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Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui with Flashback Generation VHS

At Le Boui-Boui, we treasure performers who can turn our intimate room into a shared memory bank, and Félix Le Braz does exactly that with Flashback Generation VHS. Taking the stage just a few steps from the audience, he opens the tape box of the 80s and 90s and lets the reels unspool with sharp, affectionate humor. Expect the tactile charm of the analog age to be recreated through sound bites, playful lighting, and a prop or two that will trigger instant recognition: the clack of a cassette door, the neon flicker of a home-recorded intro, the agonizing “tracking” snow that once haunted living-room screens. In our close-knit space, his quick character switches—from the overzealous PE teacher to the video-store clerk guarding the last copy of a cult movie—land with extra force, and the laughs ripple wall to wall. Le Boui-Boui is built for this kind of precision comedy: every eyebrow raise, every nostalgia-drenched whisper, every improvised aside with someone in the front row is visible, audible, and irresistible.

What’s new with the artist, and how the show comes to life in our room

Félix Le Braz has been steadily sharpening his retro-comedy lens with new material, new stories, and fresh interactive moments that ride the line between storytelling and stand-up. His recent online bits—snappy slices of everyday nostalgia like “Retour au vidéoclub,” “Niveau 1: Console Wars,” and “Minitel, mode d’emploi”—have found an eager audience and feed directly into the live experience at Le Boui-Boui. Here, he riffs on universal rites of passage: recording over a cherished tape by mistake, arguing about who gets Player 1, or timing your life to the TV guide. The room’s compact layout keeps the energy high and participatory; a glance can become a running gag, a quick question can spark a volley of call-and-response, and audience memories often weave seamlessly into Félix’s narrative thread. It’s a joy to watch him modulate pace—rapid-fire nostalgia grenades give way to slow, meticulous reenactments that squeeze every drop of humor from a frozen frame or a rewound scene. If you grew up with Saturday-morning cartoons and the sacred ritual of “Do not touch the red record button,” Flashback Generation VHS at Le Boui-Boui feels tailor-made for you.

As a venue, we’ve seen how this show doubles as a communal time capsule. Félix Le Braz uses our stage like a living-room carpet, inviting Lyon’s crowd to sit closer—figuratively and literally—and leaf through pop-culture diaries together. The evening is peppered with bite-sized set pieces that feel almost like short films performed live: “Appuyer sur REC,” a frantic countdown to capture a favorite intro; “La Télé du samedi,” a collage of channel zapping that morphs into a character carousel; and “Rewinding with a Bic,” a physical-comedy gem built around a cassette emergency fix. Flashback Generation VHS is not just about memory; it’s about rhythm—clicks, whirs, and pause buttons orchestrated into punchlines. In Le Boui-Boui’s enveloping acoustics, those details bloom, and Félix’s knack for building crescendos from tiny sensory cues comes through with crystal clarity. Whether you come as an expert in CRT nostalgia or as a first-timer curious about a pre-streaming universe, this date at Le Boui-Boui delivers a warm, witty, and distinctly human evening where the past plays back in high fidelity—complete with laughter that refuses to be put on pause.