Sad news. British band Florence The Machine unfortunately had to cancel their long-awaited performance at Rock en Seine, as the festival itself announced on Monday. “It is with great regret that we learned of the sudden cancellation of Florence The Machine’s performance scheduled for August 26,” reads the event’s Instagram account.
Fortunately for the public, the organizers took up the challenge of completing the program. Festival-goers will have the pleasure of welcoming the group Cypress Hill, Latin American hip-hop icons of the 90s, who are returning to Paris after a five-year absence. The band, known for their hit Insane in the Brain, will be celebrating their third performance on the festival stage. He has already performed at Saint-Cloud Park in 2010, alongside Massive Attack and Arcade Fire, as well as in 2017, sharing the stage with Franz Ferdinand, The Kills and Jain.
Some are delighted with the arrival of Cypress Hill, praising the efficiency of the organizers in replacing a group five days before the event. Others disagree. “The two have absolutely nothing to do”, “for Florence fans it’s hot”, “you could have at least put a group in the same genre” chant fans of Florence The Machine on social networks.
Festival-goers who hold a ticket “for the day of August 26 only”, a refund option is made available. They have until September 15 to submit their request by filling out a dedicated form.
The band’s cancellation comes as no surprise. Rock en Seine has already been faced with cancellations from major artists a few days, even a few hours, before their performance. In 2007 and 2008, singer Amy Winehouse, scheduled to headline, also had to cancel her appearance because of her health problems. A year later, the Gallagher brothers, founding members of the band Oasis, tore themselves apart backstage within minutes of their supposed show. “We really had the impression that it was a bad joke, remembers Matthieu Ducos, the director of the festival. The sequence of these situations, two years in a row, seemed impossible to us”.
