“It will take help until the summer”, warns the artistic director of the jazz club Le Duc des Lombards

“We need help at least until the summer”, alert Thursday January 20 on franceinfo Sébastien Vidal, member of Prodiss, national union for musical and variety shows, artistic director of the jazz club Le Duc des Lombards. After the Council of Ministers and the Health Defense Council on Thursday, Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, announced that Jean Castex, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, would present at 7 p.m. “a precise timetable” of“lightening of measures to give prospects to the French”. Sébastien Vidal is impatiently awaiting the announcements, but considers a return to normal from next weekend “unreal”.

For the moment, standing concerts are prohibited and gauges of 5,000 people outdoors and 2,000 indoors are imposed on organizers. “We need help at least until the summer. It is necessary.”

“Today, there is an incredible traffic jam in French halls because of all the postponements of the concerts that were planned at the start of the pandemic.”

Sébastien Vidal, artistic director of the jazz club Le Duc des Lombards

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Sébastien Vidal underlines the energy it will take to restart the machine and “reschedule” concerts and “put them back on track”. But the most important thing, according to him, is to relaunch the ticket office which “is at half mast”. But he is not surprised. “We spent almost two years explaining to people that they risked something in concert halls, when we proved that it was not true. There is necessarily a fear, an expectation on the part of the public who do not buy tickets or who buy at the last moment. How do you make people want to buy tickets for shows again?”, he asks himself.