REPORT – In a week, Jacques and his son, Thomas, will sing together on stage during an unprecedented duo tour. They will take up the hits of the first and will perform the titles of the second. Here is a tasty taste, distilled during the last rehearsals.
It’s 2 p.m., the RiffX studio is waking up. It is here, in the bowels of La Seine musicale, in Boulogne (Hauts-de-Seine), that the Dutronc father and son settle the details of a tour which will begin on April 12 in Courbevoie and end on December 21. at the Accor Arena in Paris. Thomas and Jacques would have liked to rehearse in Corsica, but they couldn’t find an ad hoc structure near their respective homes. There was indeed a recording studio near Pigna, but it was not suitable for live. So Thomas and the musicians moved on without Jacques, who did not go up to Paris until March 31 for two days of hard work. If he didn’t sing that day, he did on the 1st.is April, before our eyes.
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The atmosphere is studious, but relaxed. If Thomas obviously has control of the operations, it is Jacques who has the last word. Sitting in a corner of the studio, cigar in mouth, he doesn’t miss a beat of what’s going on. “The two chorus, there, it’s a little too long”
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