Pop concerts expected in French-speaking Switzerland over the next six months – rts.ch

Rap opens the year in force at the Geneva Arena, first with the Marseillais concert SCH (January 22), which offers in its Julius Tour a concentrate of its discographic and very cinematographic trilogy of the same name. In the process, the 8th edition of the Beat Festival (January 25) takes over to offer a rap set composed, among others, of French-speaking heavyweights Nest & Niskafrom Marseillais Alonzo and Genevan Rounhaa.

Another atmosphere in Lausanne with the reopening after four years of work of the Romandie (February 7 and 8). The rock club offers a double mix of pop, rock, metal, electro and hip-hop, notably with the Swiss from Very bad et 24 Kiara.

Also in February, near Geneva, the Antigel Festival (February 6 to March 1) programs the emblematic rock group The Libertines reformed by the tandem Pete Doherty and Carl Barât (February 13). Before reviving, among others, the legendary American rapper From the Soul (February 14) for a dive into the 1990s, then to launch the incendiary feminine and feminist trio into the punk-rock arena Lambrini Girls (February 28), three English women from Brighton already dubbed by Iggy Pop.

Party songs

In terms of song, it is also at the end of Lake Geneva that you will have to go for the 27th edition of the Festival Voix de Fête (from March 17 to 23) which notably aligns the French Thomas Dutronc, Clara Ysé, Barbara Pravi, Mathias Malzieu and the Swiss Yoa, Meimuna or Arrow Love.

At the same time, but excluding Voix de Fête, the Arena will see a queen of French disco-pop parade with the singer Clara Luciani (March 21) who will present his recent, more personal third album, entitled “Mon sang”.

In the process, still at the Arena, it is the former Telephone Jean-Louis Aubert (April 5) which will release the songs from his tenth studio album called “Pafini” as well as other unreleased songs which begin a new pop cycle for the French singer.

On the Lausanne Docks side, the 40th anniversary of la Dolce Vita (April 11), the legendary club on rue du Docteur César-Roux 30, will be celebrated with a concert of Stephan Eicherfaithful from the start, and an electro DJ set of Mandraxanother pillar of Dolce.

In May, bombastic rock fans will undoubtedly go to the Vaudoise Arena in Prilly for the showIndochina (May 14, 16 or 17). The emblematic group of the French rock scene led by Nicola Sirkis will release “Babel Babel”, its recent fourteenth album orchestrating the chaos of the world.

Still at the Vaudoise Arena, this is the last announced tour of the illustrious Michel Polnareff (May 23) which will take place. The 80-year-old French-American singer recently released a new song called “Sexcetera” previewing a new album to be released in February.

The Prodigy, Idles, Cat Power ou The Kills

The month of June announces the start of the summer festivals. Among them, in Crans-près-Céligny near Nyon, Caribana (from June 3 to 7) has already lifted the veil on its programming which will notably have among its headliners tunes from French Touch with the electro-pop Airsupercharged British techno with The Prodigy and French rap with Wallpaper.

In Neuchâtel, Festi’Neuch (June 12 to 15) has also already announced its program, with among other things a tempting evening which will see the abrasive post-punk of the English rub shoulders Idlesthe explosive techno of the British Underworld and the Frenchman’s wacky pop songs Katerine (June 13).

The American singer will probably not be missed either. Cat Power at the Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne (June 22) which covers songs from a legendary concert given by Bob Dylan in 1966 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall.

Finally, in Fribourg, the Les Georges Festival (July 14 to 19) has already announced the arrival of The Kills (July 15), the energetic and electric American-English rock tandem composed of singer Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince.

Olivier Horner