marie-andrée de rougemont

Fabulous!

 

Those pics are awesome Charlie!

 

THANK YOU FOR THESE EARLY REPORTS, VIDs and PICs!:

 

slavaniet (and leila)

 

Elodie

 

Mariposa

 

Em'

marie-andrée de rougemont - did you take a picture of the painting? I'd love to see it![/FONT]

Must have it in an email but can't seem to be able to attach files to my posts here. If you pm me your email address I should be able to send it to you and then you have my blessing to post it for everybody to see...

thanx for all the pix, videos and reports so far!

i really think mika can wear a lot of clothes that others can't and still look good, but that striped thing he's wearing after the gig just hurts my eyes.

any pix of the stage invasion? was it during lollipop?

The stage invasion was during Relax.

 

His scarf and stripey thing suited him very well. I wish I could weary daring things like that.

Well, it does hurt your eyes a bit but still he can get away with outfits that would be lethal on anybody else.

M.-Th.

WOW! Thanks for all the reports and pics and vids...is this Mika getting M-Th's painting?

 

http://mickeyshowtimeforum.free.fr/GALERIE7/pages/IMG_2170.htm

and

http://mickeyshowtimeforum.free.fr/GALERIE7/pages/IMG_2171.htm

Definitely Mica accepting M.-A.'s painting.

The second one is when I told him that refusing presents was a very ungenerous thing to do, that's why he is looking sheepish... and has to accept it.

Antoine, you did promise to erase or hide me !

thanks for the pics everyone:flowers2:

 

 

 

oh a man who doesn't talk but smiles and listens to you:shocked:

 

this is just perfect!i would kill for a man like that:mf_lustslow:

Wouldn't we all !

M.-Th.

Hardly a full report, and anyway Biche is supposed to write for us all a brilliant one in English...

Paris these days, mad weather, sunny and stiffling one minute, freezing rain the other.

My mother had asked me to deliver to Mica a painting she wanted to give him, a rather pretty circus scene that I had grown to hate with a passion because it is bulky and travelling with it was hell.

I arrived at the theatre around 14h50, all the way from Villejuif with my stupid painting wrapped up carefully, all the time looking up at the sky because I didn't want it to get wet -I didn't hate it that much.

The extra musicians were getting out of their taxis, soon grumbling about the difference between classical bands -rehearsals at 3 means 3 sharp- and pop ones -rehearsals at 3 means expect us when you see us-.

We eventually were given admittance to a side door and there was John D., together with at most 15 fans who were expecting Mica. I wanted to give the painting and accompanying letter to John but he told me to wait with the others.

Mica arrived, round half past I suppose, very relaxed and friendly, happy to talk French with his fans.

I gave him the painting and he first refused to accept it, saying it was too much, etc. He did seem to like it though, and it kind of made me feel warmer towards the bleeding thing.

Funny how Mica, who is such a generous and gracious giver, still feels uncomfortable about receiving...

So we all started to lecture him, affectionately but firmly, about the necessity to accept gifts, the basic ungenerosity of refusing others the pleasure to give... so he had no choice but accepting and I ran away, just wishing him a good rehearsal, to spare us both further embarrassment.

Then the fans chatted for at least an hour in front of the venue. It felt funny to hear people not speak English...

I went back to my elder son's home, and picked up my frigging sanbag tickets round 7.30.

No cameras allowed, folks, sorry, Sophie had hers retained at the box office desk.

I put my Sadler's Wells Venice mask on, it has grown on me and I am bound to be known from now on as the midget in the silly mask... a young guy congratulated me on it though.

I was happy to have a third row seat as nobody thought that the stupid hats on the musicians' heads blocked the view in a venue where the first row is level with the rink. Hopefully tonight somebody will think ?

I had a view over the VIP seats, first and second row to my left.

Louboutin arrived late, looking his usual sulky and pained self -come on, Christian, your shoes must be very painful to wear, but is it that painful to design them too ?

At the beginning of the show he sat there, apparently slightly bored, but in all fairness he soon began to shake it, heartily if clumsily, with everybody else.

Mica's big sister and his father were there too, obviously happy and proud, and they had every reason to.

During the gig, when Mica was particularly energetic or insane, or when his voice took us up to Heaven, his father shook his head in amazement, exactly like Mica at the Parc des Princes, you know, when he looks at the crowd ?

There is very little likeness between a fiftyish well-padded guy and a skinny 25 year old, still at that precise moment, especially as when they smile both Michaels have deep, happy dimples in their cheeks, the father looked uncannily and touchingly like his son's identical twin -sorry, I couldn't resist !

Mica gave it all, and so did the audience. We were spoilt with three encores... as far as I know, a record so far. Anyway he had to, or the venue would have collapsed and there would have been heavy casualties.

I stage invaded for the first time in my life but stayed behind, not wanting to make Mica feel harassed.

A middle aged girl came and sat on Id3's godson's free seat -he had adamantly refused to go to the gig without his godfather- and she didn't move or get up at all for the whole concert. Weird. She must have been the only one.

On the other side of the rink was a nine-ish blond little girl who danced with unbelievable energy and talent. When she has got rid of her baby fat she might become a great ballet dancer !

Bye, guys, can't wait to read proper reports.

Marie-Thérèse

That's world class moaning

Anyway Helen the sandwich is clearly trying to do whatever she can, it's probably not her fault that she's surrounded by incompetence, so I don't see the point in slaughtering her I do admit that I was ready to slaughter anyone and everyone saturday when I was sent back to square one for the 50th time though Felt I had ended up in that Asterix movie where they are running around in a house trying to get the paper that will get them the permission to get the paper that gives them the permission to...

I was not slaughtering anybody, but when you work for a company, you are the company. If she is good at her work and they are hopeless, let her find another job where her talents won't be wasted.

If I nearly died of food poisoning I wouldn't expect the chef to come and cry on my shoulder, sobbing that he does his best not to kill the people who eat there but that I have no idea how difficult it is to find a reliable butcher.

I demand to get what I paid for, and that wasn't having to arrive at the venue hours before to get the tickets that should have been sent to me, registered, at least two weeks before the concerts.

Marie-Thérèse

Merci I will think about it

 

I have to "préparer ma valise"

So have I... bet yours is not as heavy as mine though : my mum asked me to bring a painting -big, bulky !- to Mica.

Where will you be sitting ?

See you then,

M.-Th.

My english is really bad that's why I don't post very much on the MFC ! I can read it easily but I'm really uncomfortable about writing in english (and even more speaking it )

Send it to me in a pm then, the French version, and we'll work something out together... deal ?

Marie-Thérèse

I didn't recieve the tickets and sandwich have agreed to reprint them for box office collection on the night, so I should bloody hope that's what they'll do or I will indeed slaughter or sue them, depending on whether it's cheaper to hire a lawyer or a butcher

I am such a good person ! I have found a way for sandbag to get out of the mess they have put themselves -and their customers- into. Hereafter the email I have just sent to Helen :

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You know what ? I am going to help you out of the mess you in sandbag have put yourself into...

The only professional way to compensate to a very small extent, your not meeting the terms of the contract would be to send a sandbag employee to Paris and set up a desk where all the ticketless customers would pick up theirs without having to queue up.

But you won't, and you know why ? Of course you do, it was a rhetorical question. Because there are no more tickets to sell. You were present at Sadler's Wells because it was not really a sold out gig, there were still profits to make. There won't be in Paris so you are going to let us fend for ourselves. Sweet and professional.

And as you seem to be a lovely person, I will also give you a piece of free advice. Don't you ever whine about the difficulties of your job with people you have put in a mess. It is very badly received. We are the ones entitled to do the complaining.

Marie-Thérèse Dubus

cc. Mika Fan Clug forums / The Cirque d'Hiver gig thread

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M.-Th.

 

I would like it but I can't do it in english

Are you just being coy, or joking, or are you really uncomfortable about it ? If so, send it to me in a pm and then you can criticize the bad bad translation I have produced...

M.-Th.

I didn't recieve the tickets and sandwich have agreed to reprint them for box office collection on the night, so I should bloody hope that's what they'll do or I will indeed slaughter or sue them, depending on whether it's cheaper to hire a lawyer or a butcher

Well they should bloody have respected the selling contract -pity they can't spell the word, let alone know what it means- as we didn't pay for queuing up, we paid for registered post sent at the latest two weeks before the gigs.

Helen, from not sandwich, sandbag is better as it is what I feel like hitting them with... had the nerve to send me a whining email telling me about her difficulties and how hard they worked to help people out. Can't Mika Management hire professionals ?

I am considering starting a thread where anybody who had ticket issues will send a short post stating the facts, then send copies of it to them so that they try to work with another company for further tours.

See you in Paris ? Area A, row C. Back or front ? As John D said on Monday, giggling , you never know until you have found your seat...

Marie-Thérèse

Not being paranoid -well, not much... I can't believe I am the only one NOT to have received her tickets for the June 11th and 12th shows.

Now Sandbags who kept sending comforting emails to complaints have now become incommunicado -they have probably run away in terror, there are a few people ready either to slaughter them or sue their balls off, as they never respected their contract with the ticket buyers.

Has anybody in the same situation any idea how we'll get admittance to the venue ? Would hate to do 800 km then back just to watch the outside of the place -very cute but still...

Marie-Thérèse

A big collective THANK YOU to all of you who posted a report.

I would feel silly writing one more as you have done it beautifully.

What struck me -apart from what you all have described so well- is the fact that Mica, a few times, was being Mika, not the mannerisms of an untalented artist, of course, but more as a wink thing towards his audience : 'Looks familiar ? I thought so !'.

He looked and I am sure felt incredibly comfortable with the crowd, the feedback was unbelievable but in a relaxed, friendly way. I am still feeling its warmth hours later.

Very generous show too. Two encores ! Actually I went back after the first curtain because I didn't want to get lost from my friends who were sitting in the side galleries so made my way to them.

There J. Penniman was filming the gig and I found it difficult to take my eyes off her -sorry, Mica ! She is the most elegant mover in the history of time, she makes even the boring and exhausting job of filming look like a ballet... She looked gorgeous is a very stylish and minimalist black dress. Very few dark women can get away with wearing black. She most certainly does.

After the last curtain I told her, still with that happy grin on my face -but to be honest, she had one too so we were even- : 'Every time we see him on stage we think he can't get better or go higher and then, the next time, he does...'. She thanked me graciously, adding : 'Oh, but he still has a long way to go.'. Deal, we'll go there with him !

Paris now, tickets not arrived yet, I luuuuve Sandbag... if it were a guy I would marry it.

Marie-Thérèse

Thanks to Nono, great FBeyeing today!!

 

 

 

I don't think Nono captured anything except the link...and thanks Nono, it seems the usual London resources are all busy with Beyonce and the Tony Awards...a Mika show doesn't rate a mention.

 

Bab I am sorry to hear you didn't even get a hello.

Who cares... The pictures are brilliant and capturing any link is beyond my expertise, so I am mightily impressed . Actually more impressed than if she had taken them herself .

Marie-Therese

Too tiny, but better than nothing

http://www.rexfeatures.com/set/939753

Nothing connected with Mica can ever be tiny as he is larger than life .

And you captured brilliantly that mischievous air he had on his face as if to tell his audience : we have been buddies so long now, you know me, I know you, we understand one another so well, we can play games together and we love it, don't we !

M.-Th.

Darklight, can't wait for your report !

Marie-Therese

Too lazy to write a full report, and English keyboards are a curse, but there might be a few Pisces born on the rebound of that magical night .

I must say that Aurelien manhandling Sariflor unto the stage and grabbing her by her rear end when he realised she was slipping back is an image I am going to cherish until the day I die .

And reading now that she hit on Fortune, who is a notorious -if budding- lady killer gives me severe apprehension .

Last but not least, Freddie, as befitted his role as an adm, was most friendly with quite a few female MFCers... midwives, watch out for slightly bald, very tall and cutely love-handled babies .

M.-Th.

Just arrived home from the gig! Was awesome although M&G turned out to be a bit of a mess thanks to some people, but I guess that was to be expected....

 

 

 

In no particular order

 

Grace Kelly

Stuck in the Middle

Billy Brown

Started Any Other World but got it wrong so he sang My Interpretation instead

Love Today

Big Girl

Lollipop

Relax

Over My Shoulder

Happy Ending

Lady Jane

Lonely Alcoholic

Toy Boy

Blue Eyes

Good Gone Girl

Blame It On The Girls

 

Wow didn't realise he sang so many songs the time went by way too quickly.

Yes, it did feel like half a dozen, didn't it ? We are so greedy we always want more !

M.-Th.

Enjoy this evening all!! I'm sure it's gonna be great!

So wish you could have made it !

Went round the venue this morning about 10 to deliver something for a girl who works there and saw guys putting stuff on stage so I sneaked in and could see the theatre from there. Actually the first row stalls are very close to it, and the venue doesn`t look as big as in pictures. To some extent, intimate...

SW is a very highbrow place, ballets and things, and they seem very unimpressed to have M performing tonight. You know as in `You were lucky we had a window you small pop singer or you would never had got the opportunity to play here !`, while his fans are counting back the months, days or, in Sara`s case, the hours since they last saw him on stage.

They are from planet SW and we are from planet Mica ; difficult to say who are the aliens though...

There was a bunch of people who looked like fans and were filming each other with a huge camera but didn`t have the time to stop by and say hello.

If we didn`t have numbered seats they would have been considered as late comers.

Till tonight folks,

MTh

I couldn't believe ingie said that too!

 

I hope Elise is allowed to go with mfc'ers. José and I would be PERFECT babysitters!

Just in case, prepare your babysitter gear... still waiting to hear from Elise, daddywise...

M.-Th.

My dad said he's going to see if it's possible

Any news from your daddy ?

M.-Th.

Non c'est bon. Je n'ai pas assez d'argent de toute façon. Mika reviendra bientôt.

I am sure there are very cheap tickets from where you live to London, and my very respectable hotel has a dormitory where you only pay 27 pounds a night with full English breakfast.

Must really go to bed, mosquitoes are eating me alive, the hot and stormy weather is making them peakish...

Good night all !

M.-Th.

OMG, Ingie, I can't believe you !

You must get in touch with Elise... I still have three tickets -sure- but she told me that she was waiting for her dad to ok her going.

I will likely have two more tickets. Second circle ones, from the girl I gave two stalls tickets to -she would swap them for mine and then I can get them to MFCers, but she is to collect hers at SW on the night of the gig...

As Elise asked first, in all fairness she should have the first two tickets -unless her dad let her go with other MFCers, there will be many reliable ones around on that night, then you can have the third 'sure' one, or the two if she goes alone.

Don't have me certified, please -at least not before you get your freebies- but I couldn't resist and bought two side stalls ones on ebay , just to cover all areas of the venue. Should get them on Monday, then there would be more tickets to give.

Just want that night to be perfect !

Must go back to ebay and pay for those, so good night folks...

M.-Th.

My dad just texted me saying that he'd call me tomorrow and that if he can find a babysitter for my lil' sister we can probably go

But if he can't find a babysitter I'll just ask if I can go with mfcers or smthing:teehee: Oh gosh I won't be able to sleep tonight!

PM Ingie...

M.-Th.

Just for the record, I am not kind, or sweet, or generous, because I very clearly stated that the next time I'd make myself invited... just planning and scheming about future gigs . I am such a devious bitch !

Marie-Thérèse