This time, almost no more doubts: the Indochina test concert should be held on May 29 at the Accor Hotel Arena in Paris.
First announced for the end of March then postponed to April, the event with an experimental purpose is becoming clearer.
Nicola Sirkis, founder and singer of the group Indochine, was the guest of Laurent Delahousse in the program
8:30 pm Le Dimanche
, on the occasion of the 40 years of the legendary group.
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“
This test concert is complicated but it will come.
It's more like a scientific essay.
The organizers of this scientific test, this test concert will hold a press conference at the beginning of the week.
I think it's about 5000 people
", confirmed Nicola Sirkis, who also took the opportunity to discuss her remuneration:"
We are going to play completely on a voluntary basis, we will even invest money to be able to present a dignified concert and strong.
Today the agenda is pretty much for everything except standing concerts and standing concerts is the majority of concerts.
(...) We will have a final decision I think early next week.
"
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Organized by Prodiss, the national union of musical and variety shows, the event called "
Ambition Live Again
" aims to "
demonstrate the absence of increased risk of salivary carriage [of the Covid] seven days after the concert at the participants present at the concert compared to the non-participants
”. The concert will therefore take place at the Accor Hôtel Arena in Paris, a closed room, with 5,000 participants obliged to wear a mask. The participants, all between 18 and 45 years old and residents of Île-de-France, must not have had "
any symptoms of Covid and not have been in contact with people with Covid for two weeks
". The public will be drawn by lot, after registration on the event site.
In Marseille, a test concert is also expected for May 29, but the project is still far from being completed. No artist has yet been confirmed.
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