‘Working with Mika is like working with family. Not only its all done at the kitchen table but also it’s like hanging out with a cousin, and we never lose time explaining or defending each others positions.

Studio Job brand as well as the Mika brand don’t live in a ‘NO’ culture. 

Everything is possible and we both feel strong enough to shift the existing culture of the creative fields… even make them popular so many people can enjoy it!’

– Job Smeets

After visiting Studio Job in Antwerp a few years ago Mika was fascinated with the work that the studio had produced and reached out to Job Smeets to work with him on the creative for his new album. The new collaboration was the first music project Studio Job had undertaken and featured huge fantastical drawings created by Smeets that visualise Mika’s music that will form the majority of the stage design.

The grand finale of the show will feature a gigantic crystal globe made from a half of million Swarovski Crystals which took a year to construct, the result is a breath-taking showstopper that will transform the show into an art disco.

Mika’s live shows are typically fantastical experiences that are charged with technicolor pop and dynamic theatrics. Smeets translates these aspects with gargantuan visionary drawings that visualize Mika’s music, forming a large part of the stage set design for the british‐based singer’s tour.

Projecting a cynical but humorous feel, industrial smoke stacks, a hungry great shark and a sinking ship set the scene, decorated by some out‐of‐this world objects to animate the performances.