Well-crafted pop, energy, good sound and an audience on fire, Mika did not miss his shot on his very first visit to Quebec. He even made the stars sing.
After a visit originally scheduled for April 7 and postponed for reasons of illness, the British-American-Lebanese singer was on Wednesday at the Videotron Center.
There must have been, in a reduced configuration, around 6000 spectators.
“We never met and that’s the beauty of life. She offers us, like this evening, new things. My name is Mike. I have an important story to tell you. An old but urgent story about love and its dangers. Pay attention and listen carefully, ”he said, after finishing Lollipop, who opened his performance, standing on the piano.
During Origin of Love, Mika asked those seeing him in concert for the first time to let them know. A majority showed up loudly. “That makes me happy, you have no idea,” he said, laughing.
King Mika must have felt, at that moment, a huge wave of love.
And that wave, it surged with power, when he chased with the bomb Relax, Take it Easy. Everyone got up en bloc to dance and sing, while he did the same, shirtless, on stage.
He will make the stars sing when he asks spectators to turn on their cell phones during underwater.
Walkabout
The presence of the four musicians, on a raised section, sometimes isolated from a luminous frame, has a striking effect.
The 38-year-old singer, who walked the streets of the Old Capital on Tuesday, drew mostly from the opuses Life in Cartoon Motion and My Name is Michael Holbrook.
During the workout Big Love (You Are Beautiful)Mika, who had just put on a pink suit, will take a walk with the crowd in the floor and in the stands.
“The view is not bad here”, he launched, among the public, from the top of section 106, looking at the stage in front.
“I think we’re getting to know each other,” he added, referring to those who stuck to him a little too much during his getaway.
During She tells mehe warns the spectators, who are on fire, that they have no right to stop dancing.
He will lose himself completely in the story he wanted to tell before starting the Grace Kelly, Love Todaya cover of Tiny Love and We Are Golden, who put an end to this big evening of pop.
“There was Coachella and the Bell Center, but tonight is a big energy boost,” he admitted, sincere.
Accustomed to performing in smaller venues, Klô Pelgag did very well in the first part. She had big sound and her unconventional pop traveled particularly well in the Videotron Center.
The public reacted well to his short performance. The In the shade of the cypresses, Unami, Melamine and the raging finale of Where do you go when you sleep? where she jumped all over, went very well.
►Mika is performing on Thursday evening at the Théâtre du Palais municipal de La Baie in Saguenay.