Orange with 6Medias, published on Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 11:20 a.m.
The Indochine group will perform on stage this Saturday, May 29 in front of 5,000 people as part of a major test concert. The singer of the group, Nicola Sirkis, confided in Paris Match on this event which caused much ink to flow.
Very important step for the world of music this Saturday, May 29th.
The Indochine group will perform in front of 5,000 spectators at the AccorHotel Arena (Paris) as part of a major test concert. This event, organized in partnership with the AP-HP, aims to organize a return to (almost) normal for live concerts, a sector more than devastated since the start of the health crisis.
This Saturday, a few hours before the show, Nicola Sirkis, the singer of the group, confided in our colleagues from Paris Match. While the event caused a lot of ink to flow, he wanted to make several updates. “You have to understand that this is not a classical Indochina concert but above all a scientific experiment.“, first details the singer.”Within the framework of this concert there are two populations tested and followed: 5,000 people who attend the concert. And 2,500 who stay at home. Then all these people will live normally for a week. And will be tested again at the end of this week. And there we will see how the virus circulated. ”
According to Nicola Sirkis, the drastic conditions of the concert did not discourage the participants. “There were nearly 200,000 connections to the site! So no, the public is not discouraged. Unfortunately, I believe that testing is going to be the norm for the next few years, we have to admit it. Afterwards, yes, I hear that these sanitary conditions are drastic. I myself almost relaxed several times, when I was told that we had to put the crash barriers 5 meters from the stage “, he continues with Paris Match, adding that the age of the participants – “I would have liked to go at least to people of 50 years, they (the AP-HP) decided on 45 finally” – had also been discussed.
“Indochina takes nothing”
The cost of the concert, for which a budget of more than one million euros would have been necessary, was also at the heart of the debates. “You need lights, a sound system for people to hear and see something”, pleads Nicola Sirkis. “Even if the rental of the room at the AccorHotel Arena is offered, technical and security maintenance is expensive, as are all the antigenic tests carried out since Wednesday, which are not free. And it is not up to health insurance to cover the cost. The technicians, the roadies, the members of the security are paid, on the other hand Indochine does not take anything! “, confides the singer, who ensures himself financing part of the concert “up to 35,000 euros “.
“To see the conspirators rise up against this concert is pitiful!”
Anyway, in the interview, the singer reveals an undisguised annoyance: “I did not expect such controversies, to see my photo in certain media, parasitized by anti-vaccines, anti-everything, those who say ‘that the Indochina concert does not fill’. To see the conspirators rise up against this concert is pitiful! We are trying to make things happen, to move forward towards a future that will allow us to rediscover the beautiful moments from before and we get slaps in the face. Unfortunately, it is a bit like France. “ The message got through.
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