Mylène Farmer fifth tour

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Mylène Farmer fifth tour
Image:Mylène_Farmer_fifth_tour.jpg
European tour by Mylène Farmer
Supporting album New album of Mylène Farmer
Start date May 2, 2009
End date September 19, 2009
Shows 29 (for the moment)
Mylène Farmer tour chronology
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
(2006)
Mylène Farmer fifth tour
(2009)

From May 2, 2009, the French singer Mylène Farmer will begin a tour through France, Belgium and Switzerland. It will be her fifth tour and will support her seventh studio album. For the first time this tour will lead the singer through stadiums and will, unlike her 2006 tour, feature a transportable stage.

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[edit] Background

Since the announcement of Farmer's seventh studio album, the media said that a tour was scheduled for 2009 to support this album.[1]

About this new concert, Farmer explained in an interview : "I am back on stage because I'm bored. I need to reinvent my life. (...) I want to feel dizzy again."[2] [3] She announced that the tour will be carried out throughout France and that the show will be grandiose.[4]

A concert at the Stade de France, Paris, was first announced for September 12, 2009 (which is also the singer's date of birthday), then another concert on September 4 at the stadium of Geneva. Tickets for both concerts were put on sale from March 28, 2008.[5] [6] [7] A second concert at the Stade de France, for September 11 was later announced on March 29 and the tickets were put on sale from April 1, 2008.[8] In April, a concert was added in Brussels for September 19.[9] [10] Other concerts are announced in the media at present, such as Bordeaux, but are not officially confirmed.[11] [12] A concert at the Bollaert stadium in Lens was announced as being official [13] then was denied in the media,[14] [15] but the final decision, the cancellation, that should have been known on May 14,[16] [17] was published on May 21, 2008. On May 15, four concerts were officially announced: two in Nantes and two in Rouen for May 2009. The following day, the record label Polydor confirmed them and added eleven dates scheduled in various cities (Nice, Clermont-Ferrand, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Dijon, Lyon).[18] On May 23, three new dates were added : May 6 (Clermont-Ferrand), May 26 (Nantes) and June 9, (Dijon).

A rumor went around on the internet about a participation of Emma Daumas in the concerts.[19]

For the concert in Geneva, the technical problems relating to the enormity of the structures have been resolved (the stadium of Geneva has a smaller capacity than the Stade de France, Paris).[20]

Various media revealed that the stage should have been made out of glass,[21] installed more than three metres above the ground.[22] However, these details about stage design were denied by her creative producer Thierry Suc.[23] He also explained that there will be some differences between shows in stadiums and those in hall.[24]

Jean-Paul Gaultier confirmed to be the fashion designer for this tour.

Some rumors that the opening act will be "California" and Mylene will fly to the stage by helicopter.

[edit] Controversy

The poster of the tour, first revealed on the Internet and then sticked up in Paris, generated a controversy. Indeed, on this poster, Farmer is lying on the ground, with distraught eyes, as if she had been thrown through a window. As a result, some media criticized this poster, that might suggest a suicide.[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] Other media believed that it refers to a murder or a rape, or perhaps a message of farewell from the singer to her public.[30] Others saw it as a promotional strategy.[31] It was the subject of debate among Farmer's fans and critics on the Internet.[32]

[edit] Commercial success

A huge rush took place on sites purchasing tickets, such as Fnac,[33] with over 25,000 connections per minute.[34] Some angry Internet users expressed their dissatisfaction about this problem.[35] The same thing happened on April 1 for the second concert at the Stade de France.[36] According to Michael Drieberg, the director of Live Music, the concert at Geneva is the most quickly sold of all time in Switzerland.[37] [38]

The concert of September 12 (80,000 places)[39] was sold out in two hours only.[40] [41] To date, it is a record.[42] About 17,000 tickets were sold in two hours for the first concert in Geneva, which is also a record,[43] and this show (34,000 places)[44] was more or less sold out after one week.[45] The second concert at the Stade de France was was sold out in a very short time[46] [47] (one hour and a quarter)[48] which is a record.[49] For the concert scheduled in Brussels, many people slept in the street, in front of the stores selling the tickets to be sure to get a place.[50] Therefore, 30,000 tickets were also sold quickly.[51] For the concert at the Palais Nikaia, the Fnac store has been raided by the fans before the opening hours, on May 23, and ⅔ of the tickets were sold on the day.[52] The same day, the first two concerts in Nantes were announced as sold out.[53] On May 26, the concerts in Marseille were almost sold out and, according to the French newspaper La Provence, the concert tour could yield about 9,5 millions euros.[54] On 27 May, Universal Music published a press release about exceptional sales of tickets for the concert : 100,000 places sold in one day on Friday, May 23, 2008, which is a record.[55]

Many tickets were sold extremely expensive through unofficial ways.[56] As a result, many disgruntled fans signed a petition on the Internet to denounce these abuses.[57] [58] [59] [60]

[edit] Tour dates

Date City Country Venue Tickets available since Comment Refs
May 2, 2009 Nice France Palais Nikaia May 23, 2008 [61] [62] [63]
May 3, 2009 Nice France Palais Nikaia June 11, 2008 [64]
May 5, 2009 Clermont-Ferrand France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [65]
May 6, 2009 Clermont-Ferrand France Zénith May 23, 2008
May 9, 2009 Marseille France Dôme de Marseille May 23, 2008 [66] [67]
May 10, 2009 Marseille France Dôme de Marseille May 23, 2008 [66] [67]
May 12, 2009 Marseille France Dôme de Marseille June 6, 2008
May 15, 2009 Toulouse France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [68]
May 16, 2009 Toulouse France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [68]
May 18, 2009 Toulouse France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [68]
May 23, 2009 Nantes France Zénith May 23, 2008 Sold out [61] [65]
May 24, 2009 Nantes France Zénith May 23, 2008 Sold out [61] [65]
May 26, 2009 Nantes France Zénith May 23, 2008 [53]
May 30, 2009 Rouen France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [69]
May 31, 2009 Rouen France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [69]
June 2, 2009 Rouen France Zénith May 27, 2008
June 5, 2009 Strasbourg France Zénith May 23, 2008 [61] [65]
June 6, 2009 Strasbourg France Zénith June 10, 2008 [70]
June 8, 2009 Dijon France Zénith May 23, 2008 Sold out [61] [71]
June 9, 2009 Dijon France Zénith May 23, 2008 [72]
June 12, 2009 Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier May 23, 2008 [61] [65]
June 13, 2009 Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier May 23, 2008 [61] [65]
June 19, 2009 Douai France Gayant Expo June 27, 2008 [73]
June 20, 2009 Douai France Gayant Expo June 27, 2008
September 4, 2009 Geneva Switzerland Stade de Genève March 28, 2008 [74]
September 5, 2009 Geneva Switzerland Stade de Genève April 7, 2008 [75] [76] [77]
September 11, 2009 Paris France Stade de France April 1, 2008 Sold out (2 hours) [78] [79] [80]
September 12, 2009 Paris France Stade de France March 28, 2008 Sold out (1 hour ¼) [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87]
September 19, 2009 Brussels Belgium King Baudouin Stadium April 26, 2008 [88] [89]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

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