Win tickets to The Feeling and Mika gig

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5 April 2012

In support of World AIDS Day, Motorola (PRODUCT) RED has teamed up with This is London to offer two pairs of tickets to the exclusive RED Sessions one-off performance on Friday 1st December, when The Feeling' and Mika', take to the stage in an intimate gig in East London.

These joint-headliners will perform in front of just 600 fans and are donating their time to this great cause where ALL profits go to the Global Fund, to help fight AIDS/HIV in Africa.

To enter this competition simply CLICK HERE!

(MOTO) RED Sessions takes place in conjunction with the red MOTORAZR V3i, available from the Carphone Warehouse – the second Motorola handset designed to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.

For more information about (MOTO) RED Sessions, please visit www.motorola.com/RED

Competition closes on Wednesday, 29 November. Exact gig location (in East London) to be revealed to winners. Usual This is London rules apply.

The Feeling

The Feeling are five twentysomethings from Sussex and London who love pop music. Great big no-nonsense, hook-filled, giant-chorused pop music – music for the masses, only intelligent, with sunshine hooks and killer choruses that everyone can hum, from plumbers to professors.

Their platinum debut album Twelve Stops and Home' was released this summer and has spawned some of the biggest hit singles in the UK this year - Sewn', Fill My Little World', Never Be Lonely' and Love It When You Call' have provided the feel-good soundtrack to 2006. The band have spent most of 2006 taking their music to the masses touring the UK, Europe, the US and Japan. "Perhaps the only retro band to improve on the originals, they have distilled the excellence of Supertramp and 10cc to craft a love album in which cleverness never upstages the beating heart within" said The Guardian last month.

Mika

Mika is a songwriter, performer, producer and orchestrator and he's ready to unleash his debut album to the world. Both astonishingly musical and profoundly thoughtful, his tunes combine a heady euphoric rush with darker unexpected elements: daytime melodramas and night-time tales of love, loss, abandonment, hope and happiness. They all jostle together for attention, each one a pure pop golden nugget.

For the last 12 years of his life he has followed his maxim of a parallel universe to its natural conclusion and is now about to present his dynamic, idiosyncratic and unashamedly personal debut album. This is the Mika magic touch. Unafraid to stand alone - because this is what he is used to - his intimate first person and third person storytelling will connect with outsiders while subverting the mainstream from within. Whether eulogising the delights of the larger framed woman on the funk-rock strop of Big Girl (You Are Beautiful), condensing modern sexual peccadilloes on the burlesque Billy Brown, or celebrating the joys of being alive on Love Today, his is a place that pop music is not used to traveling to.

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