Rennes (AFP)
Australian band Tame Impala and their countrymen Pond will be featured on the "Route du rock" for one of their rare concerts at the 29th edition of the festival which will take place from Thursday to Saturday in Saint-Malo.
With a program "100% independent music" (not produced by majors of the music industry), the walls of Fort Saint-Père will welcome groups from across the Channel as the English Idles, Black Midi, Hot Chip or Metronomy.
"The Rock Route has (...) more than ever need to be supported," say the organizers who say they face several difficulties with "increasingly expensive artists, security constraints increasingly high" (...), the arrival of new actors with colossal financial means ".
The opening night of the festival on Thursday will be female and American: singer Sharon Van Etten, Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief and Anna St. Louis will open the ball of festivities at the New Wave, the Mecca of current music in Ille-et-Vilaine .
Headlining the festival, the Australians Tame Impala, the leading group of psychedelic electro-rock scene, will play their last album Thursday. They will be preceded on the stage by the Franco-British Stereolab, post-rock group "cult and revered" for their only date of summer.
On Friday, the Belgian duo 2 Many DJ's will replace Beirut who canceled his entire European tour. The Hot Chip, the "dancing machine", will succeed and rendezvous is given on the dance floor of the fort.
The pop-songs of the English group Metronomy will be on stage for the closing night of the festival which will end Saturday this year, one day earlier than usual. Some 21,000 festival-goers went to the "Route du Rock" during the 2018 edition.
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