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Bertrand Cantat, the plague-stricken icon – DH Les Sports +

Now fallen into disgrace, the former spearhead of French rock is deprived of any stage activity. Any attempt to get back on the boards ends in a cancellation.

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Seventeen years after the tragic death of Marie Trintignant on August 1, 2003, the so-called Bertrand Cantat affair still divides. Maybe even more today than yesterday. On the one hand, there are those who believe that the ex-singer of Noir Désir paid his debt after being sentenced and having served his sentence. That he has the right to resume a normal life and therefore his artistic activities which were until then his livelihood. On the other, there are those for whom the irreparable was committed. In their eyes, there is no forgiveness or possible return to normal, the murderer will never have paid enough.

The mere mention of the drama leads the best friends in the world to divide, sometimes even tear each other apart, on the issue. For some, there is no longer any question of going to see a concert by Bertrand Cantat. Others consider that he no longer has to give it and that he should keep a low profile, if possible disappear underground. In any event, the matter now seems to have been settled for quite some time. The singer’s last tour came to an abrupt end one evening in June 2018, in Brussels, after a concert at Ancienne Belgique. Under the pressure exerted by his opponents, the organizers of his tour and the operators of the halls that were to host him gradually lowered the flag, forcing the ex-Black Dez to end his dates prematurely.

And his return to the stage announced last October, as part of a musical and literary show co-written with the novelist Caryl Férey, suffered the same fate. In just a few hours, his critics managed to bury the case. The performance scheduled for March 31, 2020 was canceled the following day. No matter what some would say, it would not have happened because of the Covid-19.

Bertrand Cantat, like his fans, must bitterly regret this One of the Inrockuptibles October 11, 2017 and this title: “Cantat in his name”. It is indeed this media visibility that set the powder on fire. Because remember, there were not many who were offended by his discographic and scenic return under the name Detroit, seven years earlier, ten years after the drama of Vilnius…

Given the turn of events, it may well be that the last concert ever given by the ex-singer of Noir Désir was that of Brussels, in 2018. If this were to be the case, it would be the saddest of epilogues for the one who, with his first group, marked French rock with a hot iron for six incandescent studio albums and a handful of equally hot lives.

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