• Until at least January 24, concerts and gatherings are limited to 2,000 people indoors and must take place seated.

  • Measures which have forced some theater managers to cancel or postpone concerts.

  • They justify this decision in relation to the configuration of events that do not lend themselves to being seated like techno concerts.

Since January 3, gatherings of more than 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 people outdoors have been banned, as have standing concerts, for a period of three weeks, the government announced at the end of December following the Health Defense Council. In the Alpes-Maritimes, few rooms have such a large capacity, yet some organizers have still chosen to cancel or postpone their programming until early February.

This is the case at the Palais Nikaïa. If he was one of the first to react on the networks by announcing his (false) presidential candidacy to continue his tour, because political meetings, protected by the Constitution, are not affected by health measures, Eddy de Pretto will not come to Nice on January 28 as planned. "For reasons beyond our control related to the health situation, unfortunately still too unstable, we cannot ensure the maintenance of this representation in good conditions", we read on the site of the hall. At the end of December, Corinne Assyag, director of the place, confided to our colleagues from

France 3 Paca

, that “for so few places for sale, the producers risk not moving to the Nikaïa palace”.

"It's hard to imagine some concerts taking place seated"

New tour dates have been communicated for the singer of

Kid

, but none seem to have been found for the capital of the French Riviera.

“Between the availability of the room and the artist's schedule, that's the problem we face with this kind of measure.

We do it on a case-by-case basis to either cancel or postpone, ”says Cyril Foucault, project manager at Panda Events.

This important organizer of events in the territory preferred to close the room Le Frigo 16, inaugurated in September, until February.

“We had already canceled the last two dates of December for the sake of consistency with the decree on nightclubs and the ban on dancing in bars, continues the manager.

We have a capacity of 400 people standing but there are musical aesthetics that are only played in this way.

He specifies: “For concert configurations, like those of techno, we imagine them badly seated, whether it is the organizers, the artists or the public.

Even economically, it's difficult to maintain for a small room like ours.

»

A “fuzzy” context

A situation that the Palais des Festivals in Cannes did not have to undergo. Despite the postponement of the visit of Irish Celtic, because of the closure of the borders, no show has been canceled. “All of our rooms are seated. For the large auditorium, which has a capacity of 2,300 seats, we adapted and we limit the gauge to 2,000, “said the room.

One week from the end of these measures, the context "remains unclear".

Cyril Foucault explains: “It's difficult to project yourself even if you want to remain optimistic.

We are motivated, for two years, we are almost used to it.

But we don't know if we're actually going to reopen on February 4 and when we do, we can't know how the public will react.

In any case, we still need a little organization and anticipation to get going again or to do otherwise.

»

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