FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 here you are (but if anybody can do better than this, it's welcome... It quite difficult to translate those over-long sentences ). but basically it says: Coming from nowhere and from everywhere at the same time, he appears suddenly without a warning, a small suitcase in the hand. His passport: a pop kaleidoscope mixing up cheerfully different countries and continents with, used as a buffer, millions of small notes of music. Particularity to point out: this “boy who knew too much” deals with childhood and adolescence in (loss of) balance on his thread, head in stars and heart beating in Technicolor. Favourite place of residence: stages. Every stages, wide or small, with or without red curtains, the place where everything happens, the place to be. City after city, gig after gig, night after night, Mika puts on and gives himself whitout compting the costs, happy to find an imaginary landscape back, continually re sculpted and crowded with figures coming straight from his overflowing imagination. It’s there, and only there, that meet wandering Big girls, a Toy Boy re inveted by his puppeteer, a miraculous saver (“Dr John”), crazy young ladies (code name: lollipop), Lewis Carroll and Tim Burtons’ spiritual and musical daughters, and even a boy with a Joyful melancholy, Billy Brown, lunar and solar at the same time. In this mental country with wide opened frontiers, everything becomes possible and nothing is forbidden. We move from pop to rock, from childhood to adolescence and adulthood, from laughter to tears, from colour to black and white. All of it in a round trip and without any visa. We proclaim there our own independence (“We are Golden”) and we even dance on a break up melody (“Rain”) trough the only grace of the narrator who sublimates his own story. And as a narrator, Mika lives on stage his “second life” as a parallel life from which he writes and forms the chapters, page after page, in a giant book right in front of our eyes. The crossing of the mirror only begins, the countdown is activated, and it’s time, tonight, to enter in the history… Ohhh ! you star! thanks a lot Someone read this out to me , but its great to see it again:thumb_yello: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim_ Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Thank you Nanou! Phoe, my basic school French is even worse than I thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanou Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Thank you Nanou! Phoe, my basic school French is even worse than I thought If this can compfort you, it's even hard to follow when you're french mothertongued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pufpuf Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 I SWEAR I'll buy this book if I got the chance! Thank u a lot Freddie for that thread! OMG what i'm gonna do?! now i've seen these pics i'd like to have that book in my hands! I wish they sold it on mikasounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine64 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 If this can compfort you, it's even hard to follow when you're french mothertongued Thank you so much Nanou !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zak110695 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Is this book available to purchase online? Like in eBay, Amazon or Mikasounds.com? And if it isms can u please post the link here? Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 (edited) I have seen him a few times too. I haven't looked at what kind of camera he has, he is always too cute, trying not to disturb people Or maybe he doesn't want anyone to notice him... Those other photographers, they don't care if they stand in front of people he had a professional camera in belfast as well. there he was sitting right in front of me - i almost leaned my hands with my camera on his head cause i didn't see him at first! and someone told me they saw that later the security guys sent him away when he kept taking pix from the media pit after the other photographers had left - seems like they didn't know who he was. thanx for the translation nanou! Edited May 18, 2010 by mellody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Is this book available to purchase online? Like in eBay, Amazon or Mikasounds.com? And if it isms can u please post the link here? Thx! No, Zak, it's not for sale online, only available at gigs... unless someone is auctioning it on ebay -- you'd just have to do a search on ebay to see if you can find it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 aw no, why must it be only at gigs That actually sucks. Two years saving to get to one gig, and i still miss out Guess I'm on ebay patrol. *salutes, prays to mikasounds to put this book online and goes to patrol e-bay* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 aw no, why must it be only at gigs That actually sucks. Two years saving to get to one gig, and i still miss out Guess I'm on ebay patrol. *salutes, prays to mikasounds to put this book online and goes to patrol e-bay* Hmmmm yeh havent seen one on ebay either .. mikasounds for sure could be the way apart from the tour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico_collard Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I see Mika wants to be like Jimmy! I love these pics of the band aw no, why must it be only at gigs That actually sucks. Two years saving to get to one gig, and i still miss out Guess I'm on ebay patrol. *salutes, prays to mikasounds to put this book online and goes to patrol e-bay* I'll tell you what... If Mika comes back soon and they have these tour books there, I'll buy you one, cause I owe you for doing the flag for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hmmmm yeh havent seen one on ebay either .. mikasounds for sure could be the way apart from the tour lets hope. or pray. i'll opt for praying. *prays to mikasounds again* I'll tell you what... If Mika comes back soon and they have these tour books there, I'll buy you one, cause I owe you for doing the flag for us Aw! Teegs, you're such a sweetie. I get all sad at the idea of you all seeing Mika in Oz without me though that boy better come here. Did I tell you, i've finally got a decent afterschool job? I've saved enough for an airfare to sydney (methinks i need to save a bit faster..) so if Mika doesn't come to NZ, i won't be able to afford a Gig in Oz but i'll still be able to fly to the airport and kick his butt Oh, dear, that flag that never was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hmmmm shame we cant get a pile to give away ... hmmmmmm <plots> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hmmmm shame we cant get a pile to give away ... hmmmmmm <plots> I still have the note from you that came in the We Are Golden Shirt I won, Freddie Its stuck on my wall.. and that shirt was MASSIVE! me and one of my friends were walking around camp wearing it.. as in, we both fit into it at the same time. Each put a head through the arms, and vala! i think i have a pic somewhere.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I still have the note from you that came in the We Are Golden Shirt I won, Freddie Its stuck on my wall.. and that shirt was MASSIVE! me and one of my friends were walking around camp wearing it.. as in, we both fit into it at the same time. Each put a head through the arms, and vala! i think i have a pic somewhere.. I would LOVE to see that! And hmmm... getting a pile of books to give away? There's an idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDIESDOUBLE Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 I would LOVE to see that! And hmmm... getting a pile of books to give away? There's an idea... Yeh .. one for tommorow .. maybes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mici Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 (edited) This programme / tour book needs it own thread me thinks ! Thanks to Marly for taking all the pictures WOW!!!! It's gorgeous, really really beautiful book, and i can't wait to have my copy arriving to me (thanks to a wonderful friend ) This is another reason why i appreciate Mika so much, apart from his music, everything surrounding it is so thoughtfully and beautifully done. Thanks FD for this thread, the tour Book surely deserves its own thread. Edited May 18, 2010 by Mici Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eloise.shaw Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I Seriously want one! NEED ONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellody Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 i'm quite sure they have some left, dunno what it was like in portugal, but at the merch stand in luxemburg, there were several more boxes with tour books, although i was one of the last few to buy something there. and they'd be stupid if they didn't try to sell them somewhere, either at the gigs or online, or both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Yeah they should really sell them online because a lot of these pics were obviously taken on the UK/Ireland tour so it would be just as meaningful for people who saw those shows even if they missed the European tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Angel Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Fortune... i cant believe that! dont think i remember seeing that book in Denmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightbird Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Fortune... i cant believe that! dont think i remember seeing that book in Denmark They started selling them in France - Paris if i remember that right. That's where i bought mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Angel Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 They started selling them in France - Paris if i remember that right. That's where i bought mine. aaaahhhh that explains why! one of the pics reminds me of one of the pics i saw Mika got taken in KB hallen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmbm Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Mika in a tank top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherol Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Wow, that book is lovely! Thanks for posting the photos! I do hope they put them online, I'd love to have one of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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