After three days of controversy and two canceled concerts, music.
Finally.
Proof of the hysteria surrounding this affair since Tuesday, Anna Von Hausswolff had to give her concert in a secret place, to avoid any overflow.
Scheduled for a concert at Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port in Nantes on Tuesday, December 7, the experimental rock and drone music artist had to cancel at the last moment, under the pressure of a hundred fundamentalist Catholics who were blocking the entrance to the church.
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In the process, his Parisian concert scheduled in Saint-Eustache Thursday, December 9 was also canceled.
Contacted by France Inter, the parish priest of the Yves Trocheris church explained that he wanted to
"protect the artist and the public, (...) and the distribution of meals to the most deprived that the Soup Popular organizes every evening at the Pointe de Saint-Eustache. ”
For him, “
Anna von Hausswolf's music is not satanist.
It obeys an interior logic based on the imaginary universes of the artist.
(...)
His music also defends deeply current causes such as that of women and that of still suffering nature.
"
"Make love with the devil"
Starting point of the affair, the words of the song
Pills
, present on the first disc of the singer released in 2010, which were not to the taste of the fundamentalist Catholics.
The Swede talks about drug addiction, and having thus
"made love with the devil."
Obviously enough reason to block the entrance to his concert.
The controversy has reacted even to the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot, who denounces in a tweet an
“unacceptable”
process
.
In a statement, the production company
J'aime Vous Danser
, in charge of the Swedish tour, explained the choice of a secret location, specifying that it
"was not a Catholic church."
“That different propositions can exist in a society is a value that must be protected and cherished.
Our new place will be a place of welcome and protective asylum of expression.
(...) Let’s be the reverse of anger: pride, organ, beauty ”,
implored the team of J'aime Vous Danser.
Anna Von Hausswolff must now continue her tour in Belgium and the Netherlands.