After some false goodbyes, the show The night was (still) young bowed Sunday night in front of a happy crowd at MTelus in Montreal. Without falling into nostalgia, Jean-Philippe Wauthier, Olivier Niquet and Jean-Sébastien Girard delivered what they have done best together over the past ten years: a “damn” virtue show radio.
The emotion in the room was palpable as the curtain rose on the three men, who would soon be living together for the last two hours of radio (at least, in the format The night). Who better to end this adventure with them than the three women of heart who contributed to the restoration pep in a formula that was somewhat exhausting at the start of the pandemic?
Anne-Marie Cadieux, Élise Guilbault and Nathalie Petrowski once again confirmed the female counterpart of boy club of the ICI Première with humor and elegance, welcoming the once destructive points of Jean-Sébastien and Jean-Philippe with a smile, knowing full well the codes of their humor that are often disguised as frightening.
Several favorites of the trio over the past few years paraded on stage throughout the night, from Louis-José Houde to Rosalie Vaillancourt by David Goudreault, who gave intense testimony of love in the form of a farewell to the three acolytes on the guitar. chord of Louis-Jean Cormier.
The musical part of the evening was also well performed, of late, but also by the group Vulgaires Machins and Elliot Maginot, who offered on the piano a medley of the show’s best jingles, The recipe of our stars sa You are at home with us. A golden gift for Jean-Sébastien whose voice, sometimes approximate, but strange, marked by hot iron in the show’s ten years, until the last segment ngHello Bobo Sunday night, where the sympathetic speaker could not help but burst into tears.
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How to summarize in a few lines the effect of The night was (still) young at the ICI Premiere? The spectrum is wide between people who haven’t yet found their account there and others who follow the show with almost religious enthusiasm, such as the 7,000 members of the Facebook group The night is (still) young: the pool.
But for those who accept the show’s bold proposal, facing the hurdle ofjokes inside of the trio that at first glance is a bit embarrassing, The night remain in their minds as a real love letter on the radio. He transformed the captive audience typically associated with the medium into a community that actively contributes to the show’s universe.
A surfer member of the evening’s Pool group also found the right words to describe the feeling that lived with some fans of the show at the end of the course:
I know why I am hurting. The night like my teenage friends. We laughed without speaking, we understood each other; we had our within, he wrote. I lost that feeling in my twenties and found it again in my thirties and my forties collapsed.
For ten years, Jean-Philippe Wauthier, Jean-Sébastien Girard and Olivier Niquet were able to entertain the public and change the formerly very serious image of Radio-Canada’s first channel. Against all odds, from Fred Savard’s intense departure to some period of exhaustion that felt themselves in the air, they knew how to maintain the spirit of sincere friendship that had been successful with them.
The empty The night leaving the airwaves will be felt for a long time. In the early stages of mourning, the public has probably not yet figured out who could replace this group of friends who have found the perfect formula.
But the question arose: The night will it be a shooting star in the Quebec radio landscape, or will it open a breach through which a new generation of passionate people can infiltrate with useless words?
Source: Radio-Canada
