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On 4/14/2024 at 8:08 PM, mellody said:

As for the setlist, I guess mine would be something like this:

 

1. Dear Jealousy

2. Bougez

3. Origin of Love

4. Ice Cream

5. Jane Birkin

6. 30 Secondes

7. Platform Ballerinas

8. Rio

9. Pick up off the floor

10. Karen (82 Rue des Martyrs)

11. Promiseland

12. Good Gone Girl

13. Passager

14. I went to hell last night

15. Touches You

ENCORE 1

16. Je sais que je t'aime

17. Tiny Love

18. Love Today

ENCORE 2

19. Un soleil mal luné

20. Stay High (with balloons and confetti!)

 

Assuming that more than 20 songs is unrealistic (although I planned in some more slow songs, where Mika and the crowd can relax a bit in between the high energy songs), I think that every night he should exchange one or two of the songs on the setlist above with one or two of these - a different one every time, so it stays surprising.

Step with me

All She Wants

Tah Dah

I see you

Oh girl you're the devil

Ordinary Man

Who's gonna love me now

My Interpretation

Stuck in the Middle

J'ai pas envie

No place in Heaven

 

Well, in fact my setlist is unrealistic anyway because he'd never skip GK and Relax.  And this 2nd list are the songs that I wanted on the setlist as well but threw out to reduce it to 20 - but I'd really love him to have some sort of a "joker" song every night that keeps changing, so we can get to hear songs that he played never or rarely or very long ago.

Platform Ballerinas live would be sooo fun! It nearly made it on mine!

'Surprise songs' / joker songs would be amazing, then at least I'd get the recordings of the ones I wasn't there for. But it's a lot of work not just for Mika but his band.

On 4/15/2024 at 6:29 PM, Lilla said:

Here's mine, the hardest part was to choose only 24 songs. (the order is not the best, I know )

 

 

 

1. Love Today (it makes a great mood, I think) 

2. Cry

3. Rain

4. Origin Of Love (Mika in the crowd) 

5. Sound Of An Orcherestra

6. Staring at the sun (with amazing lights)

7. Good Guys

8. Underwater (the whole stage is in blue)

9. Jane Birkin (All version of it is perfect)

10. Overrated

11. Feels Like fire

12. Dear Jealusy (jumping, mad Mika)

13. Yo Yo (the remix) 

14. Talk about you (in the dress with the 

15. pieces of mirror) 

16. Apocalypse Calypso (the piano with wings is required) 

17. Tomorrow 

18. 30 secondes (I'm still sad that he didn't perform it in Berlin) 

19. Hurts

20. Touche Touche (Just imagine Mika's dancing during it) 

21. Ice Cream 

 

I hadn't thought of starting with Love Today, in my opinion it's a late game song but the idea of starting with it is very fun! 

I feel like everyone agrees he needs to perform Tomorrow. <3 

And I hadn't thought of Origin of Love in the crowd, that's an interesting idea! I don't know how it would go down in the UK here, as he really started to fade from popular culture after TBWKTM (brits are stupid). I'm not sure if it's a song everyone knows! But it is a banger.

Has anyone got a video of Happy Ending in full (first part and where he missed the note at the end and spoke to the crowd) for this gig? I'm trying to piece together the order in which things happened (gig endorphins messing with my memory, aha). I can only find videos of the end!

38 minutes ago, giraffeandy said:

 

Same and SAME! I also enjoyed Mika before but NPIH is the album that really turned me into a hardcore fan. And I also regret not going to the gig during NPIH tour because I was also too shy to go alone. I knew about the gig in my city but at that time, I didn't know anyone from the fanclub or any other fans of Mika so I didn't go. Today I would go alone but back then, I was too insecure to do that. So I can relate! 

 

 

I was looking for a song that's dancy enough and well-known. Rain is quite sad but in a "Dancing on my own" way, it's a song where you can get lost and forget about the pain. I personally love it, it's probably my favourite "dance song" from Mika. Also I was thinking he could still do the Relax jump when he returns back to the stage at the end.

I'd accept a crowd visit to any song but I don't know if Rain would have the right energy! I'm open to seeing if I'm wrong though!

Mika needs to redo the NPIH tour clearly, for all us previously socially awkward then.

The manchester gig was funny because I have been to several gigs alone recently (about a year ago I decided to stop letting my friends not liking all the same things as me stop me doing things) and the girl next to me was like 'omg you're so brave!' ahaha. But it was the least self conscious I've felt at any gig, it was so much fun! 

1 hour ago, Paoletta said:

Oh Gosh.. now my playlist:

 

Bougez

Relax

Le Coeur holiday

Tomorrow

Last Party

Heroes

Starring at the sun

good wife

Happy Ending

Sweetie Banana

Bolero feat Babyk

Bella d'estate feat Michele Bravi

Moi Andy et Paris

Underwater

Rain

blue

Paloma

Happy Ending

My interpretation

Porcelain

Boum Boum Boum

Last Party

Statdust

30 secondes 

Apocalypse Calypso

 

 

 

 

Passager

Touche Touche

C'est la vie 

 

 

I feel like everyone agrees he needs to play Good Wife and Tomorrow (although someone commented Tomorrow is their happiness song, for me it makes me really emotional!)

On 4/12/2024 at 2:40 AM, linzijay said:

 

(Definitely agree that I'd prefer a Taylor Swift-length concert! I would also take a NPIH- or QTTFT-exclusive concert because they're my favorite albums.)

I'm loving all the NPIH love on this thread. It's the album that turned me from a casual enjoyer into a full throttle fan. It's so good and so underappreciated, and I'm so mad at my past self for not going to that concert (I was too shy to go to things like that alone at the time).

On 4/12/2024 at 8:57 AM, giraffeandy said:

 

Btw, of course I still want Mika to visit the crowd, but with a different song than BG, maybe Relax or Rain? 

I think Rain is almost too sad for a crowd visit, Relax could be fun (but his little jump on stage for Relax was amazing aha)! I never ever would've put Big Girl on my set list before seeing him live the other week, but his crowd visit was so fun (I appreciate so much that he came all the way up to the balcony too, not many artists would). I do think that the crowd visit should be for a song everyone including casual enjoyers knows.

On 4/12/2024 at 8:37 PM, TinyLove_CJ said:

I really want to hear Apocalypse Calypso live so I'm putting it after Doucement!

 

Encore:
1. Last Party
2. Je sais que je t'aime (with a choir!)

Last Party as an encore would be so fun!

14 hours ago, Presci1108 said:

Oh, what a fun idea ! Hard, but fun! 

 

So here is mine, in no particular order: 

 

1. Relax (I would place it first, like it was the case in my first concerts)

2. Tomorrow (I loved it so much in the Revelation Tour) 

3. Tiny Love (same) 

4. I see you  ( I heard it only one time live and I was a crying mess) 

5. My Interpretation (because it's the only song from LICM i didn't hear, and unfortunately, it's also one of my fav) And those three last would be great with the piano !)

6. Promiseland (we said "dream"...)

7. Jane Birkin (he can sing it as much he wants in France, I'm definitely in love... La, la, la...)

8. Good Guys

9. Origin of love

10. Underwater (I love to be a star...) 

11. Overrated (Neither version... But a mix of the two would be perfect !)

12. No place in heaven

13.  JSQJT (I imagine he will sing it in Orange, and I absolutely wants someone to register it if that's the case)

14. All she wants

15. Stardust

16. Happy Ending (I admit it would be hard to imagine a concert without it)

17. Passager (I loved 30 secondes, but I prefered add a song he never sang live. And it's one of my favorites)

18. Good Wife

19. Love Today (I adore when I think I can't dance anymore and then, there's this super-long Love Today that comes and I start again and feel more alive than ever)

 

I was so close to putting Promiseland on mine too, I love that song but I felt like it was turning into a NPIH setlist...I see you live would also be amazing... And I love that others want to hear Good Wife.

14 hours ago, mellody said:

 

He went in the crowd for Jane Birkin tonight! Has he been spying on MFC again?

Ahaha is he known to do this? Maybe he'll hear that we want more new songs and grant our wish next tour! 

5 hours ago, mellody said:

 

in the link I posted there is the whole text in Italian, plus a google translation in a Spoiler. Just scroll down in Kumazz' post and click on the spoiler container

  Reveal hidden contents

looks like this

 

Ah thank you both! Because the phrasing was different I missed it. D’oh.

2 hours ago, mellody said:

 

Ah - sadly it's behind a paywall and I can't translate the PDF version, but thank you anyway!

50 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Same...

 

The crowd in Dublin yesterday went wild at the first chords of EMD, so they really didn't mind at all that he was singing in French. I've been wondering meanwhile whether the UK setlist might not have been his own choice, but part of the contract of getting to do the UK tour, that he would not play more than one French song? Idk if they can write such artistic choices in the contract, but if that was it, shame on them! He said in the Italian interview that he has to defend his freedom every week, that was what made me wonder. He heard/saw the reception of EMD in Dublin, so he could have easily added one of the other French songs, if it had been his own choice.

Do you have a link to that interview? That’s really interesting and sad and I’d like to read the context (as much as possible with google translate).

I can see why he would avoid French but why hardly any newer songs 💔 I don’t know whether him being forced to stick to the oldies brits know or feeling like people wouldn’t like it if he played new stuff makes me sadder. I hope it was a practical choice to reconnect with the UK ahead of more shows showcasing more new stuff…

I was reading some old posts because I was mad at my past self for not being confident enough to go to gigs alone, and found this mention of him talking about a newer song and jokingly saying “play lollipop or #### off” as though reflecting the audience opinion. While funny (and I probably would’ve laughed if witnessing it, he’s very dry in his sense of humour and that’s one of the things I like about him!) it does make me a little sad that it’s possibly a reflection of how he thinks crowds think about him. 

2 hours ago, giraffeandy said:

 

I agree even though I'm fine with BB and WAG and would instead include Lollipop and (please please don't hate me but I've never enjoyed it that much) Underwater. And probably EMD. Just because I would prefer other French songs like the new ones or BBB. 

Lollipop hater club unite!  

27 minutes ago, CharlotteL said:

I'm the biggest All She Wants stan as well and as far as I'm aware he has never performed it and the closest we got was this preview he gave:

 

 

I have seen that! I think he points at his mum in that video as well 

Maybe when enough time has passed, he'll feel able to perform that live for real.

4 hours ago, giraffeandy said:

 

 

 

Good Wife is definitely on my dream setlist together with Hurts, Pick Up Off the Floor, Tah Dah, I See You, All She Wants, Sanremo and a few others probably  I've already heard all but 2 songs from LICM live (most of them several times of course) but only 3 songs from TBWKTM for example.

 

 

I agree. He sings EMD everywhere even outside of France and it's not a bad song at all but tbh, it has never been my favourite... Jane Birkin would be a better choice now with his new album imo. Even though it's in French, at least people know the person and can sing "Jane Birkin" and the "lalala" bridge. 

Psst, go tell me your dream setlist here... He has so many amazing songs, it's a shame he thinks people only want to hear the oldies here! All she wants and good wife are on mine. Sanremo for sure! I'd love I See You too...

I like EMD fine, but it's a weird choice to make his only french song on a tour for his french album!

Just now, silver said:

Sometimes I think it's easier to list the songs you don't want to hear

 

Personally I would like to excuse Mika from doing Grace Kelly, Big Girl, Billy Brown and We Are Golden.

 

I'd have to work on my ideal setlist though

Haha, I hear you! Maybe because I hadn't seen him live before, I was happy to hear them! But there was more emphasis on Life in Cartoon Motion than I would have liked. I'd like to excuse him from singing Lollipop for the rest of his life, that's basically the only song on his discography I have never liked (although I confess I did still enjoy it live because he made it fun).

The ideal setlist requiring a bit of thought is what makes it fun, though! So many to choose from...

All the talk about the Apocalypse Calypso setlist (particularly those in the non-French shows!) had me thinking that it would be really fun to design what our dream set lists would look like!

Rules:

• You can include anything he's released
• It doesn't have to be for this tour, but feel free to do that if you'd like (i.e. I think he should have included a couple more French songs, but they also don't make my list of songs I really want to hear him sing).
• I'm not gonna hard cap the amount of songs, but whilst many of our ideal setlists would be a Taylor Swift-level 4 hour Eras Tour, listing every single song in his discography isn't in the spirit of things!
• I would be interested in thinking about the flow rather than only a list of songs if you're interested! (Mine is probably going to be wrong, because I am not a person who makes setlists for a living).
• Feel free to add special guests if you want!

Here's mine to get you all started:

1. Bougez (because I'm bitter about not getting it in Manchester)

2. Touches You

3. All She Wants (he never would out of respect to his Mum which I respect, but goddamn I wish he would because it's one of my all time faves. If he ever /has/ performed it live and I missed it, please send a link).

4. Tomorrow

5. Relax, Take it Easy

6. Good Wife

7. Rain

8. Big Girl (You are Beautiful) (This isn't one of my favourite songs of his to listen to, but it is incredibly fun live, the atmosphere of him running through the crowd was great and it got people really pumped.)

9. Love You When I'm Drunk

10. Good Guys

11. Tiny Love

12. Good Gone Girl

13. Happy Ending

14. By The Time (ft Imogen Heap, I would die on the spot honestly, yes I know this is a deep cut but this is my fantasy set list)

15. Grace Kelly

Encore:

16. Talk About You

17. Origin of Love

18. We Are Golden

anyway justice for no place in heaven really my ideal setlist is he just plays that entire album including bonus tracks and apparently I'm also a BWNTM stan who knew

Oh I'm glad I found this topic!

I loved the gig in Manchester, probably the most fun I've ever had at a gig. It was the first time I'd seen him live.

However, I was saddened that it was mostly a Life in Cartoon Motion showcase. I love that album (although I'm a weird outlier in that I was 'too cool' to like Mika when he was popular in the UK and then grew to like him in 2013 after he declined in popularity here) but it keeps people thinking of him as just a nostalgia act over here. I see comments like 'oh does that guy still have a career' all the time talking about him - they don't realise that he's huge in Italy/France. 

I wasn't too bothered about the lack of French songs-  they sound lovely, but I do struggle to connect as much when I don't understand the lyrics -  but if he was going to play just one french-language song, why Elle Me Dit? I saw someone comment that he could've done that as Emily but to be fair, I think I read that he hates that version and thinks it's lazy songwriting haha (I disagree) also the English one isn't a tribute to his Mum as much. I would think on a tour for his new French album he would at least play /one/ song from that album if he was going to sing anything in French! We missed out on Bougez too, not sure if he was having wing problems or cage problems or just timing problems...

But if he keeps only playing the old favourites, people won't realise he /has/ new stuff and that it's great! God what I'd give to hear some more songs from NPIH or MNIMH... Good Wife or Tomorrow please? Definitely keep some nostalgia stuff in there, but did we need 90% of LCIM?

1 hour ago, ACG said:

It was after Billy Brown. Mika got up from the piano and spoke to the band, as the lights went out. When the lights came up he said he was going to add a song because he felt like it! I will see if I can upload the video - not done that before here... 

Hopefully this will play ok!

 

He was very subtle about asking the band, I still can't really tell he's even got time to speak to them! And quick of the band to be able to play it!

1 hour ago, ACG said:

def looks iffy to me - especially when Popular definitely wasn’t on the set list! He specifically asked the band to play it.

Oh I missed that, when did he do that?

38 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

Setlist from Ebay.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176325005755?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

 

Only 0.99… and 23.99 shipping 🤣 yeah I’m sure shipping paper and a plectrum is that expensive.

Date says 2022 though… typo or fake?

1 hour ago, ACG said:

Unusually, I find myself agreeing word for word with a newspaper article! This is a very accurate description of the most sensational concert I have ever been to! 

 

I don't normally post but find myself compelled to write about my experience at this concert as it really was amazing!

Great review! I also signed up for an account just to post here. I'm honestly feeling a mix of still riding that high and the post-concert depression that I'm not still there. 100% the most fun concert I've been to.

19 minutes ago, Ruth said:

 

I agree, and talking about being emotional, whether strictly true or not, gave him the time to get his voice back under control.

Yeah, he fudged the note a couple times more after that and the crowd sang it for him and chanted his name, so I think that was probably actually him getting a bit emotional! The vibe was elite tbf, but it was my first show of his so can’t compare to others.
 

The fact that he can even hit that note at 40 still is crazy! 

2 hours ago, mellody said:

 

I wonder if he meant the last time at the Apollo, in 2010. At the gig in 2012 I was in the Polka Dot Choir and I didn't see Mika's Mum - usually she'd take care of the choir when she was there, but we had some other staff members taking care of us (more or less... they forgot us after the gig 🙈). 

I'm not completely sure, Joannie might just have arrived late and been there only to watch the show, but imo it's more likely he meant the 2010 gig at the Manchester Apollo.

 

So yeah, maybe it was this memory in particular that made him enjoy this gig so much. The chanting of his name, the crowd did that at other gigs as well. But maybe they showed him much love for EMD and I'm sure he's happy to get a good reception for his French songs in the UK.

I think it was the last time he was at the Apollo, he did mention being at this very venue.

My pet theory is that his voice broke the first time in Happy Ending just because it was tired/he made a mistake, but then he couldn’t hit it again because he was so emotional from the crowd chanting his name in response and singing it for him.

3 hours ago, AmelieCharlotte said:

He usually introduces the band members at the end, or at some point, which he didn't this time.

I assumed that the lights went on as the venues get heavily fined if they break the terms of their music license. Just my train of thought - but I think Mika was going to come back out, but with the lights coming on & people leaving, it would have been carnage if he had, & people tried to head back in.

Oh, well now I feel I was robbed! I wonder what he was planning to sing... He did gesture to each band member pre-encore but didn't say names. Yeah, they do have 11pm curfew and it was 10:55 or similar.

1 hour ago, AmelieCharlotte said:

I've just gotten home & will edit & upload my photos later. The evening was amazing 🥰 and Mika outdid himself (like every-time really!) though I was sad that the Faraday cage & the new French songs didn't make an appearance... I think they actually ran out of time at the end (11pm, Sunday Rules!), as he ran out from behind the curtain, but the lights had already partially gone on & people were leaving (thinking that it had ended). We were waiting as he left in the car but he wasn't talking as he was resting his voice. Saving it for London no doubt 🙂

I was wondering that, or if he was just messing around! I was about to go back to my seat! I assumed it was a real ending though as the lights went back on and music was playing, which didn’t happen at the encore.

What a wonderful gig. The atmosphere was electric and it was truly the most fun I’ve probably ever had at a gig! I was on my own but made friends with the girl next to me (although the people on my other side, one remained seated the whole time and seemed like he was falling asleep, lol. Then they both left early). Mika has such wonderful stage presence and is such a showman, really gets the audience involved.

I do feel a bit sad for him that he feels he has to mostly play his old hits in the UK! It was 50% Life In Cartoon Motion, which I love but I also love his newer stuff! (No place in heaven Stan for life, I wish I had the confidence in 2015 to go to shows alone).
 

No songs from his new album at all, he dropped Bougez (with English lyrics? I need to find a video) entirely. I wonder if he felt it wasn’t going over well? Origin of love was a fab opener though. His one French song was Elle Me Dit which he almost apologised for singing. Also find that funny since there is an English version, although I think he said he dislikes it (and it changes the meaning of the song from being about his mum).

I get the lack of French in a UK show since we are mostly monolingual plebeians, but I wish he felt confident to bring out some more songs from MNIMH, NPIH, Origin etc and not like he was just a nostalgia act. But still, enormous fun and I hope he comes back soon!