Hey humans, just gonna briefly apologise for not blogging in a little while; I was in London for a few days with a couple of friends. We went to see Mika (if you haven't heard of him, please get searching him now, he is INCREDIBLE) in concert in "Heaven" nightclub on thursday night. We queued for six hours in the sticky london heat (not a commonly used term, I know) but it was totally worth it.
We got places really near the front for our effort and foot pains and waited through a fairly mediochre dj (or it may just have seemed worse because we wanted the main even to start so badly) for our idol to take the stage. Emerging from backstage, he was able to change the atmosphere in the room rapidly and completely with an upbeat rendition of "Big Girl, You are Beautiful", everyone instantly forgot that they'd been standing for at least the last four hours and the jumping and fist pumping began.
Master of the stage, Mika performed song after song, leaping and dancing around (a fair ammount of this was on the baby grand in the centre of the stage, very cool) seemingly tirelessly. As well as playing some of the classics from his first two albums (such as "Blame it on the Girls", "Grace Kelly", "Stuck in the Middle" and "Billy Brown") Mika performed some of the songs that we are to expect from his album coming out in September, like "Lola", "Celebrate", "Make you Happy" and, in a grand finalé, "The Origin of Love" the title track for the album.
I personally was blown away by how consistantly strong the lebanese heart-throb's voice was throughout the entire concert (which spanned almost three hours). I guess it really pays to be classically trained in such things (fact courtesy of my friend Sarah on multiple occasions, she literally never shuts up about Mika).
One particular highlight of the show was when, during a brief lull, one man in the audience yelled "Take it off, Mika!" and was met with the response, "It doesn't seem fair for me to remove my clothes while you keep yours on" from the stagebound star. Almost immediately, a hoodie was flung onto the stage, to laughter from the crowd. Mika, still not impressed, retorted, "Nah, you have your t-shirt on, that's still not fair" and sure enough, a white tee was tossed to the stage and Mika, seeing he was beaten, proceeded to unbutton his shirt, to uproarous applause and laughter from the audience. The sightly scrawny (and now shirtless) dude from the audience became everyone's hero for the remainder of the night.
After the concert, myself and my friends went around the block to the back door of the club to try and catch a glimpse of our favourite singer. We were among the few who waited almost an hour on the footpath while trucks were packed with drumkits and pianos and sound stuff, all of us buzzing with residual excitement from the fenomenal feats of vocal acrobatics we'd just witnessed. We were in luck, as the singer, hair still wet from his recent shower, came out to meet us on his way to an after party in Shoreditch. I got my "London Tube Map" hat signed and was very impressed at how tolerant and soft spoken the star was as he singed various items and answered questions. He humbly repsonded to praise, remarking that "Sometimes he needed that" and earnestly gave advice to one guy who asked if he could direct his next music video.
All in all, I had a great time and will definitely be attending his next concert and plan on buying his new album as soon as it's released. If you don't know Mika's music, I implore that you look it up, he is, in my opinion, one of the best artists out there at the moment. You won't be dissapointed.
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