The festival was to begin the return of rappers Bigflo and Oli after a year of media hiatus, but the coronavirus finally decided otherwise.
The very first edition of their Rose Festival in Toulouse joins the list of events canceled due to the pandemic, the two brothers announced in a statement on Facebook: “
In view of the obvious sanitary conditions, we regret to announce that the festival is postponed to September 2022. We have done our best to keep it going.
The place was ready, the artists were ready but we could not do it fully to the height of our ambition.
Thank you to all Toulouse residents for their support and enthusiasm.
If you only knew what we're up to ...
"
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The event was to take place on September 3 and 4 in Mondonville, a small town not far from Toulouse, the home town of the two brothers. They had announced the creation of the festival in September 2020, in a YouTube video: “
There is no big festival for young people with current music in the vicinity of Toulouse [...] It is a dream that 'we've had since we were a teenager
,' explained Bigflo. Already at the time, the two rappers had to postpone the date of the first edition, which they wanted to launch from the start of the 2020 school year.
If many fans expressed their disappointment on Twitter at the postponement, several controversies had arisen around the festival. In question, the sentence "
finally a real festival in Toulouse
" posted on the site of the event, which had offended several events of the city. The rappers explained on Facebook: “
when we said true festival, we were talking about a music festival with a campsite, more than 15,000 people with big national / international artists. It was obviously not to denigrate the work of all the small structures
”. It was then the logo of the festival that made Internet users talk, after an artist from Toulouse accused the two brothers of having plagiarized his works. Bigflo had reacted there too, admitting that "
the wall taken from the illustration book [...] looks a lot like our logo ... As a result, it is not voluntary
”.