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Castle of La Roche Goyon
“It was an accident. I was working at the factory when we recorded the tracks with Cedric [Soubiron] in the studio, and he believed in it. He went to the record companies with the tracks, I didn’t expect that at all. The first time I signed my contract with a record company, the next day I was back at the factory… And even the first time I heard La Tribu de Dana on the radio, I was at the factory! For me it has been something very curious.”
Martial Tricoche
Direction Armorican Brittany, country of the great menhirs but also of the Celtic people. Inspired by local legends, Cédric Soubiron and Martial Tricoche wrote the lyrics of their song, La Tribu de Dana. The latter is an Irish deity, linked to the Celts, and the equivalent of the Greek goddess Gaia. The influence of this goddess is international since she appears in many songs, video games and even comics like in Thor at Marvel.
Manau is content to create a tribe devoted to the goddess that fights another people, the Cimmerians. If it is impossible to locate the valley or the house of the new king of Dana’s tribe, the castle and the cliffs of the clip are perfectly identifiable.
La Tribu de Dana at the Castle of la Roche Goyon
It is in Plévenon, in the castle of the Roche Goyon, also called Fort la Latte, that the trio puts in images the song which became a reference in the musical world. The band members find themselves fighting the wind at the edge of the cliffs of the site and even materialize at the top of the keep to sing their ballad.
Back to the roots
If since the immense success of this first single the group has gone under the radar of the charts, Martial Tricoche and his sidekick Cédric Soubiron have not forgotten their attachment to Brittany but also to this emblematic place. Indeed, 20 years later, Martial Tricoche goes again to the castle of La Roche Goyon, not to sing war songs near the tombs, but to shoot the video clip of his song Ma Reine. It seems that even today, within the walls of the castle, you can still hear the echoes of La Tribu de Dana.
In addition to France, the song was ranked in the top 3 in two other countries, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Fort la Latte (Château de La Roche Goyon)
Formerly called Château de la Roche Goyon, Fort La Latte was built in the 14th century and served as a stronghold until the 19th century.
Situated on the side of a cliff, guaranteeing an unobstructed view of the Bay of Saint-Malo and the English Channel, Fort La Latte was a highly coveted strategic military site.
Until the end of the First Empire in 1815, the fort served as a garrison. Since 1892, several private owners succeeded one another and was renovated in 1931 by the passionate Frederic Joüon des Longrais.
A water tank, a chapel, a cannonball oven, dungeons, a small menhir which, according to the legend, would be the “finger” or the “tooth” of Gargantua, but also cannons remain on the site.
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