Indochina Documentary: Nicola Sirkis’ Bitter Memories and Musical Revolution

Broadcast this Friday April 19, 2024 at 9:10 pm on France 3, the documentary Indochina, musical revolution, following the long career of the group, which in the 90s was the target of a parody of the Inconnue, which became a cult. A particularly bitter memory for singer Nicola Sirkis.

In 1981, the audience at the venue in Paris Le Rose Bonbon saw a rock group that would shake up the French musical landscape: Indochine. 40 years later, in 2021, this same band, since reworked, but still led by the incredible director Nicolas Sirkis, is breaking an attendance record Stade de France, for all events together, by bringing together 97,036 spectators at the launch of their journey Central Tower . A high for four decades of existence made successful and also, a descent into hell in the 90s Laurent Delahousse (who revealed why he didn’t give his opinion on air) in an interesting documentary, Indochina, musical revolution, broadcast this Friday April 19, 2024 at 9:10 pm on France 3.

“It was still expensive to pay”: Nicola Sirkis talks about her feelings about the hit comedy The Unknowns, Isabelle has blue eyes

In the 80s, Indochine revolutionized French rock with titles like The Adventurer, sold around 500,000 copies. This was the start of the group’s steady rise with a string of successes – 3rd species, Canary Bay etc Three nights a week – on your mind. In the decade that followed, the horizon darkened for the group, considered out of fashion by the journalists of the time. Criticizing Nicola Sirkis “Don’t forget and don’t regret”. Record sales plummeted and mockery ran rampant. The band is even designed by the Unknowns in their satirical song Isabel has blue eyes, exit in 1990. The singer has particularly bitter memories of him. “Regarding the Unknowns news, the most violent thing was that my brother Stéphane’s wife had just given birth. As it got worse, she had to be taken to the hospital. During this time I stayed at his house and there was a rerun of this thing (the parody of The Unknowns, editor’s note) that I had never seen. And I said to myself ‘damn’ so he (Stéphane Sirkis, editor’s note) suffers because he doesn’t know if his daughter is going to make it and half of France doesn’t give a damn to us. I told myself it was still a high price to pay, “he recalls in the France 3 documentary.

The death of Stéphane Sirkis, who “injustice” for his brother Nicola

Among the challenges that Indochina had to overcome in the 90s, was its captaincy Nicola Sirkis (who boasted a lot about her daughter) had to face the most terrible: the loss of a loved one. Indeed, in February 1999, his twin brother Stéphane was carried away by his drug addiction. A particularly painful program for the band director as he reveals in the program: “I found it so unfair. And at the same time we can’t say much when we are trying to get someone out of their addiction and see that they don’t want it… it’s either them or us. So at a certain point the choice is made in an unpredictable way“. Never, the singer (who said he was no longer a believer since the accident) embarking on a 45-date tour for his album dance club. And every evening on stage, he pays tribute to his late brother, without emotion…