Thomas Fersen « Comme on quitte un imperméable »

Thomas Fersen presents Like Taking Off a Raincoat, a new chapter in his narrative songwriting, on October 6, 2026 at La Scala, Paris. The Parisian singer-songwriter who emerged in the early 1990s has forged a recognisable style, blending everyday fables, a menagerie of battered characters and a discreet sense of whimsy. Here he returns as a musical storyteller, on the border between theatre and song, with a knack for planting vivid images in a few lines and opening doors onto stories with hidden depths.

His hushed voice and deliberately rhythmic phrasing glide between nursery rhyme and urban chronicle. The acoustic arrangements—guitars, occasionally piano and touches of percussion—serve the words, privileging texture and detail over grand gestures. Like Taking Off a Raincoat suggests a sidestep, a gentle shedding: leaving a shell, returning to the songs’ bare bones to let the language take center stage.

The setlist draws on recent songs, slips in a few detours to older pieces and presents new vignettes crafted for the stage. With writing in the foreground, a narrative that settles in effortlessly, shadowed humour and a light melancholy, the concert weaves a fabric in which one follows the characters as if turning the pages of a short novel. Join us at La Scala to step into this new episode, at the calm, precise pace of Thomas Fersen.