Zenith, Olympia, Bercy - Joining just Papa Wemba, JB Mpiana, and Koffi Olomide. Who’s next?

I can foresee perhaps Werrason doing a Olympia to join, then Ferre in a few years doing Olympia and Bercy

Now that the combatants took the L (as far as the Bercy happening) - « Music is back » - Fally voice

David Monsoh needs to work on a rain date for Heritier’s ill fated Olympia

Zenith, Olympia, Bercy - Joining just Papa Wemba, JB Mpiana, and Koffi Olomide. Who’s next?

I can foresee perhaps Werrason doing a Olympia to join, then Ferre in a few years doing Olympia and Bercy

Now that the combatants took the L (as far as the Bercy happening) - « Music is back » - Fally voice

David Monsoh needs to work on a rain date for Heritier’s ill fated Olympia

It's too soon to say music is back. We have to wait for a second concert to be played peacefully to say music is back.

If every concert by a congolese musician has to be followed by huge troubles like yesterday (cars burning, train stations shut down, etc), congolese musicians will be unable to play in Paris, Brussels, and London. Nobody is going to pay for all those cops being deployed everytime there is a concert.

It's all depend on the next concert. Let's see who's gonna take the risk.

Zenith, Olympia, Bercy - Joining just Papa Wemba, JB Mpiana, and Koffi Olomide. Who’s next?

I can foresee perhaps Werrason doing a Olympia to join, then Ferre in a few years doing Olympia and Bercy

Now that the combatants took the L (as far as the Bercy happening) - « Music is back » - Fally voice

David Monsoh needs to work on a rain date for Heritier’s ill fated Olympia

It's too soon to say music is back. We have to wait for a second concert to be played peacefully to say music is back.

If every concert by a congolese musician has to be followed by huge troubles like yesterday (cars burning, train stations shut down, etc), congolese musicians will be unable to play in Paris, Brussels, and London. Nobody is going to pay for all those cops being deployed everytime there is a concert.

It's all depend on the next concert. Let's see who's gonna take the risk.

How bad was the damage of Gate de Lyon? From the footage it looked like the entire station was engulfed, causing total loss. Attacks like that will cause regular Congolese to suffer more xenophobia

Next is Koffi’s U Arena, which I’m slightly skeptical is even official? With how senior he is, I’m not sure he’ll fight the battle head on like Fally’s team did with same help authorities

Utter madness

View this post on Instagram

Can you really blame France for "xenophobia" when they allow Congolese to live in their country via asylum and have dealt with these riots for a decade? And for what? Its not about the economy, it's not about education, but about a foriegn musician's political affiliation.

I believe that it's time for an ultimatum; either the African community can protest future concerts in peaceful boycotts or it's time to mass deport the diaspora back home.

Zenith, Olympia, Bercy - Joining just Papa Wemba, JB Mpiana, and Koffi Olomide. Who’s next?

I can foresee perhaps Werrason doing a Olympia to join, then Ferre in a few years doing Olympia and Bercy

Now that the combatants took the L (as far as the Bercy happening) - « Music is back » - Fally voice

David Monsoh needs to work on a rain date for Heritier’s ill fated Olympia

It's too soon to say music is back. We have to wait for a second concert to be played peacefully to say music is back.

If every concert by a congolese musician has to be followed by huge troubles like yesterday (cars burning, train stations shut down, etc), congolese musicians will be unable to play in Paris, Brussels, and London. Nobody is going to pay for all those cops being deployed everytime there is a concert.

It's all depend on the next concert. Let's see who's gonna take the risk.

How bad was the damage of Gate de Lyon? From the footage it looked like the entire station was engulfed, causing total loss. Attacks like that will cause regular Congolese to suffer more xenophobia

Next is Koffi’s U Arena, which I’m slightly skeptical is even official? With how senior he is, I’m not sure he’ll fight the battle head on like Fally’s team did with same help authorities

The station itself is fine but the fire was really close, so they had to shut down the entire station. The fire was very big, so it was dangerous to keep the station open. This is one of the biggest train station in Paris, near the ministry of finance. No one wants to see trouble like that over there.

Was Koffi serous about the U Arena? He should wait and adopt a different strategy than Fally. Koffi has the potential to fill the U Arena, especially if he's able to turn it into a celebration of his careers and QL. But if there is tension like yesterday, he won't be able to fill it or he won't even get the arena. Nobody wants to see combattants burning cars in the middle of La Defense, which is the Paris business center.

Koffi should avoid turning his performance into a challenge with the combattants and avoid his concert becoming the victory of a political camp. Those are the mistakes Fally or his entourage made.

Koffi is smooth enough to pull it off, but it won't be easy. Let's first see if he will get the arena.

Did the concert take place or was it cancelled? Is this the same Bercy that Koffi, Werrason, Papa and JB played in?

Did the concert take place or was it cancelled? Is this the same Bercy that Koffi, Werrason, Papa and JB played in?

It took place and it was sold out some of us watched it live by streaming
http://congovibes.com/congolese-music/fallys-bercy-is-happening-right-now/

Isn't Zaiko playing today in Brussels? That would be another litmus test for how resolute the combatant's are in terms of carrying forward their fight especially after yesterday's obvious loss.

Isn't Zaiko playing today in Brussels? That would be another litmus test for how resolute the combatant's are in terms of carrying forward their fight especially after yesterday's obvious loss.

People don't really care about that concert.

The next big test will be next big concert.

Combattants took somehow a loss, but at the same time they never had so much publicity and impact since the "combat" began. Never. They will do it again, especially if it's Fally.

Wait and see.

Did the concert take place or was it cancelled? Is this the same Bercy that Koffi, Werrason, Papa and JB played in?

It's the same Bercy! It's been refurbished! There used to be 17,000 seats now 3000 more have been added.

Isn't Zaiko playing today in Brussels? That would be another litmus test for how resolute the combatant's are in terms of carrying forward their fight especially after yesterday's obvious loss.

People don't really care about that concert.

The next big test will be next big concert.

Combattants took somehow a loss, but at the same time they never had so much publicity and impact since the "combat" began. Never. They will do it again, especially if it's Fally.

Wait and see.

You have a point. So most likely the real second test is Fally's UK concert. Let's see how it pans out given the difference in jurisdiction as well as homeland security handling.

Isn't Zaiko playing today in Brussels? That would be another litmus test for how resolute the combatant's are in terms of carrying forward their fight especially after yesterday's obvious loss.

People don't really care about that concert.

The next big test will be next big concert.

Combattants took somehow a loss, but at the same time they never had so much publicity and impact since the "combat" began. Never. They will do it again, especially if it's Fally.

Wait and see.

You have a point. So most likely the real second test is Fally's UK concert. Let's see how it pans out given the difference in jurisdiction as well as homeland security handling.

I live in the U.K and the combattants are annoying over here.... the way everything’s been set up including brexit if the combattants try anything and pull a stunt like they did yesterday and get caught and arrested they’ll be sent back to Congo, like what happened with the Jamaicans a few weeks ago.

With Fally having performed at Bercy will his band split ? Because always after that a Congolese artist performed at Bercy (except Wemba), the band is about to split.

I don't think there will be a split per se, but if past experience from previous bands has taught us anything, there's always at least one member who chooses to stay behind in France or any other European country.