Old plows: Depeche Mode puts his fans in a trance

Carhaix (France) – Depeche Mode captivated an audience of nearly 70,000 fans on Thursday night in a light-filled, video-packed concert where the elegant Dave Gahan was particularly in shape, at the opening of the 27th edition of Vieilles Charrues de Carhaix (Finistère).
  

" It's a hellish turning back for me ," says Michaël, 47, who saw Basildon's group in concert for the first time at 19 years old. " It was beautiful, they perform well, and musically they stayed very good ," he says nostalgically.

Despite a technical incident on a big screen, the crowded crowd of quadras and fifties danced a lot, raised their arms and took pictures for 1:45 against those who reign for 35 years on synthetic pop.

" Depeche Mode was expected by many people, it was armored armored, it was great ," enthuses Beatrice, 38. Fan of the first hour, Delphine, 49 years old, had drawn hearts and the initials " DM " on his cheeks, his arms and his jeans, where one could read " Je vous mode ", mix of" I love you "and" Depeche Mode ".

The opinions were more mixed in the young audience, such Lise 22 years old, who knows " not well " and vibrated only on unstoppable tubes, " Stripped "," Enjoy the Silence "and" Never Let Me Down Again ".

Earlier in the evening, Marquis de Sade and his hieratic singer, Philippe Pascal, also sent festival-goers back to the 1980s.

After 36 years of absence, the legend of French cold wave post-punk aesthetic, which had separated in 1981 after only four years of existence, found the taste of the scene last September in Rennes, before staging the appointments scenic.

With its mature rock, dark, even bitter, the legendary group of French rock gave Thursday a show full of pbadion, with a Pascal Pascal mechanical gesture walking on stage in front of a charmed audience, who applauded. Olli & the Bollywood Orchestra and No Land had kicked off the festivities earlier, and Soulwax closed the ball.

– " Out of Time " –

Placed this year under the auspices of Bollywood, the festival opened with a traditional " pulled plow " in the presence the mayor of Carhaix, Christian Troadec, and the Morvan brothers, traditional singers with a very long career.

Palace of maharajas, Bollywood disco-bus, buildings of all kinds topped with colorful streamers … The organizers have emphasized kitsch and colorful decorations.

Like the epic stories of Bollywood, the mechanical elephant of the Korbo company, surmounted by a canopy where dancers evolved, then paraded in the plain of Kerampuilh, which extends this year on 13 hectares 18 football fields.

Lights on the vegetation and huge lanterns transformed the plain of Kerampuilh at night.

" The Vieilles Charrues is a bubble, a time out of time where we forget the worries and where we meet with friends, family ," says Soizic, 55, native of Binic (Côtes-d'Armor), who has been coming for ten years and wears a pink straw hat with yellow flowers " special festivals ".

For the 2018 edition, the organizers have thought more about the comfort of the festival-goers, with a new relaxation area, the " garden ", hammocks, dishes of Breton starred chefs and access to the site reviewed to avoid the tails. A zip line has also been installed near the Ferris wheel.

After the Weinstein affair, the festival also launched an anti-harbadment campaign this year. In addition to the already existing protocol on the conduct to be held, for the teams, facing the behaviors " at risk ", spots are diffused on screen between the concerts with as message: " When it is no, no, the difference between dragging and harbading is consent ".

The 2017 edition of Les Vieilles Charrues attracted 280,000 visitors.