Lady Gaga Criticises French Government Over Paris Gig Cancellation
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Written by James Conlon
Lady Gaga has expressed her outrage after being forced to postpone a sold-out show in Paris earlier this week. In a series of enraged posts on Twitter, the singer announced her displeasure at being forced to cancel a performance due to take place in Bercy on Sunday (December 19th).
Due to snow, French government officials had decided to ban large vehicles from driving through the Ile de France region, which includes Paris. Unfortunately for Gaga, all twenty eight of her touring vehicles were deemed too large for travel and held by transport authorities overnight, meaning that the gig would have had no lighting or sound capabilities.
Gaga Tweeted: “All 28 of my trucks for the Monster Ball were detained by the French government going on over 26 hrs,” she said. The singer went on to claim that two of her employees had been arrested in the incident, which took place at French customs. She continued: “I am furious and devastated, its unfair to my fans and to me. I'm so sorry, angry + sad.”
The show has been rescheduled and will take place tonight (December 21st). Gaga was also due to play the venue yesterday, and hopefully lived up to the promise which she made (again over Twitter), declaring that fans would have “The nights of your life”.
This is not the first time that Lady Gaga has had difficulties in France with her current tour. The shows this week in Bercy are dates which have already been rescheduled: in October the singer’s concerts were forced to be postponed after a series of nationwide strikes concerning a Government vote to raise the age of retirement.
Meanwhile, Gaga has spoken about the tone of her recently-finished album, ‘Born This Way’. In an interview with BBC Radio 1, the singer said that the record is “more poetic” than her previous efforts.
She told Radio 1: "It's really written by the fans, they really wrote it for me because every night they're funnelling so much into me. It's a marriage of electronic music with major, epic, dare I even say metal or rock 'n' roll, anthemic style melodies with really sledge-hammering dance beats. It's finished and all, it's just fine-tuning everything."
She continued "It's kind of like the post-operative stage of the album. I've already done the full heart surgery. I'm just sewing myself back up again."
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