At 78, Jacques Dutronc has agreed to take over the microphone and the road. The singer, who lives year round in Corsica, will begin a major tour with his son Thomas from April 12. Before the public discovers the duo on stage, father and son are actively preparing.
As the newspaper reports Le Figaro, it was at the RiffX studio of La Seine musicale in Boulogne (Hauts-de-Seine), that Jacques and Thomas Dutronc therefore put down their instruments and microphones to rehearse. Future viewers will be able to hear the hits of the patriarch – Cacti, And me and me and me or Gentleman Burglar – with new arrangements worked by his son; the latter will also slip some of his own titles into the set list. During rehearsals, Jacques does not hesitate to say what he likes or dislikes, what seems to him to have failed or what needs to be changed, even if it means not always being tender with Thomas. “I have the right to notice certain things, I am her daddy, anyway“, he justifies.
Thus, while the show will be entitled to an acoustic passage during which the spectators will be able to hear in full Gentleman Burglar, Jacques did not hide his disapproval of his son’s choice! “I thought we would only do a little piece of it, that one is swollen“, he lets go before continuing on another remonstrance: “The Daughter of Santa Clausit is necessary to air, not to chain all the verses all the time, it is too much. I give you my opinion, then you do as you want.“Another blow from the father against the son: the choice to keep The Opportunist. “I can’t take this song anymore“, tackles Jacques. Fortunately, the duo still has a few days to agree on the show to be delivered!