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29 minutes ago, mellody said:

it could possibly be the Zenith in Strasbourg?

I think so. Just saw on Ig there is another Mika private gig now at zenith of Strasbourg, again for Credit mutuel. 

Unusual time for a gig, by the way, but that explain the early soundcheck 

6 minutes ago, crazyaboutmika said:

I have a feeling it was really after the holidays but that's just a feeling and I could be wrong of course.

I'm quite sure it was recorded in mid December. This pic was taken at the end of another radio interview on 14th December and he was dressed exactly the same. 

I found the entire conjugation of Bouger on the web and it looks like it's the correct form for the  subjonctif imparfait. 

I don't know how much French people use the subjonctif in speaking French. In Italy, for example, lots of people don't know it well or don't use it when they should. Often, on social media, Italian people who don't know Mika well write, as a compliment, that he uses the subjonctif better than Italians. And very often it's true 

I have a theory but not so crazy 

I think he is in Tuscany rehearsing the songs for the tour. His guitarist and sound engineer both posted from the same studio, which is the same they used in 2019 before the Revelation tour. 

I found this podcast in French. It is quite long and from the first minutes I have listened to it looks quite interesting. 

https://smartlink.ausha.co/pause-le-podcast-d-alexandre-mars/nouvel-episode-du-20-12-22-23?fbclid=PAAabgex32UhNjaQxXfPMW_nguHQBKIPWBKWEgXDZCivmsulfo9xeCEP5lboM

If I remember well, he said in previous interviews for MNIMH that she had heart surgery at the beginning of 2018 when he was in Usa and that they found about the cancer after his birthday celebration in Corsica in 2018. 

The drawing dates back to 2017 for sure. Probably she wasn't well for some reasons but I really don't think they already knew about the tumor. 

So I think what is telling in all the interviews about the drawing is a bit messed up. 

24 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

Oh really?

Do you remember which interview it was?

I am trying to read and listen to all possible interviews but it seems I missed this one 

6 minutes ago, SusanT said:

Didn't Mika and his siblings buy one of  the houses where they used to live ( in London)? Maybe the pics and video were taken there.

In a recent belgian interview he said that that house is under renovation and that it will become an atelier with a studio. It will be ready next spring. 

His family house is in central London while this house appears to be in the country.

1 minute ago, Hero said:

You can feel his pleasure at being reunited. Where is this, do we know? Also, zoom in on the carved leg of the table behind him. Unexpected creepy doll face! 

I think it's the same house we are seeing lately both in Mika and Andy Instagram. 

When Mika stands up at the end of the song  I think you can see the blue tiles on the kitchen wall that we can see in the last Andy story ( happy eggs) and in Mika story with the Bruxelles sprouts. 

I think this house is definitely in Uk, but who knows where 

10 minutes ago, dcdeb said:

But maybe I'm in the minority? Do you all find it useful?

 

I agree. I don't find it so useful when the posts on the various social media are absolutely identical. I think in that case, one video or post here is enough. 

35 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Well, maybe it's not temporary but his new home in the UK? Although the house itself, from the  bits we can see of it, doesn't look that much like his usual style, it doesn't look like it has anything special about it, as the ones in Florence and Miami do. But also, I remember from many many years ago that Andy used to post photos from a farmhouse in the UK. For some reason I thought back then that it was his parents' place but no idea, he could as well just have been on holiday there I guess. But maybe it's Andy's house and they refurbished it? Just a wild guess, could be anything really.

We will see in the future if/when they will continue to post from that house 

12 minutes ago, Hero said:

It might be somewhere he's renting while filming in the UK and Paris? 

It might be. I think this somewhere is in UK.

It seems a little bit strange to me that there are various of his objects there if it's a temporary rent. But then I remember that he used to personalize with his own objects his dressing rooms at Casa Mika and Eurovision, even x factor. 

9 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Oh, so does that mean Mika didn't write any of the lyrics, but just composed the music?!

No, he is both author and composer 

6 hours ago, Hero said:

Love the balloon behind him. 

 

 

Thank you Google Lens! 

https://authenticmodels.com/product/jules-verne-true-red-ap168r/

 

 

I'm wondering what house this is, because I had the impression to have already seen some of the items. 

A quick research and I found that the balloon, the big drum beneath it and maybe also the cushions were in his old London house. 

17 minutes ago, mellody said:

Do we have a link yet for the Radio Maritima thing from last week? Iirc it was supposed to be published on Saturday?

REPLAY
 

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https://www.mikafanclub.com/topic/36637-mika-à-marseille-émission-maritima-le-8-novembre-2023/?do=findComment&comment=4287660

7 minutes ago, mellody said:

Presave link from Mika's IG story: https://presave.umusic.com/presave-jane-birkin?fbclid=PAAaah8MT5duxC68JGyGTV3JrzQDQKC4Z64Mmi3wDQmx2i34POHDwmA8x0508

 

Does anyone understand the lyrics of the snippet?

Je suis

Parfois beacoup trop grand

Parfois beacoup trop petit 

Translation: 

I am 

Sometimes way too big

Sometimes way too little

I ask the French fans for confirmation 

31 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

 

 

The first time when the link has been posted (the one which didn't work after one hour) it was mentioned that Mika will be present at the event.

This time they don't mention it. So?????

It's mentioned this time too

15 minutes ago, SilviaM said:

I had already sent my entry a few days ago when Eriko found the link but since technically the contest starts from today I don't know if it will be valid (it probably won't be anyway since I'm not French haha but I wanted to try), so I tried again today but (of course) it said that I had already participated and didn't let me.. 

Same for me

https://www.gazzetta.it/Rugby/29-10-2023/mika-rugby-calcio-cavalli-italia-inghilterra-4701467334322.shtml

There is an interview on Gazzetta dello sport today but it reserved to subscribers 

54 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

 

What is interesting he was talking with the orchestra (or a conductor) in Italian. 

A new symphonic project with Italian musicians? I would be great!

In the intro before starting to sing it seems to me that he said that the musicians were from Morocco. 

I asked myself too why he was speaking Italian but maybe he was simply talking to his sound techicians who are italian 

6 hours ago, mellody said:

when someone told him that the first Golf War ended 1988,

I'm a bit confused. The first Gulf war started on the 2nd August of 1990 with Kuwait invasion by Saddam Hussein, the second Gulf war started on 2003. And these are certain dates. Why someone should say so? 

Edit: Maybe I've understood. The war in 1980-88 was between Iran and Iraq and it's also called Gulf war. But I found on several sites that when you refer to first Gulf war you talk about the Kuwait invasion by Iraq, while the second Gulf war started in 2003 between Usa and Iraq. 

I'm pretty sure that when Mika says First Gulf war he refers to the one involving Kuwait, otherwise why his father would have been stuck in Kuwait American embassy if Kuwait wasn't involved in the Iran Iraq conflict?

5 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Don't children start "maternity school" there at the age of 3 or so? I mean, I agree with you that it sounds more likely that they only moved to London in the '90s, but while I could understand why he was telling something wrong at the beginning of his career and then corrected it, it absolutely doesn't make sense to me the other way round.

I think that in this interview he simply didn't care too much about the correct years. He had his aneddoctes to tell and he put them a bit casually.

In 1987 he was 4. I don't think he could remember so much of that period of time.

I noticed that in lots of interviews he has troubles to collocate the facts in the right time (probably because of his dyslexia), about various arguments not only the move to London. So I think that sometimes he tells his facts without being too careful about the right collocation in time. 

Tonight Mika is in Morocco for a private gig for the 100th anniversary of a luxury resort

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyHV7WCNbmN/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

https://instagram.com/stories/alinakzsofficiel/3208634790617408058?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

26 minutes ago, mellody said:

I remember in some interview Mika said he was 6 when they had to flee from Paris. Which would be somewhere in between 1987 and 1991.

He said in lots of interviews that his father was stuck in the embassy when Saddam invaded Kuwait and this happened on 2 August 1990, that's a fact. Before that invasion there wasn't any issue in Kuwait that could stuck his father overthere. 

Moreover he said that in Paris he went to a little private school, so if he attended one or two years of primary school, he should be at least 7 or 8 when they move. 

I think it's more likely that he messes up dates and ages rather than the reason why his father was stuck in Kuwait. So I think that they moved to London in 91 or 92.