2023-06-02 17:01:53
Michel Polnareff gave the first concert on Thursday June 1 in the brand new Orleans Arena, a 10,000-seat hall, belonging to the vast ensemble known as CO’Met, inaugurated last January. If all the tickets were not sold, the public still came in large numbers.
Sitting at the piano, the singer with long blond hair is as his audience hoped. His famous glasses with dark lenses and wide white frames seem to want to print on his face a reflection of his keyboard. Love Me is the first title of the evening. The song, which he performs alone, resonates like a plea addressed to the evening public. Of the ” we love you “ fuse.
His voice, still a little cold, is at the rendezvous of the melody, however demanding. The artist seems to want to defy his age, 78 years old. In Orleans, the fourth date of his tour, the page of a difficult start in Nice and Poitiers is turned. “Polnareff is my Proust madeleine”, said before the start of the concert, Lucie, who came with her 14-year-old daughter Lilwenn.
A complete sound and light show
Placed on a platform that rotates 360 degrees, the concert piano invites nostalgia. But the six English musicians led by Matthew Bramhall, the other “magician” of the evening, capsized the evening.
Christine, 72, dressed in black and with long wavy blonde hair, just like her idol, who listened as a child “Led Zepp’et Polnareff” with his brother, greets the performance of the artist after the concert. A shared feeling, if we judge by the enthusiasm of the public, applauding the long encore completed by the revival of the famous Goodbye Marilou. Guillaume, 39 years old, rocked since childhood with the music of this “provocative, eccentric and endearing” is also conquered.
The obvious benevolence towards the star overlooks the gap between the insolent and transgressive line of Michel Polnareff’s work and his stage presence limited by his weakened physique. Despite the lighting effects and the huge circular screen, the show will never manage to close this gap.
Mischievous
Michel Polnareff knows the poetic quality of some of his texts but, mischievously, he takes malicious pleasure in stretching “Y’a qu’un ch’veu”… on the head of Matthieu, after having let his accomplices on stage take over the music of the film for the happiness of the public Megalomania. The artist will not leave the 1970s, but we will look at them with tenderness.
Hesitantly on stage, helped by a musician, Michel Polnareff will not take off his stool throughout the concert. Only his arms will come alive to train his fans. We’ll all go to heaven is picked up with intensity. The Orleans Arena undulates to thank its idol for this prophecy. Michel Polnareff then adds with a smile that speaks volumes: ” but not right now “.
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