It is a fight that goes back to the beginning of Indochina.
In an interview granted to the
Journal du Dimanche
on April 23, Nicola Sirkis, the leader of the new wave group born at the dawn of the 1980s, once again denounced the prohibitive amount of the price of concert tickets.
Bluntly, he said: “
When I see the ticket prices of some of my colleagues, I am indeed appalled
”.
Wanting to be exemplary, Nicola Sirkis and his stage accomplices have knowingly decided not to engage in an inflationary one-upmanship.
Whatever the cost, one would be tempted to write, the average price of tickets for Indochina concerts is around 50 euros.
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Three nights a week
by Indochine, version 2023
An ethical decision that the interpreter of
Three Nights a Week
explains as follows: "
From the moment we decide not to enrich ourselves on the backs of our public, the one who allows us to live our passion , there are consequences.
Our tours are balanced because they are full well in advance, but we make little or no profit and this affects our fees.
Sometimes I don't take any
."
A courageous position, certainly authorized by the repeated successes of Indochine in terms of record sales, downloading and streaming, but which does not penalize all those who contribute to the organization of shows, as the leader of the group, aged now 63 years old: "
It is not up to the technicians to submit to our ethical choice
”.
Finally, always straight in his boots, Nicola Sirkis wants to refute all the justifications for this inflationary trend in concert prices.
Covid epidemic, rising energy prices, invasion of Ukraine ... all these causes, he dismisses them out of hand, pointing the finger at the sole greed of the organizers of musical shows: "No
argument is relevant except that of wanting to make money.
Producers in France still tend to cry over their fate despite having been largely helped financially by the State during the Covid... The increase in production and rental costs is real, but not to the point of making 200 euro banknotes
.