{"id":2266825,"date":"2026-02-04T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2266825"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:46:09","slug":"mika-films-excuses-for-love-music-video-in-dungeness-and-features-romney-hythe-and-dymchurch-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mika-films-excuses-for-love-music-video-in-dungeness-and-features-romney-hythe-and-dymchurch-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika films Excuses for Love music video in Dungeness and features Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>  <!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Award-winning musician Mika has been filming in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter headed to Dungeness last month to film the video for his new single Excuses for Love.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/_media\/img\/KXCY59E82MGDLIGZFYQ4.jpg\" alt=\"Singer MIKA with one of the omney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway drivers. Picture: Mika \/ Excuses For Love\"\/><figcaption>Singer MIKA with one of the omney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway drivers. Picture: Mika \/ Excuses For Love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mika, best known for hits such as Grace Kelly and Love Today, released his latest album Hyperlove on January 23.<\/p>\n<p>The music video for his new single came out earlier today, with the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&amp;DR) announcing it had been filmed in Kent last month.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cBack in January, we welcomed Mika to our Dungeness Station, where he filmed his new music video Excuses for Love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music video was released today and we are so excited to finally be able to share it with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video follows Mika, whose real name is Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, as he drives through the hamlet in a Jaguar, featuring shots of the Dungeness sign and views of the power station and sea.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com:443\/embed\/zkJJ41f7dDk?si=Q9jx_BZFXndkjrTk&amp;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube\" video=\"\" player=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are also clips of the singer walking across the shingle, some of which show both the historic Old Lighthouse and the new lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the video, Mika, who starred in Channel 4\u2019s talent show The Piano, is seen at the Dungeness railway station, and later getting onto one of the steam trains \u2013 with one scene including one of RH&amp;DR\u2019s drivers.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"teads\" class=\"teads-advert IBJYXY\" data-provider=\"3\" data-devices=\"dtm\" data-format=\"['teads',2,1]\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>It also includes scenes with the Bournemouth Youth Marching Band, which said it \u201ccouldn&#8217;t be more excited\u201d following the release of the video.<\/p>\n<p>It added: \u201cBeing part of such a creative and high-profile project has been an incredible experience for our young and not so young musicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so grateful for the opportunity to work alongside such a talented artist and team. This is a huge moment for the band and a memory we\u2019ll treasure forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1584 1071\" alt=\"Singer-songwriter MIKA filmed his latest music video in Dungeness last month. Picture: Mika \/ Excuses For Love\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"I618PV7X114R6HI63BF4.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.48\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/_media\/img\/I618PV7X114R6HI63BF4.jpg\" alt=\"Singer-songwriter MIKA filmed his latest music video in Dungeness last month. Picture: Mika \/ Excuses For Love\"\/><figcaption>Singer-songwriter MIKA filmed his latest music video in Dungeness last month. Picture: Mika \/ Excuses For Love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, Oscar-winning actor Olivia Colman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kentonline.co.uk\/romney-marsh\/news\/olivia-colman-spotted-in-kent-as-film-crews-set-up-on-coast-335848\/\">was spotted filming in Kent<\/a> as crews set up on Romney Marsh.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old had been seen in Dungeness on Thursday and Friday, alongside Irish actor Andrew Scott &#8211; as cameras rolled for the new Elsinore film.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were seen at Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist Derek Jarman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/8c4ad36f-fd77-4916-9882-e820ab1ff62a?dark=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In September, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/premium.kentonline.co.uk\/romney-marsh\/news\/olivia-colman-spotted-in-kent-as-film-crews-set-up-on-coast-335848\/kentonline.co.uk\/deal\/news\/filming-for-netflix-s-pride-and-prejudice-taking-place-on-329736\/\">crews were spotted in Deal filming Netflix\u2019s Pride and Prejudice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carriages and other props lined Beach Street as filming got underway for the Jane Austen adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->  <!-- link for comments box-->        <\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kentonline.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning musician Mika has been filming in Kent. The singer-songwriter headed to Dungeness last month to film the video for his new single Excuses for Love. Singer MIKA with one of the omney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway drivers. Picture: Mika \/ Excuses For Love Mika, best known for hits such as Grace Kelly and Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2266826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21751,438984,438983],"class_list":["post-2266825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-celebrities","tag-hythe","tag-romney-marsh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mika-films-Excuses-for-Love-music-video-in-Dungeness-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266827,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266825\/revisions\/2266827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}