Stephane

Most famous painting of the French Revolution! If the album is dull, I'll sue them for using it!

For me, the places where to go are :the champs élysées,Le louvre (for the italian renaissance section, the best one with La joconde and all the classics),le petit palais/grand palais are also good, but greedies, one of the best "shop" (but expensive) is La Durée!!! :mf_lustslow: They make the best macaroons and they have loads of very orginal flavours like rose or fleur d'oranger (don't know how to say it in english ^^)

 

I like the meal idea!

So expensiveeeeee but so goooooooooooood

But it's far from the center... And there's nothing to do or see around this place... My advice as you're saying more than one day is to book an hotel in the center, but yes it's gonna be more expensive but way more practical

Thanks for this...but on the ibis site it said there were 49 hotels in Paris...any ideas which I should go for?

 

Sorry to be a pain

Well it's really up to you, depending on if you're staying a few days or no. Bastille is a busy district and is well centered, people love it... Don't know if it's cheaper somewhere else but if you can book for the one in Bastille, it's good then

Look on the map :

http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/reservation/liste_hotels.shtml

the Parc Des Princes is in the south west, next to St Cloud & Boulogne Billancourt... The thing is, there is nothing around to see, that's why it's better to go to the center!

The capacity of the Parc Des Princes for a concert is 50 000 people

My piece of advice would be to be as close to the stage as you can otherwise there will be a gap between the sound you hear and what you watch on the screens...

I went to see the Red Hot 4 years ago and i didn't enjoy it because of this! I saw Muse last June and i was close to the stage so it was fine

A few tickets are still available on fnac.com but it will be sold out in a matter of days... though they may inject some new tix...

No, don't go to Brussels(except if you want to travel with Nikki as Fouchonneret said lol), it's way longer, because RyanAir Airport is at Charleroi not Brussels, so you'll have to take the bus to central charleroi, then the train to Brussels (16€ return) and then the Thalys to Paris which is quite expensive (1h25)... And it's way easier to go to Beauvais.

The concert is sold out on Ticketnet.fr and on Fnac.com you have some left...

Tell me what you don't get here!

Stephane French

Ps: for the person asking about beauvais, it's fine, don't go to Brussels it's a bad idea... Once ur in Beauvais, take a coach to central Paris (1h30 journey) and it's like 13€ one way... http://www.aeroportbeauvais.com/index.php?lang=eng

For cheap accom, try youth hostel (http://www.hostelworld.com/hostels/Paris) or ibis hotels more expensive but good http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/home/index.shtml

The tube station for the Parc Des Princes is : Porte de St Cloud (Line 9) and it's in South West Paris

Oki, merci pour ta réponse

On saura quand pour les festivals ? ^^

De toute manière ils seront annulés pour un bleu sur la cuisse droite

Je passais par là, je vous fais un coucou (Em', Pamette et les autres), en esperant que tout le monde va bien et que vous étiez pas trop décus pour les concerts de Londres :'(

Stéphane qui aime toujours les messages de Yop lol

I think it's going to fast... He is not even used to big arenas than he is doing a stadium... though it could be the only time where he could play a stadium

Hum.... Grace Kelly's high point on the official top 4o in New Zealand is number 2

Leona Lewis is n°1 in New Zeland this week... I told you, massive international hits on the way

She entered the Swiss Charts at N°7, she is currently 4 in Denmark & Sweden

Keep hoping, he is back up to number 11 this week. That will be nearly a year in the top 30.

Yes back at 11 BUT Leona is still N°1 with huge sells, she took the 2nd spot of Mika for the best selling album of the year and she may finish N°1 ahead of Amy...Poor Mika so close...

2007 Best Selling Singles

1 1 Leona Lewis Bleeding love 719586

2 2 Rihanna feat Jay Z Umbrella 494315

3 3 Mika Grace Kelly 484300

2007 Best Selling Albums

1 1 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black : 1 431 969 in 50 weeks

2 3 Leona Lewis - Spirit 1 147 040 in 5 weeks

3 2 Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion 1 038 689 in 45 weeks

and in France he's not far as well from the million mark which is very rare in France those last years especially in a year's time!

No but what a marketing machine she has behind her. Lots of people probably need her to make money for them now after all they invested LOL!!

 

Next year nobody will remember her??? And here in Japan nobody has EVER heard of her, but MIKA made it to the Top 5 twice with GK.

 

Don't worry Leona is a very local thing:blink:

Not anymore, Official single charts :

Bulgaria: 34-

Cyprus: 7-6- (Airplays)

Denmark: 4-

Ireland: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1

Norway: 5

New Zeland: 3

Poland: 39- (Airplays)

Roumania: 57-48

UK: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-EC

Slovenia: 4-1-EC (Airplays)

Sweden: 7-4

It's only the beginning, and on Itunes :

BLEEDING LOVE

Australia: #28

Denmark: #1

Spain: #25

Finland: #22

Greece: #6

Ireland: #3

Luxembourg: #5

New-Zealand: #1

Norway: #11

Austria: #25

Switzerland: #2

Sweden: #3

UK: #5

For the US, next year... So she has started to get successful as well in Europe & Oceania such as Mika!

I actually like Bleeding Love, I thought it was lame at the begining but the song grew on me very fast... The album is fine, not brillant, just ok... She did write some songs on her album. But at the end I wish Mika was ahead of her because yes his music is kinda new & fresh... But Mika did have a huge promo as well...

By the end of the week, Mika will have sold more than a million copies of LICM in the UK... Unfortunetly, Leona Lewis will take the 2nd spot of the Best Selling Album of 2007 (behind Amy) and Mika will be then 3rd.

Best Selling Albums of the Year so far

1 Back to Black – Amy Winehouse 1,362,228

2 Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika 981,000

3 Spirit - Leona Lewis 918,536

4 Beautiful World – Take That 836,595

5 Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys 596,720

Best Selling Singles of the year so far

1 Leona Lewis Bleeding love 691842

2 Rihanna feat Jay Z Umbrella 490290

3 Mika Grace Kelly 483230

4 Proclaimers ft Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin (I'm gonna be) 500 miles 333600

5 Timbaland feat D.O.E. and Keri Hilson The way I are 321130

PERFORMANCE

1) The best Mika's video? Grace Kelly

2) The song you prefer in his concert? Love Today

THIS PARTICULAR SONG

3) The song that puts you in a good mood? Love Today

4) The song you can listen again and again till doomsday? Happy Ending

5) The song that corresponds with your life? Grace Kelly

IN FUTURE

6) The theme that you would like Mika deals with? don't care

7) What song (of another artist) you would like Mika sings? Some Scissor Sisters songs

8) With who he should have a duo? Moby

I want to contact her to see if I can buy 1 or 2 things, but I can't find the link to contact her

LOL i am a HIM not a her lol

I'm the seller of this auction : http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220175416523

I guess you didn't make the link lol

http://www.stargreen.com/events?id=16818

Standing tickets still on sale!

I already bought through Star Green and there was no problem!

If you want to go, then buy tickets

http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=MIKA&n|artist=null&resultsperpage=20&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch

This is the Link :

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220175416523

Mods, if you think it's inappropriate, delete it! thx!

Hey guys,

As i'm not anymore very much into Mika, I'm selling some of my stuff (a set of promos) on ebay can i put the link here ?! or is it inappropriate ?!

Ok Airplay charts, good then! Hope the sales are following!

This is chart is made by people voting on the net only...not sales or airplays

Well i just wanted to add, that of course i'd rather have Mika N°1 as well but I do realise that girls talent. I usually don't like artists coming from thoses shows but this time, i think she is a terrific singer & performer.

If you looked worldwide at how many countries MIKA was in the charts with GK, and then compared those figures with a UK based TV show X factor winner you might see a very different picture.

You obviously realise that the comparision doesn't stand here, but you make it lol.

HAHAHA.

 

You branded me someone who does not know anything about music on a previous thread because I said that 'Leona must be either a loveable person or with some very poor background / sad history that make people love her that much' and now you admit that she is from a poor family background...

I didn't brand you like this lol

What i reproached you is that, you think that we can only understand her success by things like she must be a loveable person or with a sad story or from a poor background... this is bull****, this wasn't exploited by the show, and you can not win something like the X factor because you're a lovely person...

Your point about her not being able to 'afford creating her own music' does not stand and sounds rather naive.... I hope you don't believe that creativity is a direct consequence of wealth. Paul Mc Cartney and John Lennon were not born in the Hamptons, for example, or in Hamptstead, whatever....

If you mean your family background and education contributes to how creative you are, that is also something that simplifies reality but is more like a point we can start discussing ...

Do you have better examples than those 40yo ones with a different society?!

Anyway, you can't access music (instruments) without money, Music is an expensive art, it's a fact!

You can have all the creativity that you want, if you can't exteriorate it, what's the point...

Your family background helps you developping ur creativity but don't create it.

How can you access music lessons, instruments without money ?!

Anyway, Mika did NOT use his or his family's money to record and promote that album... You basically cannot finance it unless you are Paris Hilton.

Recording & Promoting an album is financed by the record company.

He used his student loan to produce his demos.

Sure Leona would have had other ways to break through but I don't look down on her for choosing this way. If someone has a great voice, cannot write their own stuff and is happy to be shaped into form by someone who learned his skills from Pete Waterman, that's the best way to go. I would have done the same if I was that kind. But I am not.

I've read lots about Mika's family house in South Kensington (Posh French speaking district in London) and about his studios in the basement worth thousands ££...

To be honest with you, I have a problem with Mika's background, because he said in a French TV Show 3 weeks ago that at some point they lost everything they had when his dad was an hostage... They moved from Posh Chic 16th arrondissement of Paris to South Kensington (the London equivalent) you can't afford living there and sending ur son at the French lycée (quite expensive as well) if you don't have money, There's something missing in the puzzle.

Leona was very much involved in her album's writing... (She recorded an album before of her own songs but was not released)

Who cares at the end! Mika is by far the male breakthrough of the year.