Abba in the sound system to keep the audience waiting, mustard-colored dyes and lights on stage reminiscent of Guy Lux's TV shows and Eurovision in the 1970s, the tone is set.
With her new tour, which stopped from Sunday to Wednesday at the Olympia, Clara Luciani has the firm intention of plunging us back into the world before and making us dance.
The curtain rises, a heart beats.
The 29-year-old singer appears in a sequined costume that also recalls those of Claude François.
Surrounded by four musicians and three singers, also dressed in vintage clothes.
They are only at the beginning of the tour, but Clara and her musicians know each other well enough to hit it hard straight away with a vitaminized version of "Heart", one of the disco bombs from her excellent second album.
In the third title, she drops the jacket - "it's a good sign" she smiles - and lights the room.
The crowded Olympia has largely taken off the mask - it is not compulsory, just recommended, the gauge sitting in the pit is at 75% - and its “Breathe again” disco bomb is raising the temperature.
“Yesterday, we managed to climb to 56 ° but we want better tonight,” she says, very smiling, relaxed and generous.
The Olympia is in tune.
A small "technical glitch" gives its fans the opportunity to sing an "Alexandria Alexandra" of circumstance.
A final of madness
But Clara Luciani's 1970s weren't all disco.
They are also rock.
She keeps from her previous tour very electric versions of "Flowers", "Like you" and "My shadow", chained before a duet as unexpected as shivering with November Ultra, her guest of the first part, on a cover of the ballad " Sign Of The Times ”from former One Direction Harry Styles.
“We're both fans of him,” she says.
U.S. too.
"We only did one rehearsal and in socks," she laughs.
It prevents.
Their version between English and French, their beautiful mixed voices, is one of the strong emotional moments of the concert, with “Dors”, where his deep voice imposes silence.
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A moment of respite before a final of madness. The duo "Summer Wine" with his friend Alex Kapranos, the singer of the group Franz Ferdinand present every evening, and "We do not marry singers" revive the dance machine. The sequence of his biggest hits "The Rest" and "The Pomegranate" sets fire, as we had not seen since ...
We look at the audience as much as the stage.
The Olympia roars, shakes the floor.
Everyone is standing and dancing, our neighbors are waltzing their beer, our neighbor is singing loudly.
The recalls with a well-regarded “clarakoé” on “The Bay” and a duet with his sister Elha - on the song “Person”, which is addressed to her - prolong the feast and a communion which is not at all solemn.
“Thank you,” Clara Luciani says after an hour and a half of reunion.
I've been dreaming about it for months and it feels really good!
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EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“Heart”, by Clara Luciani, Romance Musique / Universal;
on tour in 2021 (all concerts are sold out), then from March 2022 in the Zéniths, on the 10th in Strasbourg, on the 11th in Nancy, on the 15th in Lille ...