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Wasn't it "the blind fold"? I remember us two staring at this and then asking him what it meant

That was MY marker

Great find! Thank you! I'll try: "For the final on saturday evening mega star Mika who replaced Duran Duran captured the audience with a great stage show and his big hits as well as with new, unreleased pieces. One, two, three and Herrenacker [the venue there] is stoked. "I'm especially happy to end this summer tour surprisingly in Schaffhausen now", he admitted to his fans who didn't get bothered by short rain showers. It was raining golden on the audience whilst Mika made his homonymous hit a soundtrack of a special evening." Not sure about this "homonymous", though. The same name, you know what I mean, I hope

I think I just caught him in a weird moment

I hope there will be one! I wouldn't trust his German label enough to let them take care of my banana. And I don't like bananas. Right, let's hope for the best! I missed you all too, of course!

After too many detail here are the promised pictures (as already mentioned some are blurry as I had to turn off my flash in the middle of the gig and my camera is very sensitve then): http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx92/Statue_of_Liberty/Mika%20Das%20Festival%20Schaffhausen%206th%20August%202011/ and some I like: The laces and the outfit - I don't know! I'm kinda proud of that one Took me many tries to finally catch him during the jump... The toilets weren't nice so I can understand him She's so pretty! Especially for Rose!

After a looooong time without proper internet I'm finally able to post my *report*. Most of the basics is already said so I'll just add some details and my pics. Thank you for your great report! Yeah, I'll add something here At one point Mika said he wants to give us something to do. Don't ask me why but I started to dance "MIKA" as in "YMCA" The first time around he looked at me like So I did it again and he got it and smiled. I had a funny moment there. Because they told us that food and drinks were forbidden and I don't like rules like that I wanted to sneak some stuff in. So I put those orange juice thingies in my socks (an old trick I got told at previous concerts ). When running to front row I lost both of them, though. And nobody of the securities cared nor did they check our bags well XD Anyway, when mellody came I forced her to collect my lost juice Just don't stand next to me, I'm ALWAYS on the side that is losing I also remember that he did a bit of a singing competition during Big Girl which was - of course - won by the other side as well. And iirc he changed the end of Stuck in the Middle. But don't ask for details there I just remember the fact The hat-thing was so funny! Yasmine was there to take photos but didn't want to disturb anybody (as if!) and so she tried to hide while throwing the hat on stage earlier. I think Mika noticed her when she was between us and the stage. But iMMa didn't. So she was a bit shocked when there was a hat flying out of nowhere on stage I could give him my birthday present. I wonder if he opened it already, wouldn't be surprised The marker thing was funny as well. He asked me if he could steal it. Like twice. And always said "yes, of course" but in the end I still wanted it back. Stupid fangurl moment! Couldn't have said it better! It was a perfect experience and I already miss you all and can't wait to plan the next tour.

To quote Mika here as not everyone in the crowd was pleased with the English version as well (there were some people whistleing ): "You can't please everyone, can you?" Another short comment: During soundcheck he did EMD in French at first and afterwards just did the first couple of lines in English, quite spontaneously and a capella iirc. The fans watching the soundcheck were cheering a lot afterwards so he asked "What was that? Do you want it in English?" We all screamed "yeeees!" and he went "Oh God!" (he said that in a funny way). Then later they put the English lyrics for him and iMMa on stage. So it's possible that he decided it because of the soundcheck. They hadn't rehearsed it earlier apparently. Yay for MFC-power! Oh and some tried to get those texts after the gig but one of stage guys got quite unfriendly and threw the texts away. Proper report coming later. Maybe tonight or on tuesday. Will upload pics as well. Probably not as many as usual because of the "no flash!" P.s.: sorry for the typos in my tweets. Typing on a touchscreen is still quite new to me plus it was in a var plus I was super tired

I know I'm using her term here I'll hire her then

Glad you made me laugh about that. I was SO furious! And still am. Celine Evano promised an explanation. But I have no idea if that one will ever see the light so I keep bitch slapping her on twitter...

That's exactly what I wanted to suggest right now. This is a gig-report-thread after all So who and where is starting a thread? Edit: I started a thread in the before the show - section. I hope that place is okay...

You're absolutely right that the early Q-ing is something we can't blame on rocksquare alone. But before we start discussing responsabilities I want to make sure that nobody is blaming French Deb as she had the list in the end and was in charge of the communication with the securities. She wasn't the one who started q-ing at silly o'clock iirc. Just wanted to emphasise that I see a problem there. Of course it would make sense to make sure the "homies" have sort of an advantage or at least aren't disadvanteged (well, nobody should be disadvanteged anyway ). But then others would start and say "ooooh, but WE were the ones travelling THAT far..." and then there are people who haven't a home gig. What about them? And so on... All I want to say is: you can't please everybody. We should aim a fair system, though

I noticed it in London as well as in Cattolica (going to the beach there) but maybe that was because I was focused on one person that did so and that one person was just one bad example Hope so! If it's right what I got translated that did happen. Some French girls told others that they would be allowed to stay away for 15 minutes

Haha, I'm glad you noticed me Isn't that more a general problem that some people are coming, get numbers and go back to sleep? It's something I noticed at several gigs, not just in Compiegne. But yes, it was a bit extreme there. We saw it in the morning when there were 60 or 80 people on the list and only about 25 to be seen. I think it'd be good to discuss the Queuing in general, as Rose suggested

I finally uploaded my pictures Some of them are blurry but I liked the motives... So if anyone is still interested in them here is the link to my album: http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx92/Statue_of_Liberty/Mika%20Palais%20Compiegne%209th%20July%202011/ Here are some pics: If you want to have them without my name on them or bigger / whatever just ask me

Nothing against statues, please At night (we were already there because we didn't have a hotel room) we got told the list would be opened at 8am by them. Some of the others told us later that they heard the list would be opened at 7am. But in reality the fans opened the list way earlier.

Won't really write a proper report as most of what had happened is already said. Just a few thoughts: - the 'singer' of the last DJ set got actually pulled off stage I usually find it unfair if people are booing and shouting them off. But in this case... He was just very... unappealing... So after a while a man came on the right side of the stage and gestured this 'cutting off your head'-thing to the singer and afterwards literally pulled him off. The guy looked really p***** afterwards - no, Mellody, I don't like his hair - I loved the show, the set, seeing happy Mika and hanging out with you guys - The new songs were all great in my ears, but I fell especially for Blame it on the Weather. Have been listening to it constantly since I saw it in Compiegne - if wanted I'll upload pics tonight (haven't checked them yet, only if there are good ones ) About the organisation: Many things have been said already. I heard somewhere that it was the first time Rocksquare organised such a big event. But imo that's no excuse. They made many stupid mistakes. I know that our numbers system is always a bit risky and it always depends on the security working there. There was hardly a gig that made me feel safer about the system working, though. Rose told me in the morning that they had already spoken with some of the girls of team Mika who already knew about the system. We talked to one of the girls later on again. I explained it again. They showed us that they understood. Then I saw French Deb talking to one of the security guys who asked his boss to come. He came, she explained, he understood. Then I saw how he explained it to every single(!) other security guard. I saw him showing his hand for where the numbers would be and which entrance we are standing at. So I'm very sure everybody knew about it. But it was chaotic. I don't know if they were responsible for the late soundcheck as well but I wouldn't be surprised. Apart from the missing barriers and garbages I saw them building up the scanners for the ticket barcode only at the time we already should have been inside. I wonder why They stood around during the soundcheck and did nothing The plan was to make us go through several checks. They wanted to control our numbers (not in order), they wanted to check if our identities on the ticket would match with those on our passports, they wanted to check the barcodes and our bags and ourselves That are five steps! I can't imagine that working out even with very organised and patient fans In the end the only thing that got checked was my passport btw So all in all it was a mess. Just wanted to sum up observations. And I tweeted to Celine Evano about it. I think they don't really care about what the fans think. But maybe there is a little bit of hope that team Mika give them an honest feedback as well, maybe even including our thoughts. However, it was a great gig and I'll try to keep that in mind instead of the stupid things around that fabulous time!

Oh, there was a misunderstanding then! When I said he should be free... I meant musically I know about those contracts and everything and I don't blame him for the bad promo I just meant his musical work by saying 'work', assuming that we all have in mind that there are many other people and companies pushing him and everything

First of all: I don't think that anybody 'deserves' anything from him or him as person. He's free to do whatever he wants and as an artist he himself should be the only person who influences / decides about his work. Apart from that I don't share your opinion that France or the UK are more / less important for him. Every experience and time of his life made him the person he is now. And whoever decides who gets a Brit Award isn't responsible for making an artist feel more comfortable in a country or something like that. Does he need more attention? Yes, of course. And not only in the UK. In most European countries. As I'm German I could talk ages about what goes wrong in my country. But that's not 'the country's fault' but the consequence of how his music label(s) work(s). It all depends on the promotion they do / don't. How on earth can he be successfull when there isn't a single advert about a gig / cd / whatever? And so on. I'm not happy with the promotion in some countries at all but we won't change that... What I don't like about the song is basically that it's French and that I don't get a word. I never liked French music as I don't like the language. That's a personal thing. I read the translation but it's still not the same. I won't be able to sing along. I don't understand him when he sings it, etc. As I already said: that's a personal thing. Plus I have the feeling that he is very focused on France these days. Nothing wrong with that. I just wish he would be doing promo all over the world In other words: I feel a bit left out even though I know that I'm lucky enough to be able to travel to gigs this year. About changes: I don't like them too much in general but I can bear a musician to change I know that it's a bonus song this time. I'm just a bit worried about the future.

Am I the only one after all who isn't happy with the song? Just a thought that popped into my mind: Does somebody try to land a summerhit? The sound, the melody, the 'dance-stuff'... Just thinking...

I'm really sad now. I want to like the song. It has a nice meoldy and everything. But I just don't. It's French. I don't like French. Nor do I understand it or can sing along. I hope he doesn't turn into a French singer. It's bad enough (for me) that he speaks French at gigs in France and in all the countries where people could understand French and that he recorded two of his two DVDs in France where he spoke French. But if he really does more songs in French I fear to feel misplaced like I feel now in more situations. And I start to get more worried about the 'Frenchness' of his Compiegne-gig as well. It is in France and of course it's French due to that anyway but what I mean is more my feeling to 'be part of it' or not. It's great for all the French and French-speaking fans he has. And it's just my personal opinion.

Thank you for the translation, Nezza!