LOUISE ATTACKS. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first album, the group Louise Attaque gave six concerts on Tuesday April 26, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 27 avril 2022 à 10h26] A quarter of a century and a marathon. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their first album, Louise Attaque, the group of the same name chained, Tuesday April 26, 2022, six free concerts at the Elysée Montmartre. Gaëtan Roussel, Arnaud Samuel, Robin Felix and Nicolas Musset, the bassist who joined them, chained the one-hour performances, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. All the shows were sold out: between 800 and 1,000 spectators each, for a total of 6,000 fans during the day.
For fans of Louise Attaque who were unable to obtain a ticket for one of the six anniversary concerts, it was possible to follow the 7 p.m. concert livestream, on Facebook or on the group’s YouTube channel. The replay video is also available.
This Tuesday, April 26, Louise Attaque therefore celebrated with great fanfare the anniversary of her first album, from the name of the group, but also from the song I bring you with wind, which will propel Gaëtan Roussel and his band onto the French rock scene. And these 25 years could not be done without a concert. On the occasion of this anniversary, Gaëtan Roussel, the singer of Louise Attaque, announced in February on RTL this concert salvo programmed at the Elysée Montmartre in Paris.
“We are going to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our first album. It is out of the question that we will spend the year 2022 without giving you a sign of life. See you in April. The desire to blow out the candles with you is immense”, had already argued the singer at Parisian in September 2021. On RTL, in the program IndulgeGaëtan Roussel confirmed these “six free concerts, including one livestream at 7 p.m.“. And to add: “For us, nothing more natural than to celebrate our anniversary on stage, since that’s where we arrived.” Louise Attaque will perform on “a central stage (…) at the closer to people”, explains violinist Arnaud Samuel at the same microphone.
The band played their entire debut album, in order. A reissue of the disc Louise Attack was also released on April 15, 2022. Proof of the fans’ enthusiasm for this event, all the concerts were already sold out a few minutes after the ticket office opened on the site from the Elysee Montmartre.