MIKA @ THE AVALON - JUNE 8, 2007

Seeing Mika live is probably one of the most fun and exhilarating concert experiences you can ever go to!!! My gosh, he's good!

I had already seen him before at the Troubadour, but this one was on a much bigger scale. I was still surprised this time around. *g* He sang more songs, including two covers of The Eurythmics and The Jackson 5. I loved that he sang Any Other World and Happy Ending too, since he didn't at the Troubadour. Lollipops were given to the audience before the show started by lollipop girls..

Mika is an amazing performer, always jumping around on stage and interacting with his band. They are all so cute as they look like they're having so much fun together. :D Love Today was one of the highlights of the show. A garbage can was brought out and Mika had an awesome drum solo with it at the end. OMG, before that, he climbed onto the drummer's drum set and played some of her drums first. Then he proceeded to dance on the kick drum. Then he jumped off! Then HE TOOK OFF HIS SHIRT! Then he bashed at the garbage can with his drum sticks. I had a nice view of his butt, and everyone was screaming like crazy, including me. XD OMG, what an awesome sight. *g*

Next was Grace Kelly and unfortunately Mika put on another shirt. :P Then they all ran off the stage to get ready for the grand finale. They all marched out in animal costumes again! :D All but Cherisse (the drummer) were in different animal suits than the Troubadour gig. The drummer was a bunny again, the guitarist was a deer, the bassist was a panther, the pianist was a koala, and Mika was a chicken! XD Then Lollipop!! :D Bubbles were projected into the audience from a bubble machine, giant balloons fell and bounced on the audience, and confetti blasted out of tubes in front of me! Big girls and lollipop girls came out to dance on stage with the band too. WHEEE!! SO FUN!!! XD

I was SO LUCKY to have been able to meet Mika again this time. It was so easy to meet him last time because the security was lax about it and Mika just came down in front of the stage. This time the security forced everyone without a backstage pass out. I WAS SO LUCKY to have gotten one.. out of pure LUCK! I gave him a drawing I drew while I waited in line and a quick/messy letter I wrote right before I met him. He was so nice again, but this time he seemed more tired. :( I felt bad because he seemed EXHAUSTED. So I felt even more blessed to have met him. Aww, I love Mika! ♥

OMG, I SO have to go whenever he comes back!! X) Sorry if this review doesn't seem like I was that excited.. I've been busy with graduation and have been dead tired from all the craziness over the past two weeks. This concert was one of the most FUN experiences I've ever had, right up there with my first Keane concert!! O_O

Here are just a few pictures I took. I couldn't get very many good shots because most of them came out blurry! Mika moves too quickly for my camera. :P

Big Girl You Are Beautiful!


On the piano :D


Mika's sexy dance moves ;)


LOLLIPOP


And some videos from YouTube... Credit goes to the original uploader (okeastron) of these FANTASTIC videos as usual!

Relax (Take It Easy)

Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

I Want You Back

Any Other World

Sweet Dreams

Love Today

Grace Kelly

Lollipop


Hope you enjoyed!! :D

MIKA @ TROUBADOUR - MARCH 25, 2007

MIKA!!! Cute, talented, bouncy, sexy.. and only 24!

Thanks to some UK buddies, I found out about Mika in January. I instantly became hooked with his addictive music. When I found out about this concert, the tickets were already sold out!! I was lucky, though, because I just happened to check one day and they released some more tickets! I got my pair of tickets about two weeks before the actual gig for the cheap price of $25 each (including stupid Ticketmaster service charges - it was $15 without the charges).

I was expecting to have a good time and see a wonderful artist, but I didn't know that much about him.. He FAR exceeded my expectations, and I had such a BLAST! I had so much fun!!! I was standing in the second row from the stage so I was pretty close, but I was shorter than the girls in front of me.. :/ At least I could still see upwards to the stage. Mika's stage presence is electric and FUN. I loved watching him dance and jump around the stage (the way he moves his hips is unnatural.. lol, he does it better than most girls). It was also cute when he and his band interacted with each other. :)

As I mentioned earlier in the Keane concert review at the Wiltern, I'm very shy. However, I jumped along with everyone else to the songs, especially "Love Today" and "Lollipop." Everyone was singing along too. This was the "first REAL American gig" and everyone around me already knew all the lyrics to the songs, lol. I only knew some of the words.. ^^; Mika did a nice cover of "Everybody's Talkin'" as a sort of interlude between two songs. The best part was definitely the end with "Lollipop." The band all came out dressed in animal costumes, and then balloons were bounced throughout the crowd. I never had so much fun at a gig like this before. Mika really gets the audience to participate with him and makes everyone feel like part of the performance. Loved it!

Since this was on a Sunday night, I had school the next day... My mom let me wait for Mika after the show, though. XD I was quite excited to meet this talented musician. When I did, I of course did not know what to say and my mom gave the orders of sign and take pictures.. ^^;; He is SO nice and adorable and just a great guy!! When he signed an autograph for my mom, he commented on her glasses by writing "love the glasses!" XD His writing is sooo pretty too! I'm glad I stuck around to meet him. He is really down to earth despite his ever increasing fame. I became a much bigger fan after meeting the man himself! :P


Here are a few pictures I took from the gig. :) Please no posting anywhere else without asking first. Thanks!

The Troubadour venue with Mika's name and the supporting bands.



The set list - I had to zoom in between the girls in front of me to get this picture (it was taped to the stage floor)






Mika! This was during the first song: "Relax (Take It Easy)"

Mika with his guitarist in the backgorund

Oooh, cool shot. :P

Here are some videos I found of the gig on YouTube. None of the following videos are mine!

"Ring Ring"


"Over My Shoulder"


The entire final song "Lollipop"


Mika and his band are so cute! XD I LOVED their finale!!! It was fun, cute, and awesome! It was funny because it was so cute.. :P

I also went to the Jimmy Kimmel taping with Mika doing a mini-concert two days later, but I didn't get nearly as great a spot as at the real concert. They only did two songs too: "Grace Kelly" and "Lollipop" :/

If I ever get a chance to see Mika again in a real concert, I'd definitely go to experience the FUN again! :D I wish I went to the Virgin in-store gig, but that was at midnight on a school night.. x_x