• Like many music groups, Léonie suffered the health crisis and confinement head-on.

  • The trio of Vendéens released a track at the end of last week which tells the difficulties of the group for more than a year.

  • A rather rare dark register for a group known and renowned for its festive state of mind.

The trio of surfers from Sand took the Covid-19 wave in the face. The Vendée group Léonie released on Friday a new track "full of nostalgia and regret". "" Today "is the title of our song, tells about all the difficulties that we have gone through and that we have had for several months with the confinement due to the health crisis, explains Fred, one of the two singers from the trio of Les Sables d'Olonne. How our career plan turned into a rescue plan if I may say so… ”A single“ darker than usual ”for a pop rock group usually with a festive spirit as with“ Do you want ”, the title with which Léonie had met with great success in 2019.

"Take us back to our former lives ... Today, I'm not well, I no longer have any benchmarks ... I feel like I'm useless, the impression of screwing my life up. 'tune… More than a year that we are struggling… ”, sings, melancholy, the group, cut off in its tracks by the sudden onset of the health crisis a little over a year ago.

The "dream" of a shattered tour

At the end of 2019, Alban, Fred and Marc are on the verge of “making a dream come true”. A tour with concerts all over France awaits them. “We were in total excitement,” recalls Fred. We who love the stage, we had planned a real show. And there everything went into spins… ”Léonie, created in 2009, has just enough time to do a concert at the Maroquinerie in Paris in December. It will be the last before "the frustration of mad". Because of this damn virus, the whole tour is canceled. The trio does not let go for all that. During the first confinement, he released the clip and the song "Et toi" featuring many artists. The title works well. But the scene is increasingly lacking in the group. "We have been a bit of forced unemployment for months, we,our goal in life is to work as much as possible and, above all, to do as many concerts as possible… ”, says Fred.

For this summer, the group, which is thirsty for stage and audience, has taken the lead given the uncertainty on the health plan. He plans to go back a few years. At its roots. On the places where it all began for them. "We said to ourselves: 'We wouldn't call back those who made us play and know? We are going to redo what we did before… small festivals, municipal halls etc. Above all, we do not want to redo a white season. "

In the meantime, as he sings in his latest track “Today”, the group dreams of “the life before”.

“We think that it is not a profound evil and that everything we are currently experiencing is temporary.

This is why in the clip which will be released next week, there is a lot of good humor and life.

A musical atmosphere which corresponds more to what the Léonie group has always wanted to be.

Léonie recorded at the end of March a first concert which will be broadcast on the Culture Box television channel on Saturday evening in prime-time.

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