Rarely does a theme impose itself so strongly throughout a concert. Whether they are words of love, words of hatred or the need to listen to each other, Patrick Bruel’s songs and asides evoke the need for dialogue.
The impressive scenography reinforces the artist’s message with videos and graphic effects projected on giant screens. Fortunately, calmer, more intimate and acoustic moments give breathing space to a show with rock, pop, Arabic and sometimes almost rap tones.
The show lasted 2 hours 30 minutes without a break, but some highlights stood out. The first during the reading of the last letter of the resistance fighter of the Second World War, Missak Manouchian, followed by the song To the memories that we are. The artist also had the opportunity to do the same during the entry into the Pantheon of this figure of the French Resistance last February. The second highlight is a crowd bath as he walks towards his piano placed in the middle of the audience. The superposition on the screens of the singer’s image and the live reactions of his fans reinforces the fusional feeling of the moment.
The sequences are precise, each facilitating the progression to the next which does not prevent Bruel from deviating from it for the duration of an exclusivity for the Audomarois public. It is indeed with the song Hero that he salutes the courage of the firefighters and that he expresses his solidarity with those affected by the floods experienced by our region.
The 4,000 spectators were also able to sing their hearts out. Some of the best-known titles are inseparable from the live experience to the point of supplanting in the imagination the original recorded in the studio. Hard to imagine I tell you anyway Or Who has the right other than with Patrick Bruel alone on the piano playing for an audience singing in unison. The only development since the artist’s beginnings is that phone flashes have replaced lighters.
