There's no cactus... Like father, like son, one would be tempted to write.
The Dutronc and Dutronc tour is a hit.
Every evening, it is played to sold-out crowds.
Faced with this triumph, the discreet Thomas Dutronc agreed to answer questions from
Gala
journalists .
Once is not custom, he avoids nothing: his complicity with Jacques Dutronc, the "beautiful Arsène" of French song, his conception of commitment, his next album and of course the state of health of his mother, the icon of yé-yé Françoise Hardy, weakened for a few years by cancer of the pharynx.
Success breeds success, it's an immutable rule of the music hall.
The Dutronc and Dutronc tour will therefore pass in Bordeaux on December 6, in Nantes on December 7, in Lyon on December 16, in fact seven dates before the apotheosis on December 21 to celebrate the winter solstice at the Accor Arena in Paris.
The only shadow to obscure the idyllic picture, Françoise Hardy will not come to see Jacques Dutronc and his son, sing together, on stage.
Thomas Dutronc explains, perhaps a little worried, the reason for this absence at the
Gala
:
“She did not come.
And she won't come.
She is afraid to go out.
She feels too tired.
It's complicated…”
His natural modesty prevents him from saying more.
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Thomas Dutronc morally resembles his father who sang the paradoxical philosophy of Jacques Lanzmann.
Like him, he is a kind of libertarian anarchist.
When he talks about his commitments, he is not talking about politics or ideology.
The carpe diem seems to be the attitude that best suits his sensitivity:
“I just want things to go well, to be happy and calm.
But in any case, when I give my word, when I promise something, I try to stick to it.
A word is important”.
When Thomas Dutronc wakes up
Thomas Dutronc is in the process of writing and composing a new album where, he promises,
“there will be fewer valves and puns”.
While waiting to find out in a few months, he admits his crazy pleasure to be able to vibrate on stage with his audience, he who at the beginning did not necessarily want to embrace the career of his gifted parents:
“Already, I did not want to sing.
I thought it was a bit ridiculous because there were enough singers like that in the family, that's why I didn't take myself seriously at all, but simply, I actually like it.
I learned to love to sing”.
Decidedly, the son of the "beautiful Arsène" and the "princess of the yé-yé" has the branch.
*All the dates of the Dutronc and Dutronc tour on the official booking site
Jacques and Thomas Dutronc in concert