2024 - Mika @ Palais des congrès, Tours, France, 13 March - REPORTS / VIDS / PICS

[Juless]

For this ACT date, Mika stops in a tiny venue in Tours (around 2,000 seats) promising it to be a really intimate show !

I can't wait to see your reports!! 

 

(I allowed myself to create the topic so if it's a problem, don't hesitate to delete it!)

[Paoletta]

21 hours ago, Juless said:

For this ACT date, Mika stops in a tiny venue in Tours (around 2,000 seats) promising it to be a really intimate show !

I can't wait to see your reports!! 

 

(I allowed myself to create the topic so if it's a problem, don't hesitate to delete it!)

[Kumazzz]

PRESS

 

La Nouvelle République

https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/tours/tours-mika-en-grande-forme-pour-son-concert

Publié le 14/03/2024

 

Tours : Mika en grande forme pour son concert

 

Le Vinci était plein à craquer, mercredi 13 mars 2024, pour accueillir Mika, le petit prince de la pop, le « zébulon ».

Il a lancé le 1^er mars dernier « Apocalypse Tour », une tournée de 17 dates en France, avant de poursuivre à Bruxelles, Londres, Berlin et de terminer à Dublin. Une tournée qui accompagne la sortie de l’album Que ta tête fleurisse toujours (1).

Les Tourangeaux (et bien d’autres) ont eu la chance de le voir ou le revoir (son dernier passage à Tours était en janvier 2020) dans un spectacle haut en couleur, comme l’artiste affectionne.

 

Un Mika en pleine forme

Ils ont eu peur, ces fans, après l’annulation du concert de Brest pour cause de grippe. Mais Mika a retrouvé la forme, son énergie dévorante et sa générosité. Il ne s’est pas ménagé, puisant dans ses ressources physiques pour régaler un public conquis, lui rendant bien.

Un voyage psychédélique

Les 2.000 spectateurs du Vinci ont eu la chance d’accompagner Mika dans un véritable voyage psychédélique, avec des multiples références à Peter Pan ou Alice au pays des merveilles… Même le piano blanc a un plateau en forme de pied.

Au début du concert, le chanteur sort d’une cage à oiseau géante, habillé tout de rouge en déployant tel un ange, d’imposantes ailes, sur un foudroyant Bougez, et l’écran géant, derrière lui, fait défiler des vidéos imaginaires tout au long du spectacle.

 

De « Relax » à « Love Today »

Les spectateurs trouvent le rythme dès le début et comme dans un tourbillon, chauffés à blanc, reprennent avec lui ses titres emblématiques Relax, Elle me dit, Grace Kelly, Big girl, Love Today… ainsi qu’un hommage à sa reine Jane Birkin.

Sans oublier l’émouvant C’est la vie, une pensée lucide sur la vieillesse. Si le corps va vers la terre, la tête et le cœur doivent aller vers le ciel, dit-il.

« Un théâtre élégant ici à Tours »

Tout au long du show Mika, qui a fait son retour comme coach dans la saison 2024 de The Voice, s’exprime dans un Français parfait.

« Nous sommes dans un théâtre élégant ici à Tours… et tout là-haut il y a les anges au paradis », dit-il, en pointant du doigt les spectateurs du fond.

L’espace de deux heures, on oublie l’actualité morose et on se laisse emmener dans un monde féerique et une explosion de couleurs. C’est beau, c’est bon, c’est puissant !

 

(1) Le 1^er décembre 2023 paraissait l’album Que ta tête fleurisse toujours, chanté entièrement en Français. Le titre de l’album est un hommage à sa mère, décédée en février 2021. Cette phrase que lui a soufflée sa mère, son dernier message avant de partir.

 

Google translator

Spoiler

 

Tours: Mika in great shape for his concert

 

The Vinci was full to bursting on Wednesday March 13, 2024, to welcome Mika, the little prince of pop, the “zebulon”.

On March 1, he launched the “Apocalypse Tour”, a 17-date tour in France, before continuing in Brussels, London, Berlin and ending in Dublin. A tour which accompanies the release of the album Let your head always flower (1).

The Tourangeaux (and many others) had the chance to see or see him again (his last visit to Tours was in January 2020) in a colorful show, as the artist likes.

A Mika in great shape

 

They were scared, these fans, after the cancellation of the Brest concert due to flu. But Mika has regained his form, his devouring energy and his generosity. He did not spare himself, drawing on his physical resources to delight a won over audience, making him feel good.

 

A psychedelic journey

 

The 2,000 spectators at Vinci had the chance to accompany Mika on a true psychedelic journey, with multiple references to Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland... Even the white piano has a top in the shape of a foot.

At the start of the concert, the singer comes out of a giant bird cage, dressed all in red, spreading imposing wings like an angel, on a thunderous Move, and the giant screen, behind him, plays imaginary videos throughout the show.

From “Relax” to “Love Today”

 

The spectators find the rhythm from the start and, as if in a whirlwind, white-hot, take up with him his emblematic titles Relax, Elle me dit, Grace Kelly, Big girl, Love Today... as well as a tribute to his queen Jane Birkin.

Without forgetting the moving C’est la vie, a lucid thought on old age. If the body goes towards the earth, the head and the heart must go towards the sky, he says.

 

“An elegant theater here in Tours”

 

Throughout the show Mika, who returned as a coach in the 2024 season of The Voice, speaks in perfect French.

“We are in an elegant theater here in Tours… and up there are the angels in heaven,” he said, pointing to the spectators at the back.

For two hours, we forget the gloomy news and let ourselves be taken into a magical world and an explosion of colors. It’s beautiful, it’s good, it’s powerful!

(1) On December 1, 2023, the album That Your Head Always Flowers was released, sung entirely in French. The title of the album is a tribute to his mother, who died in February 2021. This sentence that his mother whispered to him, her last message before leaving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Valmont69]

13 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

PRESS

 

La Nouvelle République

https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/tours/tours-mika-en-grande-forme-pour-son-concert

Publié le 14/03/2024

 

Tours : Mika en grande forme pour son concert

 

Le Vinci était plein à craquer, mercredi 13 mars 2024, pour accueillir Mika, le petit prince de la pop, le « zébulon ».

Il a lancé le 1^er mars dernier « Apocalypse Tour », une tournée de 17 dates en France, avant de poursuivre à Bruxelles, Londres, Berlin et de terminer à Dublin. Une tournée qui accompagne la sortie de l’album Que ta tête fleurisse toujours (1).

Les Tourangeaux (et bien d’autres) ont eu la chance de le voir ou le revoir (son dernier passage à Tours était en janvier 2020) dans un spectacle haut en couleur, comme l’artiste affectionne.

 

Un Mika en pleine forme

Ils ont eu peur, ces fans, après l’annulation du concert de Brest pour cause de grippe. Mais Mika a retrouvé la forme, son énergie dévorante et sa générosité. Il ne s’est pas ménagé, puisant dans ses ressources physiques pour régaler un public conquis, lui rendant bien.

Un voyage psychédélique

Les 2.000 spectateurs du Vinci ont eu la chance d’accompagner Mika dans un véritable voyage psychédélique, avec des multiples références à Peter Pan ou Alice au pays des merveilles… Même le piano blanc a un plateau en forme de pied.

Au début du concert, le chanteur sort d’une cage à oiseau géante, habillé tout de rouge en déployant tel un ange, d’imposantes ailes, sur un foudroyant Bougez, et l’écran géant, derrière lui, fait défiler des vidéos imaginaires tout au long du spectacle.

 

De « Relax » à « Love Today »

Les spectateurs trouvent le rythme dès le début et comme dans un tourbillon, chauffés à blanc, reprennent avec lui ses titres emblématiques Relax, Elle me dit, Grace Kelly, Big girl, Love Today… ainsi qu’un hommage à sa reine Jane Birkin.

Sans oublier l’émouvant C’est la vie, une pensée lucide sur la vieillesse. Si le corps va vers la terre, la tête et le cœur doivent aller vers le ciel, dit-il.

« Un théâtre élégant ici à Tours »

Tout au long du show Mika, qui a fait son retour comme coach dans la saison 2024 de The Voice, s’exprime dans un Français parfait.

« Nous sommes dans un théâtre élégant ici à Tours… et tout là-haut il y a les anges au paradis », dit-il, en pointant du doigt les spectateurs du fond.

L’espace de deux heures, on oublie l’actualité morose et on se laisse emmener dans un monde féerique et une explosion de couleurs. C’est beau, c’est bon, c’est puissant !

 

(1) Le 1^er décembre 2023 paraissait l’album Que ta tête fleurisse toujours, chanté entièrement en Français. Le titre de l’album est un hommage à sa mère, décédée en février 2021. Cette phrase que lui a soufflée sa mère, son dernier message avant de partir.

 

Google translator

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Tours: Mika in great shape for his concert

 

The Vinci was full to bursting on Wednesday March 13, 2024, to welcome Mika, the little prince of pop, the “zebulon”.

On March 1, he launched the “Apocalypse Tour”, a 17-date tour in France, before continuing in Brussels, London, Berlin and ending in Dublin. A tour which accompanies the release of the album Let your head always flower (1).

The Tourangeaux (and many others) had the chance to see or see him again (his last visit to Tours was in January 2020) in a colorful show, as the artist likes.

A Mika in great shape

 

They were scared, these fans, after the cancellation of the Brest concert due to flu. But Mika has regained his form, his devouring energy and his generosity. He did not spare himself, drawing on his physical resources to delight a won over audience, making him feel good.

 

A psychedelic journey

 

The 2,000 spectators at Vinci had the chance to accompany Mika on a true psychedelic journey, with multiple references to Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland... Even the white piano has a top in the shape of a foot.

At the start of the concert, the singer comes out of a giant bird cage, dressed all in red, spreading imposing wings like an angel, on a thunderous Move, and the giant screen, behind him, plays imaginary videos throughout the show.

From “Relax” to “Love Today”

 

The spectators find the rhythm from the start and, as if in a whirlwind, white-hot, take up with him his emblematic titles Relax, Elle me dit, Grace Kelly, Big girl, Love Today... as well as a tribute to his queen Jane Birkin.

Without forgetting the moving C’est la vie, a lucid thought on old age. If the body goes towards the earth, the head and the heart must go towards the sky, he says.

 

“An elegant theater here in Tours”

 

Throughout the show Mika, who returned as a coach in the 2024 season of The Voice, speaks in perfect French.

“We are in an elegant theater here in Tours… and up there are the angels in heaven,” he said, pointing to the spectators at the back.

For two hours, we forget the gloomy news and let ourselves be taken into a magical world and an explosion of colors. It’s beautiful, it’s good, it’s powerful!

(1) On December 1, 2023, the album That Your Head Always Flowers was released, sung entirely in French. The title of the album is a tribute to his mother, who died in February 2021. This sentence that his mother whispered to him, her last message before leaving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Thanks @Kumazzz!! ❤️ I’ll follow you here, I’m looking for GK 🤩🤩🤩, I have my videos, but with my Apple , and above all suddenly I had to stop filming because he came towards me and made a mess with my hair, while singing,  after I was like: 

[Valmont69]

i found here a wonderful chat about romantic songs here, I don’t know if it’s not the first time he said it, but the video is top:

 

 

[Mikasister]

Mika IG stories 

[toyboy]

5 hours ago, Valmont69 said:

i found here a wonderful chat about romantic songs here, I don’t know if it’s not the first time he said it, but the video is top:

 

 

Could someone maybe translate what he is saying? Thank you so much!🩷

[Valmont69]

4 hours ago, toyboy said:

Could someone maybe translate what he is saying? Thank you so much!🩷

 I’ll try Word by word later, if someone is faster than me, feel free 🤩.

I’ve just arrived in Annecy, I need a couple of hours.

[carafon]

Edited March 15 by carafon

[CharlotteL]

7 hours ago, toyboy said:

Could someone maybe translate what he is saying? Thank you so much!🩷

It's more or less the same to what he's said before, that his family is very expressive and when he had friends over they always thought they were fighting. And that might explain why he feels that if you want to write a real love song you have to write a very mean song.

"If you write an extremely romantic song it's either because you've lost love. Or because you're searching for love you don't have. Which means imaginary love is always something more pure for me in songs. So how do you express love if you know there's a problem but you really want it to last and you don't want it to end. Well, you write a mean love song".

[mellody]

27 minutes ago, CharlotteL said:

So how do you express love if you know there's a problem but you really want it to last and you don't want it to end. Well, you write a mean love song

 

I know he keeps saying that, but it still doesn't make any more sense to me. Especially not with the reason he gives, that they were / are very expressive in his family. Big gestures, big drama, standing on the table (or on stage) and shouting out your worries, totally makes sense. But why be mean? Why not just use the same intensity to shout out your love and your happiness? If you take the lyrics of MAEP, with his explanation it makes sense that he gets jealous and says "is there another guy? I'm not on the list anymore, I think it's over". But what, Mika can use harsh words because it was usual in his family, but if Andy does it, he gets called a monster? Maybe there's something that gets lost in translation for me, or Mika forgets to mention a few details that would explain it - which is ok of course, he is already VERY open about this... just if he tries to justify being mean by growing up in a family that often shouted at each other, he can't expect me to follow his argumentation.  Being expressive / emotional and being mean are 2 different things for me.

[CharlotteL]

49 minutes ago, mellody said:

just if he tries to justify being mean by growing up in a family that often shouted at each other, he can't expect me to follow his argumentation.

Yes, I mean I'm absolutely with you there

I think he's just trying to explain that even though it's a mean song, it's also a love song. A realistic love song because real love isn't without obstacles. And that the way he's been taught to communicate about problems is by being intense and loud but it doesn't mean he respects or loves the person any less. I'd assume he allows the other person to respond in the same way and leaves out quite a few details as you said from the other side of the argument. After all the song is from his perspective and about his insecurities.

[carafon]

28 minutes ago, CharlotteL said:

Yes, I mean I'm absolutely with you there

I think he's just trying to explain that even though it's a mean song, it's also a love song. A realistic love song because real love isn't without obstacles. And that the way he's been taught to communicate about problems is by being intense and loud but it doesn't mean he respects or loves the person any less. I'd assume he allows the other person to respond in the same way and leaves out quite a few details as you said from the other side of the argument. After all the song is from his perspective and about his insecurities.

I don't feel like this song is that mean.

When he talked about it in interwiews before the album was released , I imagined something much more rude.

He's describing a couple argument , but we can feel that he's still hoping that there is no other guy in Greece ....

 

Edited March 15 by carafon

[mellody]

23 minutes ago, CharlotteL said:

Yes, I mean I'm absolutely with you there

I think he's just trying to explain that even though it's a mean song, it's also a love song. A realistic love song because real love isn't without obstacles. And that the way he's been taught to communicate about problems is by being intense and loud but it doesn't mean he respects or loves the person any less. I'd assume he allows the other person to respond in the same way and leaves out quite a few details as you said from the other side of the argument. After all the song is from his perspective and about his insecurities.

 

Yes, absolutely - and I also totally understand why he might have trouble saying 'I love you', with all that he's been through in his life. Even just looking at the lyrics of JSQJT it becomes clear (just there he says it anyway, that song is intense, full of love, AND well, idk if "mean", but very honest at least). But maybe he does indeed refer to being intense and loud and to carrying this out in the open rather than referring to being mean -  because Andy is very modest and quiet, and so it might rather be a "I put this on the album & sing it at gigs, to tell you that I love you, because that's my way of saying it, even if you'd prefer I kept it more private". 

 

Actually I'm much looking forward to the gigs where he talks English, curious to hear what he'll carry over with him, as usually he's much more open in French. Maybe it's like he said at one of the shows, that he's practising in French what to say in English (to Andy... but if Andy only is at the London gig next, Mika will have a few more gigs to practise before that. ).

[carafon]

[Valmont69]

3 hours ago, mellody said:

 

I know he keeps saying that, but it still doesn't make any more sense to me. Especially not with the reason he gives, that they were / are very expressive in his family. Big gestures, big drama, standing on the table (or on stage) and shouting out your worries, totally makes sense. But why be mean? Why not just use the same intensity to shout out your love and your happiness? If you take the lyrics of MAEP, with his explanation it makes sense that he gets jealous and says "is there another guy? I'm not on the list anymore, I think it's over". But what, Mika can use harsh words because it was usual in his family, but if Andy does it, he gets called a monster? Maybe there's something that gets lost in translation for me, or Mika forgets to mention a few details that would explain it - which is ok of course, he is already VERY open about this... just if he tries to justify being mean by growing up in a family that often shouted at each other, he can't expect me to follow his argumentation.  Being expressive / emotional and being mean are 2 different things for me.

 He uses the word “méchante”, which means bad, also mean of course, but for the storytelling of the song, I interpreted what he said at Tours, and maybe also in some other venues, that you can be expressive with a song telling about the very sad moment when one lover, in this case not Mika, says I need to leave you now. The badness is in the fact that you remember to the person of the title that: ok now we are together, but I want to tell everybody how much you hurt me when I saw that sad smile in your face. Sort of posthume love revenge, in that sense he feels bad, but he underlines too that a real love song must be cruel. 

 

 

Edited March 15 by Valmont69

[Kumazzz]

YouTube by @Happymika_by_celine

 

 

Bougez

 

 

Apocalypse Calypso

 

[carafon]

17 hours ago, Valmont69 said:

 He uses the word “méchante”, which means bad, also mean of course, but for the storytelling of the song, I interpreted what he said at Tours, and maybe also in some other venues, that you can be expressive with a song telling about the very sad moment when one lover, in this case not Mika, says I need to leave you now. 

 

 

In Lille he said that it's better to say "you s..." than to say nothing and leave....

Btw , I think the "J'dois m'en aller loin d'ici" line can also be interpreted as Mika saying to Paris he has to leave to save his relationship.

Edited March 16 by carafon

[JanaSK]

On 3/14/2024 at 10:01 PM, Kumazzz said:

PRESS

 

La Nouvelle République

https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/tours/tours-mika-en-grande-forme-pour-son-concert

Publié le 14/03/2024

 

On 3/14/2024 at 10:01 PM, Kumazzz said:

.. Even the white piano has a top in the shape of a foot.

 

🦶          🪽 

[mellody]

What is he saying in this video? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lFeuct_88/?igsh=MWt3YWRodjdkMWd1Yg== ... I think at one point he talks about the venue being seated, that he doesn't like it?

[carafon]

3 hours ago, mellody said:

What is he saying in this video? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lFeuct_88/?igsh=MWt3YWRodjdkMWd1Yg== ... I think at one point he talks about the venue being seated, that he doesn't like it?

He said that they had 8 trucks but as the venue is not a Zénith they were only able to install stuff from 6 of them

They are circus creatures . The good thing is that they who move whith a whole house . The bad thing is that when things are not as they are used to be they are in a bad mood

Before going on stage they are thinking that it's a shame that there are only seats because it's too pretty.

Everybody smells good , is well dressed instead of smelling bier ....this is disturbing!

But here after only 2 songs everybody is standing

Edited March 16 by carafon

[Hero]

9 hours ago, carafon said:

Btw , I think the "J'dois m'en aller loin d'ici" line can also be interpreted as Mika saying to Paris he has to leave to save his relationship.

That's exactly how I understand it too. 

[Happymika_by_celine]

Hello,

Here is my little contribution to the memories.

A PHENOMENAL show!!! 

Thank you sooooo much Mika! 

 

 

Talk About You 

 

 

Speech Talk About You 

 

 

Underwater 

 

 

Relax, Take it Easy 

 

 

Jane Birkin

 

 

Moi, Andy et Paris

 

 

Big Girl

 

 

Elle Me Dit 

 

 

Trente Secondes 

 

 

Grace Kelly 

 

 

C'est La Vie 

 

 

Happy Ending 

 

 

Love Today 

 

 

Any Another World 

 

 

We Are Golden 

 

 

Final

 

 

Have a nice evening and wonderful gigs to come! 

[vanessa-love-mika]

Loved this show! It was really cool to see it in such a little venue! 

 

Here's the playlist of the videos I took:

 

 

And some of my pics: 

 

 

 

 

 

[krysady]

Is this the setlist? 

 

 1. Bougez

 2. Talk About You

 3. Underwater

 4. Relax

 5. Jane Birkin

 6. Apocalypse Calypso

 7. Moi, Andy et Paris

 8. Big Girl

 9. EMD

10. 30Secondes

11. Grace Kelly

12. C'est La Vie

13. Happy Ending

14. Love Today

15. AOW

16. WAG