“Macron get out, Macron motherfucker!” Saturday evening, during his concert at the Touquet Beach Music Festival, the Franco-American singer Marc Rebillet targeted the President of the Republic with insults that do not pass on the side of the organization of the festival. Emmanuel Macron made an appearance the same evening on the festival siteafter the Marc Rebillet concert.
“An artist in need of notoriety” according to the mayor of Le Touquet
In a video posted on Instagram this Sunday the day after the concert, the singer settles his accounts. “The festival director threw a glass full at my agent during the gig off the side of the stage, and now they want me to refund my fee while the gig was on,” explains Marc Rebillet, from Barcelona where he is playing this Monday evening.
If no complaint has been filed by Emmanuel Macron, the controversy swells with the reaction of the mayor of Le Touquet on Twitter. “Being an artist does not excuse everything, writes Daniel Fasquelle. Marc Rebillet went overboard several times yesterday by gratuitously and rudely insulting the President of the Republic. I ask the organizers to draw the consequences and ensure that he is no longer invited.” The singer replied directly to him in the comments: “Daniel, don’t worry. It wouldn’t be necessary to invite me to the festival. I won’t accept.”
Did the organizers want to cut the singer’s microphone?
Contacted by France Bleu Nord, Daniel Fasquelle is bitter. “It’s not even art anymore, he’s a singer in need of notoriety unable to capitalize on his performance. The fact that he responds a few minutes after my tweet shows that he is trying to escalate the controversy! “ According to Marc Rebillet, the organizers tried to cut off his microphone during his concert, which the mayor of Les Républicains denies. The organization of the festival did not wish to respond to our requests.
The singer, who appears on stage in boxers to electronic music, is used to provocations. During a concert in Paris in 2019, he dedicated a song to yellow vests. “We have things to ask the government! Macron, get out”, had yelled the Franco-American. At another concert, this time he was targeting Donald Trump. “I have already insulted Emmanuel Macron on stage”, recognizes the singer in his video posted on Instagram. Marc Rebillet became known on YouTube during confinement.
He will play in Lille on September 11, sold out
Marc Rebillet’s tour continues, amid controversy. His concert at the Aéronef de Lille on September 11 is sold out. Before that, he is expected in Paris on September 7 and 8 and in Nantes on September 10.