PhoenixAfter the Opening Ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games locked in Gojira—the first metal band to ever perform at the Olympics—Celine Dion with an epic comeback, and Lady Gaga with a story of her own, reports have begun to surface about who will perform at this weekend’s Closing Ceremony.
This year’s Olympics have been packed with incredible moments, but unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and this Sunday (11 August), or very early Monday morning for us Aussies, the Olympics will hopefully end with a bang.
According to the French news outlet Le Parisien, music director Thomas Jolly – who directed the Opening Ceremony – has been working on a special Closing Ceremony that will reportedly include indie rock band Phoenix and music duo Air, both from the municipality of Versailles, France.
The Closing Ceremony will reportedly follow the theme of “Records” and take place for two hours in the Stade de France. The show is set to display a “futuristic world where the Games have disappeared”.
As NME notes, if Air and Phoenix perform at the Closing Ceremony, it will follow a recent team-up at Terminal 1 at Roissy Airport last month.
Tom Cruise will also reportedly make an important appearance during the Closing Ceremony, perhaps to pass the torch from Paris 2024 to Los Angeles 2028.
Last October, Daft Punk declined an offer to reunite and perform at the Olympic Games.
Back in May, Air celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 1998 debut album, Moon Safari, with an exclusive show at the Sydney Opera House.
In a The Music live review, writer Shaun Colnan remarked, “This transformative sonic sojourn combines ethereal synths, retro-futurist imagery and basslines that hold you in a sky-bound groove.”
Following a performance of Talisman, Colnan wrote that it was “A soundtrack to the gloaming with hints of blue notes stretched into eternity, carried forth with that suspenseful percussion. It conjures up a wanderer exploring some foreign world full of enigma and exotic wonder.”
