Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 1:57 p.m., December 30, 2021
The gauges announced by the government on Monday will apply from the beginning of next week to concert halls.
A news that is not greeted with a smile by the artists supposed to go on stage in the coming weeks, or by the managers of these rooms who are making their anger heard.
For the owners of the rooms, the slate will be salty.
A salty and surprising slate above all, as Lily Fisher, director of the Zénith de Paris, which has 7,000 seats, confided.
"We have a very negative record since we have not played for almost two years," she said.
From next Monday, the rooms will have to apply the new gauges: 2,000 people maximum indoors, 5,000 people maximum outdoors.
Postpone concerts (again)
These large venues felt spared after the health protocols put in place but now is the time for giant Tetris since the shows must be postponed between spring and next fall and survive economically.
A concert at the Zénith brings in between 30,000 and 50,000 euros.
"Since March 2020, we have done about twenty performances, knowing that it is a small monthly average. Usually, we are at 150 performances per year," says Lily Fisher.
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"We hope that the State will be up to the task. We took out State Guaranteed Loans (EMPs) and the irony is that we are supposed to start repaying them at the start of the year, when we close our Zenith again, ”she explains.
Will the State postpone the reimbursement of these EMPs?
The rooms appeal again to the National Music Center (CNM) which was able to activate aid for the sector during the first confinement.
Some artists are unlucky: the group "Good Hearer" sees its dates postponed for the fourth time.