Who’d have thought on March 1st we would have a stunning spring day with sun!

Is this the sign that the snow is gone and summer is coming? Here’s hoping!

Bring on lazy days up at Loch Lomond with your mates and a barbecue! I think maybe we have Lady GaGa to thank for a sunny Monday; it was probably the light bouncing off her giant disco ball that brought the sun to Glasgow!

Her sell-out global Monster Ball tour descended upon the SECC, bringing with it the stamp of GaGa’s quirkiness, unusual sets, bizarre outfits and big anthems. For many people it will have been the gig of a lifetime especially with Rolls Royces, forests and subway carriages!

As the oversized disco balls, army of male dancers, see-through piano and Lady GaGa’s truckload of costumes were been shipped out, you would have to do a double take to think it wasn’t part of Mika’s Imaginarium Tour which took place at the 02 Academy last Monday with an equal amount of eccentricity on stage!

Mika rated his Glasgow show as the best yet: “Definitely 100%. It’s certainly the best show of this tour and the best we’ve ever done in Scotland. I don’t know why it is. Correct me if I’m wrong but in Scotland the audience quickly tell you if they like something and if they don’t.

“But there’s thing that you don’t get anywhere in the UK, where the crowd are explosive, they react to things and that’s sooo much more rewarding when you’re on stage,” explains Mika.

I had commented on Mika’s outfit at the Brits when he presented an award to his mate Lady GaGa. The boy was looking pretty suave and to make me even more jealous he got it for free! The same designer who created Mika’s costumes for this tour gave him the Brits outfit, but it would appear designers don’t really know what they’re letting themselves in for when they give him free clothes

“I need five of each outfit, because I ruin them so often. I run on and lie down on the floor, I bang myself against everything and these jackets are worth thousands yet after three shows I can’t wear them again!”

No charity for Mika’s stage clothes I’m afraid ... well not all the time! Mika is rather careless with clothes, as he explains: “There was one costume that was hand embroidered and instead of it being put in the laundry basket it went in the charity basket to Oxfam by mistake.

“My sister went in two days later trying to find the jacket. She was desperate, in tears …it cost a fortune, it was really important and I wanted to wear it at the Brits. They could’t find it so all the stores were called and it turns out it wasn’t being sold, it was in the clean-up department to be sent to the third world!

“They said clothes that are either too tatty or too out there get sent to countries that really need clothes. They don’t bother selling them in the UK because no-one will buy them!”