- Roxane Bruneau endured an uncomfortable moment during a show in Rouyn
- She revisits the events
- A group of youths was escorted out
- She hopes to return
As Roxane Bruneau was performing in Rouyn, the singer had to intervene with a group of youths in the crowd. The notable intervention quickly sparked reaction, as multiple media outlets and TikTok accounts shared clips from the scene. Facing widespread discussion, the artist wanted to revisit the events to explain what really happened to her community.
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“I start the show, I can see that there are really a lot of people close to the barricade. I’m stressed because my nightmare is that people will pass out, like last time. (…) And there I am singing a song, and while I’m singing, I spot a gang of guys. The boys start a mosh pit, but seriously… who moshes to Roxane Bruneau?”
According to her, the issue wasn’t that the youths were having fun, but the consequences of their actions on other spectators present.
“What I see is guys who are having fun, all right. But I also see mothers, grandmothers, grown men, and kids around 10 years old being knocked around,” she notes.
After a first intervention, Roxane Bruneau believed the situation would calm down. She even tried to ease the mood with humor by announcing the next song.
“I make the first intervention and then I say: Hey, you’ll see, the next tune won’t really make you want to mosh. It’s kind of the song J’te retiens pas. I start singing J’te retiens pas and there, I see idiots, because they’re looking at me and start pushing. For fun, they push,” she says.
Roxane Bruneau then reacted in a way that did not go unnoticed. Continue reading to discover her explanations and the context of this intervention.
Roxane Bruneau’s Reaction
Roxane Bruneau explains that she quickly noticed many spectators around the group were no longer enjoying the show because of their behavior.
“I can see in the faces of the people around me that they’re thinking: this isn’t fun, live. I finish the song, I don’t even take my applause and I leave: This is the last time I’m warning you. I’m not your high school teacher, I don’t have time to waste with you. Everyone around you, you’re annoying them. If you need that much attention, we’ll film you, we’ll put you on the big screens, it’ll be your time to shine, and after that, I’d invite you to get out, because you’re annoying everyone,” one clip from the show shows.
Seeing the youths appear on the giant screens, she says she lost her cool:
“The camera operators put them on the screens and you have the nicest guy among them, who starts flashing ‘f— you’ at me on the screens. My hands cross? I start giving him the ‘f— you’ back, like a total idiot. In my head, I’m thinking: ugh.”
The singer also shared a video clip of that moment on her social media. You can hear her directly addressing the young man:
“Hey! Hey! Hey! For real, you need to leave. This is my show. These are my rules. You’re out.”
Following this intervention, security personnel eventually stepped in to escort the group of youths off the site.
Roxane Bruneau then explained why she chose to act as firmly as she did.
“For me, my way of thinking is this: to act like that, you need to be humiliated at least once in your life,” she notes.
In another clip from the night, you can also see the moment the youths leave the venue. Roxane addresses them with one final remark:
“It’d be nice if we escorted them all the way home and told his mother: He shamed us enough tonight, Jason! He behaved oddly. He was pushing 12-year-old girls at a family-friendly show.”
Back on Stage?
Looking back on the night, Roxane Bruneau admits that the incident affected her. Nonetheless, she has fond memories of the Rouyn crowd and hopes to return there to deliver the show she intended.
“I’d love to be booked for another Rouyn show, because I don’t feel like I gave what I was meant to give, because after that, it really knocked me off my pedestal, you know,” Roxane emphasizes.
To conclude her video, the singer fully owns her intervention. In her view, her duty was to ensure the safety of the audience, particularly families and the younger ones attending the show.
“Yes friends, Roxane Bruneau lost her temper and told off the idiots who were about to hurt women and children. Because I’m like the captain on the Titanic: women and children first,” she concludes.
This story has certainly generated a lot of press, but Roxane Bruneau has made an effort to set the record straight and share her version of the events. True to herself, the artist did not hesitate to take a stand when she felt the show’s atmosphere was becoming uncomfortable for some spectators. Despite this eventful episode, she remains hopeful of reconnecting with Rouyn’s audience in a more positive context at a future occasion.
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