"Are you happy that it is picking up again?"
Howls from the crowd.
9:30 p.m., at La Villette.
Soprano sets Paris Paradis on fire in one sentence.
The Marseille rapper launches the “Parisian” festival with a fanfare this Friday evening.
The life that resumes, the music that comes back to life, the festival of the Parisian who returns, bigger - three days, some 35 artists on the music side, as much on the humor side - more eclectic too, on a new site, in the park of La Villette.
And the returning audience, also bigger and more family-oriented.
A first evening which is sold out for the first seven concerts, Tim Dup, Antoine Elie, Têtes Raides, Ours, Zaz, Tryo and Soprano.
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First arrivals, first at the foot of the stage, Falonne and Victoria adored Tim Dup and Antoine Elie but mainly came from Paris and Bordeaux for Tryo and Soprano. “But not only, insist these two student friends. We are also great fans of 47 Ter (
who plays on Saturday
), we will come back in force tomorrow (
Saturday
) with friends from all over France. We will come all three days, because the pass costs only 26 euros. And the drinks are not expensive. "
“The atmosphere is very nice,” smiles Nathalie, 56, who comes especially from Sarreguemines.
It's cool, it's on a human scale, you can be close to the stage.
We haven't seen a live show since Rock en Seine, two years ago.
How good it feels to resume concerts!
"It is a pleasure to find you in this Paris of paradise", echoed him on stage Christian Olivier, the charismatic singer of Têtes Raides, a cult group which returns to distill its rock poetry, on edge.
"This is my first real concert since the start of the pandemic"
In the very family audience, Elodie, 41, a reader from Val-de-Marne, dances with her children Mathias and Fabien in front of this beloved group. “I'm happy to be back with the Têtes Raides but I'm mainly there to enjoy the festival. I saw that there were lots of new artists scheduled so I took the three-day pass to make lots of discoveries. "
It is nine o'clock. Comfortably seated in deckchairs, Johanna, Mehdi and their three children religiously listen to Ours, who has been making Paris Paradis one of his first concerts since the release of his magnificent album “Mitsouko”. “It's great to discover new songs,” says Johanna. And it's astonishing to discover a new place under the ring-road, even though we live very close to here ”. "I'm so happy," shouts her 6-year-old daughter Lilou, who loved the "hamster toilet". In other words, the dry toilet.
It's good to see the smiles of children, like Elsa, a little girl from Reims with cystic fibrosis who meets her idol, Soprano behind the scenes. It's also good to see the artists happy to come back on stage, but also to cross paths, to take selfies with their fans. Like Antoine Elie, in great demand. “This is my first real concert since the start of the pandemic,” he smiles. It's good to find the pleasure on stage and the stress before. And this is the opportunity to test new songs. "
Guizmo, from Tryo, is not sulking his pleasure either, looking at his colleagues with a Mojito in their hand.
"We have a long history with the Parisian, we have always been supported by this newspaper and we are happy to play for you," he told us.
This festival is all the more welcome since we have just released a new album.
Each concert is precious, for the public as well as for us.
Paris Paradis returns this Saturday with two musical stages this time and Sunday with a bonus program of our favorite comedians at Cabaret Sauvage.
Let the party begin again!
