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If you have not had the time to read the answers to the questions :

The Music festival is THE evening of the year where occur François Feldman, Zouk Machine, Herbert Léonard, Emile Images, Jean-Pierre Mader, and other celebrities in the Top 50.

Answer : False. It is the 13 and the 14 of July when it is for them fireworks.

What artist has never played in the region ?

Answer : Paul McCartney. Pink Floyd has performed at the stadium Nord in Villeneuve d Acq in 1988, Bob Marley in 1980 at the trade Fair of Lille and The Clash at the Palace of Saint-sauveur Lille in 1981. Paul McCartney would have had to occur on the 22nd may at the stade Pierre-Mauroy, but the date has been cancelled due to the health crisis. It was already came in 1992 at the Nouveau Siècle in Lille to present his Liverpool Oratorio, but he had not played.

How many litres of beer are consumed in three days of Main Square Festival in Arras ?

Answer : 100 000. 440 000, it is the number of litres the bus by the metal of the Hellfest in three days last year (one-third of the spectators more than the Main Square). The absolute record of consumption in a day in Arras, france, is owned by the days Depeche Mode in 2018 and Radiohead in 2017.

Which of these stars international has lived in Lille ?

Answer : forty years ago, the young Louise Cicconne, who would become Madonna, live to 18 months in an apartment opposite the railway station Lille-Flandres. We are in 1979-80. The other three stars have already played in the region, but not to live there.

Skip The Use is to this day the only training in the north to have won a Victory of the music. It was in 2013. In what category ?

Answer : rock Album. The group of Ronchin was named in this category with Lou Doillon, BB Brunes and Raphael. In 2012, he was nominated in the category group or artist revelation scene, but it is Brigitte who had won.

Marcel and his Orchestra have asked, ” Where are past(s)… “

Answer : My slippers. Where are my past my slippers is one of the titles lighthouse of Marcel and his orchestra. This is the ninth beach of the album Dirty Bastard released in 1996.

That has never graced the stage of the Aircraft of Lille ?

Answer : Thom Yorke. Radiohead has already played in Lille in 1997, but it was at the Zenith. Oasis and Daft Punk (without a helmet) have played at the old Aircraft, rue Colson, respectively, in 1995 and 1996. As to Lou Reed, he gave a concert in 2012, a year before his death, in the room that we now know, to Euralille.

What artist or what group of the region has never done the first part of Johnny ?

Answer : Line Renaud. It has no knowledge that it has provided its first part. On the other hand, as patron of the idol of the young, the Armentiéroise presented to the viewers in his first appearance on tv in 1960. The Stocks that have led him to the stage during his tour stages in 2003. And, Skip The Use has been assured by the first first part of the star at the Stade de France in 2012 (Louis Bertignac played between the two).

Among these faithful of the Nights secret, which has several times celebrated his birthday in the city aulnésienne ?

Answer : Orelsan. Aurélien Cotentin was born on 1 August. The rapper is produced four times at the festival. It has even been seen playing basketball on a field of Aulnoye.

What star group of the carnival of Dunkirk has happened several times at the famous Olympia in Paris ?

Answer : Prout. Marcel and his orchestra have made twice the Olympia, but they are not a group of the carnival of Dunkirk.

What group of hard-rock/metal has never graced the stage of the Main Square ?

Answer : Kiss. Metallica has played on the Grand Place in 2008. And Rammstein and Iron Maiden in the Citadel (respectively in 2010 and 2014).

What northerner has led the mythical Olympia in Paris from 2002 to 2015 ?

Answer : Arnaud Delbarre. The son of Raoul de Godewarswelde is also the former bassist of the Stocks. The Maubeugeois Didier Rifleman was the big boss of Lille 2004 and Lille 3000 and chairs from 2015, the park and the Grande Halle de la Villette. France Leduc has created the Main Square that it has sold to Live Nation in 2010. And the Aulnésien Olivier Connan is the founding director of the Nights Secret.

The music of what song has composed Pierre Degeyter, a worker of a factory of Fives district of Lille, where the composer now has a place in his name ?

Answer : The International. It was in 1888. Lyrics by Eugène Pottier.

On the way to the Dunes…

Answer : The beach of Malo Bray-Dunes. Words extracted from the Fuck Alain Souchon.


Written by Jean-Louis Aubert in the “golden book” of the Zenith of Lille (a gallery of autographed photos) ?

Answer : It may be said that the public in the North was the best for France, as so many of the artists who will perform in Lille, but the former lead singer of the Telephone has written on his photo to remember ” Thank you for bring the heart of the North at the Zenith “.


Look for the uninvited

Answer : It is Aline, for which the late Christopher has brait, brait, oh ! it was too much trouble. Because Aline is the single-chtie of this casting. Christophe had met this young woman from Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, a little prior to 1965, on the Cote d’azur. A love story that will last almost a year.

Francis Cabrel wrote about a famous battle in the region. It is…

Response : The title Agincourt figure on the album In Extremis (2015).

Who sings the “Ch timi Rock” ?

Answer : The Ch timi Rock figure on the album My girl (1979) Renaud where we heard singing :” There are jackets of leather and old moccasins/We rock and roll Lille Roubaix Tourcoing “.

How much does one of harmonies, brass bands in the North and the Pas-de-Calais ?

Answer : from 650 to 700.

Calais appears in three of the four following songs. Why ?

Answers : Balavoine sings :” Sitting near Calais, and below, the blades of brittany, I would look at getting the waves anglo-saxon “in French is a language that resonates
; Petula Clark” landed in this city of Calais “in Blue White Red
; when Léo Ferré, in La Chanson du mal-aimésays this :” The égypans the wisps, and the fate of the damned or faustes, the neck rope as at Calais, on my pain what a holocaust “. Claude Barzotti chante other cities of the region in A daughter of Flanders (” She would take me to see the sea, visit Dunkirk and Cambrai, it was said that,when the sky is clear, one sees the England of Kortrijk “), but does not mention Calais.

Bonus Question : if these songs had been composed by chti, they could be labeled as well. Are you able to recognize ?

1. The berdoule

2. A bécot, species ed boubourse

3. Hello tertous

4. I say to you, quo

5. Sake éddin, Francky

6. Freume tin valve, bellote

7. Cha will tisot ?

8. Markets, too much mouth, i toudis best that z ws !

9. Not remain at the court !

10. Biloute

11. Ch is in the strand of quien

12. It, you eun’chuches not that of glachons

13. I’m malate

14. Ravisse in little

15. Euch’bing

Answers : 1. “The Slush” (Jane Birkin) ; 2. Kiss-me idiot (Bill Baxter) ; 3. Hello (Lionel Richie) ; 4. “I’ll call you” (Francis Lalanne) ; 5. “Vas-y Franky it’s good” (Francky Vincent) ; 6. “Be beautiful and shut up” (Serge Gainsbourg) ; 7. “How’s it going ? “(like this, like this, like this, like that – The Shorts) 8. “Les Playboys” Jacques Dutronc ; 9. “Come, come” (Marie Laforêt) ; 10. “The Zizi” (Pierre Perret) ; 11. “It is nothing” (Julien Clerc) ; 12. “Just drink a little bit more at home” (License IV) ; 13. “I’m sick” (Serge Lama) ; 14. “Then look at” (Patrick Bruel) ; 15. “The Mountain” (Jean Ferrat)

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