Florian

Bonjour à tous, français, francophiles, francophones J'étais moi aussi à Poupet, peu de temps avant à Nantes, et (j'espère) bientôt à Colmar. Je ne me remets pas d'avoir manqué Vieilles Charrues (dire que j'y étais la veille pour Muse, mais impossible de me libérer pour MIKA ) Le spectacle de Poupet était simplement incroyable, une version réduite au plan de la mise en scène, intime, mais grandiose malgré tout. Je ne crois pas que 'jaurai l'occasion de me trouver aussi près de sitôt Bon, bref, je n'ai pas encore lu le French speaking thread en entier mais je pense avoir l'occasion de revenir très souvent très vite !

I forgot to mention another one : during the introduction of La Solitude, he told us he had only two opportunities to sing it remaining. And he wanted to "justify" it, because when he was in Musilac, it was a "festival atmosphere", so people only wanted up tempo music. So when he said "I'm going to sing a song by Barbara", half of the 45 000 people started to boo (the cliché about Barbara is that she's an "intellectual" singer who sang only very long, very slow, very sad , very darksongs). But he said the song is so strong it doesn't need to be justified. And he sang it in a perfect way

There have been a few other funny moments, for example when he said he was happy that the tour was to be over, because he's going to come back home and to do interesting things such as doing the dishes, calling the plumber, pay his taxes... They also forgot (!!!) to perform Grace Kelly, so they did it at the end ! Then they performed Any other world, which was obviously unscheduled (and unanticipated for me, I love this one so I was on cloud nine) Mika also said he wanted to be back in Poupet during next tour. I think he really enjoyed being there, he looked really happy. So were we !!!

I can sump it up This moment was after "Blame it on the girls". Before the song, Mika divides the audience : those on the right sing "Blame it on the gi-i-i-irls", those on the left (where I was !) sing "Blame it on the bo-o-o-o-oys". This time, Mika did something amazing : he stepped down from the stage into the audience ! (I hope you understand what I mean in English...) And joined the crowd to explain to us the thing and to make us sing Anyway, at the end of the song, he said that those on the left were the best. So we began to sing "On a gagné " ("We won") and he said that was just like a football team. But you know, these days, in France, we don't like our football team really much, so we protested ! And he said (this is a summary, not a real translation !) : okay, you know, I can't even play football. When I was a child I was the goalkeeper but the only thing I did was playing with mud. Indeed I made figurines of the other guys who were in the team. They were like voodoo figurines so when the other guys, from the other team, went in front of me I couldn't prevent them from kicking a goal but I was happy since they crushed the mud figurines, which meant they crushed the other guys. But I wasn't able to be a goalkeeper so I got fired. I was really disappointed (that was ironic, as you may have guessed...) After that, it was time for "Billy Brown"