“It’s not my fault”, did not sing Beyoncé but Alizée. A refrain that could resume in recent days Valérie Pécresse annoyed at being accused of having played a role in the absence of a second date for the Parisian concert of “Queen B”.
Live Nation, the company that produces Beyoncé’s concert scheduled for May 26 at the Stade de France, said on Tuesday that it was unable to organize a second date there the following day due to work carried out by the SNCF throughout. weekend on the northern section of RER B to regenerate the tracks.
“Do not spoof”
“I have received many messages from Beyoncé fans who are extremely disappointed by the cancellation of her second concert date in Paris,” revealed the president of the Ile-de-France region in a video posted on TikTok. “So it seems it’s my fault.” I will rectify things, ”continues Valérie Pécresse with the tube in the background. Crazy in Love by Beyoncé and Jay Z.
“I have a wide back, but do not kidding”, insists the one who also chairs Ile-de-France mobilities (IDFM), the authority which organizes transport in the Ile-de-France region. “The dates of the transport works that bring the Stade de France (…) are known two years in advance and all the event producers know it”, underlines Valérie Pécresse.
“I say welcome” to Beyoncé
The boss of Live Nation France, Angelo Gopee, does not say the opposite. He told AFP on Tuesday evening that he had been confronted with “a problem of transporting spectators”. “We were told from the start that there would only be Friday, May 26 possible. It is therefore not a financial shortfall for us, we knew it, it is a shortfall for the spectators, ”he lamented. “There is such a demand for Beyoncé, it’s phenomenal, we could have filled the Stade de France on May 27,” he continued.
Tickets for “Queen B” at the Stade de France on May 26 and at the Vélodrome in Marseille on June 11 sold out in less than an hour on the various sales platforms. “You should not discard on others, it’s not very courageous,” replied Valérie Pécresse. “I love Beyoncé, I say welcome to Ile-de-France, but next time, we will have to take a producer who will check that the stadium is available on the right date”, concluded the regional president.