It was Indochine who got the ball rolling. While Nicola Sirkis’ group has planned a tour of the festival for the summer of 2023, one date posed a problem: Indochine will play Les Déferlantes, an event long based in Argelès-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales, then in Céret , and that this year he was transferred to another city.
This is Perpignan which was announced this weekend as a new location for the festival. A decision that immediately made Indochina react. The group does not hesitate: if Les Déferlantes remain in the city led since 2020 by Louis Alliot, vice president of the National Gathering, they will not play.
Who said rock isn’t busier these days? When you know the slightest Indochine, you know that the group makes no secret of its political positioning on the left and that it has always been fiercely anti-FN. In 2017, through the song A French summerIndochina was particularly concerned about the increase in far-right talk as the presidential election approached.
After Indochina, Louise Attaque opposes the detention of the Déferlantes in a RN city
Contacted by The independentthe director of Les Déferlantes let it be known that he was taking “act of their decision to condition their arrival” without providing further details on a future decision.
This Tuesday, January 10, it’s the group’s turn Luisa Attack who sided with Indochine and also let it be known that he would not play, if the festival is held in RN city. The beginning of a longer list? Will Lomepal, Bigflo and Oli, Apple or even Shaka Ponk, have the courage to oppose the holding of the festival in Perpignan?
On rtl extensionMayor Louis Alliot described Indochina as a group “sectarian and discriminatory”which is cheeky coming from a party cadre that does not shine with its tolerance and respect for differences, adding, however, that he is in no way responsible for this change, and that he is only the “ site manager where the event will take place.
The Occitanie Region has indicated that in the event of a trip to Perpignan, it would lower the amount of grants allocated to the festival. Currently, Les Déferlantes receives more than 200,000 euros.
Photo credit: Indochine, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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