Toulouse: a promising success for the first edition of the Bigflo & Oli Rose Festival
50,000 spectators for two days of concerts, big names in hip-hop and electropop music on the bill: for its first edition at the MEETT in Toulouse, the Rose Festival kept all its promises. Jean-Nicolas Baylet, managing director of the Dépêche du Midi group and Samuel Capus, associate director of Bleu Citron productions, draw up a very positive initial assessment.
With Bigflo & Oli, Jean-Nicolas Baylet and Samuel Capus are the inspiration behind the Rose Festival, a new event that brought together 50,000 spectators at the MEETT in Toulouse and a line-up of around twenty leading and up-and-coming artists. Thanks to their meeting barely a year ago, the idea of this new generation festival came to fruition, explains Jean-Nicolas Baylet, Managing Director of the Dépêche du Midi group: “We met and got to know each other and we realized that we have had the same values as well as this common desire to create a festival for years. This made it possible to work with a serenity that was quite surprising for people who did not know each other. We worked in good intelligence by presenting compromises, solutions since listening was privileged. And I think you feel that harmony in the festival itself. »
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Same tone for Samuel Capus, associate director of Bleu Citron productions: “Our desires were aligned, the listening was there, the degree of requirement too, and the know-how of each one was put at the service of the project and the desire to create. And today, it’s stronger than anything we imagine, it’s the public who overtook us! »
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Towards a third day of festival
It was enough to walk around the forecourt which served as a pit for the various concerts which followed one another for two days on the site chosen for the event to understand that the objective of satisfying this public at the average age of 28 years is amply achieved. “We wanted to offer a qualitative event, continues Mr. Baylet, so the investment involved is significant. We took risks after the difficult health period that we went through and which may not be over. And then, we had counted on half the audience. And Samuel Capus adds: “It’s a lot of money, a lot of risk, it’s a long road and the budget will only be balanced in 5 or 7 years. But the success of the first edition will reassure potential new partners and artists.
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General enthusiasm The programming thought up by Bigflo & Oli, their determination won over M.Baylet: “They are faultless, they are almost too perfect, they have their faults, their qualities, their characters but they manage to reason with each other each other, to position themselves, and at the same time to keep this youthful freshness and to be super professional, they impress me! ” And, obviously, it’s not over since the second edition is already in the heads of the four friends: “With this first edition sold out we will think, after taking stock in a few days, to consider a third day of festival, to enlarge the gauge if necessary. “With, also in mind, the improvements to be made according to Samuel Capus:” The Toulousans were indulgent for this first but for the second
edition there will be more toilets, bars and foodtrucks. ” See you next year !
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