Rock en Seine, the fever despite the absence of Rage
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Without Rage against the machine, the festival is preparing to welcome tens of thousands of festival-goers from Thursday until Sunday. On the program for this edition: Stromae, Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave Yard Act.
The festival Rock in the Seine lives up to its name: priority to prophets of the genre: Arctic Monkeys, Nick Cave, and new preachers, Yard Act, Idles, Fontaines DC – for a great showing from Thursday to Sunday, despite the cancellation of Rage Against the Machine. Programming is not engulfed by furious guitars, since it is Stromae who will draw the star curtain on Sunday evening at the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, at the gates of Paris.
But the atmosphere of this meeting capable of accommodating 40,000 spectators per evening promises to be charged with electricity. “The headlining opportunities have allowed us to stick to our musical DNA, even if we also remain committed to presenting a panorama of current artists outside of guitar rock and pop”describes to AFP the director of the event, Matthieu Ducos.
In the absence of Rage Against the Machine – which canceled its European tour after frontman Zack de La Rocha suffered a leg injury – it’s Arctic Monkeys that are the center of attention. “It’s one of the groups whose public has been asking us to come in the most insistent way for years, we are happy to please the regulars of Rock en Seine”, savors Matthieu Ducos. This is the only French date of the four British musicians. The buzz has been huge around the Sheffield band since drummer Matt Helders let go at the end of 2021 that a new album was in the pipeline to succeed Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018).
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veterans and new
Nothing has filtered since and the only interview with leader Alex Turner was recently given to the sports newspaper The Team. The singer and guitarist does not talk about music there but confesses his love for the Sheffield Wednesday football club and one of the players of this team, Chris Waddle (well known to the French because he also played in Marseille).
The director of Rock en Seine smiles at this “bold method to return to the media scene and restart the machine”. No new title has been unveiled on stage so far since the world tour started in early August. Thursday evening will be loaded with riffs, as other British bands – Idles, Yard Act, Fontaines DC – will turn up the sound.
Nick Cave, accompanied by his Bad Seeds, will blow on the embers on Friday evening. The Australian with the postures of a preacher has already passed through Paris last winter at the Salle Pleyel with two intense concerts. Rock seekers, the Limiñanas, Squid (Friday) or even Tame Impala (Saturday), will also spice up the debates.
For the electro sphere, the veterans of Kraftwerk will make their machines resonate. With, as usual, an explosive visual show to amplify their hypnotic loops. The opportunity for “younger generations”as Matthieu Ducos points out, to discover these German pioneers who influenced Detroit’s techno scene brought up to date by Beyoncé in her latest album, Renaissance.
Apart from these high-sounding names, it will also be necessary to browse between the different stages of the festival to lend an ear to the concerts of the new voices of rap, such as Lala &ce (pronounced Ace as in tennis), soul like Crystal Murray or synthetic pop with Zaho from Sagazan.
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