A tour that starts off badly.
The first concert of the new tour of the group Dionysos, which took place in Nîmes, was cut short following an unusual accident.
Only one minute and thirty seconds after the start of the first title, Mathias Malzieu, the singer of the Drôme group, seriously fell from the stage of the Paloma room.
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As the band played the song "Giant Jack" to kick off the rock band's 30th anniversary tour, the artist entered the venue through the back door, cut through the crowd before leaping onto scene then falling heavily.
Despite the pain, Mathias Malzieu began to sing before finally giving up, indicating into the microphone “I broke my leg”
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specifies Midi Libre.
Concert shortened yesterday at Paloma, in Nîmes.
The singer of the group Dionysos fell into the crowd after a few seconds, during the first song.
He seriously injured his leg.
This was the first concert of the French group's 30th anniversary tour.
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The music then stopped, then the firefighters intervened to take the singer injured in the leg to the emergency room.
The other members of the group then returned a few minutes later on stage to announce that Mathias Malzieu had been taken to hospital, before announcing that they were going to “do everything to come back”.
“We will do everything to try to postpone this date,” promised the director of the Nîmes venue Fred Jumel, specifying that this was a first in the history of Paloma.
Two other concerts already canceled
In an Instagram story, Mathias Malzieu evokes “the smallest concert ever recorded in history”, in reference to the title of his novel “The smallest kiss ever recorded”.
Lying on a stretcher in the emergency room, he also indicates that he “does not want to stop the tour at all” and that he will do everything to “find solutions”.
After announcing that it was a “double fracture”, he assured his fans that he would return to Nîmes and that the concerts planned in Grenoble and Dijon for February 14 and 15 were postponed, “because I feel operate tomorrow” (Editor’s note, this Wednesday February 14).
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This is not the first time that such a mishap has happened to the singer.
In March 2000, he fell badly after a jump in the middle of a concert in Angoulême, causing him a double fracture of the tibia fibula and a tearing of the malleolus, underlines Ouest-France.
This fall forced the group to cancel seven concerts and Mathias Malzieu subsequently performed seated on stage with a cast until August 2000.