French Deb

2 hours ago, sara09 said:

 

I tried to send you a PM but it says that you can’t receive them. Since I didn’t have to use my code, I’d be happy to give it to you! Send me a message if you still need it  

Oh thank you, I send you a PM, hope it'll work !

Hi guys !

Oh my god, didn't came here for ages ! The new MFC is nice, btw.

I arrived too late to pre-order the album and get the coden try to access the presale but didn't understood everything, I think some gigs need a code, other don't !

I would like to buy 2 tickets for the Caen gig in France, if someone has the code and could help me, that would be so nice of you !

So happy he finally comes back on tour, was long since I las saw him back in 2015 ! 

Happy to read some of you are still here (Deb, Mellody !)

Hello dear MFcers !

So happy to come here and reading from you 

I was at Rennes last night, it's nearly my home town so couldn't miss the show.

Sorry, I don't have pics or vids cause I wanted to enjoy the show the best I could ! And what can I say... It was awesome ! 

For the setlist, I'm not sure, but a friend of mine post this one on the French Forum and I think we're close to the truth !

1- No place in heaven
2- Big girl (you are beautiful) 
3- Good wife
4- Grace Kelly (with a part in French)
5- Boum Boum Boum 
6- Good Guys
7- Talk about you 
8- Origin of love + Outro (changed the set)
9- Relax take it easy
10- Promiseland  
11- Rain
12- Staring at the sun (the english/french version) 
13- Underwater 
14- L'amour fait ce qu'il veut 
15- Elle me dit 
16- Billy Brown
17- J'ai pas envie 
18- Happy ending  
19- Lollipop 
20- We are golden 
21- Love today 
22- Last party 

I was so happy to see him again, my last real show was this amazing gig in Nantes in november 2012, when he brought me on stage to sing with him   . I have been to a festival in summer 2013 but it's not the same !

So I arrived at the venue after work at 6 PM, and managed to be in the 5/6 rows. It was really good for me. I was with a friend of mine and people in front of us were small so we could see him very well.

There was a problem with the sound in the venue, so the show was late at started at 9.30 PM

Then he arrived... with a very quiet, an nearly a-capella version of No place in heaven... it was so beautiful 

Then he didn't stop during 1.50 hour ! He said he was sorry to be late, but he's lebanese so it's normal ! But then said this time it wasn't his fault.

He was very chatty, only spoke in French except when he spoke to his musicians. he said he was very happy to finally start this show and was thrilled by the vibes in the venu ! Yeah, we rock in Brittany ! 

I think he choose the perfect setlist... the best combo of his 4 albums. And is voice was amazing... One of the best time for me : it's the beginning of the tour so he is in a really good shape with the perfect voice 

The show was really well mastered. I find him more and more professional, and more and more grown up ! But in the good way. He still have this part of crazyness in him, but he knows how to manage it to empowered his show ! 

I don't know how to explain myself, but he can be proud of this new show, it was nearly perfection 

He just made some mistakes with some lyrics, especially the new French songs and made funny faces !

Well to sum up :

- perfect setlist

- perfect show

- perfect audience : 

- perfect Mika !!

We waited him outside. So happy to see "old" MFcers as Tiibet and his friend (sorry, I don't remember your name...) 

There were two exits, and we chose the wrong one 

When he got to his car, we run at the orther exit, but there were too many people. He just went out his car a few seconds to sign a few autographs but he didn't spoke to protect his voice. Then he went to his car, and went away. We just said "hi" and he waved at people by the closed window. Some people run after the car whe he stopped to the trafic light

Thanks Mika for this amazing evening...  It was my only show of the tour, but hope he will come back in the west part of France next year !

I wish you all, dear MFCers, to enjoy the upcoming shows

Cheers 

Oh thank you girls for your messages That's sweet of you

Your dress is fabulous and you look gorgeous in it.

 

Is the cocktail le vin d'honneur?

 

The venue for the dinner looks beautiful too. Will le futur marié wear la jaquette et un chapeau haut de forme?

 

And, will you have l'enterrement de vie de jeune fille?

Oh I see you now all the French words for the wedding !

To answer to you : I confirm the cocktail is the Vin d'honneur !

I don't know what will wear the "futur marié" ! I'm not allowed to know He is in my sister-in-law's hands !

And of course, I'll party during my "enterrement de vie de jeune fille" my maids will organize ! Can't wait !!

Karin, I love your church, it is so cute and the view very nice !

Tegan, I love the idea of you seating chart : very classy and original in the same time !

And your dress seems so pretty, can't wait to see you in it

Hello girls !

Haven't posted here since a while

Congrats to Sivan for your wedding

Happy to read that your preparations are going on

For me it's the same : we'll get married at the City Hall of St-Malo (where we live), then we'll go the my small hometown church, at about 15km and the cocktail and diner will be very close, at about 10 minutes. It's here : http://location-salle-st-malo.com/page-titre-Receptions_privees-cid-1.html

It's a very typical house from Brittany, where we live.

And I just bought my weeding dress yesterday ! And oh my god, I love it I wanted it to be fluffy but with no train, and a style like a ballerina. And I found her

If you want to see some pics, here I am with her I am sooo happy !

Bonjour à toutes ami(e)s francophones !

J'espère que vous vous portez tous bien

Je suis super contente pour vous, pour ces dates en Amérique du Nord !! Amusez-vous bien et racontez-nous tout !!

Pour ma part, je ne ferai qu'un festival cette année, en mai, les Papillons de Nuit. C'est à 1h de chez moi, donc je ne pouvais pas passer à côté !

Et pour ceux qui n'ont pas eu de place pour Montreal, surveillez le topic des places à vendre, on ne sait jamais

Bon dimanche à vous

A bientôt !

Merci beaucoup Un très joyeux Noël à toi aussi

Et si jamais je ne repasse pas ici, passez toutes un excellent Noël

What a wonderful report Jola And a big thank you for your pics, they are amazing

Don't worry, when Mika is looking at you directly in your eyes, it's difficult to focus and to say what you wanted to say

Thank you so much girls for your reports and pics

It seemed to be a very nice gig

Oh and the vid is so wonderful Love it !! He is so sweet and fun and...

It's a very nice way to end the tour...

@ Efriani : interesting to see the wedding dress in Indonesia ! The last one is so beautiful

 

We're getting married in a church... actually, this is it:

 

 

Oh it's a nice church !

No way! My fiance's birthday is the 16/8 as well!

So funny !! Of which year ?! Mine is from 1986 !

My fiance's name is Derek and I've known him since I was 21. We were set up on a blind date by friends of mine and at first we didn't really hit it off (I liked him, but he was so shy that I wasn't sure if he was interested).

 

Anyways, at the start of last year I was in New Zealand for a holiday and we started talking over Facebook. We decided ot catch up for dinner when I got back, and we've been together ever since.

 

That's a nice story !

Derek and I went away for the weekend to a town called Forster, which is on the central cost of NSW. On the Saturday, we went for lunch then for a walk on the beach. We found somewhere quiet to sit and he said to me, "You know I love you, right?" and then he proposed

 

Of course, I was so excited about getting engaged that I put my ring on but it got stuck (it was too small), so we ended up having to travel to the nearest hospital to get it cut off.

What a nice proposal But the end is so funny ! Poor you !

Well, me and my fiancé, Paul, know each other since high school. We started to date during our last high school year and we never imagined we found each other's soulmate. We are together since 9 years now, he is my first real love and he is amazing I'm so lucky to have him.

Well, he wanted to finish med school (which last at least 9 years in France) to get married, but he knew I wanted to be engaged since looooong time ! So he proposed to me 6 months ago and we will get married in 1,5 years, when he will be about to end med school !

He proposed me by the sea cost, in one of our favorite place from where we live :

http://burnel.perso.sfr.fr/photos2/Pano_Varde3.jpg

He left a note at home when it was written I had to join him here, so I came and he was all alone, suit up, he said some lovely words then put a knee down and he proposed He did it in a very traditional way

Thank you very much Sabine, and thank you everybody, for the vids and pics

Indeed, the M&G vid was nice to see ! Not speaking about the Stardust one

Yes, it's written he's gonna be David Guetta's guest star

Btw, on the local newspaper talking about Mika's gig in Grenoble, they say tickets can be available to buy tomorrow...

http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2012/12/16/mika-au-summum-le-26-avril-2013

Thanks for your nice reports Sabine

You know, I have never ever stalked him or gone even near to his hotels, house, airports or radio stations and I feel very uncomfortable you call the fans who went to the BBC concert that name. I think 5 (?) fans went to Union Chapel and just asked if there are any spares? Nothing wrong with that I guess, because the people who went there alone had one spare ticket each (and using that was not away from anyone). I was arriving late so I knew I was too late to ask any spares and I went to the venue just to meet Karin (who was late too) at the time they were already closing doors. Suddenly Mika was in front of us. WE didn't even think he would arrive that late. We didn't ask him to let us in, he chatted a bit and told us that maybe he could let us in (and we were asked in soon after that). He probably knew we would love to see the concert (naturally). He was very nice to us and didn't try to avoid us at all, on the contrary.

 

It was a full concert for a live audience and Mika had decided he is well enough to do it so I didn't have a feeling we were disturbing him at all. He did only two songs as most artists there but I enjoyed the whole concert. It was very christmassy and the venue is really lovely. It was a public appearance and would be very weird if he minds some fans seeing concerts like that He asked us in just because of our good timing, we really didn't expect it in advance.

Oh Nina, don't worry I don't think everyone here thought you or Karin or the other fans who were there at the Union Chapel were stalking him. Of course you weren't

The debate just came on as a reaction on Eva's post But it was a more general debate.

Are these all festivals?

Well, the Printemps de Bourges is a festival, a very famous one in France, btw.

But I looked at the Grenoble date, and apparently, it's not

It's written on the ticket website :

Alias et RPO présentent, avec NRJ: ce concert.

Alias is the tour promotor and NRJ a radio station...

Maybe they take the oportunity of Mika doing some festivals in France in spring, like the Printemps de Bourges, to organize some gigs as the last tour was sold out ?

The Grenoble venue can welcome 3000 people if they are seated and 5000 if they are standing

And for the Monaco one, it's special ! They often do "gala gig" in this venue !

Great to know !

Planning to go to the Printemps de Bourges one, which is the closest to the west part of France

Yes, he said we won't see him before a long time, but I assume he talked about real tour and not festivals !

It was me who said this but not quite the way you remembered. In fact, what I wrote was that in order for a slow song to work as a show starter at a pop concert he'd either have to impress the audience with his voice (which he couldn't this time, due to his illness) or by the meaning of the song- something the British audience had no clue of. The reason it worked in France is exactly the reason why it did not in the UK. So, you basically confirmed what I wrote:teehee:

Yes, you're right ! We basically said the same It's not always easy to express what you exactly want to say in another language

If he did that song as a " thumb nose" to Londoners, like you say, it makes me question his sanity, to be honest. I hope you are not right about that.

I hope too. Just saying that cause I was wondering to myself. I hope it was for another reason, maybe as Karine1111 said, he sang it because he was actually in this mood so it made sense

Different countries, different customs. UK is respectful , French don't have consideration for a man who is ill an should be resting. UK , like mum, knows best.

Please, don't generalize, thank you This is not very respectful for French people, don't you think ?!

I love the song Un soleil mal luné, but I was a little shocked that in UK he start the show with this song and it made me laugh at the same time because I was sure that on MFC in this thread I will find comments on this topic

Why are you saying that Eva ?? It's not really laughable when we know his situation in the UK and when we read reviews like the Evening Standard's one about that specific choice he made. I don't think Brits fans commented about this because they were jaleous he started with a French song but tried to debate about the whole meanings and the consequences about that...

Something shock me more, this is what I found the day before this gig. Lots of UK fans were in London, Mika was at The Union Chapel no one come to see him

Mika saw 3 French fans (I was one of them), the day before the gig at the artists entrance of the Union Chapel. We went to see Mika, say him hello and ask him if he was fine. When we arrived around 5pm we were the only fans. We waited and when Mika came out we were still 3 fans. Mika invited us to the BBC unless we have asked him nothing. When we returned to find our invitations we return to the entrance of the artists we haven't seen any fans of Mika wait and the exit after the show there was no British fans

I won't say more about that. I totally agree with Christine, Guylaine and all the other posts saying the same.

I think it must be everyone's choice. You can't blame the UK fans for that, Eva.

Even if I would live in Paris, I never would have waited for him like you or some other French fans do, when he does radio or TV promo in paris and you guys are everywhere It's your choice, you vision of being a fan, but not mine And it's nothing to deal with the French culture or not, but also with people personality's.

I like seeing him after a show, to think him and chat with him. I only saw him once before a show, it was at the Cirque d'Hiver, and I didn't felt comfortable at all. We were many fans, and TM said not to ask him to sign autographs because he was in a rush, but more than half of the people who were there asked to him, despite they already have plenty of autographs, and Mika didn't said no... I was very uncomfortable so I stood back to watch all that and told to myself I prefer see him after the show, and this is what I do now. And I'm totally fine with that. It's my point of view and the way I want to experience the fan thing. But everyone can choose its own.

This is really hard from you to say that, because that means you think he doesn't have enough support from the other UK fans and you thought fortunately, the French fans were there to welcome him, because the UK ones weren't. That insulting for them

You should have enjoyed the fact of beeing only 3 fans around him !

I don't understand why you are reacting like this. If you are ok with waiting for Mika outside a radio show and have time for it, and if you managed to meet him and show him you were there to support him, good for you. But not everybody can do that or even wants to do that. Our main way of supporting him is still by buying his music and attending his gigs. Roundhouse was sold out so I think British fans were there when needed. You don't have to wait for him before or after a show to call yourself a fan.

Couldn't agree more with you, Camille

Finally I note that you can't stand criticism when you don't stop making disparaging criticism on the French fans, the fact that Mika done concerts in France, he speaks French at concerts in France and in countries that are francophone and he did songs in French

He has done more promotion in Britain for his album than in France, but you don't have to prevent you from saying the opposite, constantly blaming Mika

I think it's not the point here.

This is not about criticism on the French fans... Or we haven't read the same topic...

The fact we talked about some people being disapointed about having "Un soleil mal luné" as an opening act has nothing to deal with the French fans or with the fact Mika is doing many gigs in France. It's about Mika starting singing in another language than English when he is performing in a London gig.

He could have started with a song totally in Italian, it would have been the same sensation for part of the audience, don't you think ?

And please, don't stir up the tensions between Brits and French fans, we don't need this...

 

 

OMG qu'on a rit ce jour la

Je n'avais pas vu ça, c'est juste énorme !! Bien joué !

Je profite d'un passage éclair sur le forum pour féliciter Melgine et French Deb pour leurs magnifiques performances Mikanesques!

Que du bonheur les filles!

 

Et n'oubliez pas que ça n'est pas parce que vous ne me voyez pas que je ne suis pas vos aventures...

Oh Axie, contente de te voir par ici

Merci pour ton message, c'est très gentil J'espère que tout va bien pour toi

yes,I understood,I just wanted to point it out for the people who said EMD is wel received only in French-speaking countries.

Oh thank you Kris It's not always easy to write some very constructive posts in another language Sometimes, you think people misunderstood !

What nice pics !! You are so smily

John and I went outside whilst he had a cigarette after the gig and some people recognised us and wanted their pictures taken with us. They asked how we'd gotten involved and when we said we were fans and that it was via Youtube they were gobsmacked! They thought we were a professional choir....so like you say, people will think we were a shabby, badly rehearsed choir rather than a group of fans who only had a few hours notice and 15 minutes of rehearsals!!

It's exactly what I wanted to say ! It's soooo difficult for you, and I think people in the audience should know all the details

But he's always saying he's Lebanese,and lately,on the Telethon France,he said he's Lebanese and Syrian

And about EMD,it seems that people all over the world are enjoying this song live,even in the US:

Yes he is But even if he said a lot in interviews that he is half lebanese, I think people forget and I think in the UK, he seems more British...

For the second part of your post, it's exactly what I wanted to say : in other countries, the French songs are more welcome, like in the US (as we can see on your vid )

What a nice pic !!!! :thumb_yello:

You are all very nice and you seemed to have fun !

On of the best backstage choir pic I saw !

Its sad that people don't think the choir adds anything. I think it does because its ordinary fans getting a chance to have an experience they'll remember forever. But it would look better if he was on bigger stages. The small stages from the two UK gigs are too small for too many people. It looked too cluttered. I think that was what the problem really was.

You right, the problem is that the stages are too small for the number of people...

I did said that I thought "musically" speaking, the choir doesn't add so much in the Mika gig even if it's nice to see them having fun. I mean, of course, and it's what I said, it's wonderful for fans and I did experience amazings things as well so I'm glad Mika does that and am so happy for fans But I really don't want to seem nasty saying that...

But we can't hear the voices very well, and Mika doesn't really introduces the choir, as a fans choir, which he should do in my opinion.

Because people who don't know it's a fans choir could think this is not very professional and it's not fair for the choir, because it's not the aim of the choir. I heard some comments in Nantes from people behind me, and I told them that the people in the choir were fans, so their point of view was really different when they learn that and they find that very cute and thought Mika was great doing that

But if you think it's a professional choir, and honestly, if you're not in the Mika world, you can't imagine they are fans you don't have the same point of view...

Sorry if I'm not clear enough

I agree with you that singing the occasional French song should NOT offend UK people. Look how popular Gangnam Style is (not that I'm comparing it to a Mika song) but its been a huge hit!

I actually thought he should have released EMD over here. It could have done well and the crowd did seem to know the porquoir bits (appologies to the French if I've spelt porquoir wrong)

You're right Marylin.

But Mika is not seen for British as a singer who spent his childhood in France, who loves this country and who sings so well in French.

He is seen as a British pop singer.

This guy singing Gangnam Style" song is Korean, so if people in UK go to see him on stage, they won't be surprised he sings in other languages than English.

But in the Mika case, I think it's not what they came for... That's why some people could have been surprised, especially because he opened with that.

I agree, it should not offend, but maybe it's because France and England have special history There are always some "teasings" between the 2 countries. As when France and England playing in a football or rugby competition : it's always special

I'm sure he would have sing this French songs in the US, it wouldn't have made the same effect... Look, even Celine Dion sings some French songs when she plays in Las Vegas, and the audience love that !

ps : the correct word is "pourquoi"

So glad to read this gig was great

It seemed he had lot of fun, and the action man and mask stories are nice !

Sorry to read Lara's post and feelings. And interesting to see that we don't experience things the same way, as Mellody and Vicky didn't felt the same.

He sounds pretty good in these videos. I mean obviously he is straining a bit but so many pop singers these days have to strain to sing their songs live under any condition because their voices aren't great to start with. It must suck for Mika especially if he has to take a lot of meds to get through, but I would think for the average audience member they don't even notice.

 

There is a really great fan review on Mika's FB page about how he was in top form but I'm afraid that just led to more questioning about why he is cancelled Glasgow.

I thought the same... When we see the vids, I don't think the voices problems were the only reason they cancelled Glasgow And that's why I'm even sadder for the Scotts fans and the others who planned to go there...

just quickly, i didn't feel treated badly by anyone backstage, and i also don't think it was the crew's fault that we didn't get to meet mika at all. i think he simply didnt want to meet us,like already in london after the show where i had the feeling he just met his fans because he thought it was expected,not cause he wanted to.same with the fans waiting outside yesterday,from what i heard.but at least outside i would have gotten to say goodbye to him,just a quick second,that would have been enough. because i dont know when i'll see him again. he said in the show that it's gonna be the last uk show for a very long time. and i just have a weird feeling. thats why i'm sad and worried.

show was fab tho,he talked lots again and crowd was on fire! :-) will report when i'm home.

Sorry you couldn't see him after the gig to say goodbye

What is the weird feeling you have ?

Because he said exactly the same in Nantes, his last French gig

I don't think he will tour again soon

OMG, I do have sooooo many things to say after reading this thread. I wasn't there, but wanted to react.

First of all, so happy he did sang Make you happy, and with not the "robot" voice I hope I can hear it live one day.

Then :

- I totally understand many of you were kind of surprised when you heard "Un soleil mal luné" as the opening song Even if I'm French, even if absolutly love this song, I think it's a strange choice too.

As Tiibet said, this song and "Elle me dit" are part of his setlist. You're right, but it wasn't the case everywhere, as Rosa said. I think it's nice that he sings a couple of French songs abroad, but not as opening songs.

Londoners didn't expected that, and I think many people of the crowd was very stunned and unsettled so not very receptive for the next following songs...

I think he could have sang this wonderful song, which shows a lot of his talent, later in the show, it would have been more "welcomed".

- Anyway, someone talked about this song as not a good choice for an opening song, generally speaking and not for the UK gig, because it's too slow.

Well I don't agree. The French audience really apreciated him to start with this song. I spoke with non Mika fans after the Nantes gig, and a girl told me she was so surprised he could sing this kind of deep and moving song in French, only with piano and voice, which is different from the easy "Elle me dit".

He really amazed the French audience with "Un soleil mal luné" as an opening song, because it was audacious and wonderful. He won lot of "respect" and "credibility" for being an amazing singer, doing that. Even the press was impressed !

But it was an audacious choice to make in France and in french-speaking country, not in London, especially with the special situation of his popularity here... But maybe he did that on purpose, as a thumb nose at all this It was his choice... and he did not the same the next day in Manchester, so why only London ?

- I don't think the fact he wasn't very chatty and not very well during this gig is only due to his voice problems.

He did have voices problems when he did the Nantes gig and he was sooooo chatty, sooooo relaxed, sooooo perfect !! Honestly, it was one of the very best gigs of him I attended to. And even if his voice cracked up sometimes, he felt well. So I'm sure there was something else...

- I totally share some of your point of views about the choir. It's an amazing experience for fans and I'm so glad many Mika fans can experience such amazing times, but because of a lack of training and a lack of time, I don't think the choirs I saw really bring something "vocally" speaking.

- Sara, I felt the same about he sound and the fact we didn't heard his voice that much in Nantes... And it wasn't only because the voice problem, but it was the same, we couldn't hear him enough on the "fast" songs. I think it was a shame, and I was first row Sometimes, he had to scream.

Well, that what I mainly wanted to say.

I'm sad that some of you didn't get the gig you were expected, and I'm sad to read some press review as the Evening Standard's one. It must be very hard for Mika to read this kind of reviews

I'm sad this gig didn't get the effect it should have : showing the Londoners/UK how amazing Mika is and that it's a waste he's not having the succes he deserves here...