The concert has already been sold out for several days. This Friday evening, the legendary Ubu hall in Rennes will pay a final musical tribute to Frank Darcel. Founder of Marquis de Sade, a flagship group of the French new wave scene at the end of the 1970s, the guitarist died on March 14 at the age of 65. His body was found at the foot of a cliff on Ribadeo beach in northern Spain.
Six months after the tragedy, which shook the entire Rennes music scene and well beyond, all his friends will come to celebrate on stage the memory of the guitarist, singer, producer and writer. “The heyday of Marquis de Sade, October, Marquis will resonate in this room where the Costarmorican loved to perform or come and have a drink while discovering new groups,” indicates the organizer of the evening. A few more personal moments such as his never-denied infatuation with guitarist Eric Clapton or the New Yorkers from Talking Heads will complete the setlist. »
He had produced several albums by Etienne Daho
Among the artists present, we will find Étienne Daho, for whom Frank Darcel had produced several albums, Pascal Obispo, with whom he had played in his early days in the group Senso, or the Breton bard Alan Stivell.
Four and a half years before the death of Frank Darcel, the group Marquis de Sade, which had just reformed, had already been mourned by the death on September 12, 2019 of singer Philippe Pascal, found dead at his home in Rennes.
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