At the Printemps de Bourges, a crazy evening in tribute to Brigitte Fontaine

This Wednesday, April 20, on the stage of the Printemps de Bourges, the “Closing night” turned into “Fucking night”. A change of title which was made at the request of Brigitte Fontaine. The octogenarian artist did not want an evening that could look like a clap of the end or a jubilee. No, the crazy lyricist accepted the tribute that the Printemps de Bourges wanted to pay her, provided that it was also a good opportunity to party.

She also launched the evening with a few words in her image. “Fuck you… ah no no, I kiss you”she launched to introduce the show in front of the public, seated in a rococo style throne.

Next ? Big names from the French scene have taken the stage, performing texts by Brigitte Fontaine. Arthur H, Philippe Katerine or Bertrand Belin. The latter loved the exercise with a resumption of Oh life is beautiful. “It’s prodigious, these are songs that we have known for the most part for a long time. The ones we chose, when we had the chance to choose them, it is because we love them. We have known them for outside and then there all of a sudden, it’s like visiting a space, someone else’s house”poet Bertrand Belin.

Another “guest star” of the evening, the singer P.R2B, revelation of this 2022 edition, who lent her pretty deep voice to the texts of Brigitte Fontaine, giving them a second youth at the same time. The musical director of the evening, Lucie Antunes was responsible for orchestrating this extravagant charivari. “Really, I saw all the complexity and the genius of this music. I know that she does not really like to be said that, but it is really genius”, she judges.

After her early evening appearance, Brigitte Fontaine returned to the stage for the end of this “Fucking night”, during which fantasy was the only watchword.

The Printemps de Bourges festival continues until April 24. All the programming on the festival website.


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