Rock en Seine: for its 20th anniversary, the festival offers singer Billie Eilish

Marie Gicque, edited by Loane Nader // photo credit: 13:10 p.m., August 23, 2023

The Rock en Seine festival opens this Wednesday evening and blows its 20th candle at the same time. One of the big names of this edition is barely older than the event, it is the American icon Billie Eilish. The presence of the latter was not cheap, because the festival had to pay the sum of one and a half million euros to offer a memorable performance to its 40,000 festival-goers. If the 21-year-old American popstar is the youngest artist in the programming, the Californian with hair sometimes silver, sometimes green, pink or blue, has nothing more to prove.

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Placebo and The Strokes on stage

His stula is recognizable among a thousand with poetic prose that speaks to the younger generations and titles with innovative production made by his older brother. She has to her credit the signature of the James Bond soundtrack, multiple listening records, as well as seven Grammy Awards on her fireplace.

And this Wednesday evening, there will also be the Swedish Tove Lo, adept of breakthrough songs on a background of electro, for a 100% female poster. It is therefore an exhilarating first evening to launch a very electric and eclectic program. In total, no less than 70 artists will parade until Sunday on the stages of Rock en Seine. Finally, in a genre a little more faithful to the festival, the very edgy rock bands Placebo and The Strokes are also highly anticipated.