In the “Bataclan” is back to dancing. At the first concert after the Terror, the audience is re-entering the concert hall, singing, clapping, and cheering. The British musician Sting with a promising performance on Saturday evening, the balancing act succeeds in its symbol between remembering and commitment to life.
“We celebrate the life and commemorate the people who died a year ago,” says Ruben. The 34-Year-old originally from Portugal and now lives in Brussels, he came for the concert to Paris. “We also ensure that our values and Beliefs prevail,” he says.
The concert hall with the colorful facade, the Islamist attack on September 13. November gained notoriety, is similar to this evening of a fortress. The road is cordoned off, everywhere heavily armed police. Who wants to go to the hall, by two checks, and is scanned by the security people thoroughly. Outside, people placed candles, some visitors have brought flowers.
The new “Bataclan”-lettering in red, dancing letters, and see a little longer. Now the audience of the sold-out concert also discovered the completely renovated Interior. Everything is sparkling new: The balcony with a dark red fabric clad, parquet blank and without scarring. To hard for me to reconcile this image with the Drama that has played out here, as a heavily armed terrorist commando stormed in and 90 people killed. The wide emergency exit doors to the left of the stage were a factor of life and death.
“Good friends of mine have not survived,” says Gerald Gran Villiers, while the hall fills up slowly. He was here today for Sting, but especially to the memory. “If you can, you have to be,” he says. According to his sensations asked, is struggling for words. “Many emotions, too much sadness. A strange feeling," he says. And a clear message: “life must go on.” This sentence occurs again and again. It is a defiant commitment to not let it get you down. The victims relatives have made in the run-up to significantly of how important this character is.
comes As a Sting to the stage, he asks the French to hold a minute’s silence. The well-filled hall is quiet as a mouse, then the 65 on-Year-old his ballad “Fragile”. To the thoughtful entry, a Mix of well-known Hits such as “Englishman in New York”, “Every Breath You Take” and “Message In A Bottle”, and Songs from his just released Album “57th and 9th”.
“I was by the choice of some of the songs a little surprised,” says a visitor to Fatima later – for example, the Song “Inshallah”, which deals with the refugee crisis. “But it was very suitable. He has found a good balance."
After several encores, Sting is at the end of alone with an acoustic guitar on stage. Behind him is a photo of James Foley, the American journalist who was beheaded in 2014 by a supporter of the terror militia Islamic state appears.
“This song is for him, his family and all the families who have lost that evening with a loved one,” says the singer, and sings the Song “The Empty Chair”. It is about a prisoner who calls his family in your thoughts not to despair over the empty chair: “Somehow I’ll be there” – “Somehow I’ll be there”. In the audience, it’s completely silent, then thunder bursts of applause. And Sting is passed with a call: “Vive le Bataclan’” – “It is the ‘Bataclan live’”.
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