Report: Rockfeedback @ iTunes Festival Night 31 - Mika
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By: Matt Tomiak
This year, Rockfeedback is delighted to be the official blog partner for the rather exciting iTunes Festival, taking place at London's Roundhouse every night in July. Over the course of the festival, we'll not be missing a night, delivering morning-after reports on everyone from Oasis and Bloc Party to Franz Ferdinand and Kasabian playing intimate sets to fans lucky enough to have won tickets to the shows.
Following a much-hyped musical initiation a couple of years ago, some of the stardust that greeted the arrival of Michael Holbrook Penniman AKA Mika seems to have lost its early gleam in the light of the female synth-pop invasion of recent months. So perhaps it’s fitting that the last night at the iTunes festival 2009 is the only performance to prominently feature glitter cannons in the midst of a gleeful audience of 30-something couples, gay boys discussing the weekend’s forthcoming Pride festival, gaggles of jovial girls and slightly bemused parents accompanying wide-eyed adolescent offspring.
Bounding on stage at a kid-friendly 8.45pm dressed as a Dungaree’d Droog and sounding uncannily like Billy Corgan fronting 70s power-balladeers Boston, Mika’s future would appear to retain the same camp theatricality as the past (he chucks away ‘Big Girls’ just a couple of songs into the set whilst writhing around the top of a grand piano) with ‘Dr John’ from imminent sophomore LP We Are Golden incites a non-ironic Bay City Rollers-style away-along.
During signature tune and erstwhile number one hit single ‘Grace Kelly’, an enthusiastic yet portly gentleman celebrates Mika’s trademark vocal pirouetting by being held aloft by two compatriots; one sizeable buttock being supported precariously on each of his chum’s shoulder.
As the curtain falls on this year’s iTunes festival, it’s preposterous, inclusive, uninhibited fun of this ilk that represents the evening’s bywords.
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