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The concert was excellent!!!! My fourth time over too many years, and each one is a favourite, but hecwas on fire tonight ! Same set list as Rennes. He wanted to dance and he wanted to move! Other shows there has been obe glorious episode of Mika dance, but tonight tbere were quite a few full-on dance events. He is so vobrant and energetic he just pulls us all in with him into clapping and bouncing along. I took a few pictures, but they are bouncily blurred. Oh well. His voice was strong and very tuneful, but regukarly cracked into Falsetto iin unusual places. While still keeping perfect tune. Now that's a skill! I remain as impressed with his live shows as ever, and I am so thankful I could get to this show in France. A fabulous concert, and a rivering performance. I looked at the merch stand. Tshirts, key rings, mugs, stickers, cds for the warm up band, but I didn't see any Mika cds. Lots of tshirts. Scalpers outside aelling 'signed' tour posters. They were doing such a good trade that I wonder why the merch stNd didn't have them.

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I'm hanging out for the first news! I'm going to the Paris cobcert tomorrow and can't wait to get a hint of whats in store for the show!

So, I'm a long time fan, travelling the world and I am ecstatic that the dates meshed and my week in Paris co-incided with this concert! I have best general admision tickets for myself and my husband. I will ve waiting outside around an hour vefore and hope to meet some MFCers there. This will be my fourth Mika concert. Two in Australia, one in colmar a few years ago and this obe which I am looking foward to, so much! Hope to se you there!

I can't find the interview either, but the biography article is very, very nice! Well written and interesting!

I'm glad I came back to read everyone else's reports. I love how we all had such different views, and made different things important. So reading the reports I get a whole other perspective. Thanks to RosinaKiwi, Oakie Doke and Chickadee - really loved your reports. Rosina, I've found that when John wears his bodyguard hat he's a tough fellow to interact with. He's very Mika focussed. I hope you can be satisfied that you did get to hand over the things you needed to, and that I also believe absolutely that Mika got them, and will have gloated over his new treasures the first chance he got! Got any more? I haven't had enough yet - but I'm saving the amazing videos until last tonight so they are the last thing I see!

You have a very interesting name for a person with only one post in two days!! I thought people might have started discussing Mika's interpretation of the song as being about a lady who mutilates herself to gain/keep the attention of her lover. It was shocking to me that the song we had been interpreting so graciously and psychologically is so graphic in his mind!

I'm reading and loving it! I'm not quite sure how to put it non-lewdly, but I'll take the one night stand! Not a suck in sight! I've had two now, so I went back for more, after all!

Umm... yes...? I was originally inspired by your words to write what I did, even if it ended up being unrelated....

Part 7 Mika Somebody asked Mika’s mother if he really still enjoyed receiving all those gifts. Surely by now he must be overwhelmed with the amount, and there was bound to be repetition that would have grown old by now. She said “No. He really does enjoy receiving them, and looks at them all and appreciates every single one.” Mika came into the room, and there was a general division into those who hung back and those who pushed forward. I had an insane notion that if I stayed back, he would find me, because he had to. I gave David the inset from a DVD, and he moved forward and got it signed. I had my precious moment of watching from a distance as my two tall slender favorite fellows were side by side. I have wanted to do a height and build comparison for a long time. I was sure that at the time of the Forum, when I stood next to Mika, that he was the same height as my son. Unfortunately ( ), David has kept growing, and is now several inches taller! LOL! And I don’t even know how tall David is. We haven’t measured him for a year or so! Probably well over 6’4. I saw Nico_Collard get her moment, and Happikali gave her necklace, and Chickadee pointed him in my direction. I don’t know why she gave up her moment to do that, and I can’t thank her enough while at the same time being so bewildered and overwhelmed. Chickadee I have a pm written to send to you as soon as you clear some room! Mika came towards me and smiled, and I showed him the picture I wanted him to sign. He was writing a message, and it seemed the moment went on forever. He was pushed close to me, and I was holding the picture steady so he could write on it. He kept writing, each word was so slow and careful, and I kept glancing at his face, and then down at his hand, and he had only written one word in all the time of my glance. As moments go, it went on forever, and I had time to really appreciate being so close, and the effort he was making. I was so worried, he was having to concentrate so hard to write each word, and I can’t imagine how he could be so tired and still be there for us. He finished, and said “I have to leave now”. I felt like I had taken far too much of his time and energy, and backed off so quickly I only then realized that I still had a gift to give him. I got John’s attention and handed it over, and then watched Mika make his slow way to the door, signing all the way. Annie was near me, and while she still had a journal in her hand for him to sign, she was not going to ask, and did not want him to exert himself anymore but he took it and signed it on automatic pilot. She said he was so tired the pen nearly fell out of his hand as he wrote. It seems I can’t write my emotions down. My feelings are very complex, between the caring love, and the admiration for all the aspects of him that I can glimpse. There’s awe and wonder and amazement, and none of that is new. How can a moment mean so much, a few words on a page, be so precious, and it’s not even that they are, it’s the memory they represent, and I don’t even need the tangible to keep or maintain the memory. Ok, think logically. The fact that I had a picture for him to sign gave me an excuse to be close and for him to spend time with me. He’s used to that, as witness Annie and the automatic pilot in him that grabs the thing to be signed and does the job. He was a little distressed at the Forum that the only things I had to get signed were for others, until I finally hunted up something that he could sign for me. So he thinks it’s important that we get the mementoes that we want. Whether we are trophy hunters or seeking a deeper connection, the time he spends with us gives us what we want/need. So the trophy hunters treasure the tangible, and the connectors treasure the time spent. Whether that’s enough is a decision for each individual, but I believe that it is more than enough, and the effort he makes is above and beyond any conceivable call of duty. The M&G is only a part of the whole experience for me but because I was physically close to Mika, and because he was focusing on writing a message for me, it overwhelms me more than most of the rest. But then I consider each part again, and I am not sure if even that is true. I spent the whole few days feeling more and more accepted by and connected to the people around Mika, more than to Mika himself. Yet I translate it into a Mika experience because that’s what makes it important to me. Yup, fangurl. The only thing that makes that in any way acceptable to me as appropriate behaviour is that everyone I interacted with so obviously had Mika as their own top priority and interest – professionally at least, that I did not feel rude. Also, I might have been feeling Mika obsessed, and my reason for speaking to them was because I am Mika obsessed, but usually other things were discussed first or solely. Hopefully that’s enough. It’s all I can do. Ok, I’m done. I’ve written forever, and my husband is starting to get restive. Perhaps I need to act like I’m home again!!!

I have the same feelings about professional concert videos. The do all their fancy camera tricks to keep it 'interesting'. Don't they realise that as full screen picture of Mika as he moves and sings is all we really need!