“A joke in very bad taste”… U2 look-alikes sing in front of the Bataclan to promote themselves

It's a cheeky idea for some and (very) inappropriate for others: a group of lookalikes pretending to be U2 sang in front of the infamous Bataclan hall, Sunday December 1, 2024, after having tried in vain to get there. penetrate, reports Le Parisien.

If two guitarists and Pavel Sfera, known as one of the “official” imitators of the singer of the legendary Irish Rock group, had started to perform at Place de la République (Paris), they then decided to continue their “performance” at the Bataclan…

An unwelcome service

Rejected at the entrance to the room where the sadly remembered terrorist attack took place on November 13, 2015, the group sang a song – by U2 – on the sidewalk, provoking a crowd of semi-subjugated onlookers , half-shocked.

“Today, U2 lookalikes entered the Bataclan, pretending to be the real group and under the pretext of paying tribute to the victims of November 13,” Arthur Dénouveaux, President of the Life for association, commented on X Paris. All this to do a shoot for their promo. Always further into abjection.”

Our file “Attacks of November 13, 2015”

For its part, the concert hall denounced “a joke in very bad taste which (them) probably overwhelmed themselves and to which we do not wish to give more attention than it deserves”. The management of the Bataclan clarified to Le Parisien that it did not wish to pursue this event in court.