thing I thought? "He wants me to take off my shoes? :blink: " Well, of course not, he wanted me to tap tap tap tap tap! So I did! Then he joined me, he put his head against mine while tapping (bad idea, we hit our heads a few times) and finally we daaaaaaaanced!

To say goodbye, we were going to hi5 but he decided it was better doing it with our feet, so I hi5 a Louboutin  :winner_first_h4h:

 

The security guards 10/10, they were brilliant, amazing and very nice people! They even asked me how did I feel after the EMD moment and I swear they fangurled a bit! (They told me Mika is a super nice guy...but I aready knew that  :cool: ) I missed almost the whole Happy Ending song as I was coming back to my place  -_- but I guess it was worth it.

After the gig, I started feeling terrible again. The pain was even worse... we saw Mika leaving by car, we did the mexican wave, he loved it and off to our hotel with the lovely Rose, who was craving for a cup of hot tea but we don't have that in Spain at 2:30 AM  :P

 

So, basically, I survived a long and hard festival day after waking up at 4 AM, flight at 6, no sleep at all, no food either, only a small sandwhich and some cookies that Nina gave me while I was about to faint (Thank you!!). But the truth is that the festival I almost missed... it has become a very very special one. So unique. I'm so grateful I decided to stay and fight until the end!

 

Now i can't stop looking at the pics and videos/periscopes of that special moment for me... Just imagine seeing, from stage, the whole front row recording the silly things I did while Mika was not watching..  :pinkbow:

i've spent my Sunday at my uncle's house, finally with a computer, trying to respt but I ended up reading all your tweets, instagrams, DMs, whatsapps and so on... I am overwhelmed!  I've been sent some pics I wanna share with you! (if you have more, please let me know!!)

 

To all my friends and the new ones I met... it was an amazing day thanks to you! So thank you for everything!! x Rosa, Marian, Davi, Yoli... my Spanish squad! :hug:  Marion and Saskia, I'll see you tomorrow!

 

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And Nina's awesome videos!:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You are truly awesome, and next time I'll make sure you have a hot water bottle for your tummy, and a flask of tea for me when we get back to wherever we are ????????

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You are truly awesome, and next time I'll make sure you have a hot water bottle for your tummy, and a flask of tea for me when we get back to wherever we are

 

We'll be ready!  :naughty:

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What a lovely report, Becks! So good to have such a great "good morning" read. Seeing you up there on stage was crazy. You looked so much at ease and that tapping battle was soooo good! Loved it!

 

Thank you to everyone I met in the queue. We were all having such a great time throughout the day. And Valeria and Saskia are true artists, their facepaints looked so good.

 

Mika's show had some random moments like the scene with the bear on stage xD Felt like it was the teddy bear picnic all over again, haha. I was happy to finally get to hear "Live your life" live and also it was a nice surprise that it was way longer than a usual festival set, more like a real gig.

 

Off to explore Barcelona a bit more now.

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Well, what can I say...home gigs are always special and that one wasn't an exception.

 

Spending the day quequing it wasn't hard. I was with one of my friends and I met MFcers who were lovely with me, so those moments are part of the fan life. I noticed everything was very well organized by the festival and that made the things more easy. 

 

 

The beginning of the gig couldn't start better, Mika speaking (praying before BG) in catalan, I have to say a PERFECT catalan. He had no pronter, no paper, everything in his mind, extraordinay Mika.  :wub: His skills for languages are supernatural and his memory is prodigious. Bravo Mika!!

 

 

The show was incredible even for a festival, usually festivals don't worth it but Mika in Spain festivals is really good.  I enjoyed the show every minute. We can interact with him in every song.  With another fan made hearts which gave out to the people and also the TAY spanish version that  I gave it to him. First he sang it in english, after he tried in spanish. I was glad to hear ppl sing it and Mika...hahahah he became a mess with the second verse, he said the words were too long  hahahah but it was a funny moment, finally all the ppl together with him could sing the song in spanish. Another friend made letters and Mika again put them on the piano. They looked amazing on the piano in the dark.

 

 

Another moment I will never forget was when the Lollipop song. Again like last year he chose me  to get on stage with him to translate some words in spanish. I think I did a good translation, even he said "I'm a s**t" but I know he says that because the confidence he has in me  :naughty: His face, smiling me and the way he looked at me and  all that complicity, since the moment he pointed me to go up on stage, waiting for me and all the performance are  priceless, a fan can't ask for more, even people haven't enough sometimes.

 

Another curiosity was after Lollipop he sang Live Your Life and at the end of the song he said that he did remember I was the second time on stage with him to translate and said I was worse this time, hahaha bahhh I don't care, It wasn't so bad. He has a mess in his head with italian and spanish. It was very funny, his face says everything. He looked happy and mee too.  :wub: After he said "you're really s**t"   delighted me with a big smile and hugged me"  :wub:  :wub:

 

Perfect gig even I missed some songs. As someone wrote, Im a little bit tired of BG, Lolliopop,LT and some songs that he plays for 10 years when he has amazing songs that he never sings live. 

 

Definitively another gig to remember in my fan life. Fulfilled dreams since I discovered him in 2009 and I hope many more in the future if he doesn't forget Spain.

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It really felt like a true long gig and not a festival even the set list was quite basic and similar with other long festival sets. I still enjoyed like it was a proper Mika gig and didn't have any feeling that anything was missing at all! Four performances before Mika was a lot so the day felt long and tiring but was totally worth it... :wub2:

It was very spontaneous but otherwise very typical festival performance and still it felt like heaven and so many details happened, some of them so random and funny. Like the bear! He was hugging the bear and then he just had to move his hand a bit lower. And lower. Lol!

Becks looked like born on stage dancing and tapping and generally Mika gave a lot of love to his Spanish fans, very happy for everyone and happy to hear Live Your Life again.

I wonder if he saw our face paintings? During Underwater he looked at somewhere my directions and smiled and I was confused why (because it was not a funny situation and usually he doesn't give me smiles from stage without a reason) and then I suddenly remembered that I looked like a fox! Lol! Anyway it was fun doing them! Valeria is a professional and Saskia obviously had a hidden talent, they both did a great job!

 

@Mikasister The letters your friend made looked really pretty and I was amazed by the security guy who took them on stage! He was so sweet and so carefully put every letter so they were in the right position. Generally such lovely and helpful security.

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