2007 - Mika @ 9:30 Club Washington, DC - 12 June

[Suzy]

YAAAAY!!!! More MIKA love spread around.

 

It is so great to hear how MIKA impacts everyone. This is the place to read all the details after going through MIKA withdrawal.

 

Thank you for the great reports and pics!

[Lissy]

I haven't had a chance to read everyone else's reviews or comments yet...

 

The show was incredible!! It was a little different than when I saw him back in March. It's interesting and exciting to see the show progress and eventually expand even more.

 

I loved meeting a few MFC-ers! Everyone was so kind and friendly. I'm sorry I didn't really chat with everyone as much as I wanted too. I can be so shy sometimes. That was probably the reason why I didn't linger too long after the show with you all. I knew you'd get to meet Mika and I'm really happy that dream came true for all you guys!

 

Anyway, it was great meeting hootchatootch, dcbeb, and briefly JackViolet, and mgpm. I know I'm forgetting a few people...there was a lot going on last night. Hootchatootch was so kind to hand out those flashing heart necklaces. I really wasn't expect it! Mine stopped working before the show though. I saw Deb's poster and it looked amazing only I didn't get a chance to sign it but it's alright.

 

I had an excellent spot on the right side of the stage right in front of Michael! I was so nervous but I did sneak a few pictures and couple video clips. I was trying to be stealthy. But when I found out people were being kicked out and pictures were asked to be deleted I stopped and just enjoyed the show. I should have them uploaded later tonight.

 

I didn't get a copy of the set list this time but it's totally fine. I got one at the last show and it's only fair if others got a copy this time. But I did take a picture of it so I could remember the order of the songs.

 

RELAX

BIG GIRL

MY INTERPRETATION

ANY OTHER WORLD

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE

RING RING

SWEET DREAMS

HOLY JOHNNY

HAPPY ENDING

I WANT YOU BACK

LOVE TODAY

GRACE KELLY

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LOLLIPOP

 

I'll write more later! I'm not sure what else to say at the moment. I need to go back and read everyone else's reviews/experiences first!

[Wendi]

Great reports Jack, deb and Lissy - you are lucky people!!!!

The reports read like "being there"

[mahimahi1414]

Jack, I think I was literally right next to you the entire concert. I even asked about the mask and the drawings. I was wearing a tie-dye shirt and was with a guy and three other girls. Haha. I'm glad you ended up meeting him. We stuck around a bit but really had no idea what we were doing so just ended up leaving.

[poohsticks]

it's been great to read everyones reports. it sounds like you had the best time

now i really cant wait for somerset house:thumb_yello:

[Yoppappop]

Waow everybody !!! The night was great !! Excellent !

Thank you Jack for the apple, I already love it The guy will think i'm asking for everybody around the world to mention my name but i'm not !!! I just have excellent friends And i love my hair too even if it took me ages...

Mika is a great boy, but he'd better watch out for his health, really...

[Wendi]

I agree with Yopp - a chest infection - and no rest - is not good for his body!!!

But its cool he remembers you Yopp - and your hair!!

[mandilambi]

Thanks for all the great reports, everyone! I'm so glad everyone is having a fantastic time on this tour!!

[Gatagordinha]

Thanks to all you US people with your reports from last night. I've really enjoyed reading about it Glad you had a good time.

 

How wonderful is Mika to the fans??? I can't believe it.

 

Hope he gets well soon, I worry about him (motherly instinct to the fore today:wink2: ).

[Lissy]

I'm uploading my pictures and video clips now! Hopefully I can get them posted this afternoon before I have to go to work...if not you guys will have to wait until later tonight.

 

I only managed to snap 19 photos. I felt a little guilty sneaking photos and video clips. But I just really wanted something (a visual aid) to remember the show by. Some of the pictures came out a little blurry since I wasn't using my flash but it's better than nothing!

 

I really wish I could have taken a picture that showed all of the glitter Mika was wearing on his arms! It was a nice touch!

 

I took a very small clip during the end of Billy Brown. It's the part where everyone shouts man! It's a favorite of mine. lol I also took a clip of Stuck In The Middle and Sweet Dreams.

[mahimahi1414]

My friend has the lollipop dance on his phone. How do you upload video? I probably had close to a hundred pictures (alot of good ones too we were like 3 rows from the stage in the right/center) but I had to delete them at the end.

[Lissy]

My friend has the lollipop dance on his phone. How do you upload video? I probably had close to a hundred pictures (alot of good ones too we were like 3 rows from the stage in the right/center) but I had to delete them at the end.

 

Aw the encore was so amazing! I wish I was brave enough to capture part of it. I know if I wasn't so afraid of getting my camera taken away I could have taken incredible shots like I did at the first show I went to in NYC in March. I was directly in the front on the right side of the stage too! I probably remember seeing you, I think. You may have been the guy who warned me and the girl standing next to me about the camera situation. If so Thanks a lot!! I did not want to be kicked out or punished especially since I came alone.

 

I'm not sure how to upload video if the video is on a cell phone. Mine are on my camera and all I have to do is upload the files to my computer and then I upload the clips directly to youtube or photobucket.

[Lissy]

Here is one batch of the pics I took.

[Mirtilla]

Deb THANK YOU so much for the rosette!! didn't think you'd remember it! thank you, you're very sweet!

 

ladies your reports are thrilling! they made my day, seriously!! i keep giggling like an idiot LOL

 

That was rotten Jack, that you had people shoving you and making it less enjoyable - I am sure Kath, Leezy etc will have their elbows sufficiently pointed by November so no-one does that to them.

Looking forward to the next part!!

ah ah! good point!

 

Deb told me about the beads! She even touched them He might think the MFC is a sect, an insane bunch of people who know everything about each other, the colour of their underwear, their blood group - or worse! And we know all about Mika too of course!

thank god he doesn't read everything on here! otherwise....

[Mirtilla]

Here is one batch of the pics I took.

 

wow lissy! they're really good!! how could you do that when it wasn't allowed? woa, i'm impressed.

[Lissy]

Batch number two.

 

By the way I just noticed my user title. It now says "Mika Obsessive." I've been a member since January and I've only now gotten to that status. lol It's about time. Don't you think?

[Mirtilla]

Jack the Holy Johnny drawing you made is BRILLIANT!!!! seriously you should make comics! you're very talented!! i really really love it!

[kk448]

First of all, many thanks to everyone who posted reports/pictures! It made feel better since I was kinda down already about having to wait so long for another concert! By the way, was Mika wearing glitter during the concert 'cause he was during ours, and I LOVED IT!

 

 

Interesting the Yasmine doesn't want her photo on the net, wonder if she realises it is already everywhere here???

 

That's probably why, she doesn't want anymore! I think it would be a little creepy to have my picture all over the internet if my brother was the one that was famous!

 

Finally got upstairs and got right at the front of the

stage. We didn't care about being in the center,

because it was a TINY stage! I had no idea it would

be so small! So we stood in front where Martin/Luke

would be.

 

The stage where we were at was very small too! I stood by Martin and Luke also!

 

When the band came out dressed as animals for

Lollipop, we

could see Mika's green pants peeking out from the

cow costume, and there was a new (at least to me)

character -- Martin as PIGLET! (If you know that I'm a

Disney fan, too, you'll know why I was so excited at that!)

We were standing by both the bubble machine and the

confetti canons, and once the bubbles started I was

getting blasted with sticky soap until one of the

stagehands noticed and moved it (thank you!)

and the whole place was an amazing flurry of

confetti, bubbles and giant ballons! You have to

experience it to know how much fun that was!

 

The other night Luke was Tigger and I LOVED it! I'm a huge Disney fan also!

 

He's so good at it, for someone relatively new to it all--I was much amused to see, for instance, how he played the crowd. He would often come up to the enge od the stage, and of course everyone's hands would go flying up, and they'd all try to touch him--but even though he'd stretch out his own hand as though he wanted the audience to touch him too, he'd always stand JUST far enough away that they couldn't.

 

Anyway, so since I noticed that he didn't really want people to grab at him, he just wanted to play at it to keep the audience happy, I was trying to put my hands up without, you know, attacking him or trying to touch him.

 

I noticed the same thing at Chicago! I was wondering if anyone else noticed. He would get really close, almost close enough to touch him, and then he would walk away or back up right before people could.

 

Then at the end, with Lollipop, they all came bouncing back and Mika was a cow, and some of the people around me were totally stunned and had no idea what was going on, and I loved it. They did a whole little pantomime on stage, where all the animals attacked the Cherisse-rabbit, and she fought them off and hit them over the head with her sticks, and then they all collapsed in a pile. To be honest, it was slightly dirty...

 

I thought it was slightly dirty also! He was being suggestive with those udders! He was also getting right up behind Cherisse...and well, you know...

[Lissy]

Batch three of four!

[cath85]

Here is one batch of the pics I took.

 

omg that big girl is so lucky!!!

 

you are too obviously!! thanks for sharing your pics

[Lissy]

The last batch of pictures for me...sorry I kept making separate posts. I could only upload five pics at a time. My video clips are taking a bit long to upload. But they should be up soon.

[cath85]

Batch three of four!

 

here are some cases for the pervie threat! the undies are not grey

[dcdeb]

here are some cases for the pervie threat! the undies are not grey

 

No, they were definitely orange!

 

Thanks for sharing the pix, Lissy.

 

dcdeb

[Wendi]

Thanks for the pics Lissy - they are good!!! What a night for you all!!!

[Lissy]

Warning... VERY LONG!

 

So... JackViolet did such a good job with describing the events

leading up to the show and the show...

Not sure I can add anything, but I won't let that stop me

 

My neighbor and I got to the club at around 5.

Around 5:45ish it started rain. Then it started to POUR.

Thunder and lightning, cats and dogs type of rain. Ugh.

Eventually, the club took pity on us and let

us in to the basement bar area. They checked our

ID and told us NO CAMERAS, although they

didn't do a thorough job of checking for them...

but later if they saw you had a camera, they made

you check it.

 

Doors were supposed to open at 7:30; they had us wait

forever downstairs -- it must have been at least 8 p.m. when they

finally let us upstairs.

 

Finally got upstairs and got right at the front of the

stage. We didn't care about being in the center,

because it was a TINY stage! I had no idea it would

be so small! So we stood in front where Martin/Luke

would be.

 

I had gotten separated from my friend, so went to look

for her and stumbled across where they were selling

merchandise. Of course I had to buy a tee-shirt --

and Mirtilla, I got your rosette! I hope it's not too

crumbled! (And Lissy, I bought a new one for you --

I think that with the rain etc. I pretty much

destroyed the one you loaned me! So I'll get the

new one to you somehow!)

 

While I was waiting to buy my stuff, who should

approach me but Lollipop Girl! I was so stunned,

I blurted out, "Oh, I'm so happy you're here, I can't

wait to hear you sing Happy Ending!" She looked shocked

and tried to stay in Lollipop Girl character -- I apologized

for blowing her "cover," and told her that tootch had a

stuffed Chew Chew to give Mika, which horrified her! LOL!

I pointed in the general area of where tootch was and she

went to look for her. When I got back, Lollipop Girl was

there, admiring Chew Chew, since he wasn't trying to

steal her lollipops. Very cute.

 

Opening act was a very good singer named Sarah Bareilles

-- really, she had quite a voice, the only problem was she

was Not Mika. Otherwise I quite enjoyed her very short

set.

 

She was only on for a half-hour, then after a half-hour

break -- it was MIKA TIME!

 

He bounded on the stage around 9:30 and ran through the

show pretty much as he has done for all his previous

shows... started with Relax, followed by Big Girl,

then a few slower tunes, I think Any Other World

and My Interpretation? Fuzzy on the order, but

it was the usual set that he's been doing, as far as I

could tell, except I felt they were rather rushing through --

not talking much between songs at all. Just boom,

boom, boom, one right after the other.

 

The show itself was great, despite that -- he's

an amazing showman, and getting better

all the time. And yes, we were standing

in such a fantastic spot. A few times he came

right over and leaned down toward us -- made

this old heart go pitty-pat.

 

But I did think you could tell his energy level was

a little lower than usual, especial during Sweet Dreams

and Love Today -- neither was quite as wild as we've

seen in some recent videos that shall go unnamed

 

But this is not a complaint at all! It was still a

wonderful, fantastic show and I loved every minute

of it!

 

When the band came out dressed as animals for

Lollipop, we

could see Mika's green pants peeking out from the

cow costume, and there was a new (at least to me)

character -- Martin as PIGLET! (If you know that I'm a

Disney fan, too, you'll know why I was so excited at that!)

We were standing by both the bubble machine and the

confetti canons, and once the bubbles started I was

getting blasted with sticky soap until one of the

stagehands noticed and moved it (thank you!)

and the whole place was an amazing flurry of

confetti, bubbles and giant ballons! You have to

experience it to know how much fun that was!

 

It was all over by 10:30.

 

Then we had to figure out where to hang out to meet Mika

and the gang -- we all had gifts for them.

As I said in an earlier post, it was very confusing, no one

knew what to tell us, until tootch spotted Jerry

and he so kindly brought us all upstairs.

 

We had to wait while Mika talked to some press, then

there were a few other people waiting, then he came

and spoke with us. For ages. Individually and as a

group. Took photos, signed

autographs, chatted and chatted, told us he actually

has a chest infection and that he really shouldn't have

performed, the doctor told him not to... You could

hear it when he spoke, he coughed now and then and

could tell something was going on. But despite that

he was as nice and patient and kind as could be.

mgpm showed him the miniscrapbook she had assembled

with all of our pages, and he looked at it in detail,

marveling over JackViolet's drawings (and they were

impressive, believe me!). And loved tootch's gift,

but I'll let her tell about that (she's driving back home

today -- hopefully she'll be online later to share!).

 

I had seen Martin dash out earlier, and I guess he

never came back -- I think I overheard someone

say he wasn't 100 percent well, either? And then

at one point when we were speaking with Mika,

I noticed Luke poke his head out from a side

room, but then he never reappeared again, to my

dismay Also Mika's mum and sister both passed

through and left while we were still chatting

with him. again. But I did have a nice few

minutes with Mikey and Cherisse -- and was surprised

to find that Cherisse really is shorter than I am! That's

a rare thing for me!

 

So eventually we dragged ourselves

away so that somebody else could have a chance.

 

*sigh*

 

It was great, just fantastic. I'm sure

there are things I've forgotten, so I'll be

anxious to read any other reports!

 

And I can't believe it's over...

 

dcdeb

--

Everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today

Everybody's gonna love today

Anyway you want to

Anyway you've got to

Love, love me

Love, love me

 

I just got a chance to read your review, Deb! It's so detailed. I love it! I had forgotten some details. I'm so ecstatic that you and the rest of the fan club all got to meet Mika!! I'm not going to lie, I wish I wasn't so shy and tagged along with you guys too though. :(Oh well. Next time I'll have to be braver.

 

Oh and you don't worry about the rosette I gave you! Mine got a little wet from the rain too.