Papillons de Nuit in St Laurent de Cuves, France 19/5/2013

The Mika show at Papillons de Nuit  festival was fantastic and very energetic. Mika didn’t look tired even though he had practically traveled around the world, he chatted a lot (but in French so I didn’t get the details) and did a good festival performance. The stage looked awesome. He was using the symbols we know but had added some bigger cubes with new pictures. The symbols were lightened with different colours and simple and clear enough for the large festival stage. I loved seeing how the stage glowed pink during Popular and warm golden during We Are Golden. The symbols were glowing pink, red, blue, yellow and turquoise during the whole show. I was near the stage but I’m sure it looked fab even from far away.

The confetti in the end fitted perfectly once again and made the show a huge party, often so appropriate for the festival atmosphere. This time my favourite songs were Popular, Lola and Drunk. Together with the biggest hits all the high-energy songs are always suitable for festivals as well as Karen and Underwater as the audience can easily sing along.

I forgot the rain and the mud and my wet clothes as soon as Mika started his performance and in the end the muddy ground was turned to a colorful confetti field. However, I knew it was wet and slippery and was a bit worried Mika would have an idea to come down from the stage and he did in the end and fell down. The security was quickly offering him help to escort him back to the stage but after looking embarrassed for a second he showed his stubborn face and pushed them away and continued his way to greet the audience. Of course he did!

The majority of the people probably didn’t totally see what happened except the worried looking front row and he seemed to be fine in a short moment, went back to the stage after greeting people and ended the show cheerfully jumping down from the piano to Tim’s arms. Both Mika and the band seemed to be happy the show went well and entertained the audience hugging and carrying each other to the backstage. So much fun, we were all smiling after the show and started to climb out from the muddy festival area, everyone’s shoes ruined.

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