Indochine, a legendary group from the 1980s, will close the 2023 edition of the Eurockéennes, the Belfort festival announced on Thursday, after a 2022 edition marked by a violent storm and cancellations.
Nicola Sirkis' group had never performed at the Belfortain music festival despite its long career, the organizers reminded Thursday in a press release, which promises
"a big production"
for Indochina .
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The festival will be held from June 29 to July 2, 2023. At the opening, the most current Skrillex, American DJ considered
"one of the greatest artists of electro"
, according to the organizers, will make his return to Belfort,
" after a phenomenal show in 2014”
.
He will be accompanied on the same evening by the British phenomenon Wet Leg, the Ukrainian metal group Jinger and Shaka Ponk.
On the rap side, the festival will present on June 30
"the phenomenon"
Zola,
"exploding"
, as well as Orelsan.
Gojira,
“the biggest French metal band”
, will perform the evening on Saturday July 1, as well as the British post-punk band Yard Act.
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The musical event, canceled two years in a row due to Covid-19, had a record year in 2018, with 135,000 spectators.
The last edition was marred by a violent storm on the first evening which injured seven people and forced the organization to cancel two concert evenings.
As for the 2024 edition, the Ministry of Culture announced on Tuesday that it would go well as planned, despite the Paris Olympics.
At the end of October, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had mentioned postponements, even cancellations of major events in the summer of 2024 due to the Olympics, a prospect which had aroused the concern of the mayor of Belfort, Damien Meslot (LR) .
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