Nice? Simon Buret recalls some images of vacations, memories on the beach with friends. Olivier Coursier, on the other hand, is visiting the Côte d’Azur for the first time. But he won’t have time to see anything other than the Théâtre Lino Ventura. In Switzerland in the morning, in Marseille the next day: AaRON travels France with a busy schedule. The two boys have set down their luggage in the north of Nice for half a day. Just enough time for some interviews and a concert.
All summer, the duo toured festivals. They continue to travel, following the concerts, and they are thinking about the future: “We’re starting to think about a second album. But we’re waiting a bit for the calm to return around us. We’re not going to make another album just because the first one was successful. We want to keep working on instinct.” Simon is writing a film, which he will start shooting in the winter, and for which they will compose the music. They also write songs for other artists.
On November 20 and 24, the duo was at the Olympia, on cloud nine. “We thought we were going to have a good concert, but we didn’t expect it to be so intense,” explains Simon, the singer. For the occasion, AaRON was accompanied by a string quartet: “Without changing the show entirely, we wanted to make it special! We reached the Olympia very quickly, it’s magical… We had a very powerful moment.” The two boys from AaRON “have a good laugh” before going on stage, like a ritual, to transform stage fright into a driving force.
Intimate Atmosphere at Théâtre Lino Ventura
A background of a starry sky. Some piano and guitar chords, and the slightly hoarse soft voice of Simon Buret. AaRON leisurely settles onto the stage and invites the audience to enter their little world. Tender and melancholic. Humorous and imaginative.
In front of their fans from the Côte d’Azur, the two boys quickly feel at home. Simon engages the audience and makes them laugh: “We’ll need you. We always mess up the intro to this song. Might as well mess it up together.” A moment of emotion, almost fragile, when Simon hands the mic to his audience for a chorus: “Don’t worry, life is easy.” In the rare more rock songs, when Olivier leaves the piano for the electric guitar, Simon throws down a challenge: “you can make some noise!” For their tour, they are accompanied by a talented cellist, whose chords gracefully accompany the melodies. The magic happens.
